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Don't big him up, the man has no morals. He's nailed that poor bird to the tree just to get a brilliant photograph.

Are you a Mason? Or was this your audition photograph and they turned you down?

I love this one. The part where her tea warehouse working husband became the Mayor of Bethnal Green, but his employer wouldn't give him time off to do it so he had to get a new job. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/05/beattie-orwell-centenarian-x/

A member of the Blackadder cast there.

I laughed when this popped up in my youtube suggestions, then it occurred to me that some artificial intelligence/algorithm is convinced that it is my sort of thing. God knows what'll come next.

No point striking if no one notices.

Yes, we younger old people will never know the incredible joy of being crouched head down hanging on for grim death and chucking in a few extra bits of coal to get the last bit of speed out of our steam powered motorbikes. Or running out of oil on the way home and so having no lights to see by.

In Germany special highway snipers are employed who will take a pot shot at anyone with their high beam on when approaching other panzers, I mean vehicles. They are sticklers for the rules you know.

Another https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/05/11/crudgie-motorbicycle-courier/

Here's two motorcycle related tales from the site. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/07/17/doris-halsall-civil-servant-despatch-rider-o/ https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/12/10/bob-mazzer-at-the-ace-cafe/

It does look a tad too posh for the likes of scum like me.

Policeman jumping a gap in Tower Bridge in this one. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/10/02/pc-lew-tassell-in-the-pool-of-london/

Jimmy Saville interfered with my hamster and stole all the petrol whilst spreading Covid. There, that should get picked up by google nicely.

A friend from work was having eyesight problems, had to keep getting his prescription changed. This actually turned out to be a benign tumour pressing on his optic nerve. Weirdly two people from the same office had this at different times. Anyway, the cure is an operation where they go in up the nose and cut it away. My mate said he was very pleased he had such a big hooter because otherwise it is open up the head time. When people went to visit him afterwards he had a badly mis-shaped nose and two giant black eyes. After getting lots of sympathy (and grapes) he said that he had actually woken up unmarked. His wounds were actually from when he stood up out of bed to urinate into a bowl (behind the curtains I should add), felt woozy, fainted and fell face first onto his bedside cabinet. On the plus side, his eyesight returned to its usual state straight away. Unfortunately he had to buy new glasses again as he had thrown the old ones away at some point, not realising it was a tumour and not old age affecting him.

I think the bigger question is being ignored here. Have carpenters ever worn what looks like a square paper hat (Chippy Minton)?

Pugh, Pugh, Barney, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubbe. Ingrained in my memory since I was a small child.

There could be treasure as well. The Old Chest Hospital site used to be the manor house for the Bishop of London, Bishop Bonner, also known as Bloody Bonner for his love of burning Catholics (everyone should have a hobby). There's a Mulberry tree still on the site that he is said to have tied heretics to whilst they were whipped. If you google the tree you get this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethnal_Green_mulberry_tree The whole redevelopment is now held up by a court case because they wanted to uproot the tree and put it somewhere else.

I have hatched in some dark grey asphalt so it is clearer to the non planny type people at my next meeting where the vehicles actually go. Not all road markings are white at the moment as you can see.

The orangy lines in the topmost arrow are a flat channel about 6 inches wide to make the rainwater run along the top of the footway after it was built out into the road. The idea is it flows in from the back of the footway down the slope to the channel and from the new kerb top towards the channel then along and plops into the road. The bottom arrow is pointing at the back of the footway and the edge of the hoarding that is currently around the old London Chest Hospital site. I'll screenshot it close up so you can see the text on the plan. As you can see I got the surveyors to pick up all the spot levels, surface materials, road markings and manhole lids. This should stop me having puddles when I finish and having to explain to a large Irishman (or Romanian) why my new kerb runs right through the centre of a large steel frame and lid.

Phwoarrrrrrrr.

I'm really sorry Pete, but my colour vision is shit with thin lines, they all look mostly the same. Can you put an arrow onto my original screenshot to what you mean? I wonder if I can get a guide dog for colours?

What houses and what colour line?

I'm slowly getting there when people aren't bothering me with other stuff

Well, put simply old bean.............Silver treasure what make engine go whizz along him fella. You are Pete Sake and I claim my five pounds.