Arsenal 4 - 1 Aston Villa One corner, four goals, zero sympathy. Gabriel scored, Odegaard orchestrated, Trossard aimed, Jesus curled. Villa tried to slow it all down and instead watched it speed past. Five points clear and sleeping well. @Arsenal #COYG #ARSAST #arsenal #gooners

Had a lovely afternoon out with Ethan and Darce. We went for a wander into town and then to the Tate Modern. @klausfaust @darce_styles

C. Final answer.

Arsenal 2-1 Brighton Odegaard scored after Saka nicked goal kick. Dominated then doubled via Brighton generosity. Naturally got tense. Raya saved everyone from collective breakdown. Top reclaimed. Pulse rates eventually normal. @Arsenal @bukayosaka87 @martinodegaard #ARSBRI #COYG

Stranger Things Season 5 Episode 6 15 min (partially orchestral) version of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill? Yup. Emotionally devastating, spiritually cleansing, still not long enough! Beautiful. @Netflix @Stranger_Things @katebushmusic #StrangerThings #StrangerThings5 #Ruth

Lovely Xmas Eve drinks at The Welly while we all wait for Santa to arrive 🎅🎁🥳🍻

A Christmas Carol (abridged)

Stuart, Darce and I went to a lovely candlelight carol service at the Union Chapel last night. We’d had a couple of liveners beforehand, so naturally we were all in full voice 🎶🍷😀 @UniChapelChurch @UnionChapelChurchLondon #CandlelightCarols #UnionChapel #CarolSingalong

We had a fabulous family get together yesterday. Thank you Joanna for a beautiful spread, games, laughter, presents, cards, and drink. 🎁🥳🎊🍾 ❤️🎅🧑‍🎄🎄🎉

Hhmmm. It’s going to be re-edited. I wonder why? I mean it was filmed back in January. 🤔 www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8609...

39% of the British public have been to the theatre in the past 12 months. But that drops to 8% if you don't count panto. 🤣

One of my favourite Xmas songs 🏠🎄🔥🔥 youtu.be/biT9boNpU3c?...

Arsenal 2-1 Wolves Friendly @gaygooners meet up, Pierre & Deborah. Then ninety minutes of low level panic. Saka schemed, Wolves clogged, Arsenal wobbled, & Mosquera finished job. Relief levels through roof. Ben White sadly pinged @Arsenal @BukayoSaka87 #ARSWOL #COYG #AFC #Gunners

Annual @gaygooners Christmas party! 🥳 Drinks, fantastic spread, cake, fabulous raffle, & of course few dodgy photos. 🍺🥣🎂📸 Thank you to GG officers for organising. Great fun. ❤️ Merry Xmas, everyone 🎄🤶🧑‍🎄🎅🎁☃️ @gaygooners 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @Arsenal ♥️⚽️ @Regenersaurus 🦖 #COYG 🔴⚪️

Club Brugge 0 - 3 Arsenal Gunners strolled through Bruges with Madueke scoring twice & Martinelli adding beauty while Jesus returned in style & hit bar for fun. Darce & I managed to swing some great seats & UEFA Champions Club access. @Arsenal #COYG #CLUARS #UCL #arsenal

Club Brugge, we’re coming for you! @Arsenal ♥️⚽️ @Regenersaurus 🦖 #COYG 🔴⚪️ #CLUARS 🇧🇪🇬🇧 @gaygooners 🌈

Trinity College Alumni Carol Service in Marylebone yesterday. Tremendous. Thunderingly loud organ & choir. Incredibly rousing. We almost elevated. We sang our hearts out. HARK!! THE HERALD!! ANGELS!!! SING!!!! #TrinityCollege #AlumniLife @trincollcam @stmaryleboneparishchurch

The War Between the Land and the Sea Glossy, fun, & about as subtle as trident in the shins. Looks great, acts well, scripts wobble. Hoping sea folk start playing nasty rather than nice. @russelltdavies63 @russelltovey #DoctorWho #TheWarBetweenLandAndSea #HomoAqua #TeamBarclay

No matter how much train fares will cost under the new nationalised Great British Railways, no one can accuse the government of wasting money on an expensive redesign. Looks like someone knocked over a pile of paint pots in B&Q. 🔴⚪️🔵🟡 😂

Last Saturday Stuart & I had a great Xmas🎄afternoon (& night!) out with all the Essex gang 🎉 First we all went to see Dave‘s fantastic play End at The Dorfman theatre 🎭 and then we went on to the Anchor pub 🍻 on the river. A lot of laughter 😂 and great to see everyone. ❤️

Annual tradition: Stuart & I picked our tree at Pins & Needles Highbury 🌲. I do the lights 🌟, ONLY he does the baubles 🪩- his Olympic sport. Every year he adds new travel decorations, and the poor tree is now groaning. At this rate we’ll need a second one 🤣🎄

Worst edition of Naked Attraction I’ve ever seen #FIFA

“Number one, what’s your name and where do you come from?” #FIFA #blinddate

Yesterday afternoon with Andrew went to see On the Art of Teeth at Barts Pathology Museum in London’s glitzy Smithfield. @JanetkaPlatun and #DrDavidMills spin micro tomography secrets into a crisp meditation on memory and decay. #BartsPathologyMuseum #TeethArt #QMUL

Lovely to spend some time with the gorgeous Pierre yesterday lunchtime. Thanks for the catch up (and the wine!) 🍷❤️ #flatiron

