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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the london compendium guide to my week – Day 5
Posted in Loving London, Working Day on June 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
yesterday, I went to the zoo and saw……
Posted in Loving London on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
……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 [...]
the london compendium guide to my week – Day 4
Posted in Loving London, Working Day on June 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
the london compendium guide to my week – Day 3
Posted in Loving London, Working Day on June 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
the london compendium guide to my week – part 2
Posted in Loving London, Working Day on June 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
the london compendium guide to my week – Day One
Posted in Loving London, Working Day on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
let Ed be my guide
Posted in Loving London on June 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
all aboard the mudlark….
Posted in Loving London on May 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
…..as I like to think Noah & Nelly would have said in a special edition of Skylark. But I don’t think they actually made an episode about mudlarking, so that’s a pretty pointless sentence you could say. But it gives me pleasure and I own this blog, so it’s staying in. In my short time [...]
doggett’s coat & badge
Posted in Loving London, Working Day on May 19, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Doggett’s Coat & Badge, a wager race for Thames Watermen established by Thomas Doggett in 1715, is still competed for today between London Bridge & Chelsea. Initially staged on August 1st to mark the accession of George I, the date of the race now varies according to the tides. Doggett was an Irish actor & [...]
4-5-6 SUGARS….
Posted in Loving London on May 15, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I took the this photo ages ago, the sign is pinned on the the Green Hut in Hanover Square, which has a very handy rest rank – perfect for those cabbies that need to urgently visit the Apple Store on Regent Street. But that isn’t the purpose of my post, it’s all about the sign. [...]
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