In 2014 Asif Kapadia got in touch to say he was making an Amy Winehouse documentary and could they use my interview tapes in the film? I was SO GUTTED I couldn't find them that I set up a paid Dropbox account and religiously filed every celeb interview from then onwards in case I was asked again.

"Rook had previously vowed to leave her abusive partner, the court heard, but had not followed through with the promise." Unhelpful turn of phrase from the Guardian about a woman who was fatally stabbed by him 44 times when she did tell him it was over. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun...

It's simple, our Hero Voter is a middle aged electrician from Southampton. He's doing okay but worried about fuel going up, he's nervous about his kids and socisl media, he's had nine calls from HMRC that he's ignored and he's doing 2 years for throwing a wheelie bin at a police officer.

This video is bone chilling. What the

So just getting this straight, retail staff aren’t allowed to stop shoplifters any more but they’re supposed to pounce on you for being trans? In their new extra role as loo crew? When I worked in retail it was creepy enough being taught not to say sorry if a customer fell over. Ffs.

Discussion on my street whatsapp about people taking crack in our porches has led to one woman saying, "Yeah I had the same guy come to pick up his crack from where he'd hidden it in my plant pots, I've become so immune to it I just had a convo with him about shutting the gate." I think I love her.

Yesterday at @hackneyempire.bsky.social arriving at our seats from the bar, before the show began, we found a couple in our seats. They didn't want to move cos others were now in their seats further back who'd also have to move. Turned out the staff had done this, moving people into 'empty' seats...

My daughter, with a wide range of London teenage friends, was telling me she can tell how rich her acquaintances are from their Snapchat posts. I asked how and she said well one of them posted her dad having lunch with Donald Trump.

Please, your telly recommendations for someone who likes The White Lotus, Knives Out and Slow Horses.

Crazy idea, opening a Guardian operation in the US - and without a paywall, eh?

My attitude to Tony Blair's opinions on AI is informed by my total conviction that he barely knows how to turn his own phone on.

The massacre of the rentals is happening. Rightmove is flooded with rental flats, now for sale, many already reduced because the sales market is stagnant. Ironically, the rental market is thriving. The landlords who threatened to sell up if the Renters' Rights act came in are really doing it.

I really wanted Bluesky to be less dull for women than Twitter was, eg men coming to correct you on things you haven't actually said and referring you to their superior knowledge based purely on assumption, but sadly...plus ça change m8.

Every time I see people saying they'll never use AI I'm reminded of when I got my first mobile phone in the mid 90s, well before any of my friends or relatives had one. Princess Diana was still alive. "I will NEVER ring you on it, never get one, never engage with that thing," they tended to say.

Some new things to covet most sinfully in my shop: shopmy.us/shop/heawood...

Yeah I have a pension plan it’s called the sweet release of death

"In the gardens of the basilica, a small group of PRs and critics pick at plates of mortadella and anchovies. “Has anyone here pulled yet?” one of them asks. “No one’s pulled me, that’s for sure.”" Beautiful, snarky piece by @milesellingham.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/art/...

I'm doing one of my Rightmove Roundups and looking for whole houses in London for under £500k. I'm fairly knowledgable on all areas of East London but would benefit from knowing which areas to search in South London particularly... (also West and North). Tell me about your affordable suburb!

A totally fair question, given that Starmer's popularity plummeted for similar reasons. People in the comments below are saying oh come on Greens it's time for grown-up politics, well that's exactly what they said about Starmer too. (I am not Green btw)

Hahahaha. I do find a certain kinship in her face.

Some pretty things to look at in my humble online shoppe: shopmy.us/shop/heawood

'It was my daughter who’d helped me choose my photos for the dating app, not that I let her see when it started trying to match me up with men who, like her, probably lived with their parents.' @heawood.bsky.social recalls a memorable encounter. the-fence.com/how-do-you-k...

Quick they put my new column up without a paywall for a few hours and I will live to regret posting this the-fence.com/how-do-you-k...

