Spotted from our car - the Goodyear Blimp over Well Hall Rd, Eltham today

Other half has Mexico in his sweepstake so win win 🫣 #worldcup2026

Great catching part of the #AsianSounds season at Southbank Centre last night. Here, the amazing @fizasings followed by the fab @alya_isha at Queen Elizabeth Hall (2of2)

Great catching part of the #AsianSounds season at Southbank Centre last night. Here, the amazing @fizasings followed by the fab @alya_isha at Queen Elizabeth Hall (1of2)

Double rainbow at @woolwichworks.bsky.social last night in time for its #Pride events 🌈 #woolwich #woolwichworks #rainbow

Also, on top of this furnace weather, it now appears to be flying ant day here. Still, it is the most exciting day in suburbia, bin day!

Other half says #LondonBridge is hell rn - loads of cancellations, crush of people and escalators not working. He’s abandoned that and is going to LB pier to get the boat ⛴️ to #Woolwich then a bus 🥵 #heatwave

'London Town, No. 72', Eltham Road, Blackheath (c.1950s) by Robert Ellis (Private collection)

Enjoyed an atmospheric War of the Worlds last night by the Priory Players at Progress Hall in #Eltham.

Blackheath Standard area tonight…. #selondon #blackheath

Same. I’m from a Sikh family and a child of immigrants. Here’s what I’d say to JD Vance…

Wonderful word-full eve last Fri, at Severndroog Castle for a Spoken Word event by #Greenwich libraries. We heard of butterflies, blind spots, medusa, getting older, being woman, grief, tree hugging, crocadillos, wishing the rain would fall up and being the king of your bedsit and more. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Twas a very enjoyable ‘Evening with Radiohead’ (by Letmeinpresents) at @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social on a heatwave evening last week 🥵😊 Nice to see Hodge too, the #SouthwarkCathedralCat 🐈‍⬛ #Radiohead #southwarkcathedral

Crete, near Chania, looking gorgeous this evening in 18c ☀️ #crete #chaniá #agiamarina

BREAKING NEWS: Labour have a won a majority on Greenwich Council after hitting the 28-seat mark. The Greens have nine, Conservatives have three and Reform one. Five wards left to count and some drama to come. Join us on the live blog! greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/05/08/g...

Phew. Reform numbers high, beat Tories for 2nd place. But as my husband just said, a win’s a win 🤷🏻‍♀️ #eltham #electionresults #greenwich

‘Good turnout’ at Greenwich, reporting by @greenwichwire.bsky.social

Good job there's no strings attached to Farridge's £5 million gift from the crypto bro. His plan to slash capital gains tax on crypto is just a coincidence: www.ft.com/content/a12f...

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Have a chuckle with some of the replies here, 🤣🤣🤣

The #Charlton #ParkRun in full swing in this beautiful park with Charlton house watching over…

Last week’s London Standard on London’s “countryside hotspots” opens on #AbbeyWood and ends #ShootersHill as ‘London’s tree capital’, mentioning #Eltham and Woolwich…

If this holds, guess it’s the route my mum’s flight from UK to India may take, (though I’d rather she didn’t go just yet but that generation (‘stuff and nonsense’) doesn’t scare easily!)

Enjoyed visiting #Thamesmead library on Sat - a striking light-filled, glass-walled lakeside hub. Nicely done event there, hearing Poet Laureate #SimonArmitage & local-born poet #RachelLong. Then visit to the fab #Bouldrbar and walk around South Mere Lake with its dramatic vistas and skies.

It’s spring and also perhaps World War 3 #weekend

You got to feel for Matt Goodwin. Sorry missed a word. You got to feel contempt for Matt Goodwin.

Great spoken word evening at #Eltham #Library last Friday. Fine hosting and contributions from writers picked from the hat to a ‘drum roll’ from the audience. #SpokenWord #Poetry #London

Day of contrasts y'day - a terrifying prescient vision of authoritarian racists running things in USA (albeit with mad car chases, stoned revolutionaries) in #OneBattleAfterAnother at #Eltham #Vue compared to later on TV, the whimsical gentility of BBC's #SmallProphets about love, loss & friendship.

Extraordinary to see that this is was #PrivateEye cover from as long ago as 2011 😔 #andrewmountbattenwindsor #epstein

Fox on the shed keeping an eye on the nervous birds at the feeder. It's tense. #fox #urbanfox #birds #londonnature

Thanks! Congrats on the forthcoming book!

Enjoyed watching #AThousandBlows, with gorgeous 1880s London period detail, much based on real figures, eg. Jamaican boxer Hezekiah Moscow. We let Disney+ roll on and it served up extraordinary film, #Jawbone a gritty modern tale about boxing, addiction -great contrast of #boxing eras and portrayals

1. Rochester on the River Medway at 4.15pm last Saturday. 2. The pedestrian bridge called the 'High Street' connecting Rochester and Strood, which runs alongside the vehicular Rochester Bridge. #Rochester #sunset #kent #rivermedway #medway

Amazing Saturday evening at Rochester Cathedral (with its stunning hanging whales installation) watching #letmeinpresents perform an ‘Evening with Radiohead’. #Rochester #rochestercathedral #Radiohead #Kent #livemusic

Echoes of 80s new wave synth, a bit of Joy Division and even Editors, with goth vocals - ‘Ist Ist’ performing last night @roughtraderecords.bsky.social their 5th album, Dagger, released this week. #livemusic #IstIst #London

This article on Javid’s memoir (the book read by JS on BBC4 radio this week) is eviscerating (and hilarious). Here, Johnson’s time sounding like a tragic Carry On…

One of my more random collections (although I did work there for a while): old gig posters from Goldsmiths… First up, early-era GLR favourites Love & Money: 🧵

Agree with local MP @cliveefford.bsky.social (Eltham & Chislehurst) on the current crisis (video earlier today) based on current info #Eltham #chislehurst #mandelson

Yes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.

Hard agree. Austerity cuts everywhere. What’s to be done though when “England's councils spending 78% of their main budgets on social care” (CIPFA) news.sky.com/story/englan...

Always felt IDS got away very lightly for his contribution to this stuff.

Friday night out in #London, never gets old - Tate Britain, cosy pub, #CinnamonClub Indian restaurant and then the #Thames by night from the boat home…

Er…what is this ‘sentence’ you speak of? #page42

Weekend cooking 😋 Aloo Gobi (Potato & Cauliflower) My mum’s easy recipe here: familymealsrecipesdiary.blogspot.com/2023/10/nani... #recipe #indianfood

Not satire, confirmed real! 🤦🏽‍♀️

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

Goldsmiths University is to open a campus in Catford – with more than 600 fine art and design students expected to move in. The new location looks set to provide a home for courses which had been based at the old Lewisham College building in Deptford.

A fascinating prog on #R4 just now. I wasn’t aware much of this scene growing up as a London Brit #Punjabi (we had Southall’s Glassy Junction tho’ ! now closed). Must get to the Gladstone soon. Well done David 🙌🏼 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Had to do a double-take…Donald Trump #Singh? When did he become a #Sikh?! 📸 screenshot from tonight’s BBC2 #Newsnight prog with its subtitles on, at 27.50 in.

This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.