#StormAmy ’s magnificent swirl as seen from @eumetsat.int’s Meteosat-12 satellite 🛰️

As the storm #Amy batters Norway, you can see her signature in the data from #earthquake monitoring stations. This is #seismometer data for the last 24 hours at station IU.KONO (Kongsberg, Norway) as of 12:00 local time on 2025-10-04. Open data displayed with just a few lines of python code. #obspy

I find this site mesmerizing. It is silent though - the winds outside are not. earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...

The quiet before the storm. 2025-10-03 🍄‍🟫🍁🍄🍂

Also found this in Foyles in London. Dreamweaver (2023) by Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo. It is excellent! I sang a couple of his choral pieces many years ago - worth checking out.

Back home in Oslo and it was wonderful to find this waiting for me! «Nordic Unrest» with piano music from Edvard Grieg and Atli Heimir Sveinsson (Oda Voltersvik, piano) - absolutely superb! available on LAWO on lawostore.no/cd/voltersvi...

Simply beautiful photos of climate scientists in action. And really well explained - worth a read. 1/

Me too.

Still reading the History of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) - 380 of many hundred pages in - but I needed something short and fictional as a break. Enter Ian McEwan’s «The Cockroach» …

Two concerts in Oslo I would like to go to this evening! I decided the only solution was to go to neither🤪 I’ve been to concerts 4 out of the last 5 evenings so I probably should take a break. (Highasakite, Pete Roth Trio w. Bill Bruford, Øystein Greni + Lissie, Thea and the Wild)

Absolutely speechless after #highasakite «Testament» at Unity Arena - that was incredible! Thunderous but crystal clear sound - amazing vocals(!) - brilliant stage show - sold out arena. 2025-09-27 Fantastic band - do catch them on this tour if you can!

Just beautiful! #dragonfly #Østmarka #Oslo 2025-09-27

What a fabulous creature! Just look at those eyes. Sorry - don’t know the species. #dragonfly #odonata #Østmarka #Oslo 2025-09-27

I’ve just spent the evening in the company of one of my very favourite musicians - Bill Bruford! With the Pete Roth Trio live at Herr Nilsen, Oslo 2025-09-26. A unique player - and a superb band. I have «Original Sin» on continuous playback in my head right now! No photos from the show.

And so it was Friday again! Wishing you all a wonderful, peaceful, safe, and happy weekend. Be kind - the world needs it.

I didn’t think I was going to buy it. But I saw it was already sold out at several outlets and saw it in my local record store. I couldn’t not buy it! It’s beautiful! I played my vinyl copy the other night - this sounds amazing! #Genesis «The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway» at 50! #ItIsReal #ItIsRael

Øystein Greni and Lissie live at the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, 2025-09-25 Brilliant show - fantastic player. «Wild Bird» has been a favourite for years - a delight to hear it played like this. I wouldn’t have been sad if they’d played another half hour or so - but a great evening out!

I cut the grass but these two begged for mercy. So I cut around them.

Do take a look at the planet #Venus to the East over Oslo right now! More beautiful than it looks here I promise!

Genesis «The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway» This was out and away my favourite record for some time in my youth. It’s just so monolithic and all-encompassing, it took me a journey that I knew none of my peers were interested in following me on🤪 Pure magic!

If you just stand here and wait, a leaf will fall and you might catch it. Bergkrystallen, Oslo 2025-09-24 🍁🍂

«Og høsten kommer tidsnok» 🍁🍂 Nydalen, Oslo 2025-09-24

The office building I work in isn’t usually described as beautiful but the windows make nice patterns on the floors and walls when the sun shines. And they’re never the same because it always depends on the position of the sun in the sky. 🌈❤️

A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing The web of life is unravelling fast

For en fabelaktig konsertopplevelse! theaandthewild live ved Parkteatret i Oslo 2025-09-23. Mye moro, litt alvor, mye varme, mye glede! Fantastisk band, lyd, lys, og stemme - fengende sanger som sitter fast:) Hun er på norgesturné nå - anbefales!

