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Cycling London to Berlin, Day #2: Tooting to Harwich International
“Once you’re tired of London, you’re tired of life,” as my Dad once told me, quoting Samuel “L” Johnson out of Blackadder. He didn’t tell me this was a quote, of course. I found this out much later. And I didn’t know the full quote until now: “When a man is tired of London, he Read more
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Meanwhile in the Straight Sauna
“What’s said in the sauna stays in the sauna”. The man is from Essex, and is in his late thirties or early forties. He has the one haircut middle aged geezers from Essex are allowed to have. He is talking to his friend (of a similar age, originally from Surrey, passive) about music, girls, and Read more
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Visiting every County Cricket Ground #1: Lord’s
On a cold, drizzly Thursday, the the 2023 County Championship season got underway, while I was cycling up through St John’s Wood to Lord’s. I was slightly late. I had met a friend and her daughter at in Hyde Park. They had cycled all the way from their home in Tooting – a burgeoning yearly Read more
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