@mikerspencer Me! It's my third year in a row and I can't wait. You'll have a great time!

May 2025 reads:

📚 Winter by Ali Smith
📚 There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
📚 The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel
📚 Gliff by Ali Smith
📚 The Art of Uncertainty by David Spiegelhalter
📚 The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
📚 Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making Sense by Jon Sopel
📚 The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea by Jon Gower
📚 Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing

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Edinburgh, April 2025

April 2025 reads:

📚 Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan
📚 The City and its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
📚 Scotland by Kay Gillespie
📚 Supremacy by Parmy Olson
📚 Entitlement by Rumaan Alam
📚 One Woman Walks Wales by Ursula Martin

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February 2025 reads
📚 Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves
📚 The Conquistadors by Matthew Restall
📚 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
📚 Strange Pictures by Uketsu
📚 Using Evidence to End Homelessness by Ligia Teixeira

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March 2025 reads:
📚 The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
📚 Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
📚 Clear by Carys Davies
📚 Modern Latin American Literature by Roberto González Echevarría
📚 Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda
📚 Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Valparaiso, Chile

#travel #latinamerica #chile

Santiago de Chile

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January reads summary from @thestorygraph

The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
The Social Distance Between Us by Darren McGarvey
The Welsh Criminal Justice System by Robert Jones and Richard Wyn Jones
Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
Chile & Easter Island Eyewitness Travel

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November reads summary from #TheStoryGraph

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Autumn by Ali Smith
A Thousand Feasts by Nigel Slater
Wild Houses by Colin Barret
Circus of Mirrors by Julie Ann Moylan
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad

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An anti Black Friday #3goodthings

1. Making a Christmas wreath at National Trust Llanerchaeron, using materials foraged from the gardens. Everything is held together with raffia rather than plastic or wire, so it can be composted at the end of the festivities.

2. Lunch from Watson and Pratts in Aberaeron, plus some fresh bread and local cheese to take home.

3. A pile of new library books, including our next Book Club read: Butter by Asako Yuzuki.

@Beedazzled preferably a reasonably mature cheddar, sliced thinly

@Beedazzled yes, me!

#3goodthings for today

1. Sunrise over frosty fields on my drive to the office
2. Lunch with colleagues
3. Coffee after work with a friend

Today's #3goodthings

1. Watching the birds on the feeders in my garden from my working-from-home desk
2. A walk in the sunshine at lunchtime
3. Lentil bolognese for dinner, with enough leftovers for lunch tomorrow

Today's #3goodthings

1. A walk in Sydney Gardens then along the Kennet and Avon canal
2. Delicious Sunday lunch at The Bathwick Boatman, with a view over the river from the table
3. Home tonight in my own bed after almost a week away

Today's #3goodthings

1. A visit to NT Dyrham Park to see the autumn leaves
2. Walking into Bath through Bathwick Fields for a great view of the city (even in the mist)
3. Dinner at Green Park Brasserie, accompanied by live jazz

#3goodthings for today:

1. Train journey from London to Bath through some pretty countryside
2. Finding a cosy independent cafe in Bath - Cafe au Lait, opposite the railway station
3. Starting a new book - A Thousand Feasts by Nigel Slater

#3goodthings for yesterday

1. Research Capability Conference in London, great conversations with other analysts in both government and academia and lots of ideas to think about
2. Planning my commute across London to take in some pretty parks and squares
3. Early night in my hotel room with a book

#3goodthings for yesterday

1. A really successful innovation event in central London
2. Post-event drinks and dinner with colleagues
3. London energy. I wouldn't want to live here but I love it in short bursts.