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….or, if I was in a Monty Python mood; just one more wafer thin statue. I’ve included the notes I had to write just now to help myself make sense of what I’d seen and tried to record yesterday; the inordinate number of statues in Parliament Square. Not content with the 7 statues that were [...]

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…….to paraphrase the mighty Ronan Keating.  Just to clarify, he isn’t mighty, I just used that phrase as an opening gambit – a way of introducing a post that will really be about bugger all.  Like Ronan Keating’s career in fact.  This blog has been a pleasure to write from day one and stuff has [...]

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I often view life as a cab driver as a series of skirmishes in life’s great battle.  Cut up by a bus here, abused by a white van man there; but make sure you give as good as you get.  Someone nearly drives into your precious cab?  I’m not just going to sail on serenely [...]

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I don’t do numbers……..

Please hail my cab, get me to take you somewhere in that there London, I’ll go north, south, east or west, I’m not fussy.  Tell me you what Harrods, Le Gavroche, Paddington Station, even, god forbid, Victoria Coach Station.  But do make sure you actually tell me where you want to go.  Be specific.  “Hampstead [...]

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taxi tweets

The more observant amongst you, or those friends that I have bored on the subject, will have seen over there —> on the right that I Twitter. If you so wish you can follow my every move, particularly on a Friday when I try and tweet every job I do in the cab. Some of [...]

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It must have taken less than a mile of driving, and certainly no more than 10 minutes from leaving home, before I encountered my first example of mad London driving yesterday.  Trying to turn right onto Balham High Road from one of the Hever Estate roads, a youngish chap in a Ford Focus decided to [...]

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power to the cabbies….

….power to the cabbies, right on.  I think John Lennon would have been a good cabbie, having a sharp tongue and being a bit bolshie are essential cabbie traits in my book.  I’m not going to bore you with the ins & outs of what it was all about but do want to have a [...]

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on a more serious note

There are always lots of mumblings and grumblings going round the cab trade.  But things have come to a head and your favourite London cabbies have had enough and are revolting.  And I’m not talking about the vest, shorts & sandal brigade that seem to live in their cabs.  The major cab trade organisations, the [...]

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Or – how I tried to ignore St Pancras Station but failed miserably.  Difficult as it may be to imagine, but before I started writing this blog I actually had a bit of a plan.  Nothing cast in stone you understand but certainly a loose framework on which I could hang my musings and opinions.  [...]

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With immediate effect, Ipswich will be resigning from the Football League.  As the above banner shows, their fans have had enough and are taking their (leather laced no doubt) football elsewhere.  Expect all the Ipswich players to now sell their 4×4′s and start walking, or getting the bus, to training and matches.  No players will [...]

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