London Raven
@londonraven.bsky.social
Former university professional, now Freelance Writing & Research.
Here for Culture/Music/Politics/News/Brit-Asian bits. Eltham, SE London.
Blog: http://londonmasalaandchips.blogspot.com
Here for Culture/Music/Politics/News/Brit-Asian bits. Eltham, SE London.
Blog: http://londonmasalaandchips.blogspot.com
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London Raven
@londonraven.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Flock of parakeets descend on our garden, taking turns at the bird feeder...
#parakeets #london #selondon #eltham #SE9
#parakeets #london #selondon #eltham #SE9
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Flock of parakeets descend on our garden, taking turns at the bird feeder...
#parakeets #london #selondon #eltham #SE9
#parakeets #london #selondon #eltham #SE9
A new #Plumstead Poet Laureate was crowned last night! Jonathan’s poem about poetry-reading took the baton from Lviss David (@imtheplumbingpoet), with Elsa and Karen the worthy runners up 👏🏼
12 shortlisted entries were read @oldmillplumstead last night to a packed audience ably hosted by @robgthom
12 shortlisted entries were read @oldmillplumstead last night to a packed audience ably hosted by @robgthom
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A new #Plumstead Poet Laureate was crowned last night! Jonathan’s poem about poetry-reading took the baton from Lviss David (@imtheplumbingpoet), with Elsa and Karen the worthy runners up 👏🏼
12 shortlisted entries were read @oldmillplumstead last night to a packed audience ably hosted by @robgthom
12 shortlisted entries were read @oldmillplumstead last night to a packed audience ably hosted by @robgthom
Back from #Madrid, still reeling from seeing #Radiohead on night 2 (5 Nov). An amazing night, a wish fulfilled.
My video clips of every song that night: youtu.be/XMSS4InE49k?...
#radioheadeurope2025
#radioheadnighttwo #radioheadnight2
My video clips of every song that night: youtu.be/XMSS4InE49k?...
#radioheadeurope2025
#radioheadnighttwo #radioheadnight2
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Back from #Madrid, still reeling from seeing #Radiohead on night 2 (5 Nov). An amazing night, a wish fulfilled.
My video clips of every song that night: youtu.be/XMSS4InE49k?...
#radioheadeurope2025
#radioheadnighttwo #radioheadnight2
My video clips of every song that night: youtu.be/XMSS4InE49k?...
#radioheadeurope2025
#radioheadnighttwo #radioheadnight2
Happy #Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas (the #Sikh celebration)! 🪔
Made my two favourite burfis:
1) Carrot, recipe: familymealsrecipesdiary.blogspot.com/2024/11/diwa...
2) Milk, Coconut & Pistachio: adapted this recipe: masalaandchai.com/milk-barfi/
Made my two favourite burfis:
1) Carrot, recipe: familymealsrecipesdiary.blogspot.com/2024/11/diwa...
2) Milk, Coconut & Pistachio: adapted this recipe: masalaandchai.com/milk-barfi/
October 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Happy #Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas (the #Sikh celebration)! 🪔
Made my two favourite burfis:
1) Carrot, recipe: familymealsrecipesdiary.blogspot.com/2024/11/diwa...
2) Milk, Coconut & Pistachio: adapted this recipe: masalaandchai.com/milk-barfi/
Made my two favourite burfis:
1) Carrot, recipe: familymealsrecipesdiary.blogspot.com/2024/11/diwa...
2) Milk, Coconut & Pistachio: adapted this recipe: masalaandchai.com/milk-barfi/
Glad to have visited ‘Ancient India - living traditions’ at the #BritishMuseum yesterday – a #Diwali treat for myself, before the exhibition ends this Sunday, 19 Oct (a bonus was that it was half price using our #ArtPass).
Great essay on the exhibition by @willdalrymple.bsky.social below…
Great essay on the exhibition by @willdalrymple.bsky.social below…
October 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Glad to have visited ‘Ancient India - living traditions’ at the #BritishMuseum yesterday – a #Diwali treat for myself, before the exhibition ends this Sunday, 19 Oct (a bonus was that it was half price using our #ArtPass).
