@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social I am reading What Am I, A Deer? at the moment. Quite intense!

I can't believe they got this interview with the walrus

Let’s go!

When it’s all blue like this it’s proper magical up the lido.

Part of the Guardian’s decades-long series of articles that leave you feeling instinctively sorry for the writer’s teenage offspring. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The people in the house behind ours have hung up some kind of temporary curtain that makes me think I’ve entered a crime drama every time I look out of our back windows.

Greenwich on the Friday before Marathon weekend.

Minor highlight of the weekend: Steve Sidwell describing Harvey Vale as a ‘technician of the sphere’: www.reddit.com/r/footballcl...

@zemblamatic.bsky.social @badger5000.bsky.social @rolandbates.bsky.social I’ve got a spare ticket for Mary Halvorson and crew at OTO on Weds 13th (at members’ rates) in case any of you “jazz” “heads” are in the market for some scraunchy modern sounds.

The upstairs rooms of my micropub/tapas bar/jazz kissa would host the offices of my well-resourced local news room and my extremely niche polling company.

Yesterday's London Marathon record-breakers crossing the Charlton/East Greenwich border under the Angerstein flyover.

Sports photography is hard because, on top of the technical challenges and ‘only one chance’ nature of the thing, there’s always some dork on a mountain bike or similar messing up the composition.

Tigst Assefa rounding the corner of the Angerstein roundabout in East Greenwich this morning, on her way to setting a new world record. #LondonMarathon2026

Looking forward to* next Saturday’s WSL2 finale: the top two teams go up automatically, then 3rd place has a play-off game vs the bottom team of WSL. Charlton play Birmingham at home; Palace are the form team at the moment and play bottom of the league Pompey. #permutations *Dreading

I enjoyed ‘Seurat and the Sea’ at the Courtauld. A relatively small and concise exhibition, and all the better for it (you could say it gets straight to the Pointilism).

Another shot of Sawe exiting Charlton on his way to breaking the marathon record. I hope he appreciated his brief glimpse of the Valley. #cafc

The Trad Jazz side of the marathon.

Marathon record breaker Sabastian Sawe approaching East Greenwich earlier this morning. #LondonMarathon2026

Eilish McColgan running under the A102 flyover into East Greenwich.

Elite Women and pacers. #LondonMarathon2026

Wheelchair racers exiting Charlton and heading for Greenwich. #LondonMarathon2026

Marathon morning. The Japanese drummers are setting up under the flyover; I might regret standing here when they get going.

Which London Underground journey is faster? Test your tube knowledge! I scored 20 on Play Your Tubes Right. edjefferson.com/playyourtube...

FYI: WE ARE STAYING UP #cafc

Something must have gone wrong with the rinse function last time I washed my water bottle, such that when I took a big, dehydrated drink straight after Parkrun this morning, I got a massive hit of Finish Powerball dishwasher tablet flavour. I can still taste it now.

Three photos taken on the walk to Parkrun this morning.

And a happy Saturday morning to you too, email from Nest. FFS.

A not very good video of Tomorrow’s Warriors + Binker Golding closing out Thelonious Monk’s ‘Evidence’ upstairs at Foyle’s this evening (drummer and two horn players out of view). These monthly-ish gigs are really nice - and all done by 8.15! #JazzSky

A geodesic dome in the Friday evening sunshine - Woolwich, April 2026

I’m off out to support the future of UK jazz. *gazes down on you all from a superior position*

Drove to the Isle of Skye from Durham in my mum’s 1 litre, 4-gear Citroen AX during a university summer holiday with my mate, because we were bored. Navigated with a real map, camped by the sea when we got there. Went to a village hall disco with loads of north European bikers.

#NowPlaying Four songs of 30-40 minute length that all take a similar trajectory. Nice ambience of tape hiss and amp buzz. Keyboards occasionally far too loud. The overall effect is tremendous. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Wrote some words about summer festivals taking place in London.

That new Alice Coltrane book is full of surprises. Like when Bill Evans changed his name to Yusef Lateef… 🤷🏻‍♂️

Greenwich Peninsula skyline - April 2026.

Classic Better/GLL (Greenwich’s gift to the world of leisure centre operation): www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

#NowPlaying This one really doesn’t hang about at *getting right into it*.

Good evening from SE7.

“Tube strikes don’t affect this Thameslink commuter!” I say smugly to my colleagues before striding off to the station to find that - once again - signalling issues do very much affect this Thameslink commuter.

Another great day for people demanding a significant investment in London’s public transport without apparently realising that that’s what they’re doing. #DriverlessTrains

30+ years since I studied French at school but I think I still get the gist.

Hope, love and trumpets: young Venezuelans – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A man with a slightly eccentric platform of “I am a commuting cyclist who is against all forms of improvements to cycling in London”.

‘Miles at loo’

I might go to the local hustings this evening just to see if ‘Rupert Fiennes’ is a real person, or a name out of the Tory Paper Candidate Generator.

Herewith a hastily-sequenced playlist of ROTUNDA MUSIC: open.spotify.com/playlist/1cc...

Struggling to reconcile the Guardian’s ‘Age of extinction’ banner with the news of ‘soaring’ rhino numbers, but whatevs. Rhinos in the street! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’ve lived round here for 23 years and never seen this rotunda. I should address that. #rotunda

Accidentally cursed my IG feed by clicking on an ad for ‘Sushi, Sake and Sumo’ in Greenwich Borough Hall (tickets from £79!) and now I’ve just been served one for ‘Rodeo in Lewisham’. What’s next, ‘Monster Trucks in Woolwich’?

Pleased to have secured a copy of this in the post-RSD online sale from SotU. Thought they might all go over the weekend.