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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 26/09/2026

Drinking Harvey’s with a good mate and this mysterious lady.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 25/09/2026

Calling it: porridge season is open

My bowl of porridge. It has a spoonful of seeds in it for texture.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 22/09/2026

Got myself a new earring. What do we think, chat?

Photo of your humble narrator, side on so as to display said bit of bling. I am a white bloke, early 50s, short grey beard and mid length grey hair with blue framed glasses and a blue baseball cap worn backwards - mainly as a way of keeping my hair off my face. The earring is in my left ear. It is a small gold hoop inlaid with green ceramic that sits close to the lobe. I was keen to avoid going too Johnny Depp/piratical with it, while still adding, you know, a little something.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 18/09/2026

This festbier from Thornbridge is very tasty. Lovely robust malt to it, toasty and sweet with a bitter snap of hops to balance it out. (It was a free sample, I should point out.)

A glass of dark golden lager next to a can. The beer’s name is Zehn.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 02/09/2026

Been getting hands-on with bergamot and rock samphire today with the Isle of Wight Distillery 🍸

Half a bergamot on a wooden tabletop next to a leaf from its tree.

Rock samphire growing among the rocks (unsurprisingly) on the southern coast of the island.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 31/08/2026

Dicking about with a little bit of sci fi horror, 240-word #flash-fiction

Doyle had felt something was off as soon as he entered the building. He stood among the kicked over furniture with his blaster raised and his back to the living room wall, waiting for his breathing to slow. Next to him was a door that should not be there -- that Halloran, in his ear, insisted was not on the schematics.

“Fuck your schematics,” Doyle hissed. “I’m telling you it’s there. How did no one else spot it?”

They were hunting a replicant. A simple enough job, usually, but this one was different, used its powers in a new way. It had already cost two men before him their lives.

“You gotta proceed,” said Halloran.

Doyle bit his lip. Moved carefully through the doorway into a sparse empty room with just an armchair and a footstool.

He stamped hard on the stool, breaking its frame. Blasted the chair and left a smoking hole in it.

The stool was just a stool, the chair just a chair.

The only other objects were china tchotchkes on a shelf, gleaming like teeth.

Doyle sighed. “It’s clear. Nothing big enough left.”

Halloran grunted. “They get bigger every time.”

“Last one was seven foot,” said Doyle.

A window on the far wall winked shut. The tchotchkes sprouted, sharper, larger. The floor undulated beneath Doyle’s feet. Darkness closed around him and flooded with pain, pressure that pierced his flesh, ground his bones, smothered his screams.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 25/08/2026

Supper: rice and lumps. Today the rice is brown and the lumps are “Chinese” chicken. Turned out all right.

A scoop of brown rice. Lumps of battered chicken breast in a sticky “Asian” sauce, topped with sesame seeds and spring onions.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll (if you feel like it) For views from north Norfolk, all taken last week.

Lots of little clouds in a blue sky above a yellow sandy beach. They are mostly white and puffy. A few are greyer, flatter, and less substantial.

Blue sky with sun and clouds over a shingle beach, with sun shining on the sea.

Blue sky with white clouds over a view of the marshes near Blakeney, seen from the water on a creek.

Very blue sky with only a distant band of puffy white clouds marching along the horizon. Blue sea. White sailing boat moored at a buoy. Its mast and furled sail point into the sky.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 19/08/2026

This kind of day today. Lovely, and knackering.

View of a sailing boat moored in the water under a blue sky with a distant bank of clouds on the horizon. Picture is evidently taken from on board another a boat.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 17/08/2026

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

Detail of a painting by Hulda Guzmán showing a… honestly I don’t know. A fat white monster type figure, crouching with his head in his hands. Big “oh no it’s all too much” energy.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 17/08/2026

*Any* medium? I’ve dicked about with some haiku #OliveArtClub

For haikus about a stubby little aubergine 🍆

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 17/08/2026

Made a new friend. Just kidding. Apparently the tongue thing is deer talk for “you tryna fuck me bitches? I’ll shank ya wiv me ‘ead, bruv.”

A stag at close quarters sticking its tongue out of the side of its mouth. The presence of some steel bars between us suggests this was not an entirely chance meeting.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 14/08/2026

TERRIBLE use of this emergency alert. “Wildfire in your area, get out now?” Fine. “Ooh, it’s a bit burny” generally? You’re training us to ignore these messages.

Security alert warning in the most general terms about the risk of wildfires

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 13/08/2026

Lunch: Sainbo’s rainbow salad zhuzhed up with a handful of walnuts and some halloumi fried in olive oil with oregano and lemon zest.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 12/08/2026

Testing image upload with a negroni

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 12/08/2026

Dulwich Park looking rather Mad Max during the #eclipse

Wide angle image of the sun low in a cloudless sky over parched, dusty grass. People have gathered to view the eclipse. There is a sculpture made of twisted steel pipes.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 12/08/2026

Some good refraction action #eclipse

$Sunlight refracting through leaves onto a fence during the solar eclipse, leaving a clear pattern of crescents$

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 08/08/2026

Anish Kapoor at The Hayward Gallery: spotta kulcha innit

A large red sculpture that will STAIN YOUR CLOTHES if you get too close. It occupies almost the entire room.

A painting that is mostly red save for a yellow bit in the middle that appears to emanate from a dark slash.

A reflective curvy sculpture thing, outside. Sky and concrete abound, and are warped and reflected in interesting ways.

Another curvy reflective sculpture outside in the sun, amid the brutalist concrete of the South Bank.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 04/08/2026

Go on, you bastard. I double dare you!