Great essay on the exhibition by @willdalrymple.bsky.social below…
Great essay on the exhibition by @willdalrymple.bsky.social below…
A classic in the genre…
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A classic in the genre…
Latest change in local university scene: Goldsmiths VC Frances Corner leaves with immediate effect, a year ahead of contract end and after a tricky time of pandemics, cuts & strikes (all while my daughter was UG there) www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/vc...
This comes on top on Greenwich's merger with Kent.
This comes on top on Greenwich's merger with Kent.
Vice-Chancellor steps down
Professor Frances Corner OBE has stepped down with immediate effect as Vice-Chancellor of Goldsmiths.
www.gold.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Latest change in local university scene: Goldsmiths VC Frances Corner leaves with immediate effect, a year ahead of contract end and after a tricky time of pandemics, cuts & strikes (all while my daughter was UG there) www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/vc...
This comes on top on Greenwich's merger with Kent.
This comes on top on Greenwich's merger with Kent.
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No words
*Irony Klaxon explodes*
Farage says Labour is inciting violence against Reform by calling them racist.
Farage says Labour is inciting violence against Reform by calling them racist.
Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform
Reform UK leader will claim in a speech today that Keir Starmer’s labelling of his migrant plan as ‘racist’ has endangered the safety of his candidates and activists
www.thetimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
No words
Eynsford looking beautiful in today’s sunshine, and enjoyed a great roast lunch at its Castle Hotel pub ☀️🍁🌾🍴
#eynsford #sevenoaks #Kent #autumn #roastlunch
#eynsford #sevenoaks #Kent #autumn #roastlunch
September 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Eynsford looking beautiful in today’s sunshine, and enjoyed a great roast lunch at its Castle Hotel pub ☀️🍁🌾🍴
#eynsford #sevenoaks #Kent #autumn #roastlunch
#eynsford #sevenoaks #Kent #autumn #roastlunch
Well, Croatia was a gorgeous revelation… hvala!
#croatia #split #splitcroatia #podstrana #omis #adriaticsea #hvratska
#croatia #split #splitcroatia #podstrana #omis #adriaticsea #hvratska
September 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Well, Croatia was a gorgeous revelation… hvala!
#croatia #split #splitcroatia #podstrana #omis #adriaticsea #hvratska
#croatia #split #splitcroatia #podstrana #omis #adriaticsea #hvratska
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Reform UK picked a dead woman to run in next year’s Croydon mayoral election, @insidecroydon.bsky.social reports insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor
EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in July 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK six months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Edit…
insidecroydon.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Reform UK picked a dead woman to run in next year’s Croydon mayoral election, @insidecroydon.bsky.social reports insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
Mildly amusing things seen on lorries on the motorway…
August 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Mildly amusing things seen on lorries on the motorway…
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not to brag but I'm just gonna re-post this again not because it's incredibly lovely about me but because it's a very very beautiful piece about pubs
Hope this isn't weird to share, but to provide some balance, I wrote up some far more positive thoughts on the pub...
waituntilnextyear.com/2025/08/02/r...
waituntilnextyear.com/2025/08/02/r...
Royal Oak, Northumberland Heath
The Royal Oak is massive. It’s local, and that’s important, but the first thing to mention is it’s massive. There are three bars in an age where even two bars is a rarity – The Poolroom Bar, …
waituntilnextyear.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
not to brag but I'm just gonna re-post this again not because it's incredibly lovely about me but because it's a very very beautiful piece about pubs
Oh BBCRadio4’s Any Questions tonight from @mycenaehouse.bsky.social in #Blackheath…
I went to the 2015 broadcast from Gordon School in #Eltham w/ Sadiq Khan (Lab), Mark Reckless (Ukip), Liz Truss (Cons) & Humza Yousaf (SNP) - only 1 of them in office now?
progressestate.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-...
I went to the 2015 broadcast from Gordon School in #Eltham w/ Sadiq Khan (Lab), Mark Reckless (Ukip), Liz Truss (Cons) & Humza Yousaf (SNP) - only 1 of them in office now?
progressestate.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-...