Pillion. Harry Melling’s Colin is painfully shy until Alexander Skarsgård’s Ray pulls him into a dark leather clad biker BDSM romance. Harry Lighton writes & directs with heat & heart. Colin finds himself while Ray stays a quiet ache. Rough tender hopeful queer love. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Kicking the Season Off… It was lovely to have the boys over on Saturday afternoon / night for our annual pre-festivities party. 🎄🥳 Stuart did us proud with the food and we made up goodie bags of homemade fayre; sloe gin, quince jelly, marmalade, and biscuits. 🍸🫐🍑🍊🍪 We laughed. A lot. 🤣

Chelsea 1 - 1 Arsenal… Turned up with fit forwards then lost Saliba. Arteta patched central defence. Usual set piece threat missing. Chelsea scored from corner. Merino fixed mood. Not pretty but unbeaten last three & 5 points clear. @Arsenal @GayGooners #COYG #CHEARS #arsenal

Chelsea, we’re coming for you! (Only Rex is staying on the naughty step today. His last two trips to Stamford Bridge he’s gone AWOL! 🦖) @Arsenal @Regenersaurus #COYG #CHEARS @gaygooners

Fallen Angels at Menier Chocolate Factory in London's glitzy London Bridge Quarter. Janie Dee and Alexandra Gilbreath are utter perfection as two tipsy wives waiting for a French lover. The Lord Chamberlain hated it in 1925 but we loved it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @janiedee @alexandragilbreath @menierchocolatefactory

Arsenal 3 - 1 Bayern Munich Simply better than everyone else. Spurs and Bayern dispatched with minimal fuss. Bench options Martinelli and Madueke made difference while Kane enjoyed quiet evening. We sit top of everything. @arsenal @fcbayern #arsenal #afc #coyg #ucl #arsfcb

I’ve been decanting, tasting, filtering, tasting, sweetening, tasting, & bottling our latest batch of homemade sloe gin today. Did I mention the tasting? 😋 Ruby nectar! Oops. Hic! 🥴 #Foraging #Homemade #SloeGin #DontSampleTheGoodsAndExpectToStillStandUpAfterwards

So it turns out I have a signature dish? Who knew!?

Arsenal 4 - 1 Spurs. Eze hat trick against team that nearly bought him. You simply have to laugh. Frank’s defensive masterplan lasted about half an hour. Six points clear. The view from top is lovely. @arsenal @leandrotrossard @eberechi_eze #arsenal #coyg #nld #northlondonisred

Yesterday Darce and I went to see Wicked For Good at Odeon cinema in London’s glitzy Islington. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are a dream team. Writers Holzman and Schwartz struggle to match Part One though. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ @cynthiaerivo @arianagrande @odeoncinemas #wicked #wickedforgood

Last night Stuart and I went to see End at Dorfman Theatre in London’s glitzy South Bank. Conflict of interest as I know writer David Eldridge but this trilogy finale is superb. Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves are stunning. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @nationaltheatre @cliveowen @saskiareeves #End

Highbury Park Run with Darce and Jonathan. They both finished way before me! 🏃😰 @darce_styles @darcestyles96 @jonny_hough @highburyfieldsparkrun @highburyparkrun #highburyfieldsparkrun #loveparkrun

Yay! 👏👏👏 🔴⚪️ #COYG @arsenal @ArsenalWFC #ArsenalWFC #ArsenalWomen www.islington.media/news/arsenal...

I’m going in again. Prior to watching Part Two tomorrow. #Refresher @wickedmovie #WickedMovie #Wicked #WickedPartOne #Elphaba #Glinda #DefyingGravity

Last night Stuart and I went to see The Spy Who Came In From The Cold at @sohoplace in London’s glitzy Soho. Rory Keenan and @aggiocasey are stunning in David Eldridge’s tense adaptation. I know David so I am biased but it is fab. #TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@TheRunningMan @OdeonWestEnd was wild. Glen Powell gritty every-dad hunted on live TV; Josh Brolin & Colman Domingo bring the nasty. Wright & Bacall adapt King’s book more faithfully. If you liked Squid Game, Shaun of the Dead or Hunted, this your jam. #RunningMan #EdgarWright

In my younger, speedier days I had a sports car. A policeman pulled me over and said, "Papers". I yelled, "Scissors" and drove off.

Rwanda 👋 www.arsenal.com/news/visit-r...

Saw Gilbert and George at Hayward. Blazing colour cheerful menace and a tour of all the things we pretend not to think about. Loud strange funny and oddly sincere. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @GilbertAndGeorge #GilbertAndGeorge21stCenturyPictures #HaywardGallery #DigitalArt #ModernArt #LondonArt

Lovely to see Debbie and Shelley on Saturday. We ate, we drank, we went to a gallery. Wherever we do it, it’s a fabulous annual autumnal tradition.

Saw Simon J. Webb’s (@SimonJWebbPhoto #SimonJWebb) COMING OUT at The Camera Club. Striking portraits of creatives + audio stories too; reminding us queer folks still need to “announce” ourselves. Beautiful, angry, essential. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This poster makes it look like “The War between BBC Doctor Who and Disney Doctor Who” 👀 @bbcdoctorwho @disneydoctorwho @bbciplayer @doctorwho_magazine #bbcdoctorwho #disneydoctorwho

Now You See Me 3 at Odeon Holloway: glossy heist caper with pantomime villains + ’90s nostalgia. Magic leans on camera tricks and the plot’s full of getaway-truck-sized holes, but it’s still fun if you like breezy crime romps. ⭐️⭐️ #NowYouSeeMe3 #FilmReview

Rage Against the Machine never specified what type of machine they were furious with but I reckon it was probably a printer. An HP printer.

Imitation of Life @BarbicanCentre, followed by brilliant talk Ellen E Jones & Rhianna Dhillon. Sirk’s 1959 film remains powerful take on race, class, & identity. Timeless classic. If Mahalia Jackson singing Trouble of World doesn’t bring to tears, you have no heart. Or soul!