Let’s see you at 21 (seem to mainly have uniform photos)

Slightly diminish a band: Frankie goes to Accrington

Been busy on my day off. Anzac caramel slices (50 of them) to last me the next week or so

Shouted at Michelle Obama and her security detail to hold the handrail when going down the stairs. They did

A flock of wild penguins

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It’s taken nearly 6 years, but I’ve today submitted my thesis ready for my viva. It’s been amazing to explore the history of emergency management through its wartime foundations.

Got bored, baked food. Homemade millionaire’s shortbread, should keep me going for a while

Tried an Aussie recipe today. Ginger caramel slices - gingernut biscuits, butter, condensed milk, light brown sugar, ground ginger. They taste amazing!!

Feeling better for a haircut and shave

In light of Trump’s latest catastrophe, here’s a musical reinterpretation of the Star Spangled Banner by the brilliant Bill Bailey youtu.be/_dVFknALySA?...

I've been using Too Good To Go and the food is EPIC. Savings are great too, well worth signing up. Get the app here, and help save good food from going to waste: m8qxq.app.goo.gl/XNFnsKbMqHwh...

This week's read. It has been on my list for months

5 years of blood, sweat, tears and love has gone into this document. To think it’s nearing completion now is a strange one. I hope I have represented the men and women of casualty services and the wartime EMS well with this work.

Got bored, made a blackberry sponge

Required reading for the current #discourse! www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

It is amazing how simple things can boost the mood. Having my professional perspective valued and listened to is exceptionally validating, and makes a hard few weeks feel worth it.

Day one of registering for the Community Emergency Medicine Conference mailing list garnered 130 sign-ups! Don’t miss out on the chance to hear about tickets first - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Community Emergency Medicine is an emerging method of delivering the full complement of EM care in the community - “taking the emergency department to the patient”. I will use this account to highlight the discipline as a whole with a focus on our model in north east London.

Dog stick library. www.thesanctuarybeachresort.com Thanks @kottke.org

Homemade banana bread created. Tastes epic

This is good but as all you who have read @eomproject.bsky.social know the real way the Federation economy works is- *I AM DROWNED OUT BY AGE OF AQUARIUS BY THE FIFTH DIMENSION*

This medicine cabinet c.1870 contains Spanish bark, Turkey rhubarb, Ipecacuanha, Dr James's Powders and much more. Many of the bottles still contain powders and have labels from pharmacists in Bridgnorth, Liverpool, London, Dumfries and Wolverhampton. #histmed

Is this is a niche opp for a return of Fire Insurance Marks? 'For most of the 18th century, each insurance company maintained its own fire brigade, which extinguished fires in those buildings insured by the company and, in exchange for a fee to be paid later, in buildings insured by other companies'

First on-call week of 2025, this week could be a long one

Loving being home, and realising how many books I have to put on shelves

Draft 3 of my thesis submitted on Christmas Eve! Good use of working today, and hopefully 97313 words of quality and not dross

In other news though...

Working the 23rd and 24th December this year for the first time in a while. Good days to catch up on paperwork, but feel they're going to drag somewhat.

Star Trek undiscovered country, die hard 2, the last stand, hunt for Red October

This sums it up, yes.

“One cannot ignore the contribution the volunteers made” an interesting article on #CycloneTracy www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Note to self - hat hair is a real issue this time of year

Note to self, hat hair is a real danger at this time of year

I howled at the table

Love a productive PhD day. Working through feedback, back up to 95k words, and getting to a point that I feel really happy with the wording. The innovations I can build into this work are fascinating but also exasperating, knowing they were forgotten for decades

Age yourself with a film you saw at the cinema as a child Probably saw others, but this is the one I remember

Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work. I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.

Loving Aberystwyth being in the news for the important stories again

Share a villain that you love He's even seasonal

It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2024 ✨

Ahead of Christmas I am giving away a bundle of all three of my books. See details below

Upside to living right by a 4 day Christmas fayre: lots of cake and free samples on my doorstep Downsides: I’ve been whamaggedoned already and have to fight through a crowd whenever I go out

Dear Santa, this year please could I have some water purification tablets, a Geiger counter, and 3 months supply of factor 10,000 SPF. Thank you 😢

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?

Because I hadn’t yet been geeky enough on here: Recognising that Starfleet is really bad at disaster response, I designed their own emergency management branch, complete with Norway class starships as dedicated disaster response vessels

#Coldwar #spotify #bookgiveaway A novella set in Prague during the Soviet Invasion of 1968 by @patrickdjoyce.com Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social & repost this post to enter a draw to win an #audiobook of "Strawberry Fields". T&Cs and extra ways to enter here coldwarconversations.com/giveaway1