Great evening run to Pilsdon Pen hill fort - Jurassic Coast beyond.

Picked up a copy of #echtrai today from ⁦Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸⁩ - turned first to ⁦@jeffyoungwriter⁩ because…well, because #ghosttown

If you’re looking for inspiration 12 years of Shitchester

Evening run after work - Corton Denham to Cadbury Castle (followed by The Queens Arms) #Dorset #somerset border

Really excited reveal the new #NetZero Toolkit from Cotswold District Council, West Oxfordshire District Council & Forest of Dean District Council. Friendly, highly illustrated advice on specifying, building and understanding costs for net-zero construction and retrofit. Other local authorities, feel free to copy! cotswold.gov.uk/netzerocarbont…

Good day for a survey of this 400 year old mill on the banks of the Dee. Machinery still intact from its last use in the 1960's.

Studying a little bit of lost Chester today. It's shocking just how much has been lost in a single lifetime - mostly as a consequence of the motorcar. That thing that we now need to banish from our city centres so they can become comfortable places for more people to live.

In today’s greatest hits of ideas, images, designs and words: 1) The joy of David Hockney’s new exhibition Royal Academy 2) A very good idea from andy foster 3) About learning (thank you Coxswain Neil Coxon) brighterside.co.uk/news/july-2021

The House of Theseus 'At the heart of the question is the issue of authenticity and the fact that most of us tend to prefer anything original over the fake or the artifical'. My little bit for this month's splendid Sherborne Times

Fabulous to hear ⁦@jeffyoungwriter⁩ in conversation with ⁦Horatio Clare⁩ in the city that is #ghosttown ‘a biscuit tin of fleeting moments’ thx# ⁦LEAF on Bold St⁩ ⁦Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸⁩

We all need a little help. My notebook made it into this month's Sherborne Times

'Anti-slackism'

Learning How to Build - my bit for the January edition of Sherborne Times 'Now, all of these years later, I am having to relearn everything I know and do - as is the entire profession and the wider building industry.'

In the last few days, I've read inspiring books by Jake Fiennes + Guy Shrubsole + re-read CHURCH GOING with Andrew Ziminski FSA & SPAB 🇺🇦 's. Our natural & built environments require much healing + I'm left feeling more optimistic + with a stronger desire to help. Thank you.

Just finished ⁦Ros Atkins⁩ brilliant book. Us architects think we’re really good at presentation/explanation - but we clearly have a lot to learn. Ros traces his thinking from student days, so it’s also a great illustration of the development of expertise.