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A dreadful first half with a stubborn Forest defence. Had to run. Then managed to watch Noni Madueke off the bench saving us from the indignity of a draw. His deflected winner was hardly a work of art, but points aren’t awarded for aesthetics. Six wins from six, and Manchester City still three points ahead. Keep grinding, Gunners!
Onwards and upwards, my friends.
🥅 #NFOARS #Arsenal #COYG
Nottingham Forest, we’re coming for you!
@Arsenal ⚽️
@Regenersaurus 🦖
#COYG 🔴⚪️
#NFOARS 🥅
Friday night Stuart and I went to see Ilford Boy at the Donmar Warehouse in London’s glitzy Seven Dials. Danny Lee Wynter’s queer family drama serves up 80s and 90s Ilford with chaos, laughter, tough love and delightful Essexisms. Well written, subtle, sharp and witty. A coming of age story with proper heart.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@donmarwarehouse #IlfordBoy #Theatre #LondonTheatre
Yesterday afternoon Darce and I went to see Triumph at the Almeida Theatre in London’s glitzy Islington. Caryl Churchill’s 15 minute political gut punch, with Matthew Beard and Kate O’Flynn, serves up Roman emperors, a blonde happy press secretary (strike a chord?) at a podium, and authoritarian rot. Suetonius meets today’s news cycle. Grim, funny and alarmingly familiar.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#Triumph #CarylChurchill #AlmeidaTheatre
Last Friday night Stuart and I went to see Some Woman at Dorfman Theatre in London’s glitzy South Bank. Anne-Marie Duff is superb in Helen Edmundson’s unsettling drama. Everyday misogyny, a legal system primed to distrust women and believe an 11 year old boy, and toxic masculinity chillingly in plain sight. Three stars for a sobering night out.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
@nationaltheatre #SomeWoman #Theatre
Last night Darce and I went to see Avenue Q at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London’s glitzy West End.
The furry little horrors are good fun, with clever songs and some very naughty puppetry. But for a show supposedly shocking enough to scandalise the neighbourhood, it felt rather tame. Sesame Street with social commentary, really. The Bad Idea Bears steal the show.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
#AvenueQ #WestEnd #MusicalTheatre
Happy 90th Birthday, Myrtle. I’m very proud of you, you know.
Proud of everything you’ve done in your life. All the people you’ve cared for; that you have helped. That you have loved. Not only your family, but your wide circle of friends too.
I love your sense of fun. And that sense of wonder you have at all things new. Your desire to learn, to read, to listen, to study, to understand.
And your keen sense of humour you have. I don’t think I’ve laughed as hard as I have with you.
If I just have inherited just a small part of any of your honesty, kindness, and sense of adventure I should feel a very lucky son.
What I do know is you have given me such unconditional love from the day I was born that I have always felt safe and warm in your arms as a babe and in your smile as an adult.
You’ve made me the man I am. And if I don’t say it enough, thank you.
❤️❤️
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A first half to forget, then three goals in seven minutes. Timber lobbed, Eze volleyed, Saka rolled it home. Arteta’s substitutes did the heavy lifting. Eight wins from eight last season, two from two this.
PSG, consider this a polite warning.
Onwards and upwards, my friends.
#ARSLIL 🥅 #Arsenal @Arsenal #UCL #COYG
