#Mainz #Rhineland - more architectural highlights from a quick hop over to Germany.

#Heidelberg Baden-Württemberg: a few architectural highlights…..

News | Report highlights state of England’s cultural infrastructure £7bn is needed for repairs, maintenance and renewal

@brucespringsteen.net reviving a strong musician’s tradition - CSN&Y’s ‘Ohio’ still resonates 55 years later - and here’s one more out today in support from the UK from our excellent @billybragg.bsky.social - youtu.be/c4qb2YoyNxQ #minneapolis #Minnesota

We've been through a lot lately, and it’s not over.  Extremism is knocking on our door, as YouTubers and federal agents. Schools and hospitals are slashed while Trump pardons crooks and gives handouts to billionaires. Minnesotans know there’s only one way to weather a storm: you don’t do it alone.

How can this not be flying today? Your help to get it signed would be appreciated. MPs and Councillors changing parties after being elected is NOT democracy. They may(or may not!) have changed their minds but their electorate may not🤬 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

2026 is the big 50 for @archhfund.org.uk. We're celebrating with a series of events over the course of the year (more details 👇) and will be announcing some exciting plans for the future shortly. And there's a rather nice new website and look to go with it!

Timeline cleanse… Having a desk in the Surveyor’s Office at StPaul’s is amazing, but the greatest privilege is a dark winter’s evening when almost everyone else has gone home, and you feel you have the whole place to yourself… #architecture #buildingconservation #cathedral #historicbuildings

9 days and 350 nautical miles last July compressed at last into 58 seconds! #LofotenIslands #ArcticNorway #Orca

Sangita Myska said the position of people of colour in public life in Britain was “becoming harder by the day”, in part due to an “unbelievably toxic environment in which anything goes” normalised during the #Brexit campaign in 2016. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#keepmusiclive Excellent night at the Bath House, Hackney Wick. Brown Horse headlining, support from Maripool, and the excellent Zach Thompson. #altfolk

#totp Robert Palmer not a bad 45 but sounding like he’s being played at 33 rpm…

More like it #jam #totp

Liberalism is losing the argument right now - here’s a quick piece I wrote for the Fabian’s on how to fight back ….https://fabians.org.uk/fit-for-the-future/

A little more of our brilliant #Norway #kayaking trip last weekend! Aurlandsfjord and #Naeroyfjord, 150km east of Bergen. Calm water and idyllic, stunning scenery - could spend a lifetime here… but it also reminded us of the power of #nature, as the wind later blasted down from the #mountains.

Voringfossen, near Eidfjord, Vestland, Norway. Zoom in and check out the scale! Falls themselves are 165m high - and some very precipitous viewing platforms… #waterfall #norway #autumncolours #cliffs #vestland #voringfossen

Kayaking and camping the Naeroyfjord and Aurlandsfjord, Vestland, #Norway #kayak #camping #starfish

Some architectural gems from a quick visit to #Bergen #Norway and the #Bryggen #Unesco #WorldHeritageSite

Interesting! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

#totp I prefer The Fall’s version tbf, but we had to wait a few years for that.

“If we were in some alternative universe where our party system mapped on to people’s views, a modern party of the liberal left….might fall somewhere between Ed Davey & former Green leader Caroline Lucas” great piece by John Harris @guardiannewstoday.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

4am last Sunday morning and lucky enough to see a pod of at least 6 #Orca, 3Nm off Andenes while rounding Andoya on a 90Nm (106 miles) 18 hour passage #arcticsailing #arcticnorway #whales #Norway

#midnightsun #lofotenislands #arcticnorway #sailing #goodcompany Currently anchored overnight in a bay at Brettoya. Where else would anybody want to be..?!

Arctic sailing in #Norway this week. #LofotenIslands starting at Harstad and heading south-west out to the islands. #snowcaps #sailing #rainbow #arctic

Condition surveying at NT Sizergh Castle in #Cumbria today with the National Trust team. Grade I listed, with 14th,16th, 18th & 19th C major building periods. #architecture #heritagebuildings #castle #buildingconservation #lakedistrict

Quick dash up to the Lake District ready for a day working with @nationaltrust.org.uk tomorrow - nice pub in #Oxenholme and just had to stroll out to The Helm to walk off supper in the 9:30pm dusk.

40 years of listening to your music @mickpuck.bsky.social @waterboysmusic.bsky.social - and a cracking blast through it last night at the Roundhouse #London - thank you! Great gig, great crowd.

Sun on our backs and the lightest of breeze on our faces - Putney to Chiswick Rlwy bridge and back. #putneybridgecanoeclub #kayak #riverthames #london #sunshine

Surveying this week at Caister Castle in #Norfolk - early brick structure from 1432, but ruined by 1600, still with moat and a climbable 100ft tower! Overnighting with old friends in the lovely Aylsham, which is the final resting place of Humphrey Repton-hope he approves of his landscaped memorial !

Coming out of ‘the office’ this evening and found myself inside the #VE80 security cordon…. So unfortunately had this view all to myself! #VEDay @stpaulscathedral.bsky.social #London #Spitfire

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie: Four14een Or maybe Two Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Perhaps the very confusing remake of Orwell’s classic novel. 3968 Somehow though, I think that 20 Things I Hate About You is more pertinent.

Wow! Biggest increase in cycling in the City of London since records began💥 🚲139,000 people cycling a day ⬆️ 50,000 more than 2022 ⬆️Cycling up 70% since 2017 ⬇️Motor traffic down 34% Building cycleways is working! Inspo for @citywestminster.bsky.social next door? 😍 More info: bit.ly/3RzS4FY

Old message from my friend Simon: “Promised you a list of names of poisonous British mushrooms. I realise now that it reads like a list of rejected Cocteau Twins song titles.”

#totp Solsbury Hill missed…

I find it incredible that the UK with its wonderful universities is not jumping on this and reinforcing them to attracts US researchers but instead allowing the institutions to go slowly bust. You want growth and innovation? This is where it would be. www.reuters.com/world/us/sci...

Out on the Thames again - dodging the rowers. More like a mid-summer morning than an April one. Light haze burning off to warm sun. #kayak #London #RiverThames #kayaking #putneybridgecanoeclub

Yes, an exceptionally special place - not least too for my colleagues who help look after it as architect/surveyors to Ripon Cathedral!

🚨 Reuse Them or Lose Them: C20's Risk List campaign 2025 is here! From a Millennium pop music museum in Sheffield to a Bauhaus-inspired 1930s department store in Bradford, a 1970s brutalist football stand in Newcastle, to a 1980s ‘High-Tech Nissen hut in London. c20society.org.uk/buildings-at...

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

• This is what democracy looks like — in Boston, Massachusetts. • “Hands Off!” protests against the Trump regime are off to brilliant start — all across America.

Suffering the 70s button famine still, I see #totp

She snagged a net curtain on her way in #totp

Low sun, evening sunset, South Bank London. Time to look up and outwards, not down and inwards with the longer Spring evenings.. #London #riverthames #sunset

Of all the 11-20 run down the play this…. #totp

Now they’re cancelling Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. And Greenpeace may have to shut up shop in the US. Where are the howls of outrage from the free speech campaigners? My Column app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/69571/...

Stay on for Dury! #totp

Shame we didn’t get the Teardrops or Wilde #totp

It’s a Mythtery ! #totp