The intriguing and inventive photos of Francesco Gioia “These snippets of life, beautiful plucked from the everyday, are all linked by mystery.” blind-magazine.com/en/news/france…

A very enjoyable day spent with Stefan Powell at the Saul Leiter exhibition MK Gallery. Yes that is me having a very close look at one of Leiter’s masterpieces.

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“Iconic buildings made as boring as the rest of them. Unimagined using AI.” I like brutalist buildings, but Thomas Heatherwick makes me smile because he has a point. humanise.org/opinions/imagi…

Still smiling after a noisy, happy afternoon at The Rec yesterday.

‘A Voice Above the Linn’ by Robbie Lawrence is possibly the best photobook published in the last five years. The good news is that he has a limited edition double-volume photobook published this month. ‘Long Walk Home’ looks equally stunning. Those tones. stanleybarker.co.uk/collections/bo…

It's very close...

In this month's Jotter... “The truth is, I had to work very hard to make it look easy.” (Roger Federer) I shamelessly plug my niece's 2024 degree show and more… brighterside.co.uk/news/monthly-j…

Hurrah. For only the second time in my life, I’m not represented by a Tory. Congratulations @BrianMathew4NW on your win. Oh and delighted for Anna in Frome and my (current) county councillor, Sarah Gibson on your brilliant wins.

Here are our local Liberal Democrats winners… I don’t do nearly as much as many activists, but one thing I have done over the years is take a few of the campaign photos.

I never thought Rees Mogg’s eviction would be overshadowed. Farewell Truss with your ever-changing opinions and the big part you played in messing up our country.

Mr Stefan Powell has suggested champagne.

In this month's “Don’t be afraid of things because they are easy to do" Jotter: 1. A convivial mayor follows his gut 2. BLOQS is an open-access, pay-as-you-go space to make things 3. Is Google losing its relevance? 4. Eno 5. No bull at the Bull Inn brighterside.co.uk/news/monthly-j…

Bye bye for now X. There are still rare nuggets of gold amongst the dross and I’ll miss you. I’ll be back when the current owner has left reception with his kitchen sink. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Before I delete from iPad “Trump, & Musk, the billionaire playman and galactic space-lord of the decomposing social media channel Twitter (currently X), revealed the depth of their mutual admiration in an eider-soft & incompetently livestreamed interview.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…