I’ve been an avid follower of The Cabbies Capital for a couple of months ever since its author, Richard, was featured on Londonist. The blog gives an interesting viewpoint of my City through the eyes of someone who, quite literally, makes it function - a traditional London Cabbie.

Being a devoted Twitterer myself I was interested to stumble upon the associated Twitter stream which Richard keeps from inside the cab itself, updated with a plethora of idle thoughts from the cab rank, interesting fares and even running traffic reports. An innocuous question on my part led to a brief conversation today, which in turn led to Richard rediscovering his own London Conversations. It was my first example of randomly striking up a shared interest via Twitter and it’s a shame Richard doesn’t yet advertise his identity on the side of his cab (mooted here earlier today) or I would do my level best to stop him on his travels and ask how he’s enjoying the musical soundtrack of our City.