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Arsenal spent an hour knocking politely on a Sunderland door then Zubimendi smashed the letterbox. Gyokeres arrived off the bench to score twice and tidy up the score line. All goals from open play.
A calm win, a bigger gap, and a quiet nod to Love is Love as football remembered it has a heart 🌈
Onwards and upwards, my friends.
@Arsenal @SunderlandAFC @gaygooners
#COYG #ARSSUN #arsenal #LoveIsLove
Last night went to see Man and Boy at Dorfman in London’s glitzy South Bank with Stuart.
Terence Rattigan’s play lands with a strangely contemporary dry bite. Ben Daniels dominates amid a sparse set and sharp humour as an egotistical father pimping out his son for financial gain. It’s a shocking move. The play didn’t catch fire though. Maybe preview nerves.
The plot? Rattigan meets now. One inevitably thinks of Robert Maxwell, the Czech-born media mogul who misappropriated the Mirror’s pension fund and who died in mysterious circumstances. And there are echoes of his daughter, Ghislaine, accomplice of the American financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Cool, clever, unsettling, but a little twee.
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@nationaltheatre @bendanielsactor
#ManAndBoy #Dorfman #SouthBank #TheatreReview #LondonTheatre
Bank tube station had this sign recently. Looks like you can join your local leisure centre - and have some… er… fun.
Ninety six minutes of @Arsenal edging it followed by @KaiHavertz29 choosing the funniest possible ending with the final kick. Paul & I lost our minds.
Former clubs are like that. Four to two on aggregate over @ChelseaFC
Onwards and upwards, my friends.
#COYG #ARSCHE #CarabaoCup #EFL
London offers a huge choice of scenic walks from historic streets to calm riverside paths and green spaces. Highlights include the London LOOP, the Thames Path, the Regent’s Canal from Little Venice to Camden, Angel and Limehouse and the Jubilee Walkway. @LondonWalks #London #Walking #UrbanNature
Yesterday Emma, Stuart, and I started on the Lea Valley Walk down from Waltham Cross, Ponders End, Tottenham Hale, towards Lea Bridge.
We had been meaning to make it as far south as the Thames but after four and a half hours we got tempted/diverted to the Walthamstow tap rooms and the odd (very odd) pub. Fab day out.
#LeaValleyWalk #LondonWalking #UrbanRambling #CanalSide #RiverLea
Last night I went to see All My Sons at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s glitzy West End with Stuart.
Director Ivo van Hove strips Arthur Miller to the bone and somehow finds the soul.
Bryan Cranston @bryancranston sweats guilt. Marianne Jean Baptiste @mariannejeanbaptiste aches denial. Paapa Essiedu @paapaessiedu burns truth. Hayley Squires @hayleysquires and Tom Glynn Carney @tomglynncarney complete a cast that hits like fate.
Stark staging. Huge ideas. Zero mercy. We loved it.
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@wyndhamstheatre #AllMySons #ArthurMiller #WestEnd #TheatreReview
Lovely to be back under the lights with Graham as Arsenal treated the Champions League like a formality. Eight wins from eight, history quietly ticked off. Havertz returned like he had never been away, scoring, creating, generally reminding everyone why he exists. Gyokeres bullied defences, Martinelli tapped in, and even a wobble or two could not spoil the evening. Group topped. Europe noticed. Calm satisfaction all round.
Onwards and upwards, my friends.
@Arsenal #COYG #ARSKAI #arsenal #afc #gunners
Fabulous supper out with Sarah last night. Always great to catch up. A conversation full of ands, not buts. ❤️
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato (427-347 B.C.)
Pre-match optimism was fuelled by a pint, Paul, and chatting to @gaygooners
Sadly, although Arsenal started like a team with a plan, it fell at the feet of loose passes, defensive chaos, and all too few shots on target.
Dorgu thundered one in, Merino teased hope, and Cunha crushed it with a 25-yard reminder that joy is temporary.
First home loss. Title race tightened. Character building, apparently.
Onwards and upwards, my friends.
@Arsenal @ManUtd #COYG #ARSMUN #arsenal #gooners #afc #gunners
I’m not quite sure what my recently used emojis say about my current mental state! 😂
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It’s that time of year again. Stuart and I have been cooking.
We washed, we squeezed, we chopped, we sliced, we boiled, we stirred, and we cooled 1 kilo of Seville oranges 🍊, a lemon 🍋, and 2 kilos of sugar making 16 jars of delicious Highbury marmalade. And blimey it tastes good.
Once again we’ve gone for a lighter, sweeter, more orangey flavour this year. Slightly firmed too. Tastes like super delicious sweet orange nectar. Perfect on hot buttered toast. Yum!
#marmalade #highbury
Nice walk to the Woodberry Wetlands reservoir and lunch with Graham today.
@graham_callam
