Monthly Musings

May 2026

🎬 Cabbie The Movie

Instead of a short sizzle teaser, the producers are accelerating the timeline to make the full £2.5m feature film. This has been possible with the ‘industry noise’ needed to attract a substantial level of interest among London’s cabbies. In September, the producers are planning for the shoot and next year are going to Cannes with the finished movie, backed by the very people who keep London moving.

🐧 Rook or Raven?

For some weeks now, this monster of a bird has been dominating our feeder. Is it a fledgling rook from the large rookery nearby, or a rare raven, usually only seen in London at The Tower?

🏗️ Gallows Corner

This important junction, with no realistically feasible detour, which closed in June last year for work to replace the flyover that was scheduled to last 12 weeks, has still not opened after 12 months of chaos in the surrounding area. Forty-tonne lorries still trundle down the country lanes of Havering-atte-Bower. So chaotic is this upgrade that the Mayor, Sir Sidiq Khan, has been dragged into the row at City Hall.

🦆 Avian Spotting

After much deliberation, I’ve purchased a second-hand spotter scope on Ebay. A Hawke Sport Optics 20-60x85mm Angled Waterproof Spotting Scope, Bag, Stand & Box, since you ask. Five times more powerful than my binoculars, it should improve my trips to nearby Rainham Marshes.

⌛ Anno Domini

In one week’s time I will have reached my eighth decade. It seems only yesterday that I worked for a City printer producing financial documents whilst going out after work to learn The Knowledge. Starting CabbieBlog wasn’t that long ago either.