Finished building my Christmas present over Easter.

A short black at Chelsea Road, in Bath. Have a good Easter break.

Save the date. 16- 17th September, 2026; University of Bath. We warmly welcome you to the historic and picturesque city of Bath for the 3rd Conference on Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales (EPoMM). Conference website to open soon.

Da iawn Cymru. Well done Wales.

Have a nice weekend.

About to give lecture to undergraduates in chemical engineering on how to use Granta Edupack for materials selection, including resistance to environmental factors.

Popped into Pontypridd on visit home.

A walk around Bath and look at Blitz damage in city from April 1942.

Time for coffee, in Bath.

Trip to Bath Victoria Art Gallery, free with discovery card. Have a great Christmas.

Time for coffee at The Bear Inn at Bath.

Nice light in the city of Bath.

A stout in Glastonbury. Have a good weekend and stay warm.

A walk around Keynsham.

Friday afternoon pyroelectric measurements. A change in polarisation with temperature produces charge that leads to a short circuit current.

Beautiful light in Bath.

Happy Halloween. Calan Gaeaf Hapus.

Peace doves at Bath Abbey.

Glad to share our latest literature review on Robotic materials with bioinspired microstructures (check out the very cute ToC 🐙🤖😁) advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A look around Bath City Farm, then coffee.

A short black at Chelsea Road, my favourite. Have a nice weekend, it's windy out there.

Today I am off to Sheffield for hydrogen meeting. Coffee at next stop.

Still some colour in the garden.

A short black at Chelsea Road in Bath. My favourite.

Time for coffee, in Bath with Jane Austen.

Have a nice weekend.

Porous conference dinner begins, with pores.

Porous materials evening reception.

In which I just learned that we consume more concrete than food per person each year.

@epomm.bsky.social The 2nd EPSRC EPoMM* network meeting has started! A warm welcome as always by Alex O'Malley to two days of holes. *Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales

Sanjit Nayak from University of Bristol presenting on MOFs for smart agrochemical delivery. #EPoMM_2025

Aldo Lanza presenting on characterisation of catalytic automotive filters. #EPoMM_2025

Great to see an early mention of Hiden instruments @epomm.bsky.social 2025 conference in a talk by Aldo Lanza from Johnson Matthey on "Spatial resolution of catalytic automotive filters & the impact of particulate matter with SPACI-MS". A Hiden Analytical mass spec was used to implement SPACI-MS.

Xiaochuan Liu from University of Birmingham presenting on porous materials for nanofluidic energy absorption. #EPoMM_2025

Time for coffee, with Jane Austen.

A look around the garden. Have a nice weekend.

At The Moorfields in Bath, with Guinness.

Time for coffee at the Halfpenny in Widcombe, Bath.

Have a nice weekend, we all made it.

A look around the garden. Ladybird = Buwch goch gota (small red cow), in Welsh. Have a nice evening.

Time for coffee, at Widcombe Road.

A look around the garden. Have a nice evening.

Well done Wales. Da iawn Cymru. It's been a long wait - amser hir.

Nice to present on porous ferroelectrics at VEH 2025.

Singapore. Off home tonight.

Shadows in Singapore.

Conference presentation complete and off home today. Time for coffee, by the Bayfront.

Evening walk around Singapore, with a cold beer.

Arrived in Singapore for #ICMAT2025, and did not get lost from MRT trainstop at Bugis.