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QotD: License to Drive

Jan 21, 2010
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Do you consider yourself a good driver? How many tickets have you received? What were they for?

I've received a grant total of two tickets in my life - both for going down bus lanes by accident. That's not bad.

Good driver? I'm a fine driver. I've been in a couple of actual car crashes, but I can say with my hand on my heart neither of them were my fault. I have driven a lot over the last few years, and my ratio of miles to incidents is pretty damn good.

London Snow Mini-Retrospective

Jan 21, 2010
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The snow in London passed almost without acknowledgement here. Time to change that a little.

My back garden when the snow was at its worst:

The Back Garden

Quaggy Gardens:

Quaggy Gardens

And the delightful Lewisham Station:

Lewisham Station in the Snow

And here's how it looked around where Rev Stan and I work:

Back Down to Mile End

Jan 21, 2010
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Pulp Mile End Music Video Edit With Lyrics Jarvis Cocker Trainspotting London

Youch. Here's a trip down memory lane, courtesy of Bookmole. This is a video of photographs of Mile End set to Pulp's Mile End.

I lived in Mile End, not far from the station, in 1993 - 1994. This really brings back some memories - very few of them good.

QotD: The Name Game

Jan 12, 2010
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Were you named after anyone? If not, how did you get your name?

Adam Macey

I was, in a way. My parents were struggling to find a name for me, until my Dad was driving home one evening, with the radio on, and The Archers came on. There was a young child on the show then, called Adam. Dad thought "ah-ha" - and that's how I got my name.

The character is still in the show, believe it or not.

Adam, scandalous back then as an illegitimate son, is now fighting the progressive battle as the first gay character to get married to his boyfriend in the show. Adam, a farmer, and Ian, a chef, have been happily married for years…

No Entry (Snow)

Jan 11, 2010
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Tags of Christmas Past

Jan 10, 2010
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We had something of an eco-friendly Christmas this year. While we were clearing out Mum's house back in 2008, we found enough unused Christmas cards to last for year and enough paper and tags to last, well, two years, as it turned out.

And some of the designs were decades old. I liked the designs of these tags so much, I've scanned them to preserve them for posterity:

Snowy Sutton

Jan 8, 2010
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Night, Snow and QH

Jan 7, 2010
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Dreary, Snowy, Lewisham

Jan 6, 2010
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Lewisham in the snow

Lewisham still manages to look dreary even on a snowy morning. What is it with this town?

On Objects and Memories

Jan 4, 2010
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An important lesson to learn when you're still dealing with the posessions from your late parents' house:

The hardest part of decluttering is remembering that the objects are simply representations of the memories, not the memories themselves

Sometimes it's hard to make that separation.

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thinkzalot said:
Interesting! I am an aggressive driver, I think. Good in my sense of space, and my position in relation to... read more
on QotD: License to Drive
Adam said:
I think (maybe) I've just lived here too long. I'm a country boy at heart, and whatever charms Lewisham once... read more
on Dreary, Snowy, Lewisham
thinkzalot said:
It is in the eye of the beholder, I think. I always see Lewisham as quirky, bustling with inner city... read more
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Adam said:
Ah, oops. I was just testing out Posterous, a service that lets you send media and posts via e-mail. I... read more
on Night, Snow and QH
Rev Stan said:
You really know how to spoil us with these videos Mr T ;0) read more
on Night, Snow and QH