James RS
@milknosugar.bsky.social
Former flaneur, currently gay boulvardier. Interests: food, opera, bicycles & twirling my moustache
I too don’t want more stuff cluttering my life, just give him what he enjoys. For me that would be opera tickets, or a family meal, at home, or a restaurant. If there has to be an object, make it consumable. But really, I’d guess it’s your time & company that has more value than any of these things
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I too don’t want more stuff cluttering my life, just give him what he enjoys. For me that would be opera tickets, or a family meal, at home, or a restaurant. If there has to be an object, make it consumable. But really, I’d guess it’s your time & company that has more value than any of these things
At Ronnie Scott’s I saw:-
Dizzy Gillespie
Ella Fitzgerald
Maria Muldaur with Chaka Khan’s band Rufus as support
An all nighter at the Lyceum Ballroom at the Aldwych with, among others, the debut of King Crimson, & the Soft Machine with Robert Wyatt
The Rolling Stones Hyde Park free concert
Dizzy Gillespie
Ella Fitzgerald
Maria Muldaur with Chaka Khan’s band Rufus as support
An all nighter at the Lyceum Ballroom at the Aldwych with, among others, the debut of King Crimson, & the Soft Machine with Robert Wyatt
The Rolling Stones Hyde Park free concert
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
At Ronnie Scott’s I saw:-
Dizzy Gillespie
Ella Fitzgerald
Maria Muldaur with Chaka Khan’s band Rufus as support
An all nighter at the Lyceum Ballroom at the Aldwych with, among others, the debut of King Crimson, & the Soft Machine with Robert Wyatt
The Rolling Stones Hyde Park free concert
Dizzy Gillespie
Ella Fitzgerald
Maria Muldaur with Chaka Khan’s band Rufus as support
An all nighter at the Lyceum Ballroom at the Aldwych with, among others, the debut of King Crimson, & the Soft Machine with Robert Wyatt
The Rolling Stones Hyde Park free concert
almost never, & often her recipes taste better than what you pictured when reading them, which is a rare gift. One of the greats
November 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
almost never, & often her recipes taste better than what you pictured when reading them, which is a rare gift. One of the greats
& I have a horrible suspicion that that thing he’s holding got him his junior proctologist badge 😳
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
& I have a horrible suspicion that that thing he’s holding got him his junior proctologist badge 😳
Diana Henry’s baked Italian sausages. Very yum
www.telegraph.co.uk/recipes/ever...
www.telegraph.co.uk/recipes/ever...
Sicilian baked sausage with potato, tomato and herbs
This is known as salsiccia con papate e pomodori al forno.
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Diana Henry’s baked Italian sausages. Very yum
www.telegraph.co.uk/recipes/ever...
www.telegraph.co.uk/recipes/ever...
A face you cannot say no to 🙂
November 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A face you cannot say no to 🙂
…that dishwashers are the spawn of Satan.
OK if all you want to wash are dishes. With almost everything else they are either ineffective or agents of destruction, sometimes both.
But my wife takes the opposite view, that if God meant us to do the washing up, he wouldn’t have given us dishwashers
OK if all you want to wash are dishes. With almost everything else they are either ineffective or agents of destruction, sometimes both.
But my wife takes the opposite view, that if God meant us to do the washing up, he wouldn’t have given us dishwashers
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
…that dishwashers are the spawn of Satan.
OK if all you want to wash are dishes. With almost everything else they are either ineffective or agents of destruction, sometimes both.
But my wife takes the opposite view, that if God meant us to do the washing up, he wouldn’t have given us dishwashers
OK if all you want to wash are dishes. With almost everything else they are either ineffective or agents of destruction, sometimes both.
But my wife takes the opposite view, that if God meant us to do the washing up, he wouldn’t have given us dishwashers
I absolutely ❤️ your holiday photos. They are so cheering. Thank you Nic
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I absolutely ❤️ your holiday photos. They are so cheering. Thank you Nic
You are right, & I also advise you not to hang around any churches in Greece during the orthodox Holy Week. Chucking bangers around is a thing then, not quite sure if it originally had some religious significance, but Greeks have never been big on health & safety.
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
You are right, & I also advise you not to hang around any churches in Greece during the orthodox Holy Week. Chucking bangers around is a thing then, not quite sure if it originally had some religious significance, but Greeks have never been big on health & safety.
I’m all for the *tsk*s. Not nearly enough of it about. We must be losing our grip 😳
November 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I’m all for the *tsk*s. Not nearly enough of it about. We must be losing our grip 😳
& once in Peckham, it’s hard to resist the gravitational pull of the black hole that is Elmers End. South London is a deceptive place. Resist the lure of transpontinism, stay the correct side of the river
September 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
& once in Peckham, it’s hard to resist the gravitational pull of the black hole that is Elmers End. South London is a deceptive place. Resist the lure of transpontinism, stay the correct side of the river
Accepted, & sorry if I’ve riled you up. Absolutely not my intention.
September 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Accepted, & sorry if I’ve riled you up. Absolutely not my intention.
Fair enough, as I said, I cannot think of an alternative in plain common speech either. But I still dislike it! 🤷♂️ WWOD? (What would Orwell do) 🙂
September 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Fair enough, as I said, I cannot think of an alternative in plain common speech either. But I still dislike it! 🤷♂️ WWOD? (What would Orwell do) 🙂
These are my little Sainsbury’s cookbooks. There are 7 by JD there, & Sainsbury’s also published her Christmas book & her encyclopaedic “Cook’s Companion”, which I gave my children, when they left home, though they probably learned more from Jamie Oliver 🤷♂️, who was just emerging then
September 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
These are my little Sainsbury’s cookbooks. There are 7 by JD there, & Sainsbury’s also published her Christmas book & her encyclopaedic “Cook’s Companion”, which I gave my children, when they left home, though they probably learned more from Jamie Oliver 🤷♂️, who was just emerging then
My Mum cooked from it too! After my Dad (who always had a fine appreciation of my Mum’s cooking), had polished off one of J D’s delicious creations, he was told that David D had divorced her. He gave a harrumph and muttered “Bloody fool”. Never been able to think of David D in the same way since 🙂
September 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
My Mum cooked from it too! After my Dad (who always had a fine appreciation of my Mum’s cooking), had polished off one of J D’s delicious creations, he was told that David D had divorced her. He gave a harrumph and muttered “Bloody fool”. Never been able to think of David D in the same way since 🙂
I’m not sure what a good alternative would be, but “agentic” is a neologism that grates too.
September 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I’m not sure what a good alternative would be, but “agentic” is a neologism that grates too.
I still occasionally refer to those by Josceline Dimbleby, & the 2 by Jane Grigson, (on Normandy & Mediterranean food). I date the gradual decline of Sainsbury’s as an important supermarket & cultural force to the moment they stopped publishing this series.
September 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I still occasionally refer to those by Josceline Dimbleby, & the 2 by Jane Grigson, (on Normandy & Mediterranean food). I date the gradual decline of Sainsbury’s as an important supermarket & cultural force to the moment they stopped publishing this series.
& unless they implode too, the Greens remain an attractive home for those voters. So Kier’s champagne stays in the bottle.
September 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
& unless they implode too, the Greens remain an attractive home for those voters. So Kier’s champagne stays in the bottle.
I love those little Sainsbury’s cookbooks. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Such a shame they stopped doing them
September 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I love those little Sainsbury’s cookbooks. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Such a shame they stopped doing them
An actor described the author of a script like this one, as suffering from delusions, because he was given a biro for Christmas
September 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
An actor described the author of a script like this one, as suffering from delusions, because he was given a biro for Christmas