Blimey! It seems that today is the fifteenth birthday of CabbieBlog. A small celebration seems appropriate, right? And, if you’ll excuse the nostalgia, perhaps a little rummage around in the past . . .
The first blog post appeared on a now-defunct platform the previous year, this and the early excursions on the Cyberverse were uploaded to CabbieBlog here on Monday 23rd February 2009 at 13.50.
Fifteen years of blogging takes a lot of filling. I’ve published more than 2,600 posts, which is at least three a week for nearly 800 weeks (these last two or so years, posts have been uploaded every day). I’ve written all manner of London-related stuff, from the Alphabet of the Knowledge and Apostrophes in London to Zebra Crossings and Zoo Reminiscences.
That’s acres of screenspace to pack with maybe two million words, several thousand photos and a ridiculously high number of web links. It’s fortunate that I was born and live for most of the year in London which is possibly the world’s most interesting city, but filling the blog has required an eclectic spread of content, indeed a non-stop torrent of inspiration because an empty template doesn’t just fill itself.
That’s today’s post written I’d better get thinking about the next one.
Well, thank you all for reading thus far – both today and for however long you’ve been reading the blog.
It’s been a fun fifteen years… Cheers!
CabbieBlog 
Well done on 15 years, David. I will hit my 12th anniversary of blogging this summer, and I just published my 6,204th post. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks, I’m hoping for another 8 years and 5 days before I call it quits. But the way WordPress is going I doubt I’ll make it.
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Congratulations, your posts are enjoyable and educational. Keep em coming
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Thanks! Mind you Tuesdays is the most boring post of the year. Yes it’s last year’s statistics.
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Many congratulations. Informative and entertaining. So glad I found you – you were so helpful with my particular enquiry / research. Followed you ever since.
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I’ve recently sent you by email a couple of pictures about the Russell Square shelter. Thanks for you encouragement.
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Yes – thank you so much. I have been meaning to message to thank you but haven’t got around to it. So good to see a picture of the shelter in its original position. I believe that eventually with much more motor traffic it began to be in the way in the Haymarket. It was then moved to Leicester Square, where it was when I was first shown it when I was a child, probably sometime in the 1950s. Then it vanished, during one of Leicester Square’s many makeovers, and I assumed it must have ended up in a skip. It wasn’t till years later when I was working on my biography of the Bancrofts that I wanted to try and find out about it,. Which is how I found you! Forever grateful for all your help and support.
Carolinex
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Congratulations!!! and thank you for your inspiring fun interesting and even those few grumpy thoughts.
Keep up the good work.
A pint might be in order, yes?
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I think the pint might be a little flat by the time it reaches me from Colorado, but thanks!
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You may be correct. I guess I will drink yours too.
Cheers!
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