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waiting for a change…

So, having broken through the blogging dam that had built up for 3 months & realised that there is nothing to stop me penning the odd post from my iPhone, here I am waiting for the next Eurostar train. Attached is a picture of the industrial wasteland around Kings Cross looking rather nice, amazing [...]

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I wrote these words some time ago, there was even talk of them being published in Time Out’s Big Smoke section with a few well framed photos (not mine I should add).  But events conspired against both me and Big Smoke and I’d sort of forgotten about the words I’d already written.  I’ve also found [...]

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It’s a not every day you can paraphrase Duncan Norvelle is it?  But when you run your own blog there are times when you just want to stick two fingers up to the world, and there’s no better way of doing that than invoking a bit of Norvelle.
Those of you that do follow me on [...]

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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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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 then [...]

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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 report.
Kensington [...]

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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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god loves you

You see some interesting sights around town as a cabbie, that’s a given really. But something I’ve not really touched on before are the people you come across. Not the punters, they are a whole different story, one that can be joyous, annoying & frustrating all in the same journey. No, I’m [...]

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Over four hours in the Heathrow Feeder Park had been followed by countless circuits around Mayfair looking for someone, anyway to hail my cab.  But Bank Holiday Monday meant central London was quite remarkably quiet.  So quiet that I twice parked up on the rank near the bottom of New Bond St in a slightly [...]

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