When the travel gods align and you get both flights for a quid using BA companion vouchers and stocked up avois points. Saved £1600 🎉

Summer, finally.

Is women’s skateboarding 🛹 the coolest sport ever?! I’m hooked go Team GB !!

I’ve reached peak adulting today. I’m having new windows fitted. Oddly this feels more adult than buying a house and having children. What a time to be alive 🤓

Haven’t been up early enough for the shipping forecast in a while - which means one thing - a conference! Off to talk about all things new government and what it means for our sector, including devolution The MJ future forum - shout if you’re going.

From big strategic discussions on investment zones and local labour markets to community net zero projects and local wealth creation The MJ future forum has got off to a great start. My economics studies might prove useful today 🤓

My 6 year old attended his first housing committee meeting tonight. Mainly due to my ineffective parental admin skills. He handed out papers and then sat on a swivel chair & played with office stationary. I have turned into my father as this was literally my childhood 🙈

Current NHS debate on BBC Radio 4 Today - we can say a system is broken that decouples failure from people. This isn’t about frontline practitioners doing a bad job but the system that connects the very disparate pieces is. If we get defensive re people it’s v reductive.

Lewisham, Hackney, Southwark and Lambeth all have majorly cool big jobs going in strategy / change right now.

When you get sent active footage of your dad on the news talking about the role of trade unions and workers rights. Chip off the old block. Wish I had inherited some form of Scottish accent 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ✊🏻 macearchive.org/films/atv-toda…?

When you have to get up super early - the northern lights above Peckham and a shooting star 💫

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Nice to be back in the world of public sector design this morning!

In children’s A&E waiting for a very minor thing that requires stitches. Nearly 3 hours we’ve been sat here for barely a 10 min job. The triage design in emergency care is utterly broken. This and the lack of urgent care centres / extended primary care is 🤯

Whole train carriage of (white) men sitting & a woman standing with a screaming toddler - no one offered her a seat until I shamed them all by loudly asking “who would like to give up their seat for this lady” honestly, how has it got the state where ppl just ignore this?