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Friday night, I was in #Leeds for the truly epic #Swans and #JessicaMoss;
Yesterday, I finished a book;
And
Today, I won a gold medal for my #Taekwondo patterns.
Feeling like that's a pretty good weekend!
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
We were the happy catchers of the #richardbrautigan book tossed into the crowd by #thelovelyeggs at tonight's gig in #birminghamuk.
Photo taken down the road because we were just too squashed in at #thecastle&falcon -
How different from the Cob Dominoes days at the Victoria or the Wagon and Horses!
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
August 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I know it's only 10am, but this has won today's internet!
August 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
In Atlanta for ITS World Congress! I'm this picture I'm just about to speak on the hard work we've put into achieving UK data standards to help the US DOT.
Great panel with colleagues from Taiwan, Germany and mobilitydata!

#ITSWC2025
August 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I wish #SacredPaws were on Bluesky so I could tell them just how much their music is a balm for my soul.
May 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Taekwon Do is 70 years old today!
A core part of my life for 20 years, there's never been a better time to practice the key tenants of #Taekwon-Do:

Perseverance
Integrity
Courtesy
Self Control, and
Indomitable Spirit.

Here's to the next 20, next 70 and beyond!
🦶👊❤️

#buildingamorepeacefulworld
April 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I'm at a @lambrinigirls.bsky.social show in Brum tonight, on the edge of an epic mosh pit, and my shoulder gets yanked backwards. Someone desperate for the pit, I think. Fair enough. But the pair of bellends who come through, both well over 6', just stop directly in front of me.
#bigdickenergy
April 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Never too old for the joy of the front seat on a double deck bus!

#london
#travellingtowork
March 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
2025 and International Women's Day is more important than ever.
In a world where avowed misogynists are lauded and the "Feminisation" of discourse and workplaces is vilified, we need to support our sisters and fight for our equality.

#Thiswomancan
#IWD
March 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Heartworms at @hareandhounds.bsky.social
Beautiful voices, amazing hair; great night!
February 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
So my Facebook Me has suddenly discovered my LinkedIn Me and now my FB feed is serving up invites to Industry events.
What I don't think FB realises, though, is that this advert has Actual Me in the photo! 😄

(And yes, I will be at #TTG25 this year, too)
February 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Call me Two Gigs Sue:
#StripSearchTramp at @justdroppedin.bsky.social were fabulous - great performance of an awesome album.
Then @dublonde.bsky.social at the Flapper!! So packed I couldn't see her for half an hour, but amazing! Gorgeous voice and so much fun!
Love #strongwomeninbands
February 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Lines and curves.
The glorious elevation of a corridor at #CDG T2;
The thoughtful retrofit of flat paving amongst cobbles for bicycles in #Copenhagen.
❤️
January 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My experience of European air travel is that I get addressed in English most of the time.
Today, almost not at all and my conversational French is just not up to the job.

I think it's the #glasses
January 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Happy New Year!!
#2025 - well!!
January 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Christmas tomorrow: the end of Advent.
My favourite album of 2024, out of the nearly 100 I listened to, is Amelia by Laurie Anderson.

Ever since I first heard it, it has haunted me, talked to me, been with me. Its soul has stuck to me.

Happy Holidays, everyone! ❤️🌲

open.spotify.com/playlist/7KT...
December 24, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Penultimate Advent Album, one which was a constant companion through late spring and summer, a blast of jingly jangly Australian sunshine: Behold by #Parsnip.

Tomorrow - Christmas Eve and my favourite album of 2024...
December 23, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Sunday before Christmas: it should be a chance to relax into the Christmas spirit, but today's Advent Album is not on that vibe. #Drahla 's angeltape (which, as the photo illustrates, comes On Tape (😃)) is sultry, brittle, and arch.

Possibly the opposite of festive, but very good!
December 22, 2024 at 5:58 PM
The day of the Winter #Solstice and my 21st Advent Album is CYRM by #ØXN.

Heavy doom folk - the wild stare of the Third Eye.

Tremendous.
December 21, 2024 at 3:45 PM
December 20th and the forward side of the longest night.

Today's Advent Album is Toda la Verdad Sobre Dame Area by #DameArea. The solstice is a good time to release what no longer serves you and this album is a powerful sonic cleanser. [Think Throbbing Gristle/Skinny Puppy]

I absolutely love it.
December 20, 2024 at 5:13 PM
19th!
Today's Advent Album is The Night Dwells in the Day by #JozefvanWissem.

This has been my most listened to album from this year. Deceptively simple modern lute pieces, haunting and graceful. (And very agreeable to work to)
December 19, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Gift exchanges are happening so it must be Christmas soon!
18th of December and my Advent Album is Romance by #FontainesDC.
Lots of different stuff on this one. Up, down, and of course lyrically fabulous.

I missed seeing them this time through epic diary mismanagement, but you shouldn't!
December 18, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Train chaos and a day in a freezing London office, 17 December's Advent Album is Rockmaker by The Dandy Warhols.

More mature than 25 years ago (aren't we all?) and full of good tunes. Guitar Indie rock, of course.
December 17, 2024 at 11:03 PM
16 December and the virtual offices are emptying.
Today's Advent Album is Botanical Garden by #AnnaErhard.

Observational German guitar Indie.
Check them live - very engaging!
December 16, 2024 at 10:06 PM