True Londoners have apprecaited printed word since we created it. Visit @londonu.bsky.social #TheEnglishPrintRevolution @senatehouselib.bsky.social last Friday. Saw things pubished 500 years ago, knowing nothing we write digitially today, will survive that #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners support one another. Lovely day with powered wheelchair user #Bullringbash yesterday. While people paid to support fail on absolutely every level - People like him exist to remind us real human beings are truly decent. Food at #CanpoyMarket. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners hate missed opportunity to teach others. Visit
#LightroomLondon for #PrehistoricPlanet today. No mention of
@geolsoc.bsky.social. No mentoin @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social
No mention Sir Richard Owen - coined Dinosauria
@nhm-london.bsky.social #LetsGuide #uniquelylondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners understand that different mediums can tell the same story differently. Yesterday's matinee of #YentlPlay, #MaryleboneTheatre thanks to #TimBaros, returns to text of #IsaacBashevisSinger book & away from @barbrastreisand.bsky.social musical.
#LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners know resturant experience isn't just food. Discussing late Chef Anthony @bourdainpodcast.bsky.social (I worked with on #GoodFoodLive) over exquisite Filipino food of #LutongPinoy, Earls Court. With execptional friends Nam & Amrit Chau-Singh. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners will know other Londoners wherever they go. Met different person in each of the Private Views of the 3 galleries @hyphastudios.bsky.social Poulty, City of London last night. This is #SteveBaxter & friends in Gallery 1 & also met #NadyaEllia. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners understand importance of dignified debate. Great to speak at world's oldest #FreeSpeech debating club i.e. #Cogers (1755) in #YeOldeCockTavern (1887) again, Monday. Missed on Win to a lady from Hong Kong who explained it couldn't exist there #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners are ready to pounce on an exhibition. Opening day today of #DavidHockney's A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting, at North #SerpentineGallery. Visited after swim in lake. Perfect blend between old masters & modern tech #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners love a cinematic classic. Saw the 25th Anniversary Screening of #Amelie at #ForestCinemas Walthamstow, yesterday, for free, thanks to #CinemaEscapes. An experience made utterly perfect by sitting next to a female Parisian in the audience. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners know it's people who support each other that achieve greatness. #InternationalWomensDay yesterday & trip to #TheAlmeidaTheatre's Reverb, thanks to wonderful Naomi's generosity & a new actor friend Veronica, I made at cafe, who shared it too. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners know the purpose of life to leave a legacy. After 5 days immobile reflecting on why battle on. Reminded of visit @kingsartshums.bsky.social #TheCuriosityCabinet Strand last week. #TheLostLandscapesOfPrint made me realise must finish my book. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners understand instilling creativity in children, only way for a great future. Visited #InsideAardmanan at #YoungVandA during half term Feb 2026. It was wonderful seeing young animators do stop motion, lighting, foley & coming up with stories. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners expect the impossible everyday. Friend Niklas mentioned @shakespeareandcompany.com this A.M. So when I spotted bag, had to ask about it. Unbelievably discover owner #NaomiJWesterman & I met through @mrjamesgraham.bsky.social 6 years ago - #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners know that the greatest connections are always made In Real Life (IRL). Fab to connect properly with #VictoriaSilverman over coffee in #TheMilkTree yesterday. We used Linkedin to find out that we had many connections in common a few weeks ago #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Genuine Londoners always have the right person to do things with. Friend & Kayak Insturctor for the blind #Alexsmith was perfect companion to see #SecretOfTheThames Mudlarking London's Lost Treasures exhibition at @londonmuseum.bsky.social Docklands today #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #AlondonersLife4

Real Londoners know one of best ways to see world is through eyes of a photographer. Last Tuesday visit superb RIchard #RichardAvedon exhibition at the #Gagosian gallery off Berkley Square. This Photograph of prisoner is great Eg. how image creates meaning #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners know it's better to repair than to replace things with new ones. My plastic reading glasses broke on the bridge, but the fabulous #CaitlinStrongarm fixed them at the #OldDioramaArtsCentre Neighbourhood Makeshop this afternoon. Huge thanks! #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners know we're living through The Age Of Stupid. Needed intelligent conversation with @ucl Associate Professor & friend @rodabouharb.bsky.social over delish Carrot Cake in #ChunkOfGreen cafe Southgate yesterday. Especially after a week of idiots #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners know doing something you love, essential to life. Fantastic musical director #MaxBarley in #HolyTrinity Church on Sloane Street, Chelsea. leading my 1st #SongsAndSoup community choir attendance. Wonderful shared experience everyone should do
#LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners love to show fellow fans of the city their very favourite places. So I took #TamaraThomas for her 1st ever visit to the legendary 100 year old #PaulRotheAndSon Dellicatessen in Marylbone this afternoon in order to have a proper catch-up. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Genuine Londoners know the best art is are that questions your biases. Yesterday's visit to #TwoTemplePlace #TheWeightOfBeing exhibition & I spot this work by #MarkTitchner - Is A Decision Made With Support Still A Decision? In my experience,I'd answer No! #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners will always follow a sign to discover where it leads to. Yesterday spotted arrows to a #LondonGardensTrust event on the front of St. Mary's Church Bourne St. Curiosity led me to a new friend as Board Director of the trust #TimWebb was there. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Ture Londoners always know the best places to hob-knob. Great evening at the #RomanianCulturalInstitute in Belgravia last night. Classical Concert, Art & informative talk to celebrate the 150th anniversary of birth of Romanian sculptor, Constantin Brâncuși #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners know that the best venues reward loyalty. Huge thanks to Leon for eating enough breakfasts at #Dishoom restaurants to enable me to have a Wrestler Wrap & bottomless Chai for FREE. My first visit to Kingly Street branch off #CarnabyStreet. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners collaborate to the benefit of everyone. Attended #TheLondonLibrary, #TheRoundhouse & #BarbicanCentre Writers programmes alumni event last night. Met some amazing people at #TheEnterprise after drinks. Including poets #Leonrf & #GroovyHippo. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners love an unexxpected find. Today I visited a street I've never been before & spot this modern store facia. It's newly opened (4 Weeks) #TongChai Dagenham. Freshly brewed Tong Chai & cooked to order delicious porata & omeltte all for under £4 #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners know commercially manufactured days can be very excluding. So if you do have someone, do want someone, or are happy being alone, I hope you celebrate today in whatever way works. Have some delicious #gabuchocolate from me. #HappyValentines. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners truly appreciate the talent of great curation. At preview of #TheJollyPostman exhibition at @thepostalmuseum.bsky.social this morning (Opens 14th Feb). Great time for both adults & children. Beautifully laid out & exceptionally informative #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners love everyone & especially support those communities that can get excluded. Wonderful evening with friend @lorenzobelenguer.bsky.social last night at his #LGBTQ community night at #WCCLibraries & archives, for the #QueerHistoriesUncovered. #LetsGuide. #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners appreciate power of journalism. Massive thanks to Deputy Editor In Chief of @theobserveruk.bsky.social, #GilesWhittell, for giving up time to let me interview him for my book #YoureBeingAnIdiotStopIt yesterday. Learnt power dynamics of print #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4