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I dig it up and try and fuck up the traffic. It's a gift you know.

Two goodns here. Miss Murder She Wrote's granddad (Angela Lansbury) , who is well regarded in Poplar. She still makes an occasional appearance when things are opened or presented etc. And old/new photos mixed up. I love it when people do that. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/13/george-lansbury-will-crooks/ https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/12/walk-through-time-with-the-gentle-author-at-christmas/

In the bedroom, he also found the murder weapon, a maul or heavy iron mallet such as a ship’s carpenter would use. It was covered in wet blood with human hair sticking to it. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/12/10/2-horrid-murder/

Like the old Freemen on the Land mob, they have a twisted view of how things work and no amount of explaining will change their minds until something terrible happens to them.

Ahh good, saves me a wasted walk. Last time it was a continuous round of reminder emails and texts. Someone I met a few years ago in a pub who claimed he had lived in the same road as me for many years, (but I couldn't recall him at all), was apparently very anti-vax. As we were walking down to the pub quiz last week my mate said that this bloke was in an induced coma. When we actually got the pub one of his mates said he'd passed away. Apparently he had been to Spain on holiday in the last 5 weeks and was about to go back and was asking around for fake vaccination certificates just before becoming ill. That's him below from his FB page.

Yes, gone now I think, RM125 that was, the other one is the car park at the Poleswood trial practice place (my own XL250), just opposite the nuclear bunker I went to the other week.

It was only when I looked at one of these pictures later I wondered if that is Dell on the stoppie machine? The other one I knocked up quickly many years ago when Bob posted his original pic

My plan is to never see the office again if I can help it.

I did a pub quiz last week and you know about my visit to the infamous landlady at the weekend, this was followed by going to the Ten Bells, the old prossie haunt of Jack the Ripper days.

Working from home again is what I have just read. Oddly enough the high ups at my place had declared that from 4th Jan everyone had to return to the office. My boss said at out meeting last week he was more than happy to carry on wfh with occasional site visits as we were getting through more stuff than in the old days when everyone came in all week. Just booked my booster (I think). The blurb on the confirmation email said a 3rd dose would be refused without a doctor's letter confirming a person is at high risk. I ticked a box to say I was not at high risk as I was booking it? Oh well, I'll find out on the 21st, it's a morning outing to my local town anyway.

Depends on the weather. as I say, snow or super high winds might put me off using the bike. Rain I can live with if it isn't going to be every day.

I'm going to Shoreham by Sea and north Devon over Christmas, I'm praying for a snow and rain free Christmas because if I take a car all the roads will grind to a halt so I'd rather ride the bike, I'm cursed that way.

Have some respect Pete, I'm dead......

Just talking about this the other day, this would be one of my funeral songs, the other would be Catch The Rainbow.

I knew that Spitalfield life would have something on the mad land lady https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/13/sandra-dennis-at-the-golden-heart/

The bit I pinched from the centre island column. I think the globe looked good strapped to the back of my bike.

I didn't like it, I'd rather have the squits!

Yes, it always reminded me of the stuff my mum would give me if I had bad guts as a kid. Kaolin or something it was called.

Yes, for two reasons, 1/ it's the quietest day there It's a major rat run during the week and rammed on Sundays due to a food market in the park. 2/ Overtime!!!!! Also we are only allowed to work up till the 13th December then we have to barrier it all up and wait till after Christmas because London's Mayor forbids all work over his embargo period (4th Jan). I couldn't start before Friday because Water or Gas were doing something up till then.

Hmm, when I hit post it puts all the pictures in a random order.

Today was day 1 of my trafficy type scheme. It should have started yesterday but the road was closed for Thames Water to fix a bust water pipe (first picture). After waiting for a nice electrician to disconnect the power supply we smashed out an island to make the road a bit wider to give us working room and me and Jim (Irish Jim) set out my echelon parking bays which I could do now I had the parking suspended. I pinched the white globe and lantern for my mate's garden lighting or a planter. I met the pair who will be doing the building, two east Europeans. The one who could speak English (there is only ever one in each pair) said I was to call him Jimmy and to call his mate Eddie as no one can pronounce their proper names. I was accosted by quite a few locals who wanted to know what we were doing and one lady who wants a bench put back that was there years ago. I promised her a new bench in the Spring, she said it has to be a cast iron one with wooden slats because that is the type she likes?? I was also accosted by 5 or 6 people who wanted to know why they had no water, they thought our JCB had hit a pipe. The angled bays in question are in my drawing below. I set them out and then got one of the contractors electric vans to park in the first one to make sure it fitted. You won't see them in the pictures but I got Jimmy (2) to put small saw cuts at critical points in the road so if the paint wears off we can remark it easily. He will them make his own cuts 500mm outside those so if the JCB smashes too much out when we do that bit he can still put his kerb lines in the right place.

It looks like the stuff you get when oil emulsifies (apart from the grit)