Had the induction today to be a ranger with London National Park City. Unreasonably excited. What a brilliant movement. You can read more here: nationalparkcity.london

I have five tickets for Starlight Express TODAY at 14:30 (theatre is near Wembley). If you can use all / any please shout - would love them not to go to waste. 🚂💫

Pleased to be able to be able support this young trans woman try and get some healthcare. She (along with many many many others) are being let down by our health service (largely due to our Government and the trans hate rhetoric). If you’d like to help too: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ge...

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Pleased to be able to be able support this young trans woman try and get some healthcare. She (along with many many many others) are being let down by our health service (largely due to our Government and the trans hate rhetoric). If you’d like to help too: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ge...

#Weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org including wondering how non-experts can support experts with heavy workloads, reading for pleasure and learning life lessons from dogs. connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

If you need some extra hands to work on topics like futures of work, the digital welfare state, relational services & technology, tech ethics, public service reform - hit me up! I have a bit of space before Christmas and lots in 2026, and I'm pretty nice and quite good 😁 🙏Would 💗 a repost too

It's a lovely sunny day! If you're out for a walk, please take some photos of memorial benches and add them to openbenches.org We're *very* close to thirty-nine *thousand* benches mapped 😃

Not how. Why.

“But you don’t look ill”. @jgluck.bsky.social writes about living long term with cancer. Much of cancer is popular narratives. Living long term with it is a prime example - you don’t hear these stories. I cannot ditto this article enough. Incredible & a bit emotional. 🔗 nymag.com/intelligence...

#Archive or Family History or #Genealogy folks (or anyone). I’ve come into possession of a small number of papers (inc Will & death certificate) & a photo of someone who died in London (mother lived in Exmouth). No family relation to me (loose connection). What can I respectfully do with them?

Did you know that, for every £100 donated to charity across the UK each year, just 10p reaches LGBT+ non-profits? That's simply not enough. We can't stand by and watch these vital organisations struggle and go unheard. We need you, more than ever, to help us change this heart-breaking reality.

A day of fun with @tabisw enjoying a steam train on the West Somerset Railway (and ice cream in the rain!).

A wonderful long weekend, for @tabisw.bsky.social’s birthday, staying in our own castle (technically folly). We find we’re well suited to it 😉 Barely got out of our onesies other than for an incredible dinner at Acleaf. Delicious food and attentive experience.

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

Incredibly lucky to get a place with to attend the Tottenham Hotspur FC Fan Forum 2025. Doubly lucky to then win the ballot for a golden ticket to meet the panel afterwards. 🤍

My #weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org - though actually this time it’s a reflective piece about yesterday’s #DecelerationAssembly from The Decelerator including grief, peer learning and planning for organisational endings. connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20... Photo thanks to The Decelerator.

I worked from a London library today. In the 4 hours I was there I chatted with a chap that has nowhere to live, “paid it forward” at the cafe and loaned my phone charger to a chap for whom English wasn’t a first language. Libraries are such important civic spaces. My heart is full. #LoveLibraries

A wonderful weekend in the North West starting with Crosby Parkrun, followed by brunch with good friends in “Emily’s at Formby’s”. An evening of Strictly with family before a sub-hour finish at the Wirral 10K and seeing the Jane Tomlinson Appeal Run For All team too. #RunningIsFunning

#Parkrun tourism today at #Crosby. Mile of sand, mile of tarmac, mile of grass. Cool to run around Anthony Gormley’s “Another Place” iron men. #RunningIsFunning #ParkrunFamily

The irony of the clickbait article about the pope's condemnation of clickbait being the most viewed article...

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Absolutely incredible moment tonight seeing wild otters (for the first time) playing together in the River Tone. Breathtaking. [sound on advised]

I feel like I must know someone / an organisation that this would be of interest to … heck, it was of interest to me… “MOPAC would like to commission a SME / VCSE organisation to coordinate the London Hate Crime Stakeholder Reference Group” www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/05863...