The Progress Estate and Gordon School hosts the BBC's "Any Questions?" Radio 4 programme
BBC Radio 4 "Any Questions" and Jonathan Dimbleby to celebrate 100 years of the Progress Estate, Eltham, SE9, London
progressestate.blogspot.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Oh BBCRadio4’s Any Questions tonight from @mycenaehouse.bsky.social in #Blackheath…
I went to the 2015 broadcast from Gordon School in #Eltham w/ Sadiq Khan (Lab), Mark Reckless (Ukip), Liz Truss (Cons) & Humza Yousaf (SNP) - only 1 of them in office now?
progressestate.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-...
I went to the 2015 broadcast from Gordon School in #Eltham w/ Sadiq Khan (Lab), Mark Reckless (Ukip), Liz Truss (Cons) & Humza Yousaf (SNP) - only 1 of them in office now?
progressestate.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-...
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The Green Party has its first ever councillor in Greenwich after Tamasin Rhymes won the Shooters Hill by-election.
The result is the biggest upset in Greenwich politics for a generation and follows a row over the Labour council's land sales in the ward.
The result is the biggest upset in Greenwich politics for a generation and follows a row over the Labour council's land sales in the ward.
Green Party's Tamasin Rhymes wins Shooters Hill by-election - The Greenwich Wire
The Green Party has its first ever councillor in Greenwich after Tamasin Rhymes won the Shooters Hill by-election.
greenwichwire.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The Green Party has its first ever councillor in Greenwich after Tamasin Rhymes won the Shooters Hill by-election.
The result is the biggest upset in Greenwich politics for a generation and follows a row over the Labour council's land sales in the ward.
The result is the biggest upset in Greenwich politics for a generation and follows a row over the Labour council's land sales in the ward.
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LA band Haim have just dropped new video.... filmed in Deptford transpont.blogspot.com/2025/06/musi...
Music Monday: Haim in Deptford
Haim are the quintessential Los Angeles band, so I wasn't expecting to be able to write them into the South London Hall of Fame any time soo...
transpont.blogspot.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
LA band Haim have just dropped new video.... filmed in Deptford transpont.blogspot.com/2025/06/musi...
June 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Last night’s performance of Hamlet Hail To The Thief at the RSC in #Stratford-Upon-Avon was extraordinary. The staging, the actors but equally the musical melding of the iconic #Radiohead album with the drama of #Hamlet. Dark, moving and stylish.
June 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Last night’s performance of Hamlet Hail To The Thief at the RSC in #Stratford-Upon-Avon was extraordinary. The staging, the actors but equally the musical melding of the iconic #Radiohead album with the drama of #Hamlet. Dark, moving and stylish.
OMG list-nerds everywhere, this programme on now (and later) is for us!
@michaelrosenyes’ Word of Mouth…
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@michaelrosenyes’ Word of Mouth…
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
OMG list-nerds everywhere, this programme on now (and later) is for us!
@michaelrosenyes’ Word of Mouth…
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@michaelrosenyes’ Word of Mouth…
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Epic coastal walk from #Margate to #Broadstairs last week. 10km of sandy bays, cliff pathways, pubs (cider at Captain Digby Inn at #KingsgateBay), beachside cafes (ice cream at #Nāmaka on #StoneBay Beach) and fish/chips at The Mermaid at Broadstairs before the 4 min train (!) back to Margate.
June 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Epic coastal walk from #Margate to #Broadstairs last week. 10km of sandy bays, cliff pathways, pubs (cider at Captain Digby Inn at #KingsgateBay), beachside cafes (ice cream at #Nāmaka on #StoneBay Beach) and fish/chips at The Mermaid at Broadstairs before the 4 min train (!) back to Margate.
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Seven candidates will compete to succeed Ivis Williams as councillor for Shooters Hill at a by-election called after the Labour councillor’s resignation in a row over council land sales. The poll will be on June 26.
Seven candidates stand in Shooters Hill by-election following land sale row - The Greenwich Wire
Seven candidates will compete to succeed Ivis Williams as councillor for Shooters Hill at a by-election called after the Labour councillor’s resignation earlier this month.
greenwichwire.co.uk
May 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Seven candidates will compete to succeed Ivis Williams as councillor for Shooters Hill at a by-election called after the Labour councillor’s resignation in a row over council land sales. The poll will be on June 26.