Sean Fitzsimons

Small pot of cilantro in the Disgusting Food Museum. "The dislike of coriander is genetic, due to a specific gene that increases the herb's soapy smell; 10% think it tastes like soap."

Cilantro is one of the foods in the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmö! To me it tastes like bus station bathroom soap.

Looks like a fun evening at Bishops Wine Bar (Croydon's hardest bar to find) for folk in the East Croydon or Addiscombe area.

It was great to be on the #labourdoorstep with these fantastic folk in Addiscombe West. Residents were really enthusiastic to talk to us and our Croydon Mayoral candidate @rowennadavis.bsky.social - It's all about putting #peoplefirst in this neighbourhood!

Croydon’s original art world outlaw - Plaster Magazine Art and Croydon go way back, a point proved when Florence Hallett tracks down OG dealer and 1960s art world outlaw, Nicholas Treadwell

Fascinating piece about Nicholas Treadwell, who set up an art gallery in St George’s Walk, Croydon, in the 60s plastermagazine.com/features/cro...

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Save the secure bicycle parking at East Croydon station

Sign the petition against the closure by Southern Rail of the only really secure bike storage facility at East Croydon Station on Monday 30th June 2025.
chng.it/XDqq84YrCC

Can't believe that @Southernrailuk is going to close down the only really secure cycle storage at East Croydon Station.
The other site on George Street suffer vandalism and lacks capacity.

Davidson Road, Croydon

Davidson Road, Croydon - CLEARED at 1747Hrs

One of The Guardian's funnier typos.
Will the Lowthers reputation recover?
It was a long time ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/15/harvards-unofficial-copy-of-magna-carta-is-actually-an-original-experts-say?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Will the @theguardian.com correct the typo?
#evilLowthers
#magnacarter

One of The Guardian's funnier typos.
Will the Lowthers reputation recover?
It was a long time ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/15/harvards-unofficial-copy-of-magna-carta-is-actually-an-original-experts-say?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

At Annual Council Meeting tonight at Croydon Town Hall.
Farewell Addresses from outgoing the cross-party team of Croydon Mayor Cllr Kola Agboola, and his deputy Richard Chattergee.

A crowd of people standing on the low tram platform in front of East Croydon station all look towards an approaching tram.

#OnThisDay 25 years ago trams returned to the streets of Greater London with the launch of Croydon Tramlink, a combination of reopened BR routes, street running, and new reserved track. The first tram rolling into East Croydon draws a crowd (Sludge G) buff.ly/lc7s06q

My depressing 1970s music mix. What else would you add?

Lower order elections favour parties who attract older voters. Doesn't mean that all these areas will vote Reform at a general election, although will give them a solid base of votes.

A table showing the number of imes teams have won the Premier League in ascending order. The sequence goes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 - the first seven terms of the Fibonacci sequence.

As Liverpool win the Premier League for the second time, they complete the opening of a quite remarkable sequence, 33 years in the making.

#Fibonacci

All public figures in Croydon have had their run ins with Inside Croydon, but it doesn't seem sensible to block access via the Council's Browser.
The Daily Express I could understand though.

As a Croydon Councillor I haven't received any correspondence from Croydon Council telling me that I can't communicate with Inside Croydon or any other media outlet with my Council email address.
Thankfully I use my own laptop to do my casework and correspondence and can access the website.

I loved that shop.

Quiet Croydon street where squatters takeover gardens and poo outside school 'Scared' families says anti-social behaviour 'spills over' into their road with bins regularly searched through and emptied

Morning all,

Croydon residents are fearing their quiet neighbourhood once again becoming overrun with 'scary' anti-social behaviour (ASB) unless urgent action is taken before the summer. 👇

www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

We’re at the point in the year where Warren St George takes over from Warren Easter.
In the Autumn, Warren Conkers and Warren Poppies provide the warm up for the main act, Warren Christmas.

Just beware of the cardinals who start wearing "FAC VATICANUM MAGNUM ITERUM" baseball caps

Opinion | There’s a Lesson to Learn From Daniel Kahneman’s Death (Gift Article) If we are to live well, we need to be able to ask when a life is complete.

I'm a great admirer of Daniel Kahneman.
Not sure that I support his end of life decision, but I can at least respect his reasoning.
@nytimes.com
"There’s a Lesson to Learn From Daniel Kahneman’s Death" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Agree with all landlords should have a licence, but administration should be by local councils, who will be incentivised by keeping incomes and fines, and every council's data should be submitted to a national register.

'Urgent' calls for overhaul of 2 major Croydon train stations

The Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme was set up in 2020 but delayed due to COVID and funding restraints

Impossible pasts The sun was skulking behind ominous clouds on Saturday morning when I got off the DART (Dublin’s suburban rail), and started walking along the promenade towards Clontarf, to see if I could sp…

Impossible pasts - thinking about alternate lives on a grey Dublin morning. richardfjbrown.co.uk/2025/04/07/i...

Tweet from James Surowiecki. It reads: Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is. It quotes another of his tweets which reads: It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff.

If you are going to report how "reciprocal" these tariffs are or how they quantify trade barriers and economic injustices...

... please keep in mind they're not, becuase that would have required work. Instead just did:

COUNTRY'S US SURPLUS
--------------------------- = Rate%
ITS EXPORTS TO US

As much as I liked Richard Chamberlain in Shogun, I still have a lot of affection for the 1980s BBC reruns of Doctor Kildare.
genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/se...

I'm sorry, how does a team with a minus 2 goal difference after 26 games end up in 7th place, whilst a team in 12th has a plus 15 goals difference.