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Winston Churchill had his Wilderness Years. We’ve been quiet for a few weeks too. Brixton seemed like an obvious choice therefore for EOTL10. Technically it’s EOTL but really it’s not.

We had some beers. Biggs had a Pepperoni Pizza at the Dogstar.

That's about…

Wimbledon fortnight, week two. An opportune time to pay a visit to the southern edge of the District Line and soak up a bit of Murraymania before our would-be hero crashes out in the latter stages,…

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I’m not the sort of person who is gushed at by tearful friends at airports or embraced by family members when I get on a train. The closest I ever got was in 1992 when I convinced my parents to see me off from Glasgow Central station at the start of my new London life. I conceded that they could sit in the coffee shop…

‘Due to a volcanic dust cloud hanging over the United Kingdom, services from all London airports are severely disrupted.’

Despite the deadpan delivery of a weary TFL employee, the announcement in Waterloo Station left me with a feeling of unease. I hoped that this apocalyptic inconvenience would not affect the planned expedition to Stanmore, northernmost point of the Jubilee line. In fact a most pleasant journey lay ahead…

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EOTL02 proved much more difficult to organise than EOTL01. A trip to Stanmore (one time home to Roger Moore, Billy Idol & Beardyman) had fallen by the wayside in January. Now well into February we still had 20 EOTLs to fit in before the end of the year. Father Time was breathing down our necks muttering “Stop…