I’m kind of liking these cute little videos made by local councillors for the upcoming elections on Thursday 7 May. It’s going to be a tricky election in Newham for Labour - but there’s certainly individual Labour councillors I’d support. Here are some in Canning Town South.
I haven’t decided how to vote in the local elections on Thusday. My decision-making would be easier if a boundary change hadn’t moved me from Canning Town to Custom House, as Canning Town South Labour Councillor Rohit Dasgupta is a good, hardworking councillor and all round good guy.
Crucial Track for 03 May 2026
"Cloudbusting (2018 Remaster)" by Kate Bush
"Hounds of Love" is the perfect album. Fight me: I still dream of Organon.
Folks, flight is hard.
I’m human. My starting point is coots running across the water.
I need a 15m wing-pack and a tow to get close, and generally I crash into the dock covering less distance than my total wingspan.
I can barely cope with the downstroke in ground effect. The “ground” punches up.
When I’m chilling on my laptop, doing light-weight online stuff and listening to whatever music, I tend to reach for my FiiO EH11 headphones. Lightweight, unpretentious-ish, sound double-plus-okay. You can buy them for around £30 from Advanced MP3 Players or Amazon or whatever.
Two dead junior pigeons on the balcony this morning. Blood and feathers everywhere. Maybe a gull or a crow. Very sad. From the size of the dead birds, they are very recently fledged.
In busy environments, my EarPod Pros have flat, down-toning digital audio splats, like you’d guess AI “imagined” the sound of slo-mo raindrops. I don’t know what causes this.
I’m beginning to feel I should trim down the number of online services I rarely use. The POSSE nirvana is forever just beyond the horizon. And anyway, I have very little to say, except now and then, with friends.
My friend Rohit is standing again as a Labour councillor in Canning Town. I used to live there until the council chanaged the ward boundary! I’d vote for him if I still lived there! Rohit is a good guy and a great councillor who really works hard for local residents.