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• Minute cryptic

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 21 hours

  

  Ha!

• Minute cryptic

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 5 hours

  

  Got it straight away today. I think I'm wired differently as I find other 'easy' ones much tougher

• Bicycle Tag of bike

  in General • 5 days, 2 hours

  

  Indeed it was. And it had been tagged before, leading to this little gem of a comment:

  https://www.lfgss.com/comments/8231836/

• Bicycle Tag of bike

  in General • 5 days, 23 hours

  

  fuck that, it's the end times.
  let the clue stand and let's tag as much as we can before it's over.

  This

• The Bird Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 13 hours

  

  ^ You reminded me to go back and see if there were more darting parakeets at dusk along the Lea. Sure enough at 4pm, along they came.

• The Bird Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 22 hours

  

  Robin and a swan, Walthamstow wetlands, and an egret on the Lea, all this morning.

• Bicycle Tag of bike

  in General • 1 week, 1 day

  

  Your memory is excellent Oliver. Well, the oddest thing I found out at the talk was the path was surprisingly popular with Welsh sheep drovers, which, geographically speaking, doesn't make a lot of sense. It may have had something to do with the toll road network and that it was cheaper to avoid the more direct routes in through west London. There were other little nuggets of info too which may turn into future tags.

• Bicycle Tag of bike

  in General • 1 week, 1 day

  

  That's great. They kept far more of the original features than I thought.

• Bicycle Tag of bike

  in General • 1 week, 1 day

  

  I heard about this place at an excellent John Rogers talk about the Black Path, a medieval droving route from Walthamstow through London Fields, Broadway Market, Colombia Road etc. The Cooke and Manze family (from Italy) were the two main pioneers of jellied eels/pie and mash shops in London, even connected by marriage at one point too. A lot of the original tiling and windows still remain despite its second life as an optician's.

• Minute cryptic

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 2 days

  

  I got 3 under with an exceedingly lucky guess on the second attempt. I will say it's easier to understand the clue when it's written how it's displayed in the video than in numerical form as it was on the website. But even then, that's a tough one