Just seen Bombay Aloo on Ship Street is reopening as something else (it looks chicken-y).
Sad day for everyone who is a fan of huge urns full of suspiciously lukewarm cheap veggie curry.
Excellent thread. I lent a kid at Mary Mags my Nobo 'Tesco Bag' replica kit when I was 9 or 10 and I never got the ****er back. I would kill for my daughter to be wearing that same kit now but that will never happen.
Agreed! They just need to add a bike lane to the walk down to the Bridge then it would be 10/15 minutes from leaving your seat (after clapping the team off) to town.
Yeah completely agree it's one of those theatres of WW2 (basically everywhere except Normandy and Kent) that doesn't get the attention ot deserves. I've been enjoying the We Have Ways podcasts dedicated to it.
My paternal Grandad was out in Burma, then invalided back via a long stay in India...
A couple were inflating their paddleboards across the ****ing cyclepath (roughly near the bottom of Carlisle Road) today. I gave them a particularly malevolent sneer as I rode past. That'll teach them.
Absolutely hundreds of Paddlers visible in the sea on my cycle west back from the Palace...