Genuine Londoners love a traditional sporting event in the Capital. I went to see start of 171st @ox.ac.uk & #CambridgeUniversity Mens' #TheBoatRace from Putney Bridge yesterday. I saw the rest of race on television in the local pub, #TheRocket on Thames. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners know even our shops are as informative as our museums. Pass #BanhamSecurity showroom on Kensington High Street yesterday. In their window a history timeline. Discover they developed first high security automatic lock 100 years ago this year. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners know that Style never goes out of Fashion. Finally get my Coke (you'll know it as a Bowler) hat a refresh at #LockandCoHatters on #StJamesStreet last week. They are celebrating their 350th anniversary & have put hats on many of my own heroes #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners know city full of kind & decent people. Yesterday discover #KerenViewCafe. Had delicious organic Coca hot drink with ginger. Chat to owner who tells me she has table for students to work on, with no purchase, to help with their living costs. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners know Birthday celebrations aren't for 1 day. Fab treat from #ColinNgan last night. Watched #GriffRhysJones & #CliveFrancis in #JonathanLyn's perfect farewell to #JimHacker & #SirHumphreyAppleby. Play #ImSorryPrimeMinister at #apollotheatre #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners know everything can be solved over a pint. Catch up with friend #PeterJStanford at #FreemasonsHall's #SwanAndGridiron Bar. That's how the Grandlodge Of England actually started i.e. over beers in an Ale House of the exact same name in 1717. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners know best way to destress is to commune with nature. Swim @theroyalparks.bsky.social Serpentine lake
@serpsswimclub.bsky.social helped me escape Greed, Public & Third Secture failure all around me. Managed to get in water 3 times last week. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners know Open Days are the perfect place to meet people from a variety of generations & backgrounds. Visited the #BlackCulturalArchive this afternoon. Had some fascinating conversations around Black British experience, from GenZers to Boomers. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Londoners know the best exhibitions can inspire you to greatness. Opening day @wellcomecollection.bsky.social #ComingOfAge last Thursday. Exploration of changing perceptions & research into ageing. Hugely beneficial for my book - #YoureBeingAnIdiotStopIt.
#LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners appreicate need to exercise mind as well as body. At #SiamCentralThai Fitzrovia last night, debating Three @ucl.ac.uk academics including friend @rodabouharb.bsky.social on issues I raise in book I'm writing "You're Being An Idiot. Stop It!" #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners make their setbacks, assets. The failures of state & my homelessness has delayed my book, but that delay has massively increased books I've read for it. I started @wwnorton.com's #MichaelLewis The Undoing Project today sitting in #HostCafe. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners know 80s were decade that should have defined us but didn't. Visited superb #BritishFilmInstitute's #BFIFlare exhibit in Mezzanine Gallery yesterday. Marks the 40th anniversary of the festival that brought Gay & Lesbian films to the fore. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners understand that the Capital works best when it acts like a family. Fabulous friend & Chocolatier #lisettedavis of #gabuchocolate fame, takes me out for Birthday drinks with team (Ri & Monique) at #Limin opposite her store in #GabrielsWharf. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners understand the huge importance of
@thetimes.com Birthday Notice. This one from friend #AmritChauSingh printed in the paper on acutal day 20/03/26 Will now be immortalised in both @thelondonlibrary.bsky.social & @britishlibrary.bsky.social #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners know friends from every generation essential to understanding life. Lucky to have #GenZ #KellyShungu in orbit. Birthday Eve fun last Thursday at @designmuseum.bsky.social sharing stories of 80s at Blitz Exhibition before dinner at #CrustBros #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners know it's NOT the money you collect that makes you succesful BUT the friends that you do. An amazing group of nearly 50 people showed up to help me celebrate my Birthday the evening of Friday 20th March 2026 at the @royalcourt.bsky.social. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners know anniversary should always include something you've always wanted to do.
Finally experience #AndrewEdmundsRestaurant (1985) in Soho after years of trying (always full). With a glass of bubbles to begin birthday celebrations yesterday.
#LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners embrace all levels of society. Monday night's #CanArtSaveUs discussion @thersaorg.bsky.social with #GenesisFoundation, @willtoddmusic.bsky.social & @royalacademyarts.bsky.social, really missed having @artshomelessint.bsky.social on the panel.
#LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife

A true londoner discovers a new curiosity in Capital same way a truffle hog finds its funghi. Drawn by a 6th sense to find new venue on #41whitfieldstreet. Its 1st open day. Tour by #SolomiaZoumaras who designed. Talk of rekindling a new "Salon" movement #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners understand city can highlight worst of humanity but also demonstrate the best of it. Amazing kindness of manager Archie at #Cornershop180 last night was in stark contrast to appalling behaviour of the RSA charity staff, just moments before. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners have apprecaited printed word since we created it. Visit @londonu.bsky.social #TheEnglishPrintRevolution @senatehouselib.bsky.social last Friday. Saw things pubished 500 years ago, knowing nothing we write digitially today, will survive that #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners support one another. Lovely day with powered wheelchair user #Bullringbash yesterday. While people paid to support fail on absolutely every level - People like him exist to remind us real human beings are truly decent. Food at #CanpoyMarket. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners hate missed opportunity to teach others. Visit
#LightroomLondon for #PrehistoricPlanet today. No mention of
@geolsoc.bsky.social. No mentoin @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social
No mention Sir Richard Owen - coined Dinosauria
@nhm-london.bsky.social #LetsGuide #uniquelylondon #ALondonersLife4

Real Londoners understand that different mediums can tell the same story differently. Yesterday's matinee of #YentlPlay, #MaryleboneTheatre thanks to #TimBaros, returns to text of #IsaacBashevisSinger book & away from @barbrastreisand.bsky.social musical.
#LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners know resturant experience isn't just food. Discussing late Chef Anthony @bourdainpodcast.bsky.social (I worked with on #GoodFoodLive) over exquisite Filipino food of #LutongPinoy, Earls Court. With execptional friends Nam & Amrit Chau-Singh. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners will know other Londoners wherever they go. Met different person in each of the Private Views of the 3 galleries @hyphastudios.bsky.social Poulty, City of London last night. This is #SteveBaxter & friends in Gallery 1 & also met #NadyaEllia. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners understand importance of dignified debate. Great to speak at world's oldest #FreeSpeech debating club i.e. #Cogers (1755) in #YeOldeCockTavern (1887) again, Monday. Missed on Win to a lady from Hong Kong who explained it couldn't exist there #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners are ready to pounce on an exhibition. Opening day today of #DavidHockney's A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting, at North #SerpentineGallery. Visited after swim in lake. Perfect blend between old masters & modern tech #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

Proper Londoners love a cinematic classic. Saw the 25th Anniversary Screening of #Amelie at #ForestCinemas Walthamstow, yesterday, for free, thanks to #CinemaEscapes. An experience made utterly perfect by sitting next to a female Parisian in the audience. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4

True Londoners know it's people who support each other that achieve greatness. #InternationalWomensDay yesterday & trip to #TheAlmeidaTheatre's Reverb, thanks to wonderful Naomi's generosity & a new actor friend Veronica, I made at cafe, who shared it too. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4