Now this is a bumper edition of my Rightmove Roundup. Swoon and swoon and oh god and swoon again: open.substack.com/pub/heawood/...

Can very much recommend

Come to this, it will be funny as all hell:

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

While not wishing to support the Russian bots in decrying London as a crime-ridden hellscape, it's either the regular parcel thieves or the dealers on my street who've got seriously inventive here. We reckon these are for the keys to nearby lockers to stash the goods, not for someone's airbnb...

There is a dog who lives on my street who is called Kitty. Apparently she really dislikes cats. Not sure one could really blame her for this.

WE ARE SO BACK heawood.substack.com/p/its-the-ri...

My daughter, 14, hopes the meningitis outbreak will lead to another lockdown. "I'd enjoy it so much more now that I can ring my friends," she said, happily clutching her phone. She was 8 the last time; tough for an only child. Just in case you wanted to know how the kids are doing! They're nuts!

Heard myself saying “There are people getting bombed in the Middle East and you’re complaining about French homework!!” tonight and - well I’m not sure whose parents I’ve turned into as mine didn’t actually talk like that. So there’s no excuse.

Imagine if you went to dadsit your 93-yr-old father for 24 hrs and when you woke up he’d laid the breakfast table with your favourite polar bear bowl.

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I mean only a c*** as pompous as this one could be outraged by his own innocence

Really must stop getting sucked into AIBU threads on Mumsnet but this one's too fun. 1st sister couldn't be arsed to visit her annoying mum for 4yrs while 2nd sister provided all mum's care for 17 yrs. Now mum's dead and 1st sister furious she's been left off the will www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_be...

14-year-old daughter and I discover we have both separately arranged to go and see The Moment, the Charli XCX film, with our friends. Feels like A MOMENT alrite. Except she has actually organised her trip and booked tickets whereas mine is all blah blah soon. Wish she'd let me go with her friends.

He’s likely to crack under advanced interrogation techniques such as asking him literally any question.

Torn between a) they've had to do this to show Andrew isn't above the law but nothing will come of it, and b) they wouldn't have done this if they didn't have something pretty big on him, this is it. What do we reckon?

I guess he'll be sweating now

I first looked at this while muttering ONE POINT TWO MILLION FOR LEYTON but sadly have now become obsessed and believe this house to be my destiny. If you haven't been to Francis Road lately, it's fun there now: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Just found out that Bad Bunny's creative director, who worked with him to make that incredible Super Bowl show happen, is a Scotswoman called Harriet who went to Fettes. Truly, the world is full of remarkable things.

Rare to get an actual vox pop with a pothole

A vet just told me our cat Big Milk is "not very bright" and it's true what they say about formal diagnosis bringing a real sense of relief. No more wondering *why* he's trying to join me in the bath / befriend the vaccuum cleaner / jump into a gas ring /bed down for the day in the kitchen sink.

Keir Starmer being everyone’s strict and boring dad hasn’t gone very well has it. Now that we’re no longer arresting pensioners engaged in peaceful protest against a massacre maybe he’ll wear some slacks and put some jazz on.

I wouldn't usually do this but massive shout-out to Camden School for Girls. Daughter and I went to parents' evening tonight; she's missed a lot of past year. "We just think you're amazing," the teachers all said, "we miss your lovely face, don't worry about the homework, we don't care, just come."

“Playboys, sex parties sound kind of fun and frothy – but I think we mean paedophile rings and child abuse gatherings. Gang rape, mass assault and organised abuse don’t have the same cute ring as sex games do they?” @heawood.bsky.social in The Independent app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/03/2...

Quick question: is an iPhone Pro really much better than a normal iPhone? If you’re not out eg filming wildlife in the Alps on the daily. My biggest bugbear is that I can drain the battery on anything and the latest Pro promises best battery life.

Ahhh this brings back my happiest childhood memories. Smoked my first ciggie on the Southern Ocean. Snuck into pubs from Gollygate to Willygate. Got fingered on a gravestone in Flloes Roha.

My message to Keir Starmer: Free my father Jimmy Lai before it is too late