Roughly 80 Reform UK councillors have now departed - around 70 between the 2025 and 2026 elections, and a further 10 since 7 May this year. By-elections to replace them cost approximately £20,000 each. ➡️ Watch Page 94, the Private Eye podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaQ5...

New @evocatusuk.bsky.social Gizzits for DSET ‘26 have arrived!

All set for a day of Team Building and Analytical Development at Evocatus HQ tomorrow.

For me, holiday time=reading time. I don’t remember where I saw the signpost this marvellous book, but it feels a bit more likely that it was @bsky.app than @linkedin.com! Thank you @mikecollins.bsky.social and @markchilds.bsky.social for firing up so many synapses!

Sunday afternoon on the Range Walks from Tyneham out to Kimmeridge and then back along the top.

Change is coming…

Just finished Season 3, after coming to Richmond AFC very late, largely to just see more of the magnificent HW. Loved everything about this show - which really isn’t about football.

People still using X

Imagine believing, and getting mad about, Somali daycare centers having contributed $35 million to the Democrats - a nonsensical, demonstrable, obvious lie. And yet some *billionaires* believed it and then spread the lie over on Twitter. Some of the richest people are some of the dumbest.

Socks and Spice take their responsibilities as the Greeting Team for Evocatus Hospitality very seriously. They know that they are responsible for making sure that our regulars keep coming back, whether they are the daily lunchtime walkers or just occasional visitors passing through.

The orange dice hanging in the cockpit of the Evocatus Hospitality tuk-tuk aren't just there as an excuse for more branding. They are there a reminder of how we approach our work. It's easy to reject dice and games as childish and unprofessional, but we find the reverse to be true.

A really fresh, special morning in the forest. The sun was low in the sky, lighting up the yellows and browns of horse chestnut against the pines, while the bracken and gorse were still in shadow. . And we had it all to ourselves. #raverun #forestrun #autumnrun

Blue skies over Barnstaple

First run in sleeves this Autumn. 🍂

Nearly at the finish line on selling my house. If #AI means the end of conveyancers and estate agents tomorrow, it won’t be a moment too soon.

Making exercises better, starting with understanding what good looks like

A nice little milestone for a September Saturday morning…

Exciting, as a veteran owned business, to be included in the #ukinclusivesourcingsummit here in London.Two glorious days of I immersion in genuine diversity!

Hard not to love #London on days like today…

Sunday Morning 10K in the woods. As much fun as it looks.

Got my Space Tank back on the table at my new Wargaming Club last night. Rolling dice for fun after a very long break…

New big canvas posters coming to our business unit…

Maybe a bit premature on the #wellies

Damsons: processed ✅

Sunrise over Gaucin.

After a few days of hot, muggy haze, the skies have cleared, giving clear visibility over Gibraltar and a good view of the northernmost hills of Africa.

It’s going to be another warm day in Andalucia…

Fireworks to mark the beginning of Feria, Gaucin’s annual 4-night summer party

Good Morning!

Another tough day in Andalusia catching up on my reading list.

Sundowners, with the view stretching out to Gibraltar and the mountains of Africa beyond.

Running down off the mountain with the boy before the heat of a Saturday Morning in #Andalusia drives everyone into the shade until after siesta time…

Proper churros from the trailer in Gaucin this morning. Two between four is absolutely enough and, of course, any bar in town is happy for a family to turn up with a greasy bag full, unwrap them and demolish them as long as we’re drinking their coffee.

Good Morning from Andalusia. Time to get some exercise done before it gets too hot…

Off to the South of Spain. Via Dorchester South and Bristol Temple Meads.

Gratitude for a small win - turns out that one compartment of one carriage on the train to Bristol has tables and power supplies…

Always good to be recognised!

A Dorset evening out in the forest with the dogs. Glorious.

Back home in Dorset and trying out something new for supper…

The last task of what’s felt like a long week in London, bidding farewell to the Wiltshire Yeomanry’s last veteran of the 1939 mobilisation. Ich Dien

Demo and Counter Demo to brighten up rush hour on The Strand this afternoon…

In London for a wargaming conference, so took the opportunity to include another high spot in this morning’s run.

Bank Holiday adventure over 12km, exploring South London on a section of the #GreenChain, from #Brockley down to #CrystalPalace - so many interesting places miles from a tube station…

Sunday project in the woods, moving some logs around to make the Jubilee Trail passable with dry feet again. Not that Spice cares…

I know we need some rain soon, but this Spring has been amazing in Dorset!

The residents of this place are about to have a really bad few days…

A weirdness of this dry spring in our bit of Dorset - fluff from trees which should really have been washed into the soil by now still drifting like snow in the verges.

A morning channeling my inner Slartibartfast ahead of an exercise next week. Can’t help thinking this is something I ought to be asking AI to do much of the work for…