🌊 The Thames Path is turning 30! Join a special relay walk on Wed 24 June from Kingston to Kew Bridge 🚶‍♀️ Meet 10:30am at The Boaters Inn (KT2 5AU) — come for all or part of ~7.5 riverside miles. Everyone welcome! 🌿 #ThamesPath #CommunityWalk #DiscoverHamptonWick

This was such a lovely event - great way to get people together and talking to each other in a friendly way. More like this please!

Great to see Kate celebrated as part of Hampton Wick's IWD project. Eleana's Bistro has been a wonderful addition to Hampton Wick High Street.

Brilliant Hampton Wick initiative for International Women's Day. @jimmillard.bsky.social #iwd

@jimmillard.bsky.social Hi Jim - heard the Megaskip in Hampton Wick yesterday was v. successful. Any plans to repeat it? #hamptonwick

This free event is an annual tradition in Hampton Wick. Don't miss it!

Free Film Screening: Six Inches of Soil 🌱 📅 Wednesday, 8 October 2025 at 7pm 📍 The Exchange, Twickenham – 75 London Road, TW1 1BE Discover the inspiring story of young British farmers challenging the industrial food system!

Great news! The blaring disco from pedicabs has turned Soho (in particular) into a hen night special at weekends.

Walk 26 Bridges – Starting at Hampton Court! Join us on Sunday 14 September for the Great London Bridges Walk – 32 miles from Hampton Court Bridge to Tower Bridge raising funds for UCLH 💛 👟 When: 6:30 AM start 📍 Where: Hampton Court Bridge 💻 Sign up / donate: thegreatlondonbridgeswalk.com

🏃‍ Last Chance to Join the Hampton Wick Treasure Hunt THIS Saturday! 💰 If you haven’t signed up your team yet, time is running out! ⚠️ Limited spots — last year we SOLD OUT! Don’t wait — register your team now! Link: www.hamptonwick.org.uk

🌍 Want to cut your carbon footprint and save energy at home? Join a free talk on “Heat Pumps in Our Homes” with physicist Michael de Podesta, former researcher at the National Physical Laboratory. 📍 Richmond Library Annexe, TW9 1DH 🗓️ Thursday 19 June @7pm Organised by XR Richmond

Brilliant! It was a great fun event last year. If you're in or around Hampton Wick you really should try to enter a team.

Did you know? 🌳 From the mid-1800s to WWII, Londoners gathered in Bushy Park on Chestnut Sunday to admire the blooming chestnut trees. The tradition was revived in the 1970s by Colin and Mu Pain with help from the Hampton Wick Association! Chestnut Sunday is back on May 11! 🌸 Save the date!

🌟 Support volunteering across our borough! The Richmond Volunteer Fair is back — with over 50 charities ready to welcome new volunteers! 🙌 🗓️ When: Wednesday 21 May 2025, 2–6 PM 📍 Where: RHACC, Parkshot, Richmond, TW9 2RE Register at ➡️ www.richmondcvs.org.uk

Yes. Ukraine is paying with the lives and limbs of its people to weaken and contain Putin who is a danger to the whole world. Any financial contribution that the rest of us make to this effort can never "match-fund" that, and it is morally bankrupt to suggest it.

Spain joins in with its support of Ukraine. Hopefully, Trump's tantrum will lead to significant action from Europe on Ukraine.

This year Richmond upon Thames is celebrating 65 years of being twinned with Fontainebleu and Konstanz. www.richmond.gov.uk/reaffirmatio... Various events taking place across the borough, particularly on the weekend of 6 - 8 June.

Excellent and important article on how liberal / progressive governments can succeed, and indeed are succeeding in Denmark today. Don't be freaked by "stricter immigration policies" - that's the point, get past the labels. A long read, but very well worth it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/m...

Too many mince pies? @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

Possibly the best piece of news in 2024.

White Ribbon walk to demonstrate against violence to women and girls. Starts Hampton Wick station, midday today (Sat). hamptonwick.org.uk/events/singl...

Marble bollards in Cordoba, Spain. Classy. @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

Appreciate this may not be a universally popular opinion but the less you treat BlueSky as a crusade or cause, and the more you position it as simply a superior user experience with a better governance approach, the more sustainable the growth will be.

@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social I Baeza, Spain, some truly regal bollards. 7

Here's something I learned today. The Olvares Vivos mark is awarded to olive oil producers who actively work to promote biodiversity in their olive plantations. www.olivaresvivos.com/en/certifica...

Looking at the endless olive groves of Jaén, and sampling the end product at the lovely Olive Oil Museum in Úbeda.