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13 attempts to launch it, something tells me they refused to buy lucky heather off Mad Mag of Poplar.

Just before I found the entrance to hell in the middle of Tredegar Road I had 30 minutes to kill before meeting an 'Anthony', so I popped on to the Isle of Dogs, parked my bike by the old slip way of the Great Eastern and had a cup of coffee from my flask. As you can see, there is the preserved bit inside the river wall and the rapidly wearing away bit still in the Thames. A lot of the timber was bought by Mr Brunel on the cheap, it came from scrapped naval ships of the line that fought at Trafalgar.

When a duvet cover comes out of the washing machine, half of the rest of my stuff is wedged deep inside it.

I was following a van which did a sudden violent swerve, this was the reason why. I parked up, walked back and took two pictures. Couldn't get any one to answer their phones, so I sent the pictures to the Head Of Highways then went round the corner to one of our yards and asked the emergency call out bods to do their thing. Google maps says they closed the road, right outside the sorting office as well.

I pity the person who ever dares to steal your out going post in the hope of finding something valuable.

Stamp on them quickly.

She's not interviewing Harry and Meghan again is she?

They start as lazy chimney sweep assistants at the age of four in Spain, this gets them an extra 12 years of pension contributions.

That sounds completely normal, changing quilt covers always requires a lie down afterwards.

Is that for a show or a train journey?

It would be interesting to know what he paid in over his working life to get that compared to a Brit of the same age. Did he pay more in or does the Brit pay more for less output at the other end?

Luckily I haven't got a printer!

Just got a whatsapp message from my retired workers group with a pdf attached. I thought it was just a picture until I hit the download button. It seems to be the whole Harry book 'SPARE'. I read the introduction before the first chapter, what a drama queen!

The red ones in Quality Street, followed by the green triangles. Milky Bars

They were scheduled for demolition in the 70s, some of the squatters are still there and now own the properties. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/04/18/return-to-elder-st/

I'm assuming homeless. The Police didn't move him on and he's not in the way where he is. When I got a guided tour of a tunnel under a roundabout, (which is itself under a flyover and around a pedestrian underpass) during it's 6 monthly inspection we had to ask a homeless man to move his bedding temporarily so we could access the entrance plate. He moved back when we were finished. He said he liked it there as he was hidden from other people who might rob him and out of the rain because of the fly over. GSV link of the roundabout. https://goo.gl/maps/QJqfeZkUNEaLj9xz6

Rode to work today, put my leccy vest on for art of the journey it was a bit chilly, but at least it wasn't pissing down today like usual this last month. Met a bloke who has a whole street fenced off whilst they build some flats, we are supposed to be working inside the closed area on the footway next week. I was asked to give the okay by the permitting team for him to extend the closure. They told me it was just for their delivery vehicles, nothing would be in our way and no overhead works so I gave them the green light. When they opened the gates so we could see the footway in question, there are a pair of 2-storey portacabins in the road about 4 feet from the kerb and these have a balcony on scaffolding that actually sits on the kerb stones. They contained their office, canteen, changing room and toilets. I asked him if they would be gone before next Monday and he looked confused and said they would be there till late February. It took me 15 minutes to get it through to him that you can't dig out under a scaffold pole holding a walkway up and even if you could, how could we get a mini digger in and use it if we couldn't swing the thing left or right without hitting his building or his scaffolding, it's a very narrow footway. These people build multi-storey buildings for god's sake. I told him we would do the job when he has moved them and went and cancelled our street works permits. On the plus side as I was heading past Victoria Park on the way to the meeting I saw two rozzers looking curiously at a tent pitched on the grass in there and writing furiously in their note books. On the way back I pulled in and took a blurry snap as the tent was still there. The occupant was looking out of his little flap, poor sod, I'll bet that is cold at night.

Bean in a jar, them was the days!

And yet despite this world beating skill I have only ever had one single Spaniard working with us, the ideal place for a professional shirker. My boss welcomed him with the following words, "This is Carlos, get him a cup of tea, show him how to log on and don't mention Gibralter, I'll leave you with these nice people Carlos mate, good luck." When we had an Iraqi start work we got the same speech but with the word 'Scuds' instead of Gibralter.

You should have laid so the tyre track on your t-shirt lines up with the wheel. Come on, this is iffy insurance scam 101!

His sister is in Eastenders.

I used to get one of those on the side of my finger at school from all the bloody writing we had to do. I helped some children with their home work last year (6 and 11 years old), they had to log on and type it in!!!!!

I still remember the heat in that room when he finally opened the door after putting my bike through its work out for a few hours.