Anaesthetic weekend on call. Pondering how upset the theatre sister would be if I used the surgical specimen scales to measure out the coffee and water for my Aeropress?

If you're gonna listen to any speech about #Ukraine 🇺🇦, let it be this one. The Kenya ambassador to the UNSC perfectly explains how people across Africa understand Ukraine, and what the Kremlin's acts of aggression mean in our post-colonial world.

Q: How far back in time does planting 100 million trees take us. A: If one mature tree takes up an average of 25 kg of CO₂ per year, then 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that take us back 33 minutes and 47 seconds in a year. It's not a lot.

The Tories are running a very dodgy consultation on bringing back imperial measures. The questions are loaded in favour of imperial units. No status quo option. But you're free to write what you like, so if you think it's a bad idea please let them know! gov.uk/government/con…

I can haz COVID? (Again)

Tell me you’ve been self isolating without telling me you’ve been self isolating.

The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.

As a personal policy I write BST or GMT next to every time I enter in the notes on the nights shift of a clock change.

I don’t think all this talk of the NHS being on the “brink” of collapse is helpful. Complex systems do not just fail overnight. The NHS isn’t going to suddenly complete stop. But in many parts of the country emergency care /has/ collapsed. Ambulance waits, ED waits, etc.