Got (another) new plant for the apartment.
Fully expect to wake up one morning to find there’s been a plant-based coup and I’m ejected onto the streets.
London Life
Just bought a slightly ginormous but beautiful plant for the apartment. Will cart it home after something suitably refreshing at Starbucks.
Change is in the air
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
It definitely feels like Autumn arrived in London today. I woke up to darkness and had to wear a sweatshirt and jacket to work, for the first time in… well, as long as I can remember. I’m looking out my office window to some very dark grey skies and some really quite strong wind. …A very misty/hazy London this evening.
Saturday, September 16, 2023 →
Oh. It looks like the Tories are going to fuck up another infrastructure project. What a surprise. Sunak knows he’ll never have to depend on public transport. He’s above such things. He just hops in a helicopter…
“Ending the line at Old Oak Common is pretty much the definition of a railway to nowhere.”
HS2’s Euston station at risk as Old Oak Common emerges as potential London terminus
Saturday, September 16, 2023 →
Just bought some art on impulse.
This is not like me at all. But it’s beautiful and I knew I had to have it as soon as I saw it.
I can’t wait to share some photos once it’s delivered.
Saturday, September 16, 2023 →
A beautiful, sunny morning here in London.
Just doing some easy work admin before getting my show on the road. We’re walking to a local food market later and I’m hoping to enjoy a food truck burrito 🌯 Because I’m classy like that.
Thursday, September 14, 2023 →
Enjoying the views from the balcony this evening.
For some reason, it already feels like a Friday.
Thursday, September 14, 2023 →
Yesterday’s sunset over London.
Sadly, and inevitably, it’s getting earlier and earlier.
Enjoying this evening’s sunset…
Back to a very sunny and warm London ☀️
While it’s nice to be back, I’ve been compiling a long mental list of things I’d like to import from Singapore.
When you’re too early for the Elizabeth Line…
Good morning! ☀️
Relaxing in the sun in a local beer garden with some excellent alcohol free weissbier 🍺
The sun made a guest appearance, so it would have been rude to stay in the office and miss it. Right?
Aaaaaaaargh.
Despite a phone call to check everything was in order, the bike shop has just emailed to say that, in fact, now that they’ve checked, they don’t have the bike I bought from them online on Saturday.
They won’t be getting it back in stock and can only offer me an alternative which is absolutely nothing like the one I wanted. They’ve issued a refund and so now my hunt begins all over again.
Ever so slightly frustrating…
Good evening from a very sunny London.
Watching the clouds roll by as I lie out on the balcony and catch up on my podcasts.
Idly wondering why the building site down the street from us is active on a Sunday morning?
Consort Place has been enough of a source of noise and filth Monday to Saturday. Don’t their neighbours deserve a break on a Sunday?
Answer: the construction industry in the UK gives no fucks.
A new Brompton
Sunday, August 20, 2023
So after lots of to-ing and fro-ing, I eventually pressed ‘go’ on ordering a new bike last night. I visited a couple of bike shops with my better half yesterday afternoon, just to see some of the available colours ‘in the flesh’. We also needed to buy some new lights for our …Just been for a walk around the Isle of Dogs and Greenwich with this good boy…
It’s Brompton time!
Saturday, August 19, 2023
My insurance company paid out for our stolen bikes yesterday. My other half took care of dealing with them, while I dealt with the police. It almost feels like we can draw a line under it. All in all, we’re about £250 down, each. Insurance had a capped ‘per bike’ limit. And of course the bikes …So we’re experiencing what sounds like an absolute tropical downpour in London right now.
That’s my cue to go to bed and immerse myself into some apocalyptic fiction. Starting the second book in the ‘Silo’ trilogy tonight. 📚
Hopefully we’ll get some actual summer weather tomorrow…
I’m still fucking livid about our bikes being stolen.
I’m almost more annoyed by the response from our building’s management company. “Sorry, it’s the weekend” is not a valid excuse when we’re paying for a 24/7 service.
Not when I’ve gone back to point out the damage to the door to the bike room and how it now longer locks. “Nothing can be done” but the building manager will have a note about it in his handover tomorrow morning.
Well, that’s alright then. 🙄
Not a great start to the weekend.
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Providing a statement to three police officers in my kitchen is not how I envisaged this weekend starting. My other half is in Spain for the weekend and I woke up to a text message wondering why the airtags on our bikes were showing them as two miles away. I headed down to the bike room in the …And so the weekend begins… cheers!
Just had a lovely walk around the Olympic Park with this very good boy.
Waking up to more wind and rain on the second day of August is doing nothing for my enthusiasm this morning.
Still, just six days to go until I fly to Barcelona and spend a lovely week relaxing in Sitges. Plus, I’ve got some nice plans for this weekend, which are basically weather-independent. All the same, is it too much to ask for some sunshine in August?
Another cracking sunset in London this evening.
An after-work, pre-dinner run around the neighbourhood.
Slowed down by bad luck at various pedestrian crossings and the need to constantly dodge electric Deliveroo bikes flying along the pavement.
Good evening from London…
