up norvie

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Blagrave Street Taxi rankwendy: Northumberland Avenue please

Taxi driver: how far up Norvie do you want to go?

wendy: what do you mean by ‘up Norvie’?

Taxi driver: that’s what we call Northumberland Avenue

wendy: near the Angling store,  who are ‘we’?

Taxi driver: taxi drivers

2 bits of lovely banter on “up norvie”

  1. Happy Frog writes:

    Goodness, I’ve never heard it called that before. I wonder what other names ‘they’ have for Reading’s roads? If you find out do keep us posted :-)

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  2. Madame Defarge writes:

    All part of the international conspiracy of taxi drivers. It’s the Knowledge you know.

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