Throwback

My most popular Tumblr post ever

The throwback post with the view from Willis Tower that I posted the other day made me think of my most popular Tumblr post ever, with 6,181 reposts and 3,001 likes.

Not too sure about the filter, but people seemed to like it back then 😅

A rainy London skyline
A rainy Langham Place seen from above

The caption was:

A rainy London, seen from the 15th-floor restaurant at Saint George’s Hotel, Langham Place.

I do miss what Tumblr was back then. It was a much friendlier place than anything we have now.

Tall buildings sticking up through low clouds

Photo posted 4 September 2026

This photo from Willis Tower in Chicago, taken in 2018, popped up on my phone’s lock screen.

I went there on a training course and took the opportunity to combine it with a few days’ holiday with my partner. It was a good trip, and I could definitely go back sometime.

2 photos side-by-side of a Uttern 2600 hanging in a boathouse, with quite a few years in between.

Photo posted 22 August 2026

Then and now. My little boat is still hanging in there. Quite literally! 🥰

Me taking a mirror selfie in a tube station

Photo posted 19 August 2026

Sometimes I miss having a real camera.

Random photo from 28 February 2009.

90’s me sitting in front of a CRT screen in my student room, wearing a Fubu jersey and Fubu jeans.

Back in the day

Getting my JNCO jeans the other week made me think of this picture of me back in the day.

There’s not a lot of picture evidence, but while in uni, I was basically the guy in Pretty Fly for a White Guy.

I wish so much I kept that Fubu jersey!

Patrol boat seen from artillery gun

In the navy

A throwback to my time in the navy. It’s far behind me now, but this pic, which doesn’t even use a filter, makes it look even longer ago!

Pavilion from the side

Serpentine Pavilion 2014

As much as I like this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, my favourite is still Smiljan Radić’s one from 2014.

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