open.spotify.com/playlist/69m... My best songs of 2025.

The tree is up and decorated with an eclectic collection of baubles from our travels, but this one is particularly poignant this week.

I have just posted an underwater video of my diving trip to Indonesia in October & November 2025 on the Damai II live aboard boat. The YouTube link is here youtu.be/vutBMkUKHMg?...

If you would like to see a Dropbox file of all the images, make a donation, however small to Billable Hour Charity mentioning “Nudidude Challenge” & I will forward a link www.billablehour.org

The Nudidude Challenge is back. Pat Williams & I recently spent over 40 hours each underwater in Indonesia. We took images of 71 different species so we will be donating £142 to The Billable Hour Charity. Here is a short video of some species. Music is Spheres by Vovdovoz Productions vodovoz.de

Trip down memory lane. A pint of Pride in the Devereux before early dinner in what was Westminster County Court (Browns) & the early show at Ronnie Scott’s.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Sunrise in Eastbourne this morning

Just returned from 3 weeks diving in Indonesia. Here is a link to a video of the first 4 days in Ambon with Spice Island Divers. youtu.be/48ZZp87LYqM?...

Back from 3 weeks diving in Indonesia & still things to harvest in the garden

Arrived in Jakarta so time for a first beer before starting 3 weeks diving which means another #nudidude challenge raising money for @billablehour

Does your pet look good in a horsehair wig? Do they deserve to be seen and admired by thousands? Why not dress them up as a lawyer and submit their photo for inclusion in this year’s Law Paw Calendar (www.lawpawcalendar.com)? All proceeds will go to @savechildrenuk.bsky.social

My exercise session interrupted by what sounds like an angry wasp outside the window.

Table all set for afternoon wine tasting with the weather set fair in Eastbourne

I have posted a video of my recent trip to Oslo & Svalbard on YouTube. The link is here. youtu.be/lZN2SviK6hE?...

Spent the day on an allotment in Eastbourne playing with fire at a Raku workshop. Very pleased with the results.

I have just uploaded an underwater video to YouTube of a trip to Anilao, Philippines in February & March 2025. youtu.be/ynGswifqgeU?...

Good morning Old Trafford. Sitting in the Sir Jimmy End but waving to those in my favourite end.

Day of flicking between Test Match & Wimbledon ends now time for Chelsea v PSG. Very low expectations-happy with 0-4.

We rent a cherry tree in Northiam. Record harvest this year. 29.7 kilos. Lots of stoning to do now.

Good morning Edgbaston.

Different wild flowers taking over from the ox eye daisies in the “meadow”.

Bottle Brush tree has flowered for the 1st time. Doesn’t really like the wind here by the sea but trying a new pot in a new spot.

Hummingbird Hawkmoth on the lavender in our garden just now.

Headingley day 2 & a very elevated view today. Yesterday was a good toss to lose.

Stuart Broad interviewing an IPad on a tripod.

Good morning Headingley.

North Pole is 1000km + 8 metres that way according to GPS. In the drift ice on the edge of the pack ice north of Svalbard.

The view from my bedroom is perfect to view the sunset except there isn’t one for several months. At the Isfjord Radio Station, Svalbard.

Good evening Oslo

First bud has opened on the Rose @yesslaw.bsky.social bought me to plant in memory of my Dad. I think he would approve.

The Eastbourne Studio Pottery kiln gods have been kind so Nessie has left Loch Ness for sunnier climes in Eastbourne

Didn’t take long to fill the new cold frame.

Busy day in the sun in Eastbourne breaking down some pallets left over from our patio refurb & turning into a cold frame. Only cost was 2 sheets of polycarbonate.

Beautiful morning in Eastbourne & the flowers have all come out along with a butterfly.

Asparagus harvest at its peak. Only 4 crowns but enough for 2 of us.

Communing with our rented cherry trees on blossom weekend. Cherries already forming on the Merchant variety whilst our new Regina tree at peak blossom & bee activity. Hog roast & choc cherry ice cream as well.

Playing with the extruder for the first time in pottery. Great fun but cleaning up is a pain

Clearing last of the beetroot from the veg garden. That’s a lot of pickled beetroot for @mrsdivinglawyer.bsky.social + one enormous white radish.

Tulips at their peak currently in the garden.

Spent the morning visiting all the chocolate box villages in the Cotswolds. Now in Great Malvern for a weekend of ballroom dancing.

The kiln gods have been kind so my pottery vase inspired by Mondrian’s friendship with Nicholson has survived intact. Made at Eastbourne Studio Pottery.

Expresso martini evening after cinema at the Towner- Memoir of a Snail. I can see why it was film of the London Film Festival

Today’s colourful harvest. Chard tart & carrot & orange salad for dinner.

Flamboyant Cuttlefish in Anilao, Philippines, March 2025. The first was fully grown about 8cm & unusually hunting on the reef. The second was on a sandy slope & only 3cm but very feisty.

Electric, flame or disco clam Ctenoides ales. Only established in 2013 that they are not electric, (much to my disappointment) & it is not bioluminescence but reflective white tissue on outer edge of mantle. Filmed in March 2025, Anilao, Philippines.

Who knew turtles like bubblegum. Taken in Anilao, Philippines March 2025

@jon-chamberlain.bsky.social this photo of a sea slug taken by @mrsdivinglawyer.bsky.social on our recent trip to Anilao in the Philippines is a Nembrotha chamberlaini. Presumably discovered by a relative, rather than the family resemblance. Cost us a £2 donation to Billable Hour.

The “Nudidude Challenge” is back. We have just returned from 2 weeks diving in Anilao in the Philippines. @mrsdivinglawyer.bsky.social & I are again donating £1 each to @billablehour.bsky.social for every different species of Sea slug, flat worm etc we photograph. Here is a short video clip.

So I’m 45 minutes into a dive in Anilao Philippines at 25 metres in a down current with only 65 bar of air left & finally find the blue ringed octopus. What fun we have on holiday. Photo by @mrsdivinglawyer.bsky.social