🚓 What Cab News
Now we have a cab licence suspension for 3 points on one’s DVLA licence for what TfL deem a ‘serious’ offence, not for a single speeding ticket, but being convicted, for instance, of the offence of ‘driving without reasonable consideration.’ If a driver receives 6 penalty points or more, they face licence revocation.
🎧 What I’m Listening
I am still listening to any previously broadcast WizAnn podcasts, great listening if you are a cabbie.
📖 What I’m Reading
I told a good friend that I’d never watched Secrets of the London Underground on Yesterday, and for Christmas, she bought me London Transport’s publication Hidden London by the same team.
📺 What I’m watching
ITV’s Trigger Point is worth watching if only Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio is the executive producer. Is it me? I’m finding the fictional London locations irritating. If it’s in London say it, especially when a geek like me sometimes knows the actual location.
❓ What else
My neighbour was burgled early one evening this month as we sat indoors unaware of the crime. Since then I think we’ve brought the demise of the polar bear closer, one click at a time, as we ordered the delivery of security items from Amazon, delivered by their polluting vehicles.
📆 What date?
Those of you who are more observant (or just geeks) will have noticed today’s post is falling on a Thursday and not on the last Tuesday or Friday of the month. The reason is simple: Today is a leap day (29th February), and in two more leap days CabbieBlog will be publishing its last post (29th February 2032).
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A memory from my time in the LAS, and the death of a BDO.
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Why are you planning to stop in 2032? I must have missed the reason. If I am still alive, I will be 80 that year, not that I expect to see the big 8-0 of course.
I watched that London Underground series on Yesterday, and really enjoyed it.
Okay, Trigger Point, here I go. (Bogus locations, I am with you on that one)
1) I know Vicky McClure through a friend who is also an actor. (Johnny Harris) She is a nice lady, and not unlike the character she portrays in Line of Duty.
2) I have serious issues with Trigger Point, because I have spent time with the Met Police Bomb Disposal unit based at Canon Row, and also with the Army Bomb Disposal units of The Royal Logistic Corps. I attended training exercises with them in Surrey when I worked for the Met Special Operations, and was allowed to drive (remotely) the small tracked robot to ‘neutralise’ a fake IED.
3) The Met Bomb Disposal Unit is nothing at all like it is portrayed on Trigger Point, and certainly not involved in the detection and apprehension of terrorist suspects. They are also not so cavalier in their attitude to safety, and have a great record of safely defusing devices without people being blown up all the time, and BDOs being killed.
4) So why do I watch it? It is just entertainment, and I like Vicky.
Cheers, Pete.
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Phew! What a great reply, better than many of my posts. I’ll be nearly 85 and assuming I’m still compos mentis, my hands won’t be up to typing.
As with all in the care sectir, they might have paid you a pittance during your working life, but it certainly was varied. Thanks Pete for the great comment.
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That should have been ‘Defusing’ of course, not diffusing!
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