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Archive for June, 2009

…..or how I’m desperate to prove that I’m a proper Londoner.  Partly prompted by a “conversation” with Mrs Cabbie over who was the mostest London out of the two of us, which of course I won, I decided to map out where I have lived in our great metropolis.  I will need to revisit that [...]

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I can hear you all choking on your cornflakes or spluttering on you morning cuppa, but bear with me on this one. I’m not talking about THAT bit of London Wall at the eastern end that goes from Wormwood Street to Moorgate and always seems to be busy. Certainly at the moment it is as [...]

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As the geeks (sorry Blacko) behind cabbieTrack keep processing the data, so the map of London, as guided by my cab, builds nicely.  Click on the images for a larger version and you might be able to follow the bigger white line from the southern part of the map (cabbieTrack gets wider and brighter the [...]

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Time flies when you’re having fun don’t ya think?  Well this week has for me, and here we are at the weekend already.  Friday, Day 5, has thrown up a lot more places & stories from TLC and I even made it further east than the West End.  As those of you who’ve been keeping [...]

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……meerkats, otters, lemurs, loris’, jumping rats, bearded pigs, prairie dogs, warthogs, giraffes, zebras, okapi, african hunting dogs, tapir, gorrillas, snakes, servals, red water hogs, monkeys, red panda, anteaters, lions, parrots, lizards, penguins, pelicans, sheeps, goats, fruit bats, seahorse, various fish, a peacok and probably a few more I’ve missed out.  But I liked the giraffes [...]

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This post is brought to you live & direct from my Office at the Feeder Park; here are a couple of photos so you can get a proper of idea of my working conditions. Yesterday was a slightly strange one, what with FJOTD taking me, more or less, back past my own front door, and [...]

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Another short shift, this time planned due to a very important breakfast appointment in Mitcham that stretched out until lunch time.  But the few jobs I did get round to doing had a much better hit rate in TLC.  Seat belts on, here we go again; Victoria Station to Wright’s Lane, W8 – nothing to [...]

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Due to inadvertent over-napping, I left home much later than planned yesterday, so my task is a bit easier today.  And despite getting a job from Clapham South to Wilton Road Victoria, it took a while for any of my jobs to through up ay usefull stuff from TLC.  This how my day went yesterday [...]

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Already thinking I’ve bitten off a bit more than I can chew, in no small part due to a busier and much longer shift than planned yesterday, sometimes you just have to go with the flow as a cabbie.  But I’m going to plow on with my aim of plotting my day though The London [...]

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let Ed be my guide

Having waded, and it really felt like hard work given the somewhat flowery prose, through London: A Pilgrimage only because the illustrations are so brilliant, I’ve now made it to my next London book.  Inspired by a previous Ed Glinert book – East End Chronicles, a book so crammed full of facts that it often [...]

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