3:49 PM

#MILLINER: I had to venture to @thelondonlibrary yesterday to return a library book - first time in Central London since mid-March. Popped down Crown Passage for a drink and spotted one of the local milliners has a sense of scale. #london #lockdown #socialdistancing #madasahatter

3:38 PM

#WATCHREPAIR: near the entrance to #KensingtonMarket was this gentleman with a lifetime of experience. #KensingtonHighStreet #london #1994 #canont90

4:42 PM

#VANMOOF: @vanmoof #London are brilliant, excellent customer service. When the bike went pop they were able to get an Addison Lee van sent out to collect it during #COVID-19, and then rang some days later to simply say they would replace the bike instead of having to wait for a long while to obtain parts. Amazing. Spent my day getting over to the store and collecting the replacement, rode it back to the car in Pimlico, performed great. But arrive at home in Richmond, and the replacement is borked. “16 err” it blinks, even after two resets, and goes nowhere. Massively, massively deflated after everyone’s efforts in getting bike back to the store, swapping over all my accessories, etc. The customer service is great. But they can’t help the reliability. #sigh #ebike #vanmoofx2

3:58 AM

#OBAMA2008: @demsabroaduk were out in force on a London’s South Bank 12 years ago, signing up the sizeable number of Americans they encountered here. It all feels like a distant memory, yet the activists and attitudes haven’t gone anywhere. They’ll be back. #obama #democrats #london

4:52 PM

#BISHOPSGATE: all quiet on the Eastern Front. #london

12:00 AM

#IDER: a cracking bunch of songs but not a lot of performance to go with them. Hard to get these songs onto a stage without an expensive band to help, but a decent gig courtesy of the gentleman @wingsofaduff - very good songs, great voices. #gig #pop #london

11:56 PM

#POETINDACORNER: unfortunately they managed to take a whole bunch of my favourite things and make a rather boring play, with moments of fun and good writing. Trying to turn the theatre into a grime gig was cheap and trite. One to avoid, I should think. #theatre #london #grime #dizzeerascal

1:41 AM

#BOREDSKATERS: I’ve seen some stupid-ass moves in my time but flying down these @royalfestivalhall steps and sliding into the edge of an opened plate-glass door is up in the top five. Picture taken shortly before being chased away by security. #skateboarder #fuckwit #london #streetphotography

1:39 AM

#THEWELKIN: excellent show 7/10, great performances from most of the cast and some great writing from #LucyKirkwood, although the energy petered out a bit in the final twenty minutes, and story felt pointless, but well worth it for the previous 2 hours 40. Note: injection of the Kate Bush song is as stupid as a soup sandwich and wrecked the suspension of disbelief. Top work from #MaxinePeake after the meh #Avalanche and brilliantly unsympathetic amoral lead played by #RiaZimitrowicz #theatre #london

Always worth looking back on this stretch of the Thames on a morning like this. Lucky me.