Every rankings e-mail I receive (THE, QS etc.) ends up in my institutional e-mail quarantine. Think of all of that labour around soliciting e-mail addresses and a lot it ends in invites being filed as spam…

Exploring Earth Photo 2025 competition shortlist and the dazzling dahlias at Anglesey Abbey this morning.

Nice trip to Audley End today with the kids. Last time I was there, I got engaged.

Future geographer has a birthday party today, and I provided some consultancy on the design of the cake.

So @totallyshow.bsky.social, Almaty is closer to Tokyo (5329 km) than it is to Newcastle (5539 km). Roll on the Champions League draw!

Quite the paragraph here on pregnancy tests and frogs.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Here's my MLB All-Star Ballot.

Quite the line in the independent report into the University of Dundee's finances:

www.sfc.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Has our geographical knowledge really sunk this low?

Just back from holiday

We had a lovely time at Tatton Park near Knutsford (Cheshire) today. Aside from the kids walking through a herd of deer, the real highlight is the Japanese Garden. Very distant parts of my father’s family were cleared to make way for the parkland and decanted to a new village set up by the Lord.

Saw myself a roe deer at Wicken Fen, just outside Ely. It’s also an invertebrate hotbed of butterflies, damselflies, and dragonflies.

I first visited back in 2005 as part of my Part 1 fieldclass doing some classic landscape investigation - after Oliver Rackham - then on the bus to Hayley Wood.

The roof of a barn in the village. And some #bluesky

A heartening line about the 1992 Reith Lectures for anyone who has ever organised a seminar series. And look who they found in 1993.

When you live in one of the only parts of the UK not currently under snow, ice or water... 😎

It’s now officially Christmas season in our house.