What he means is some people on the tube might speak a foreign language. Shock horror major world city has foreigners in it. And if they’re in the sort of central London tube locales that provincial … (View Post)

London has had one of those stinking days today with grey-white milky skies but oven-warm temperatures - some of my least favourite summer weather - but since 5ish it’s cleared completely, freshened … (View Post)

A gratuitous opportunity for me to post this oil on wood rendering of the Quiraing by my wife. On sale among many other works at Brockley open studios the weekend after next. https://brockleyopenstud… (View Post)

My local MP. @OnlyLivingBoy may have a different experience, but she’s been pretty invisible in the constituency compared with her omnipresent predecessor Joan Ruddock. (View Post)

On the weather, and this week’s mini-heatwave. It’s flowering time in England and Wales’s vineyards. Traditionally flowering happens during Wimbledon. At most Southern sites these days it’s a week or… (View Post)