8:59 PM

A year later, #Light returns to #BatterseaArtsCentre and I get a second viewing for #tuesdaynighttheatreclub. Go see if you can, it’s sooper dooper. #london #londontheatre #londontheatreclub

10:27 PM

OH YES. Finally, after 15 years of trying, I am at the #ReithLectures #BBC #LSE #ProfessorKwameAnthonyAppiah #London

6:23 PM

And the improbably-named #tuesdaynighttheatreclub is back after an extended summer break! The London directorial debut of #JohnMalkovitch is #GoodCanary at the #RoseTheatre and is, apparently, bloody awesome. Let’s see! #theatre #london #londontheatre #londontheatreclub

I knew that even as I wanted them to develop rather than abandon Battersea Power Station, I would hate what they did.

Between 8 October and 5 November 2006, the Serpentine Gallery moved into Battersea Power Station to show off their huge efforts in understanding contemporary Chinese art, and it sold out, mainly because everyone wanted to have a look inside the power station itself. And it was really the only chance that I personally know of to see the control rooms and stairwells and spaces, as subsequent opportunities were far more restrictive. The building was quite magnificent, walking through the wrecked turbine halls and up through the stairwells to the rest of the exhibition. Which was also magnificent, by the way, with outstanding work from either Lu Chunshen or Zhang Pei Li (I can’t remember) - a film cutting scenes from the Maoist era with applauding crowds: you had to be there; and Gu Dexin’s Wall of Apples. £5 a ticket: A triumph for all concerned.

IMHO, the best view of the power station is from Ebury Bridge Road, above the train tracks, and I try to make time to stop and look whenever I pass by. Mothers’ Day 2011 was a ridiculously busy day but I took half-an-hour out and went for a bicycle ride. I forget why I was cycling past here, but I stopped and made this photograph. This view is now ruined, with the space around the power station in-filled by building work, but this is a reminder to get out and shoot while you can.

A later picture of the station with the Pink Floyd pig flying is here too.

10:35 PM

Day 1: #London to #Frankfurt on motorbike. Long, but not terrible, apart from weather in Belgium. Note: do not travel on autobahn at high speed without switching suspension to hard. #MotoGP #AustrianMotoGP

1:53 PM

The Truth! Thanks @jameswrighton for the nudge. #londontheatreclub #tuesdaynighttheatreclub #london #wyndhamstheatre #theatre

12:54 PM

#knightrider #london

5:50 PM

The somewhat inaccurate #tuesdaynighttheatreclub meets for #wild @hampstead_theatre #london #theatre #londontheatreclub

3:54 PM

Rare, beautiful beast. Classic #grandtourer from #Porsche. #London #supercar

11:08 PM

Repairing this poor #lion, whose breathing started getting shallow so they whisked them away for care. Quite amazing. #zoo #London