Playing charades with the girls. “darling, you have to do a book that already exists; not one you plan to write”

Armenian wine has much going for it, improving winemaking, and money and ambition from the diaspora. It’s one of the most fascinating and beautiful countries I have ever visited. Don’t be surprised if it goes mainstream cluboenologique.com/story/armenian…

This is no comment either way on their cause. Just don't want to be kettled nipping out for a sandwich

perfect

Given it’s started snowing in London, and given how London usually responds to snow, we’re probably going to need those tractors

Halloween costumes are depressingly American. Where are the slutty Postman Pats or horny Wombles?

hahahahahahahaha oh dear god, society has lost the plot

My platonic ideal government would have been an Eden-Prescott coalition.

Brilliant book - the girls (7) loved it. Film is good with some reservations. Box of Delights next! Although the opening sequence remains TERRIFYING

One of the best pubs in London HorseshoeClerkenwell struggling for survival because planning is stacked in favour of some powerful (likely old) NIMBYs. Everything that’s wrong with Britain

not sure why you'd boast about it

thought this was an old Colonel Wyvern classic for a moment

"Guests who bring wine are also more likely to turn up with it either in a box or a can" Look, what you arrive with is a statement of how you want the evening to go. If you turn up with a box of wine, we're on, but at some point I'll probably play Radiohead on a ukulele

Weird ideas of false consciousness still dominate

"You will be visited by three spirits"

I wrote a thing on drinking, decline and growing old. Happy new year! henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/coming-over-…

"And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way."

A problem for another day, but we’re really going to have to have a serious think about which centuries are long and which are short. They can’t all be long.

Imagine coming back from shopping on Oxford St and they’ve blown up your car 😭