The last week has been faintly intolerable in the UK as temperatures climbed to 37.5 degrees and every social media feed transformed into a weather channel.
I was due to be in London for an event on Tuesday which I had to cancel due to a research interview clash but I made it to UCL's Risk and Disaster Annual Conference themed 'Cities of the future: risks, resilience and reimagination'. A heatwave outside, a conference inside asking what cities must become to survive the next one. I wrote up a summary if you're interested.
Some creative relief from writing, terminal screens, and PhD funding databases came from the garden — currently a losing battle — and the kitchen.
