The Butterboy's Blog

A "butterboy" is a London Taxi driver in his first couple of years after passing "The Knowledge". Hopefully this blog will give you some idea of what it's like to start a career as a licensed Hackney Carriage Driver in London.

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Creatures of the night

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Since my wife was working from home (albeit she was actually off sick with a bad back and should have been taking it easy) on Monday, I deci...

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Monday, 9 June 2008

Why are we going this way?

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Back from a full weekend of work, the first I've put in for many a month. Still looking forward to being able to go out full time, but s...

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Wednesday, 4 June 2008

It's later than I think

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In keeping with the nation's desire for a 5 week Easter holiday I've left it several weeks before writing again. not deliberately, j...

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Thursday, 3 April 2008

Why we do the knowledge

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Quite a few customers ask if it's still worth doing the knowledge with new technical innovations like Sat- Nav . The answer is simply y...

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Tuesday, 1 April 2008

And it's all gone quiet over there.

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After another week off from doing weekdays I put some hours in over the weekend. I'd been told it had been quiet through the week so wa...

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Monday, 24 March 2008

Welcome to Royston Vasey

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Good Friday. What's good about it? Other than it being the day we all teach our kids about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Chr...

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Monday, 17 March 2008

Coincidence?

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In my last post I mentioned a single called "Frustration". This was by a band called The Purple Hearts during the second coming of...

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Kev: Married with a daughter, decided on a complete change of career after 10 years as a stay-at-home dad. Started the London Knowledge in 2004 and finished in 2007. Finally got behind the wheel of a taxi in October and love the job... so far!

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