Not for ages: early 2027.

What Exactly is the Michelin Guide Up To? In a press conference last week, executives at the Michelin Guide indicated they'd soon start reviewing wines. Here are my thoughts.

As a wine and travel writer finishing a book on the Michelin Guide, I have questions about their recent announcement that they are expanding (further) into wine. And @vinography.com has asked them all. What Exactly is the Michelin Guide Up To? www.vinography.com/2025/10/what...

So the Thames Water WhatsApp chat gently explains that, as every year, there will be a « small increase in your payments ». That increase for this year? 46.8%. @ofwat.bsky.social

‘It was not a boyband!’ Micky Dolenz on the madness of being in the Monkees He was in one of the biggest groups in the world – all without playing a note. As the last surviving Monkee turns 80, he remembers 60s fame – and what happened when the band broke free

For anyone else old enough* to remember the Monkees, this @theguardian.com interview with last surviving Monkee Mickey Dolenz is fantastic. Play a drinking game with the famous names.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

*not the first time round, I hasten to add

Dear world, please stop trying to coerce me into using expensive and pointless AI products. Yours, Nina

Oui!!!

Good luck this week was taking the Eurostar back from Paris a few hours before a 500kg unexploded WW2 bomb was found a few miles away, disrupting transport for the entire day today

I have just seen a young person walking along a peak-hour London pavement reading a BOOK and it has made my day. 📕

Good. I wish noise nuisance via phone were as socially unacceptable in the UK as it is in some other countries…

Microsoft just put up the price of your subscription without your consent. Mine rose from £79.99 per year to over £100. The extra is because they've strapped their 'AI copilot' in to every program. You can refuse this increase and these features. Instructions below.

Thank you for reposting this Damian!!

Bet there were small plates. And excessively natural wines.

Modern communication technology won’t be brought down by China. It will be brought down by me, the next time predictive text changes a perfectly correct its to it’s.

I’m impressed, well done. Just don’t tell my accountant…

Mine starts nagging in July. And still I file in January… #AnotherWinner

Surely also quite a good way of trolling the people who did…

OpenAI Says DeepSeek May Have Improperly Harvested Its Data The San Francisco start-up claims that its Chinese rival may have used data generated by OpenAI technologies to build new systems.

Just one of many authors whose works were used by Open AI without permission or payment, reading this with a wry smile… www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...

The best cinema, a hangover from the days when cinemas actually had personalities. Save the Prince Charles!

Coming round to raid your oven, since you ask… 😋

Never read the name Eustace (not a frequent occurrence tbf) without hearing the first line of Voyage of the Dawn Treader: “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” #StillInNarnia

If you think the peacock chasing my snacks is scary, you should see my face. #DontMessWithMyApéro

I’d say it’s the offices that are cages…

Wood delivery at lunchtime which will require transporting down to the cellar and it’s going to rain all day. Buck up please, 2025.

Delicious but pretty sure Don’s was bigger

Apparently my Old-Fashioned is taking so long to arrive because the bartender* is double-checking his method by looking up the clip of Don Draper making one in Mad Men

*husband

But then we would not have this absolute gem of a thread

It is always fun to talk to Peter Gago. But it’s even more fun when there’s also a visit to see 140-year-old Barossa Valley vines that contribute to some of the top @penfoldsken.bsky.social wines … #Australia #finewine

Powerful piece by @kimwillsher.bsky.social on the Pelicot trial and the questions that remain unanswered

Yes, this.