Alison Daintree Gross

@StuartHumphryes Glad to see you are back posting. Missed your work the last few weeks. This lovely pic has an almost Pre-Raphaelite feel. Beautiful!

@StuartHumphryes Hi Stuart, this is my great aunt Florence Taken around 1914. I’d love to show what you can do and share with my cousins, her grandchildren.

To start 2026 off with some positivity, I thought I would give something back to my followers. You were so kind & supportive last year, I thought I'd extend my previous offer to revamp portraits of your ancestors using the ai tools I demonstrated on December 13th. If you would like to post a portrait of a family member, on their own (not in groups or couples) and of sufficient resolution that their faces are nicely clear, I am happy to process the image for you as a thank you. But I shall have to limit it to one portrait each, and to the first 75 I do. That will probably take me the weekend! This is not restoration work, this is re-imagining your old photo as if it were taken with today's modern digital technology. It removes the barrier of time between us and our forebears, but it is only an interpretation of them. If you'd like it done, feel free to share your photo.

If you missed @CanadianPM Mark Carney’s 15 minute speech at Davos. It’s well worth your time. It’s important.

Excellent news for #NYC the MSMX midtown plan includes exciting Adaptive Reuse, Mixed-use live-work building, preserves the neighborhood character. #cityplanning #adaptivereuse #housing

Adieu to the Greatest. (i remember every brilliant line by heart) Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97 nytimes.com/2025/07/27/art… via @NYTimes

@EliAfriatISR Golda Meir I would hope that everyone in the US and UK would recognize this amazing woman

If you tell me her name, I will follow you.🤍

. @GMA @ABC Did you forget GMA is a news program? Joe Buck is inarticulate, too chatty, clumsy, awkward, painful to listen to and watch. Please find someone else. I'm not watching 'til George is back

@GoodwinMJ I am sorry you had a bad day. I’ve been on the tube, the overground, and walking for the past 4 days and London is still wonderful. Yes, it is multicultural- and people are helpful and give seats to the elderly on the trains. And it’s not as expensive as NY

All these things happened to me in London today I paid nearly £30 for a train ticket to take me into London from a town just 30 miles away —on a Saturday The first person I sat next to, I think from India, decided to have a FaceTime conversation with his friend on speakerphone so we all had to listen to it The train was late by 40 minutes due to unexplained “signalling issues”. It was also filthy. I paid nearly £8 for a pint I offered a woman my seat on the tube without realising she was with a man who intervened and said “no man”. He was not from the UK. I think he took my gesture as an insult. I was asked for money by homeless people 3 times in one day I noticed several people who are paid to give information to taxpayers and tourists over the tannoy on the London Tube cannot speak English properly A cabbie told me “London is dead most nights”, unless you are the global high net worth set or top 1% Restaurants are visibly struggling and often hideously overpriced I had dinner in a neighbourhood where the average rent is £3,663 per month while half of all local social housing has gone to people who were not even born in the UK I was constantly aware I should not get my phone out on the street as 80,000 were stolen last year I also read on the way back while checking that stat that there were 90,000 shoplifting offences in London last year, up 54% My train back —delayed—was suddenly changed at the last minute with all passengers on board. They were told it would no longer be stopping at all stops. I bought a tin of instant coffee on the way home and it had a security tag on it Maybe I’m in a bad mood and perhaps it’s amusing to think how somebody of my political outlook is “triggered” but to me there is a deeper point here London is over —it’s so over It’s a city in visible decline with deteriorating standards and no real sense of identity or belonging Going in and out of our capital city is a truly miserable experience Infrastructure is falling apart, as is the social contract I’ve been coming in and out of London since 1981 I simply cannot remember a time when it’s been this visibly dire and when so many things just do not work as they should

Years ago, I worried that we were beginning to misuse the word "friend" to denote shallow online relations, to name-drop people we've met and admire who we wish were actual friends, and to otherwise commodify one of the most sacred relations in life. So I drew: themarginalian.org/2016/08/16/fri…

@simonmontefiore We will all go together when we go is my favorite! “No one will have the endurance…. Lloyd’s of London will be loaded when they go!”

Tom Lehrer is 97 and alive! How wonderful. I had no idea. I grew up to his brilliant songs wit. Imagine what he would sing about today’s dark clownery… No one explained nuclear proliferation so clearly as his song Whos Next.

David Kelly of @JPMorganAM: "The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, increase unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Other than that, they’re fine."

It was always about enriching billionaires. It was never about taking the canal for America. NY Times reported #TrumpIsARussianAsset #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace

We need more historians

This is what ardent NYT _conservative_ Bret Stephens is saying. Anyone with any sense knows that today was an absolute disaster and disgrace for the United States.

🚨🎥 WATCH: Keir Starmer personally walks Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to his motorcade after their meeting in No 10

Starmer to Zelenskyy: You are very very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom.

Very interested to see this huge proposal for adaptive reuse and development #Manhattan #housing #midtown

@simonmontefiore Enjoyed your interview last night immensely. Come back to NY soon!

Morning after a big evening. Powerful cortado while reading of Trump’s latest decrees in a freezing NYC but a warm Nolita cafe & its skilful star barristas

@StuartHumphryes Thanks for reposting. I love this film. My grandmother described riding on the top of those buses.

The first time I ever went viral on this platform, back in 2018. This rare colour film got 50,000 re-tweets and a quarter of a million likes, plus an article in the Dail Mail and the start of a presence on Twitter and X that has grown and evolved into the enhancement of early colour photos. A seven-year journey. But I think's it's gone rather well!