Adam Wood

I think I’m right in saying that Kiss the Hippo have about a dozen shops in London, of which I’ve somehow visited zero.

The baseball season is over for my beloved Chicago Cubs, who suffered ignominious defeat in an NL Wild Card series against San Diego.

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One of the principle reasons for our recent trip to Brighton was to collect a painting.

I first saw Daniel Kitson live about a decade ago when he was touring a show titled Tree.

I recently caught a screening of Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026), and I’m happy to report that they remain an interesting filmmaker making interesting films.

This week we spent a few days down in Brighton, and I have brought back coffee and food recommendations for you.

Last Saturday we headed into London to see a trio of Canadian bands under the billing of the All The Feelings tour.

Today I am 16,676 days old, and I’ve been lucky enough to be in a relationship with my beloved special lady friend for 8,338 of those days: exactly half.

Do you know… I don’t think I’ve had beans from Square Mile before.

At lunchtime today, I cycled out to Little Clarendon Street to grab a coffee at the newly re-opened Common Ground.

Recently I’ve been thinking about a couple of different tech-related things that sort of overlap.

I spent the recent Bank Holiday reading the new book from Rachel Cusk.

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I like trying out new roasters and I like funky packaging, so this pick-up from Edinburgh’s own Cult Coffee Roasters is a win-win for me.

Shhh… don’t tell my reading group, but I’ve also been seeing other books.

This afternoon we went for a ~10km walk around Wytham Woods — our first visit in a few years.

New in the hopper this morning is this offering from Edinburgh-based roasters Carter.

Last week we headed north to spend some time in a part of the country I’ve never been to before.

It’s that time of year again: the season for enjoying a long(-ish) novel in the company of an unknown number of like-minded fellow readers.

This afternoon we attended a musical event with a difference.

A couple of years ago, I was fortunate enough to be in the audience at the Sheldonian to see Ali Smith awarded the Bodley Medal.

This week I received a card from an acquaintance in Brooklyn, artist Shawn Liu.

Something I’ve been pondering recently is whether statements of gratitude need always contain subjects as well as objects.

We were just in Bristol for a little over 24 hours at the start of this week.

This week I was back at the Schwarzman Centre, but this time in a work capacity.

Today marks one year since the global release of the Nintendo Switch 2, and I thought I would mark the occasion with a quick rundown of how I thought the console’s first twelve months shook out, at least in terms of the games I’ve played.

Last week’s #newmusicfriday had a neat diptych: The Field released an album titled Now You Exist and Martyn released one titled Music for Existing.

Really impressed with this recent pick-up from Round Hill Roastery of Somerset: smooth, clean and pleasantly sweet.

Yesterday was the open-house launch of the cultural programme at the University’s new Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

There is a thesis to be written on the ways in which social media has impacted literary fiction.

A new major exhibition just opened at the Ashmolean Museum, titled In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World.

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This month I read one of the buzziest books of the year so far: Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs (2026).

With thanks to my friend JG, I was fortunate enough to be offered the chance to attend a show at the Royal Albert Hall last night.