Akerselva being a little magic in diffuse evening light. Oslo 2025-09-23

It’s often when you have the fewest seconds to reach the Metro before it leaves that you find a puddle, a sunrise, and a tree all in the same view. But you have no choice. Freewill is an illusion. Bergkrystallen, Oslo 2025-09-21

«Rise from the ashes and blaze with everyday glory» (A good Rush anthem for a Monday morning) Bergkrystallen, Oslo 2025-09-22

The amazing Blue Lagoon in Iceland - taken one year ago. (This is the the bit on the other side of the road to the resort.)

Autumn arrives at Lambertseter. Oslo 2025-09-21 🍁🍂

Siste #loppemarked spam i år jeg lover! Karlsrud Skole, Oslo i dag kl11-16!

Wonderful concert «Nordic Unrest» at Oslo’s Gamle Rådhus Scene this evening with pianist Oda Voltersvik and artist Karina Skilbrei - music by Edvard Grieg and Icelandic Atli Heimir Sveinsson. Oslo 2025-09-20

I dag er det #loppemarked på Karlsrud Skole! Kom! kl10-16 i dag. Fine bøker og mye annet!

Denne helg har Karlsrud Skoles Musikkorps loppemarked (kl10-16 lørdag, 11-16 søndag) Jeg er på bøker og musikk og fikk sett litt gjennom CDene. Denne er fantastisk! For en stemme! Kom på Karlsrud Skole, Oslo, da …

Last one I promise. Flying into Oslo under a cloud ceiling. 🇳🇴❤️ 2025-09-19

I flew over this phenomenal formation over the Pyrenees - can any #geology people tell me what I’m looking at? 2025-09-19

Also got nice views of Paris (cloudless this time) and the Palace and Gardens of Versailles (photobombed by a passenger jet). Always choose an F seat when flying between Barcelona and Oslo. 2025-09-19 #stevesflyingtips

Absolutely stunning views of #Barcelona❤️ on departure. The best I’ve ever had! 2025-09-19

Last morning with the Sagrada Familia outside my window. I would suggest they build something like that at Lambertseter in Oslo but, realistically, I don’t think it would be ready in a useful time-scale for me. Barcelona 2025-09-19

This is where I have been for the last 3 days! Fantastic workshop in submarine landslide-induced tsunami modelling. Thanks to Roger Urgeles and Geo-INQUIRE and all participants for making this a very productive, informative, and enjoyable meeting. Never difficult to say yes to a week in Barcelona:)

And I couldn’t resist walking home the same way to get a picture of it by night. Casa Battló Gaudi at Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona 2025-09-18

Sicilian pistachio cheesecake! This. Is. Incredible! At «Carnal», Barcelona. 2026-09-18

Seen so many photos of this building over the years and after 6 or 7 trips to Barcelona, this is the first time I have seen it! Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona, 2025-09-18 #Gaudi #Barcelona❤️

New day in Barcelona. Last day of the workshop itself. 2025-09-18

At first I thought «Tiramisu with peaches? Really?» but then I remembered that the presence of actual fruit makes it completely healthy - calorie offsetting I believe is the new term. At Can framis, Barcelona 2025-09-17

Arc de triomf, Barcelona. I guess this is to l’Arc de triomphe in Paris what crema catalona is to crème brûlée. A really good guitar player is playing underneath it. 2025-09-17

Today’s office! CSIC Institute for Marine Science, Barcelona. Teaching landslide and tsunami computer simulations. 2025-09-17

Morning in Barcelona 2025-09-17

Crema catalana. To me it looks like crème brûlée and tastes like crème brûlée. But it isn’t! It’s crema catalana. So I’m clearly going to have to taste many examples of both in order to learn the difference. La flauta, Barcelona. 2025-09-16

Day 1 of the workshop and it has been too busy to take and post photos but this fantastic creation is made entirely of aluminium cans (I think) left on the beach at Barcelona. You may be able to correct me if your Catalan is better than mine! At the Institute for Marine Science, Barcelona 2025-09-16