John Beardsworth🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹🌻

Confirmed today at the Star Tavern, Belgravia

Plus The Victoria, Paddington. I was wowed more by last year's, but probably need to test another.

Glad you gave the guys at the Hand and Marigold a good mention. Super and ever-changing selection of beers, a fine team behind the bar, and perfect for the 42 bus home.

In Photoshop beta - using Generative Fill which can now call Google's "Nano Banana" AI model.

All I did was select the pic and type "Make this look like a sunny day and add deep blue skies and fluffy clouds".

The blue isn't great, but after 33 years using Photoshop, I can fix that the old way...

YouTube video by Adobe Photoshop Russell Preston Brown, John & Thomas Knoll: Inside the Photoshop Origin Story | Adobe Photoshop

The origins of Photoshop are rather sweet www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqf6...

Kind-of, and with new laptops. The difference is that I get it delivered to the toy shop so I can enjoy a quick journey to pick it up and cuddle it all the way home.

Exhilarating - the #RAF #RedArrows day two at #Eastbourne #Airbourne #Airshow

I wonder if they're always too eyecatching anyway.

E45 might help with the scratching! But better to run our of disc space at home than when you (as in I) fail to empty the flash cards - or forget a hat!

@bakerpictures.bsky.social Red Rebel Brigade, which is what I think I said

By chance i enjoyed a pint of @trackbrewingco.bsky.social
Sonoma Pale Ale at the (excellent) Hand and Marigold in Bermondsey. Anything that beats must be quite a beer!

4 Kings Bridge, I think

Not wanting to wait till the road's cleared, it's a quick walk to a junction and a different bus. 100m later a Tesla whacks into the side (probably not vice versa).

Walked the rest of the way.

2/2

So after the taxi hit the Lime bike (or vice versa) this morning....

The bus home is due in a minute, until a car is let through a line of traffic to turn right and there's a big clunk as it collides with a motorcyclist (or vice versa).

1/2

“I wasn’t looking”

Says me, who heard a noise ahead and looked u to see the Lime biker rider falling to the ground.

“You weren’t looking”

Says the Lime bike rider to the taxi driver who’d just turned left.

As does the taxi driver to the Lime bike rider.

Me, I’d happily blame both.

ChatGPT: Make this photo look like a Vorticist painting by CRW Nevinson.

Watch: Delivery rider throws water to trapped train passengers A delivery rider came to the aid of trapped train passengers by accurately throwing water bottles.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... A few times on my bus home yesterday, I noticed what must be this train stopped in an odd spot. But aren't folk ingenious?

Palmyra: Syria's past, present and future The Story · Episode

McCullin, cheerful as ever open.spotify.com/episode/1IPn...

Hm, Freedom Pass Passion…

A glass of a good red while leafing through his Amazonia to mark the passing of Salgado.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I noticed something today too though from how it triggered my asthma I thought it was plane tree spores blowing around.

I was wondering why no Spitfires were in Monday's flypast, but one landed along Farringdon Road over the weekend and was hidden in the Deloittes car park before being wheeled up Ludgate Hill before dawn. ;)

Puggery?

If you know, you know

First time I tune into Moose TV (sat at from-Ikea desk on from-Ikea seat) and two not-from_Ikea moose are posing for me www.svtplay.se/video/8PBnMx...

Though in the last month two in the area have risen from the dead - the Blue Maid in Borough and the Hand & Marigold in Bermondsey.

I was hooked simply by the idea of a soap opera scriptwriter who got paid by the kilo, in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. RIP Mario Vargas Llosa.

At least if you ever want to go back you'll have no trouble remembering exactly where it is

At some point I saw 35 against your version

No 35......

A cappuccino in Bar Italia accompanied by the sound of Louis Prima, per favore!