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Thanks for taking the time to check out this page.

I promise if you have a love for London you will not be disappointed.

So have a cuppa and spend a little time in my company.

I have been a Licensed Black London Cabbie since January 1997 and over that time and the five years that it took to gain “The Knowledge”, I have grown to love and despair of London in equal measure.

So why spend money sitting in a cab listening to whingeing from your London cab driver, when you can sit in comfort at home and read it for free?

You see the trouble with being a London Cabbie is that you spend 10 hours a day cooped up in a metal box on your own, and nobody to whinge at, no work colleagues to chat to around the drinks cooler and no supervisor or boss to complain about. Well, as a Laptop Lancelot writing under the pseudonym David D’Arcy I pontificate on all things London.

If for some reason you are interested in what it’s like to be a London cabbie, go to Back of my cab page or read Taxi Tales from my colleagues.

But if you really want to know what cabbies have to contend with, I have reserved my sternest criticism, in bit size chunks, for the Diary page.

So have a rummage round, check out my bouquets which you will be pleased to find I’m not complaining. They can be found in the pages of Hidden London and Room with a view.

There is also a daily London Trivia you can follow on Twitter.

Cheers, or as we say in the Trade “Be Lucky”
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Oh! The reason for the picture at the top of this post? I was a typesetter in a previous life.

And if that’s not enough of me to get on with, then try reading my Londonist interview. Or pop along to my regular blog with The London Evening Standard, London’s most informed daily newspaper.

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