If #parkrun unwrapped was a *thing* this would basically be my 2025 😆 (images produced by Parkrun)

#FinishedWatching Jingle Bell Heist. Easy watching and a bit different to the usual romance / journey festive film. m.imdb.com/title/tt2485...

#FinishedWatching Departure: Season 3. Another entertaining mystery solved. m.imdb.com/title/tt9252...

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

My final #Weeknotes of 2025 with thanks to the @connectedbydata.org team 🫶 Inc a powerful reminder from Kamala Harris that when we’re breaking barriers there is breaking involved … & you get cut but it’s worth it, every single time. connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20... cc @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Christmas family time board games and celebrating my “win” at Ticket to Ride….you can clearly see my score counter ahead of everyone else’s. … Then the accountability photo … I’d actually been lapped and was 100 points behind everyone else 😆🤦‍♀️

#FinishedWatching A castle for Christmas. Pure cheese and made-for-TV quality content. Nice enough to have on in the background. m.imdb.com/title/tt1307...

#FinishedWatching The Christmas Chronicles: Part two. Enjoyed the bigger role for Goldie Hawn and the time travel and the finding confidence inside moral. Possibly as good as the first (but I’m still not sure about the elves). m.imdb.com/title/tt1105...

#FinishedReading ‘Thunder City’ by Philip Reeve. A great tale of adventure. That it has taken me so long to finish should be no reflection on the storytelling (only on my lack of focus).

Thrilled to have Ben at Hidden Jewel Tattoos back in my life - now at his new shop in Exmouth. He has done all my tattoos and now number 14 too, marking completion of my first ultra marathon. Photo of tattoo to follow…when it’s not bleeding 😆 #RunningIsFunning

Just got emailed this - unbidden - as part of an automated summary of a big group meeting that I didn't end up going to, and didn't ask for update on, and honestly this can get in the bin

Felt lucky yesterday at work to hear Janet from @data4sdgs.bsky.social talk about their Data Values Project and empowering grassroots advocate. If you ever doubt the power in data this is a great clip from one of their advocates (and well worth 3 minutes of your time imho). youtu.be/sH7Hj8ohTaY

The Donor Circle Grassroots Fund (@lgbtfunduk.bsky.social) has reached a quarter of its target after only 9 days of being live - we aren’t stopping there! Can you, or someone you know, donate £100 to be a part of creating real change for grassroots organisations? Donate here lnkd.in/eTiMXdg (1/2)

Moments like today show exactly why visibility matters. LGBTQI+ fans shouldn’t have to shrink to make others feel comfortable. Tonight our flag still flies and our community will continue to stand strong. Pride will always have a place at Our stadium and Our Club #COYS

A Checklist for Engaging Young People in Library Spaces (from actual young people) At our recent conference we held a youth panel, to hear directly from young people about what actually engages them in library spaces. We’ve turned their thoughts and ideas into a simple checklist! 😊

Need a reason to believe in the power of libraries? We had over 200 people from public and school library services join us for our conference last week. Check out this photo of our Chief Executive, Tabitha, with librarian and mental health advocate Mychal Threets. The library joy was real!

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

#FinishedWatching Last Christmas. Enjoyed this - middle of the pack Christmas film. Made us smile and made @tabisw.bsky.social (with her big heart) weep. m.imdb.com/title/tt8623...

Interesting morning visiting the Railway 200 Exhibition Train. Fab learning all about the 200 years of passenger travel on railways. Good interactive bits about engineering. Bonus to visit the Gauge Museum - walking thru Victorian & 1950s carriages & thrilling to stand on the drivers plate.

My #weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org in what’s felt like a busy week inc organising meetings across global timezones, logistics for a day of filming in a school & trying to wrap my head around needs for a conference in India in Feb. connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Today was an off road run with slippy mud, hills (including one we had to crawl up), wind, sun and hail. All worth it for the views from the top and the third medal in Burnham Harriers 2025 trilogy. #RunningIsFunning

If people in your team or organisation are using AI notetakers as a way of coping with too many meetings and a culture of presenteeism, there's not a technological fix for this. The answer is to have fewer, better organised meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...

Wahoo! This future of libraries - by and with young people - is exactly the kind of thing I can get on board with. So proud of my wife @tabisw.bsky.social and her team for nailing this new brand and their hours of hard work to launch it at their conference. 👏📚🤝 I’m definitely watching this space 👀

A soul-filling, learning & inspiring day yesterday with some of the WRKWLL collective (in person & online🦉). I feel lucky to work with such an incredible, diverse group of people bringing a depth & breadth of skills, knowledge & lived experiences together to have meaningful impact on social change.

FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.

#Weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org including an interest in “Queer AI for the Ally” and “Will AI take my job?” connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal. www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

Any ideas? 👇

#FinishedWatching Moana 2 A good follow up to the first, had a little tear on my cheek at the end. m.imdb.com/title/tt1362...

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