One of the towers at Cannon Street Station basking in the sun at the end of the day.

#architecture #London

Patrick Michael O’Shea, known to most simply as Rick, passed away in 2025 at the age of 59. A man of great heart, humour, and humility, Rick lived a life defined by kindness, purpose, and a deep commitment to helping others.

❤️ 🙏 Read our full obituary:

www.careif.org/news-and-eve...

📅 Reminder: On 13 September, between 2-5pm, Careif will be supporting an event to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr Suman Fernando who had an international reputation regarding advocating for race equity in #MentalHealth.

Find out more and register👇

www.careif.org/news-and-eve...

A rare new ACGT blog post from me inspired by a recent podcast episode by @andrewjpage.bsky.social and Kevin Libuit:

www.acgt.me/blog/2025/7/...

#bioinformatics

Today I've passed the milestone of *one million steps* walked on my walking pad since I purchased it in late October!🚶‍♂️

That's an average of 6,339 steps a day over this period and a total distance of about 400 miles walked...all while working.

h/t to @hailley.co who inspired me to buy it.

London’s skyline changes so fast. For the last five years, the lop-sided ‘1 Blackfriars’ has dominated the views around the Blackfriars Bridge.

Now, the 50 storey ‘Opus’ — part of the Bankside Yards development — is starting to obscure views of 1 Blackfriars from the east.

#London #Architecture

I'm pleased to announce that I have helped finish this piece of website work for my employer that has added QR codes to almost 100 #MentalHealth information pages.

My 11-year old son has been doing so much amazing #art lately.

I’ve encouraged him to make a 'roundup' video that showcases some of his recent output as there are just so many cool things he does now (including model making and animations).

youtu.be/do8UHhLqSC0

Lovely view of Tower Bridge this morning with the sun rising up creating a beautiful orange glow.

#sunrise #London

This is St Helen’s Tower in the City of London. Completed in 1969 with 23 floors, it looks set to be demolished this year to make way for 1 Undershaft…a skyscraper that will be the same height as the Shard and will have 73 floors.

#architecture

I think I may have listened to just a little too much politics news this year! 😀

This was partly due to their being elections in both the UK and the USA. I will definitely try to step back from listening to so much politics in 2025 as I don’t think it is generally healthy for me.

#YearInReview

My boys have somehow amassed *4* different advent calendars each this year.

I tried explaining to my six-year old that, when I was his age, advent calendars didn’t contain chocolates…they just contained a little picture.

He looked at me quizzically and asked ‘Was that in the olden times?’.

🤣

Tall Christmas tree spotted in London.

#Architecture

Dipping my toes in the waters of bluesky.

After a year of following way too much political news (UK and USA) across other channels, I need some respite.

So here for books, astronomy, architecture, and content that will calm my soul.