Mick and Keef welcome you to Dartford. Don’t look too closely at Keef.

‘Tis the season for flag-shagging, tra-la-la-la… 🎶

First haircut since my barber of 25 years shut up shop. Pleased I brought cash with me…

Forcing people who want to open pubs to pay over the odds to zombie local news outlets to publicise their licence applications does not support pubs, it supports the corporate owners of zombie news outlets.

Curious that the KM believe local people can only know about licensing changes if the KM is paid to feature them as opposed to just, you know, writing about them as news stories.

Saw them at the Hope & Anchor in 1996, etc

I can’t be the only person from SE London who thought “what?” when seeing this advert. Still, nice to have a special bike for prepare me for trips to @theshirkersrest.bsky.social…

Pubs must try new ideas to draw in customers.

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

This has been up and running since the summer, and now the nights are drawing in, it just looks weird - one person in a shipping container topped by some glowing eyes facing a badly-designed road junction, perhaps with a mate joining them if they’re lucky.

See you down the front.

Don’t want to sound like that kind of bore, but travelling to/from Dartford daily is teaching me how uninterested the “build, baby, build” boys are in providing any decent public transport links along the Thames into Kent - despite it all being where you’d build new housing. Madness.

Beautiful reporting on the sad final scraps of Elephant & Castle clearance from @jim.londoncentric.media today. Considering a paid sub even though I'm not in London, in part because the writing is so fantastic, always with that little bit extra of context and detail.

Worth it for the joke at the end alone.

Thought about this tonight while popping into two old-school micropubs in Crayford and Barnehurst that have diversified into magnificent little places - keeping the cask ales but doing just a little bit more these days. Just as the Green Goddess does.

Midweek football is the best football (even if it’s goalless at Loftus Road right now)

We'll join the rest of the football community in remembering the life of Billy Vigar who passed away earlier this week. Ahead of kick-off we'll pause for a period of silence, the thoughts of us all are with Billy's family, friends and all at Chichester City.

One man opened a series of cinemas in abandoned London buildings (from Catford to Ealing, from Sidcup to Sutton) as part of a plan to revive the capital’s high streets. Politicians love the idea and provided millions to help. So why do they keep going bust? www.londoncentric.media/p/preston-be...

Went to the seaside to do Chalkwell Beach parkrun. Great team, brilliant run, excellent way to start the day. #loveparkrun

Good morning. Here's Gareth Hunt demonstrating the dangers of trying to work whist nursing the mother of all hangovers.

Good morning from London SE7.

Ready Steady Go! screening at the BFI (for its Associated-Rediffusion season) was blinking fantastic - Marvin Gaye surrounded by kids in a cramped studio! Otis Redding taking over the show! And it all went out at 6pm on Fridays on ITV!

The London that doesn’t really exist 👻

Vale Ming Campbell, a droll interviewee and a tremendous pub quiz answer as the only UK political party leader to have beaten O.J. Simpson in a 100 metre sprint.

Sixth visit of the week to hospital beyond the M25 to visit a poorly parent. I hope those who have stuck up flags on the way here - and the local politicians too spineless to challenge them - have the good fortune never to need the migrants/offspring of migrants who are keeping this place going.

Ed Davey could perhaps stop using X, then? His party are paying customers of the site, for heaven's sake.

I was hoping to go to the seaside today. But a cask pint of @verdantbrew.bsky.social Lightbulb in the A20 Lounge is just as good.

Interesting to see Dawn Butler starting her run to be mayor by telling us what’s happening in London this weekend - and putting Millwall on the wrong side of the river 😮. Early days, mind… www.instagram.com/reel/DOtKKiR...

I think this only works as electoral cope if you insist on paying zero attention to how your local non-Reform councillors behave, tbh.

You could make quite a statement by instructing all your MPs to close their accounts on X.

Younger presenters on 6 Music sounding rightly unimpressed with the idea of “6 Music’s 18th annual band T-shirt day”

Yes!

I want my country back.

The BBC showing the Bundesliga on Friday nights on iPlayer means I might end up watching more German football than the Premier League this season (and this Bayer Leverkusen v Eintracht Frankfurt match has been great).

Man, these ruddy mosquito bites don’t half itch, right lads? Right? The mosquito bites we’ve totally got loads of. Right?

Stuff that people say on air while they gather their thoughts to say something more intelligent isn't fecking "analysis"

The painted over Banksy Mural now looks like a silhouette of an episode of ‘Bottom’ where Richie is attacking Eddie and Eddie is defending himself with a TV aerial

Today’s fact I didn’t know, courtesy of TfL: the pond outside the Princess of Wales pub on Blackheath is actually the Prince of Wales pond.

The BBC was pushed to do thematic reviews of its news content by the Conservative government who felt it wasn't impartial. At the time I wrongly thought they were trojan horse tools... Instead they became some of the best free training resources for journalists. Obviously often ignored by the BBC.

Should have merged with Goldsmiths and had the compromise name of Deptford University, of course. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From Junior Menace at Peckham Town to England 🦁🦁🦁! Djed Spence inspires our whole club, especially as the first practicing Muslim for the Three Lions — proud of our #MenaceFamily. #FromMenaceToEngland #MenaceLifeAintEasy #ThreeLions #England

This seems to explain a lot about the Standard's barmy rightwing shift since it became a weekly...

The artist and musician @darrenhayman.bsky.social is painting British birds on British beer mats. Such a great idea. darrenhaymanart.com

Very much enjoyed watching Charlton beat Palace to kick off the WSL2 - Women’s Secret League - season. #cafc

When I first saw this, it looked like an extraordinarily naive editorial decision to give this stuff airtime, now the venue’s been attacked, it looks downright stupid.

Hopefully the BBC will follow up on this story to cover the fact the venue mentioned in it had all of its windows put out on Friday night by someone with a hammer. Seems somewhat relevant. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fine afternoon in the sun watching Dulwich Hamlet beat Welling United 3-1 - proper match with bags of chances. #dhfc