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Get up, stand up……

Posted in Election Fever?, Tooting on May 5, 2010 | 8 Comments »

…..and more importantly, stand up for what you believe in. This post has been prompted by a whole host of different conversations (on Twitter and in the flesh) over the past few days that include people telling me that Gordon Brown “hates people” and me being called a fool for declaring my intention to vote [...]

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things what you can see near my house

Posted in Tooting on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »

As a gentle reintroduction back into the blogging world, I thought I’d have a gentle stroll around where I live. With new camera in hand, the camera that is hopefully going to inspire we to share lots more stuff with you all, I didn’t venture further than about half a mile from my house. And [...]

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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 [...]

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lamppostgate

Posted in Loving London, Tooting on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Blogging, it seems, can be a perilous business. Open your heart to the great wide world of t’interweb, and some bugger goes and tells you that you’ve made a complete dog’s dinner of your facts. This time, however, my post on Cheyne Walk didn’t even make it as far as being published before Mrs Cabbie [...]

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no they don’t……

Posted in Tooting on December 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

….yes they do, no they don’t, yes they do, NO THEY DON’T!! It seems from this sign, that a battle between the two premier leg powered forms of transport is about to erupt in SW17. Despite Wandsworths best efforts to keep these uneasy bedfellows apart through clear signage and demarcation of the paths across the [...]

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all I want for Christmas…..

Posted in Loving London, Tooting on December 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

…..is a Dukla Prague Away Kit. Actually it’s not, this is what I really, really want;

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I’m from tooting

Posted in Loving London, Tooting on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Actually, I’m not. From Tooting that is. But it’s where I’ve lived for the past 10 years and hope to carry on living for many years to come. Like many a Londoner, I have a slightly mongrel accommodation history. Born near Victoria coach station, brought up mainly in Lower Morden, now resident in Tooting. And [...]

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