Was in a meeting in Leeds today where people were making small talk about the lack of a local tram system (“Nottingham’s got one!”). And they say social media isn’t real life!

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That time I ate out in Iceland.

The year of our Lord 2025. (yes, it is a railway station Spoons, in Yorkshire, but still).

A five coach train with the heating on full. A joy to be up, out, moving, and amongst the propagation of early autumn germs this fine morning.

Good morning. The sun is rising over an electronic advert for radiators by the recently-installed A102 Sound Wall to herald a NEW DAWN.

I don't know how to share this research, but I will find a way eventually Stopped at 350 Shoot! profiles, it was enough of a sample size.... Thankyou for bearing with me, and enjoying..... #Shoot #shootmagazine

I don’t think I’m particularly squeamish, but the idea of bringing a Lime bike into my own home makes me feel quite queasy. www.reddit.com/r/london/s/7...

More inter-war unpleasantness (French variety this time).

Autumnal commuting scenes from the Blackheath/Charlton borders.

This feels like the kind of absurdity that’s going to make CAMRA irrelevant in the long run. I know they still have their aversion to keg beers but I’d take two consistently well-kept, interesting cask beers, plus a wide range of kegs and cans, over the choices that most GBG pubs offer any day.

The cover of ‘London Laughs’ is very much “from a different time”.

Sideshow Pete

Autumnal commuting scenes from the Blackheath/Charlton borders.

They’ve definitely switched autumn on this morning. #commuting

A post I wrote has made it to the USA. This doesn’t seem to be a great outcome.

Somehow, finishing Moby-Dick has unblocked my ability to read fiction, and I’ve been bangin’ through the novels like nee-one’s business ever since. What I read in September ⬇️.

Surely it’s not impossible for a UK publisher to come to market with an equivalent of all those NYT word games but using non-american English words and concepts? The future of our nation and culture may depend on it.

3 goals and 3 points in the early autumn sunshine. Good times! #cafc

Good morning from London SE7.

Just had an 8 month old post liked by an Effective Altruist. Let’s do the time warp again.

One cat who likes to luxuriate in the comfort of the rug, and her brother who walks very carefully around it to avoid the apparent horror of touching it 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Browsing the web via smartphone for a new pair of black trousers. Might as well be looking at MS Clip Art in most cases.

As yet, I’m not completely convinced that the new Jeff Tweedy record needed to be thirty songs long, but this promo(?) is very good. Essentially a film of him driving his car quite casually, listening to the full album, for nearly two hours. youtu.be/hIlSrYjC8jg?...

Up the top of the Tate Modern, earlier. A shame the 10th floor balcony is currently closed.

The mind of the British child of the 1980s is poisoned by tv such that they can never truly grasp the concept of the emu as a spiritual creature.

@zemblamatic.bsky.social 👀

Absolutely appalling, horrible news from Chichester tonight. Thoughts with his loved ones. It's a disgrace that it's still considered "safe" to have concrete walls around pitches at any level of the game precisely because of the risk of something like this happening, and it *has* happened before.

No one stickers up the surrounding streets of my office as persistently as the English Common Law nutcases.

Now getting Insta ads that say things like ‘New Season. New Corduroy’. Let’s go!

‘Cheers to Spring’ - Blackheath, September 2025.

What are advertisers really saying when they casually bash south London?

RIP

This could be any and all of us, if we would just #believe in our #dreams. (Pic 4 is my favourite)

A reasonably high tide.

RIP Danny Thompson. What a sound, what a discography. His solo double-bass interpretation of ‘Goodbye Pork Pie Hat’ at the Bert Jansch tribute at the RFH remains one of the most incredible things I have seen and heard occurring in front of me.

I noticed the other day that the Amazon Fresh near my work had a new ‘Vapes Sold Here’ sign in its window and wondered how things were going for them. Competing in the corner shop space seemed a bit out of whack for the Amazon brand.

Tangential thoughts prompted by this have led me to discover that the going rate for a 1986 Ford Sierra Cosworth RS in good condition is *£59,000*.

I always knew that my commute to work was special in some way.

Today’s ‘perception of crime’ chat’ has reminded me I should explain to my 15yr-old the concept and context of removable car radio-cassette decks to see if it’s remotely comprehensible to the youth of today.

Pretty bizarre that the US President seems to think about the Mayor of London more often than the average Londoner.

There’s something very ‘craft beer scene 2025’ about a brewery called *Anarchy* threatening legal action against another for use of a local colloquialism. www.wylambrewery.co.uk/hot-off-the-...

Really into this new Linda May Han Oh trio album (double bass, drums, trumpet) at the moment: Strange Heavens. Been lucky enough to see Tyshawn Sorey play a couple of times; if Cafe OTO could get this combo over, that would be great. youtu.be/PKKRXYlpCBU?...

Got to drop my daughter at school for a trip abroad in 6 and a half hours time. The thought of a full working day tomorrow is not sparking joy at this point.

Played 2, won 2? Both games against difficult opposition? Next game’s against the bottom team in the division? We should walk this…sorry, we should draw 0-0 after 97 minutes of inept and frustrating football. Still, the sun was out. #cafc #cafcwomen

great story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hearing 6 Music news do a quick puff-piece for the winner of Putin’s Eurovision alternative this morning was another one of those “WTF are they thinking there?” moments.

American EPL TV coverage has these fanfest things in random cities. Today’s is in Kansas City. So,kudos to pundit Graeme Le Saux for bigging up Kansas City’s jazz legacy. Not many football pundits mention Count Basie & Charlie Parker or pay much mind to the shift from big band swing to bebop.

Er, no thanks?

Forgotten fragments of football part 2035823508 This week: The bloke with the camcorder who videos the Wrexham games is off sick..... (From the Wrexham vs Bury football programme, 10/10/1992) #Wrexham #WxmAFC