Eclectic Boogaloo

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Random adventures on the London Underground and other London-centric nonsense

Latest Blog Posts

  • Oh dear on Oct 15, 2009

    It seems that political correctness hasn't yet reached the Northern Scotland cat-naming fraternity.

  • Liz Jones: An apology on Sep 5, 2009

    Turns out I invented Liz Jones. Well, sort of.

  • How to work from home on Sep 3, 2009

    I work from home. When I say I work from home, I mean I “work” from “home”. I have been “working” from “home” for five years, which in terms of actual work done translates to around two weeks and three...

  • There was a comment on Sep 1, 2009

    I haven't put anything on here for a while. However, I have decided to pick up once more the golden thread of posting nonsense, having received what is simply the best example I have ever read of a comment that...

  • Oh no. The Tories got in. on Mar 27, 2008

    Norman Tebbit on a microscooter, what was I thinking? A while back (five years ago in fact), I sat on a fairly uncomfortable futon and watched a 10-hour, real time broadcast of the 1970 Election night programme on the BBC...

  • BONG! on Mar 25, 2008

    Believe it or not, 1970s ITN newscaster (as they were called then) Reginald (Reggie) Bosanquet once released a disco record called 'Dance With Me'. For our younger readers, the modern day equivalent would be something like BBC News royal corresponden...

  • Pebble Mill, when will we see your like again? on Mar 25, 2008

    Favoured by skiving schoolchildren (not to mention students living the high life on full maintenance grants), Pebble Mill at One was an early success in what was to become a long line of disastrous daytime television 'magazine' programmes (possibly t...