I'm sharing our magnolia tree so we can take a couple of breaths and appreciate some beauty, while it lasts.

I opened my 32 page course book for perfumery 5 day scent school, and PowerPoint told me that it was a very long document and perhaps I would like AI to summarise it for me. Does anyone else find themselves regularly shouting at their own screens, "No! Fuck off!"?

Rainy day; cup of tea; ten minutes to kill. Most of you know what that means by now. #Storytime. New folk, this is when I write a story from scratch, here on Bluesky. And it always starts ike this: "There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve."

Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?

Read the whole thread. It's not really a surprise, but it's astonishing that no one seems to be getting arrested.

Is anyone watching the ice dance on TNT Sports? There's a commentator who has been picking fault in everything! I think she's just been told off for being such a misery as she's suddenly started being the tiniest bit kind.

Oh no you aren't.

My new favourite cafe. They're not wrong.

Absolutely cracking work here from Jim's team. I defend the BBC a lot, but when a small team is doing really solid work like this while BBC London is doing puff pieces about the Wicked films, it really does make you wonder what's gone wrong with the big news outlets.

Unpack a random box, find your dad's School Certificate from 1944.

We make and send perfume to our US customers, and accept that there are now 10% tariffs additional charges. Since 19th November DHL has been adding the product code for steel to all our paperwork, and charging 50% tariffs. They have done this to other perfume makers too. This is fraud.

He's not wrong. ://youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo?si=YSLGruE4Wq4ncQgJ

No, it's a train you effing numpty of a pile of nonsense.

Proof from Yorkshire that this is how to serve Christmas cake, with Wensleydale cheese. Cake baked and soaked in brandy for over a year by my sister.

London is one of the safest places in the UK, but the Media's constant racist narrative and knife crime hoax has convinced everyone else in the UK it isn't. Just as it has brainwashed everyone into thinking immigration is a problem.

Pitzhanger Manor this afternoon, inside and out, some Georgian perfection for you.

Every time I stray into Threads, I regret it, except for today's gathering of RLS. Also I bought myself a bag and customised it.

Is Google trying to tell me something?

Every time Freddie sang, "One hundred degrees, that's why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit" I wonder if Brian just sighed quietly.

Your timeline has been booped

That Argentine Tango knocked my sock off. Carlos is always marvellous and Karen is his match. I love them. May the karma fairies sprinkle goodness on them. #Strictly

What's wrong with Paul Smith's maths? (Who's buying two pairs? 😺)

We made this: www.instagram.com/reel/DR2I4eA...

Another marvellous thing. www.instagram.com/reel/DQmd9HW...

A month of marvellous things 1. youtu.be/iODibDMEd5k?...

Yes. Every time I hear politicians talk about “wealth tax” my mind hears “we’ll pummel the top 5%” which means “the real wealth in the top 0.5% will remain untaxed but we’ll utterly upend the rest”

Light Project and I had our second photoshoot day, and just as the Vianne's Confession shot was finished, Italian Elle magazine asked for a picture! Witchcraft, I tell you. I gather it went down well in Italy @joannechocolat.bsky.social

Greetings New York, from London where the leaves have fallen, but not much else. The sky though! Wibbly. Anyway, welcome to Team Rational.

I made a film for beginner perfumers. It's long, because so is learning perfumery. youtu.be/c4iQ2nHZN4M?...

I got an email from a client who wrote perturbing instead of protruding. I suppose it's possible she was concerned by the thing that sticks out a bit.

I'm one of the privileged fountain pen nerds who got a bottle of the new Pelikan Edelstein Apricot Achat ink on Friday night. I've put it into a Sailor with a fude nib. 😁 Sorry. My other obsession leaked out.

I thought this might cheer you up. youtu.be/WrAV5EVI4tU?...

600+ words on a brief history of modern perfumery today.

Just occasionally, I find myself in the coolest room on the planet at the right time. #same.band

Political editor @jamesrball.com talks about his exhaustive investigation for The New World into the influence of one man in British society - Paul Marshall. Watch to find out who he is 👀

This person just followed me. I wondered why, so checked the profile and found that it only follows 22 older women from various countries. I wonder why? What next? A DM? 😁 Or am I too cynical.

HSBC worries me more every day.

I rarely see someone that makes me wish this hard that I'd thought of it first. I'm doing my best to be confelicitous about it.

If you fancy watching this film on YouTube that would be lovely. If you would consider pressing the button below it that asks to "give it some hype" that would be even better. We're competing with AI nonsense and that's one way to let YouTube know that humans are watching. youtu.be/z-aw_Nm6Lac?...

Today I bought a yellow fountain pen from a gentleman named Adolphus Smith, who made it by hand and travelled from Ohio to the London Pen Show. I'd saved up for some special things and this one called to me. Everything about this makes me happy.

I am wearing double Studio Coverdale as you can never have too many imaginary flowers in your scarf and hoodie.

Sometimes, perfume making takes me to the best places to meet marvellous people.

Terrific crowd this morning at the Olympic Cinema in Barnes: thank you to @sarahmccartney.bsky.social for insights on scent and much more; to Anne and the organizers of Barnes Bookfest for their hospitality, and to everyone who was there!

We now have over 7500 subscribers to our YouTube channel which officially makes Arthur McBain and me perfumery micro-influencers. 😂 This is how we do it. youtu.be/cnZDlb5xzL4?...

We called the bank about a fraudulent charge on my business bank card. They told me they would investigate, which they have, and that they would cancel my card and send a new one. I cut my card up. They had done neither. I found out 14 days later. 🙄 Very big bank. Numpties.

Four buses and four trains, five hours to get to Crystal Palace Subway and back. Totally worth the bother.

Just what I needed on a Friday night. youtu.be/miFCWJDjL1w?...

When you see parallel escalators do you ever race each other to the top by just standing there to check which one is faster? Just us? 😄 I won today. Bond Street Elizabeth Line, east exit. #EscalatorRace #ElizabethLine #SecretsOfAHappyMarriage