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Wildfires & Heatwaves
Wildfire ·

Wildfires & Heatwaves

Things will be quiet here for a little while - 8,500 papers don't filter themselves. Elsewhere: Mazowe convalesces under his own fan, the garden is being kept alive by bucket, and a wildfire visualisation is quietly taking shape.

The longest week
Welsh Terrier ·

The longest week

Mazowe, our indomitable Welsh Terrier, turned 14 in May. He earned the moniker 'table shark' when he was younger — partly for his habit of circling a meal table, partly for his slightly recurved tail, evoking a shark's dorsal fin.

Suntan Lotion & Semiotics
Resilience ·

Suntan Lotion & Semiotics

Every heatwave, the cameras find the same shot: ice cream, paddling pools, sunbathers in the park. In May and June that imagery sat alongside 2,700 estimated heat deaths in England and Wales. Representation doesn't just describe risk - it decides how seriously we take it.

A week, in pictures
Photography ·

A week, in pictures

Freezing in an emergency isn't fear — it's a failure to retrieve a behavioural template. A go-bag simulation with Year 10–12 students proved the point: only one packed a toothbrush, and almost nobody thought to bring a bag. Try my virtual version built on the train home.

Fourteen
Photography ·

Fourteen

Our dog turns fourteen. A day trip to the North Norfolk coast was the only appropriate way to celebrate on an unexpectedly warm and sunny day.

Back to School
UCL ·

Back to School

A red letter day - a new chapter, marked by purpose and the hope of adding good to the world.

AI can't be serious?
AI ·

AI can't be serious?

AI driven electronic line calls are not the problem in SW19, how acceptance of change and how trust is built through implementation is the greater challenge.