A weather notification that says:

Light Rain Soon
Expected to start at your location at 16:28 and last for 25 minutes.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 03/08/2026

Pleased with this- first brilliant move that wasn't also a happy accident. Pulls the black rook over and sets up a juicy fork for me with Nc6+, winning the black queen.

screenshot of a @chess.com board wherein I (playing white) have fucked black over good and proper by banging a rook across the board from b1 to b8. Good times, good times.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 02/08/2026

Made a tuna Niçoise so now you all have to hear about it - I don’t make the rules. Blame @southlondongirl.bsky.social

A bowl of said salad, topped with medium soft boiled eggs. As in, the yolk is neither hard nor runny but kind of fudgey and gooey.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 29/07/2026

Honestly at this point all my fan does is make me too hot in more interesting ways

Picture of a column-style fan with a built in thermometer that tells us the temperature in this loft-conversion bedroom-slash-office is currently 35ºC

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 27/07/2026

Plus some of this - went very well

A bottle of Davenport Horsemonden Dry 2023. A beer pleasant English wine. Buttery texture.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 26/07/2026

Twix Hazelnut: it’s a yes from me

A Twix Hazelnut next to a cup of coffee in a red mug. The wrapper is green.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 24/07/2026

If you see this, quote a pic of you in sunglasses

Yours truly as a young feller-me-lad, an impressively long time ago. I am seated on a sun lounger in a garden. I am wearing a Fido Dido tee shirt, which dates things rather, and the requisite shades.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 07/07/2026

King’s Head it is then. Tilley’s Brave Bitter, 4.0%.

A pint of bitter on a pub table. Couple of sips gone. Excellent lacing, if you’re into that kind of thing.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 01/07/2026

Meanwhile this option is staring you in the face

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 01/07/2026

That's a lorra rubber johnnies

The Goodyear Blimp seen in the distance across London rooftops, with some of the City of London skyline in the distance. It is a bright but kinda cloudy summer day.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 30/06/2026

It’s “tore-tiller”, actually.

No of course it’s not. It’s tortilla, as in the Spanish style omelette with spuds in. The one pictured also sports slithers of red pepper and onion.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 30/06/2026

Slightly random lunch, accidentally colour themed.

A plate of red cherries, pinkish beetroot and apple coleslaw, brown mini pork pies and brown walnuts

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 24/06/2026

This is all I can manage - largely the same as lunch tbh

Cherries, cheese crackers, blob of ratatouille, scoop of cucumber avocado salad

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 24/06/2026

Lunch: various salady bits with fried halloumi and some walnuts.

Salady bits include: tarator (tzatzik-alike with walnuts); ratatouille (cold); cucumber, avocado and lime; tomatoes with red pepper and mint.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 23/06/2026

Lunch: pear and fennel with pomegranate and Parmesan. Few cold spuds on the side.

Photo of the dish. There are chopped chives on it too.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 23/06/2026

And this sums up his approach pretty well:

Ultimately, Branson is most interested in showcasing what wood can do – especially species other than oak. "We talk about being a tree company that makes drinks," he says. "It so happens that we started with drinks. We could make chairs. It could be we make incense from the forest, or candles."

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 23/06/2026

Enjoyed this little moment of describing Branson's ultrasonic maturation process. (Transcript in alt text.)

"He pops his kegs into a water bath housed within an ultrasound generator. Three of these unassuming-looking steel boxes are about the same size and shape as a microwave oven. A third is closer to a domestic radiator: longer, taller and thinner. The water within these is heated to 80ºC. So far so pleasant. Then the screaming begins."

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 23/06/2026

Earlier this year I visited Ben Branson, who uses weird science to extract flavour from all manner of trees. He shook up the world of non-alcoholic spirits once before with Seedlip. Now he plans to do it again with Sylva. Read more here (PDF) 👉 dhewxdsd0qahx.cloudfront.net/5213588/Beyo...

Ben Branson standing in front of a tree. He is male, white, 40s, wearing glasses and a plaid overshirt and woollen cap. The tree bit matters. He's all about trees at the moment. He does mad shit to extract flavour from them and put it into drinks.

Shelves on a wall holding many, many small glass sample bottles in which are various tree bits (root, bark, leaf, wood, and so on) in 40% ABV ethanol to extract their flavours. There are at least 100 bottles in shot and still more out of shot.

The book that kicked all of this off: an old leather-bound copy of "Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions" by the English writer John Evelyn - first published in 1662.

Branson's third favourite tree: a huge oak, over 500 years old. The picture was taken in February so its branches are bare. It was struck by lightning at some point, and there is a scorched and twisted tear down one side of its trunk. It looks like a monster that might come to life at any moment to snatch unwary children up into its boughs.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 22/06/2026

To the vet with this doofus. She needs antibiotics for her gut. She also needs us to brush her teeth. Two very tall orders, I fear.

A tortoiseshell cat named Susan P. Lodge - Splodge for short.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 21/06/2026

Funnily enough, this was the only photo I took last night 🧐🤔🎉🫠

A large glass jar with a tap. It is filled with red liquid in which orange segments are floating. It is labelled “NEGRONI”. There are multicoloured party lights shining on the wall behind it.

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Anthony Gladman @anthonygladman.com · 18/06/2026

Love this time of year. Almost 10pm and still not dark. Jasmine’s in flower. Seen a bat. Swifts are still busy - can hear them but can’t see them.

A cluster of white jasmine flowers against a dark fence

A view of my garden; the sky is still very light indeed

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