Ann Pilkington

@AlanBarrierEA 🤣

Excited to announce that we're upgrading some of the #ThamesBarrier operating systems today. Installation of this software should be completed by the end of the day.

@rob_mcivor @MyWoolwich @British_Airways @LondonCityAir Actually probably the only way really

@AcademyAnn @MyWoolwich @British_Airways @LondonCityAir True - but still the best way to take a bike to the Highlands 😀🚵‍♂️

One of the many many reasons to live in #Woolwich. #LCY #LondonCityAirport Almost a private jet service right at our doorstep! We had a great flight @British_Airways .Plane was so clean, no delays, no fuss! Perhaps next time you can serve premixed G&T onboard 🍸 :) ✈️

@rob_mcivor @MyWoolwich @British_Airways @LondonCityAir But sooooo expensive!

@AcademyAnn @MyWoolwich @British_Airways @LondonCityAir The sleeper is more fun.

@MyWoolwich @British_Airways @LondonCityAir PS could we have flights to Inverness please nicely!

@MyWoolwich @British_Airways We once flew back to @LondonCityAir and from touching down (not even from disembarking) to home on the Royal Arsenal including popping into M&S for something for supper: 45 minutes! ✈️

This made me laugh 😃 theguardian.com/money/2026/mar…

Lovely day walking our next stage of the Lea Navigation.

For tunnel nerds 🤓

@ianvisits This is brilliant!

Inside the giant machine digging HS2’s railway tunnels to Euston station ianvisits.co.uk/articles/insid… Nearly 200 metres long and weighing over a thousand tonnes, HS2’s final tunnel boring machine is an underground factory digging a railway to Euston. ianvisits.co.uk/articles/insid…

Went to first West End musical in years with my two youngest today… The centre of London was heaving with visitors, in a way unrecognisable from the image percolated on this site… The stats underline this… West End has fully recovered and more from pandemic and now has overtaken Broadway on tickets sold - millions more, and more tickets sold than the Premier League… This isn’t mirrored in all visitor attractions but seems an interesting and resounding success. Industry reports interesting new trends such as very last minute ticket purchases. Ticket prices do seem extortionate/ dynamically priced… but the stats suggest they are down a bit in real terms. British Museum visitors at a 10 year high of 6.5 million… Visitors generally fully recovered from pandemic, interestingly driven by domestic tourists and North Americans… seemed pretty clear that summer 2025 for example, London was world capital of live music. Comes day after the Mayor of London wrote to Anthropic to come to London after their troubles with the Trump Administration and a marked change in the vibe around the investment in AI and tech… While there’s obvious some challenges in any modern day mega city, and in Britain right now, strikes me that the stats show taking your cues from the mildly bizarre cultivated campaign against Britain and our capital on this site is likely to lead to erroneous perceptions. Interested in any insights as to how the west end has overtaken the premier league and Broadway… and how other parts of UK have fared - as I’ve written before visitor numbers to places like Manchester are also booming re football, unis and now the music at the once laughed at Coop Live… PS yes it was Wicked. And it was good.👍🏽 🧙

The Telegraph: “Upon identifying the complexities of this matter, we took immediate steps to remove this article.” Watchdog: “The family did not exist.” theguardian.com/media/2026/mar…

@rob_mcivor Nah!

@AcademyAnn I'd be more worried about scaring potential readers away!

Book lovers - a quick question: Author's photos on IBC - yes or no? Publisher has asked if I want one and I'm undecided. #writingcommmunity

Just to clarify....I didn't do the graffiti

Happy Valentines. Started a walk following the Lea Navigation down to the Thames ( after a false start trying to follow the New River Path which not only isn't new or a river but isn't a path either)

London gets a bad rap. It’s often portrayed online as a crime-ridden wasteland overrun by migrants. In reality it’s one of the safest major cities in the world: econ.st/4tu3koT

Did our feral political press pack call time on Starmer prematurely? Accusations are flying ...markurban.substack.com/p/did-the-lobb…

@WoolwichPigeon Well that's confusing

Poll: If Belinda Carlisle did a gig on the deck of the Woolwich Ferry with us doing an LED aerial display above in support, would you go and watch?

@Londonist It's also a time portal. .theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/j….

A walk under the Thames that everyone should try exactly once londonist.com/london/secret/…

Woolwich foot tunnel!