HeyJaredThe Opinionated Diner
Words and sometimes images from Simon Grigg. Music, less politics than I used to post and rambling thoughts from time to time.
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Swing low sweet Luxembourg (opens the original)
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In September and October 2025, it seemed like we’d hit peak heat in South West France. We were in Bordeaux (the town and the region), and it was in the low 40s on a couple of days. It was, we were told, the hottest days on record, and it was unlikely to ever hit those peaks again. In May 2026, we were there again, and the thermometer was reading close to that once more. In July, it passed those highs with tragic results. Numpties said it was “just summer”.After Bordeaux and Charente-Maritime in
Portugal, October 2025 (opens the original)
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My just casual, observational street shots. We flew from Bordeaux to Lisboa and immediately caught the train to charming Coimbra, the old capital. Why Coimbra? We had a day or two spare, and it was somewhere I’d never been before. Largely foreign tourist-free and insanely cheap, it was like Portugal before the digital nomads and influencers discovered it. Lisboa, a decade back.Then to Lisboa, where the downtown is staggering with tourists post-COVID, but an easy walk uphill, or a train, takes yo
An overdose of Joy (opens the original)
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Krung Thep urban (opens the original)
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Just some of the dozens of images I have sitting in folders, unprocessed. I take photos, download them, and then never seem to get around to editing, which I actually quite enjoy. There are so many that I’ve started to reel a little from the process; it’s potentially overwhelming. Mostly around the neighbourhood in Bangkok, but a couple in Hua Hin around September. I used to call this street photography, but I hate how "street" has been subsumed into endless moody negative-space clichés. <div
Roger Perry changed us. A life. (opens the original)
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With Roger Perry, it’s a matter of where to start. His influence on Aotearoa’s cultural, club, DJ, and electronic music scenes from the mid-1980s onwards was immense and pervasive. It remains omnipresent.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="426" src=
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