on a hotel balcony drinking cold beer from which I can ‘actually see into’ Pompeii ruins. 5th? time here and it never gets less exciting. my family are mostly very nicely tolerant ‘look guys, it’s only a 45m walk to the villa dei mysteri!’

Naples tube stations are nearly as good as the Pompeii mosaics

why do female Olympic athletes who do international standard ice dancing have to do it in their pants? Didn’t we get over this a while back with the beach volleyball thing?

Wow, so they actually bothered to replatform civil service pensions into a service which ‘doesn’t actually tell you how much your pension is’. love to see the early user stories version for this and the rag-rated critical path to go live.

Come and help us ensure the NHS has the best digital tools available to support the frontline to deliver integrated care and meet the ever evolving needs of the NHS. Details of our Head #ServiceOwner vacancy here www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jo... #Jobs

Fancy a change? Seeking air traffic control for DHSC digital projects - small to large, mostly national not NHS-facing. Open to all flavours of ddat specialists. flexible, diverse team based in London and Leeds. Talk to me, or to one of the team. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

This is amazing! How did I not see this before!

Mojo thoroughly back via #SDingov. Great couple of days with inspiration from new voices, old lags and colleagues past and present. Oh, and a magician.

I’m confused. Why did far right protestors circle the IMAX? What has the imax ever done to them, etc..

I did not expect my morning to involve getting caught up with a load of far right protestors at Euston. People marching through the tube station using megaphones to sing Tommy Robinson songs, clearly intimidating staff, and me. not sure where the transport police are..

Fancy a change? Seeking air traffic control for DHSC digital projects - small to large, mostly national not NHS-facing. Open to all flavours of ddat specialists. flexible, diverse team based in London and Leeds. Talk to me, or to one of the team. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Austria rocks but Verona has actual gladiator mosaics

Less than a week away interrailing feels like about three. Space time continuum truly disturbed

I am so brain dead with Covid that last night when The Last of Us finished and auto-played a different programme straight after, I didn’t notice for 20 mins. Thought it was some sort of crazy epilogue.

Absolute definition of spring today, hares running in the fields along Stonehenge and a great bustard in the middle of the stones

That thing where you are finally writing that end of week pithy email which summarises multiple meetings and next steps and then Windows does a forced restart.

I am once again on the ‘usual levels of insanely overheated’ Avanti back to London and I want to put a middle aged woman in charge of all thermostats, ever, in the world

Well that was a bit of a day.

This is how I want my cold February to be

Just spent three hours on HMRC’s pension calculator service and want to cry. I imagine it went something like: ‘no, content designers, annual allowance IS the same thing as pension input amount, it’s totally clear’ during a year long argument between CS pensions and HMRC legals

Waiting for a routine NHS appointment, unlike others I love this as reminds we how much we have to give voice and power to the non-clinical workforce…. and better tech.

@jukes.ie thanks for the repost! Hope your train is chill

I’m also shortly looking for a new G6 head of digital portfolio and ops for our 48-strong digital team, DM me if interested. Leeds and London based

Just re-upping this for the #ukgc25 crew

What a fabulous way to spend a Saturday in January. Blue Monday can bob off. Thanks to all the organisers, campmakers and sponsors #ukgc25

Have we got #failcamp yet? #ukgc25

My other half knows my love for #ukgc25 so much that he has made me stickers

@stephenmnewport.bsky.social we have an NHS Hack Day coming up at Cardiff Uni nhshackday.com on March 1/2 - it's a bit different to other hackathons. Do you think you could share with your networks? Here's a great post about what makes it special medium.com/@lauren.m.be...

Man, I really need to import my Twitter list..but also, govcamp! squeal

We are building a new digital business partner team at DHSC. Cracking job in a friendly team. Leeds and London www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Great job working with a great team and leadership: thoroughly recommend www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jo...

And here is that Lead Product Manager job ad: www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jo... This is a hugely important role on the NHS App team. The successful candidate will guide, coach and oversee multiple product teams and their product managers.

We’re at it again. @debblanch44.bsky.social, @jukes.ie and me will be doing more product events in 2024. Loose plans on the blog.

When does pitching start? Might be a tad late…@ukgovcamp.bsky.social