I have a Reader’s Pass for the British Library, something I’m jolly proud of (see picture below). Anyone can get one, you just have to navigate your way through the BL’s arcane rules & regulations and within an hour or so you have your pass. I got mine for reasons to do with getting access [...]
Archive for the ‘Loving London’ Category
Lightning Indicator for London Drivers (1926)
Posted in Loving London on January 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Until You (I) Come Back To Me (You)….
Posted in Loving London on December 17, 2010 | 5 Comments »
……and start filling this blog with all sorts of stuff and nonsense. Like blog post titles that are references to 80′s songs I may have purchased in the dim & distant past. But after being busy doing other stuff for most of this year, I’ve made a conscious decision to make time to start writing [...]
their life in my day…
Posted in Loving London, Working Day on March 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
As a cab driver well, as this cab driver anyway, you start off each day wondering quite what your day will have in store for you. On particularly anxious days, you might wonder if there will be any work at all. Perhaps London has suffered a 28 Days Later style exodus or that people have [...]
sunday jaunt……
Posted in Loving London on March 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Perhaps I’ve got them well trained, more hopefully the Capital family have genuinely taken on board my enthusiasm for the fine details of this city. But either way, when looking for a Sunday trip out we shun the bright lights of the West End and head off to mooch about the back streets of SE1 [...]
ascent of St Paul’s
Posted in Loving London on October 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Without getting involved in some sort of self flagellation about my blogging break, I am slightly annoyed at how easily I slipped into a “it doesn’t matter if I don’t update” and “I haven’t got anything of interest to say” because, as I’m sure many of you would be eager to point out, that didn’t [...]
mes amis, je tiens à vous présenter, un répertoire des noms de rues de Londres
Posted in found down the back of London's sofa, Loving London on July 11, 2009 | 19 Comments »
Roughly translated as a few London street names that have taken my fancy over the past few years. Inspired by a punter who wanted to go The Vale of Health in Hampstead yesterday, it jogged my memory that I had wanted to write about some of the stranger and more interesting street names in London. [...]
London loves….
Posted in Loving London on July 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
…..the way people just fall apart…….. Oh my, Friday 3rd July 2009 was some day. A day when I stepped out of my comfort zone and lived to tell the tale. Regular readers of this blog may have picked up on my propensity for over excitement and hyperbole when I talk about London. Well this [...]
you can never have enough statues….
Posted in Cab Rant, Loving London, Useless London on July 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
….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 [...]
places in wot I ‘ave aboded in that there London….
Posted in Loving London, Tooting on June 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »
…..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 [...]
cabbieTrack (TM) builds the map of my city…
Posted in Loving London on June 12, 2009 | 7 Comments »
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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