Simon Ricketts
@simonicity.bsky.social
Ubiquitous planning lawyer.
Arts; culture; politics; simonicity blog.
Personal views.
Not much football because Saints FC.
Arts; culture; politics; simonicity blog.
Personal views.
Not much football because Saints FC.
We were on the M3 today and the car started hallucinating that we have an 80 mph speed limit.
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
We were on the M3 today and the car started hallucinating that we have an 80 mph speed limit.
Support act Lonnie Holley also fabulous. His current album is class. open.spotify.com/album/6JbrR2...
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Support act Lonnie Holley also fabulous. His current album is class. open.spotify.com/album/6JbrR2...
Anyone else see Laurie Anderson at the Roundhouse this evening? Speechless with awe. If I said it was an audio visual polemic that would take the humanity out of it. LA smiled throughout, nailing current dystopia, ending with hope & audience tai chi.
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Anyone else see Laurie Anderson at the Roundhouse this evening? Speechless with awe. If I said it was an audio visual polemic that would take the humanity out of it. LA smiled throughout, nailing current dystopia, ending with hope & audience tai chi.
Been parcelling up so much recently I have been given my own bubble wrap suit. Apologies in advance if I start popping in meetings. Nervous habit.
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Been parcelling up so much recently I have been given my own bubble wrap suit. Apologies in advance if I start popping in meetings. Nervous habit.
Just needed batteries & then technological magic - 50 year old pics not seen for a long long time. Now just need to save up enough greenshield stamps for a slide projector.
November 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Just needed batteries & then technological magic - 50 year old pics not seen for a long long time. Now just need to save up enough greenshield stamps for a slide projector.
This album still cuts through. Great re-release yesterday on Secret Records, lovely black vinyl.
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This album still cuts through. Great re-release yesterday on Secret Records, lovely black vinyl.
Town Legal quiz event co-host POV last night. For charity XLP, at XLP’s HQ, grade 1 listed All Hallows On The Wall in the City of London.
www.xlp.org.uk
www.xlp.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Town Legal quiz event co-host POV last night. For charity XLP, at XLP’s HQ, grade 1 listed All Hallows On The Wall in the City of London.
www.xlp.org.uk
www.xlp.org.uk
Am at that age where the dullest of news headlines starts a long forgotten theme song playing full volume in the specific part of my brain that I had been intending to use for some work today.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Am at that age where the dullest of news headlines starts a long forgotten theme song playing full volume in the specific part of my brain that I had been intending to use for some work today.
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These were very happy years for me and I’m finding out in excruciating detail how wrong I was.
October 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
These were very happy years for me and I’m finding out in excruciating detail how wrong I was.
I call this art installation “Cat in Tree”.
October 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I call this art installation “Cat in Tree”.
ChatGPT advertising that it guzzles energy before not getting you to your intended destination.
October 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
ChatGPT advertising that it guzzles energy before not getting you to your intended destination.
I thought I’d share some pics of a few pieces of my very talented late dad’s pottery. I have known these for literally the whole of my life and I love and admire them more and more.
October 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I thought I’d share some pics of a few pieces of my very talented late dad’s pottery. I have known these for literally the whole of my life and I love and admire them more and more.
I’ve been wanting to see Manchester’s most exciting band Arkayla for a while. They played at a BBC Introducing event at the tiny Lower Third in Soho tonight and I hope they will be huuuge. Tribal singalong songs, Aztec Camera meet the Libertines meet first album Arctic Monkeys.
October 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I’ve been wanting to see Manchester’s most exciting band Arkayla for a while. They played at a BBC Introducing event at the tiny Lower Third in Soho tonight and I hope they will be huuuge. Tribal singalong songs, Aztec Camera meet the Libertines meet first album Arctic Monkeys.
October 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
White cat, black suit trousers
September 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
White cat, black suit trousers
Some sensible ideas (not just my small one) as to how to get SMEs building again in this paper published today by Pocket Living. www.pocketliving.com/bucket/pocke...
September 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Some sensible ideas (not just my small one) as to how to get SMEs building again in this paper published today by Pocket Living. www.pocketliving.com/bucket/pocke...
No more heroes apart from maybe Watford Borough Council. The Colosseum now reopened after 5 years, refurbished and now a quality venue.
September 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
No more heroes apart from maybe Watford Borough Council. The Colosseum now reopened after 5 years, refurbished and now a quality venue.
He’s the greatest dancer. Richard Jobson of Skids (supporting Stranglers tonight at the mighty and recently reopened Watford Colosseum)
September 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
He’s the greatest dancer. Richard Jobson of Skids (supporting Stranglers tonight at the mighty and recently reopened Watford Colosseum)
Not sure about this one.
September 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Not sure about this one.
Back in the Bertha DocHouse, down in the bowels of the Curzon Bloomsbury, for bleakly touching documentary Sanatorium, about a huge Soviet era sanatorium in Odessa struggling on through this war with a smattering of hardy guests 🇺🇦
Guardian review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Guardian review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
September 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Back in the Bertha DocHouse, down in the bowels of the Curzon Bloomsbury, for bleakly touching documentary Sanatorium, about a huge Soviet era sanatorium in Odessa struggling on through this war with a smattering of hardy guests 🇺🇦
Guardian review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Guardian review: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Turned out nice. Commuter train view just now.
September 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Turned out nice. Commuter train view just now.
Shocked to hear about Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s Ray Mayhew. I only remember him as a pre SSS teen face hanging around bands with us in Southampton. I hope he loved his life & I’m sad it has ended too young. NB he was a lot of things but one thing he wasn’t, Daily Mail, was 80 - at least in earth years.
August 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Shocked to hear about Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s Ray Mayhew. I only remember him as a pre SSS teen face hanging around bands with us in Southampton. I hope he loved his life & I’m sad it has ended too young. NB he was a lot of things but one thing he wasn’t, Daily Mail, was 80 - at least in earth years.