My #weeknotes (albeit three months after the last) for my freelance work with an announcement that I’m working with @jamestplunkett.bsky.social to support his setting up of a wonderful new alliance, @kinship.works (still doing WRKWLL too). www.linkedin.com/pulse/freela... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

This weekend I did my first stint as Run Director at Longrun Meadow Junior parkrun. I love volunteering most weeks with the team there and feel very lucky to have been invited to step up to join the gang of Run Directors. High vis, clipboard and a position of power…I was in my element! 😉😆

Brilliant night at Taunton Brewhouse with @tabisw.bsky.social, crying with laughter at Suzi Ruffell.

#FinishedWatching Barbie. Finally got to watch it and enjoyed all the social commentary that people had been talking about when it was dominating the cinema. Also chuckled out loud too. An enjoyable watch. m.imdb.com/title/tt1517...

My #weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org including reading @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social and @timdavies.org.uk (finally), and thinking about analogies for AI. connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20...

Fab weekend at home starting with my 150th parkrun (and fastest of 2025), then a sauna and ice plunge session, before Taunton 10K race today - at which I astounded myself by finishing in under an hour (I thought such a goal was beyond me!) #RunningIsFunning

It's the governance mechanisms around that data that I'll be particularly keeping an eye on. Who holds it? Who gets access to it under what circumstances? What's it linked to? Where's the transparency? What happens when things go wrong? How robust will guardrails be against future regime changes?

My #Weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org including having the team back, the Employment Rights Bill, and some work related reading. connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20...

The Mothership is visiting, so I took her on a trot around Longrun Meadow #parkrun.

Normalise writing alt text like you’re narrating a nature documentary. “Here we see… a social media manager… holding a pumpkin spice latte… clicking ‘add alt text’ button on a post about pigeons.

#FinishedWatching Hostage. I’m not sure what I think about this. I enjoyed it as a drama but was also mildly irritated by elements. The last episode in particular felt off. But Suranne Jones is always a winner and discovering Julie Delpy was excellent. m.imdb.com/title/tt3180...

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#FinishedWatching Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. @tabisw.bsky.social and I agreed it was the wrap up and ending we wanted. m.imdb.com/title/tt3188...

👀 I'm hiring two roles for a new initiative launching soon (watch this space!) 👀 A Research Assistant and a Writer/Editor. Both part-time, freelance. c.5-10 days by end December, maybe more and ramping up over time (with no obligation). Both £350 pd. Especially keen to hear from good writers! 1/2

I’m very excited to be joining the Board of Honeyscribe who are boosting wellbeing, fighting isolation and loneliness, and of course producing stunning visual artworks. This work is essential and I hope to do all I can to support Amy and Honeyscribe into the future.

Surprised myself today. I was 100% motivated to do a half marathon because of the medal. I’m never motivated by a medal. This was meant to be my last long run before my ultra but I’ve had to withdraw from that. But the medal is one of a trilogy of races this year…I couldn’t bear to have a gap!

Something’s coming…watch this space to find out more!

My #Weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org including catching up after a holiday, human friendly policies, discussing the concept of allyship and some reading. connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20...

I know that we know Threads is not a good place to be but I posted the below there too. The wave of reactive responses (bearing in mind I have very few followers so it must be driven by algorithms for people to be seeing the post) is surprising even to me. Shutting that account down now…

The sacking of Nuno Espirito Santo (by Notts Forest earlier this week) means there are now no black managers in the Premier League. 1,291 different men have represented England’s National football team. Yesterday Djed Spence made his debut & became the first male Muslim player to represent England.

#FinishedWatching The Crown. Had watched the first five seasons but held back on the final season. Now it’s done. Some great viewing IMHO. I enjoyed it very much (but was not ready for the gut punching of Princess Margaret dying).

I remember being taught about good Germans and bad Germans, the brave few who resisted the rise of fascism in the 1930s and the masses who enabled it. Now I wonder if there weren’t a huge contingent desperate to stop it but without any sense of how to do that.

#NowReading ‘Thunder City’ by Philip Reeve. Borrowed from Taunton Library. A new mortal engines adventure!

#FinishedReading ‘The children of Cherry Tree Farm’ by Enid Blyton. I do so enjoy Enid Blyton and this series of the children on the farm are special - I always wanted to be them when I was little and reading these.

Anyone who knows me knows I love libraries. And C20 architecture and design. And Cornwall. So imagine how much I enjoyed writing about all three for this piece. 👇