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ianVisits

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ianVisits

@ianvisits

London's history, architecture, public transport -- and offbeat events to enjoy.

London, UK

Joined February 2009

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ianVisits
@ianvisits
May 29
Update: I am no longer able/willing to link to my website in Tweets after the cost of using the API jumped massively last month. With Musk degrading the performance of Tweets with links, and then raising the cost of posting them via the API, it's simply not viable... 1/3
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ianVisits
@ianvisits
Dec 23, 2023
Campaign for Gromit to build HS2.
DiscussingFilm
@DiscussingFilm
Dec 22, 2023
Clip of the iconic train chase sequence from ‘THE WRONG TROUSERS’ to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary. #WrongTrousersAt30
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ianVisits
@ianvisits
May 15, 2020
Compare the #DailyMail front cover photo and the stock photo they used - and notice anything about the people they cropped out?
ianVisits
@ianvisits
Apr 4, 2024
There were days when the pandemic was really quite weird. Four years ago...
Griff Ferris (Bluesky - @gferr1s)
@gferr1s
Apr 4, 2020
A police van is going around peckham rye blaring “no sunbathing... exercise only”
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ianVisits
@ianvisits
Nov 18, 2024
Good news for London, as the ULEZ fines tomorrow will pay for the entire cost of building Crossrail 2.
Inevitable West
@Inevitablewest
Nov 18, 2024
🚨BREAKING: 5,000+ tractors expected to shut down London tomorrow. Labour don’t know whats coming.
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ianVisits
@ianvisits
Apr 8, 2024
Apparently sitting on a chair at home means you're a couch potato, but sitting on a chair in an office doesn't.
Telegraph Business
@TeleBusiness
Apr 7, 2024
🥔 New flexible working rules risk turning Britain into a ‘couch potato nation’ telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…
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ianVisits
@ianvisits
Nov 6, 2023
Replying to @jamesrbuk
They must be going ape-shit.
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ianVisits
@ianvisits
Feb 26, 2024
The only "no go areas" in London that a Londoner would understand is Angus Steakhouse.
Mahyar Tousi
@MahyarTousi
Feb 26, 2024
There are definitely "no-go" areas in London and Birmingham. It should not be a controversial comment.
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ianVisits
@ianvisits
Jan 28, 2023
Flat for sale at the top of the St Pancras station building. BRB - just buying some lottery tickets. zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/detai…
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ianVisits
@ianvisits
Oct 18, 2023
Today is the last day of 2023 when sunset takes place after 6pm (at 6:01pm). It won't set after 6pm again until 12th March 2024. Winter approaches.
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ianVisits
@ianvisits
Aug 26, 2023
A dead rabbit has been hanging on a wall at Watford Junction station for the past 30 years. Rabbit was an early mobile phone network that opened in May 1992, but closed less than 2 years later in Dec 1993, when its owner replaced it with the Orange mobile network (now @EE)
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ianVisits
@ianvisits
Aug 27, 2021
Just your average 2-bed art-deco flat in central London with an underground bunker. A WHAT?!?! zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/detai…
ianVisits
@ianvisits
Feb 14, 2021
A website full of control panels, and nothing but control panels. control--panel.com
ianVisits
@ianvisits
May 9, 2024
This so looks like a photo from the 1980s of a British Airways steward receiving the employee of the year award.
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