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There are the usual comments elsewhere about irresponsibility and people paying. These guys entered on a good forecast for a routine trip. Sometimes things happen. And also remember cave rescuers are volunteers, and the rescue organisations are charities. Pls support them.

Cavers safe after 30-hour rescue during Storm Amy in Wharfedale Rescue teams battled severe weather and flooding at Dowber Gill Passage in the Yorkshire Dales.

I had been watching this develop from afar and wanted to say a massive well done to all the northern cave rescue teams and others assisting. It was a huge effort in a challenging location and conditions.
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Moonrise over the French Alps with a little dusting of snow on the higher peak and the tops of trees in the foreground.

There are way worse places to be on a work trip.

And she bowled so well in the hundred. It does not make sense to me.

Leeds experts in rubble recycling scheme to help rebuild Ukraine - BBC News University of Leeds experts are sharing technology to recycle debris from the conflict with Russia.

🏗️Tech developed by @drleonblack.bsky.social & Prof Theo Hanein at @universityofleeds.bsky.social will help recycle rubble in Ukraine into building materials. Lviv researchers, collaborating on the project, visited the University for training & knowledge exchange.
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A selfie of two well wrapped up women with hats and hoods up, with a loch and mountains behind them.

Summer is definitely over in this country

Highland Chieftain - Wikipedia

I am waiting for the Highland Chieftan. Somehow adventures are always better when you go by train.
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Graffiti on an old boat on the seafront reads "slava ukraini"

I suspect when you are a Black Sea state its easy to know what side you are on.

Early morning sunshine over Tower Bridge and the Thames

Panel discussion and audience at the GE Sustainability and Resilience Conference

A lovely morning to be in London!. And an excellent day at the Ground Engineering Sustainability & Resilience event, presenting on the @universityofleeds.bsky.social @geosolutions.bsky.social Geothermal Campus. Very uplifting to see the real enthusiasm & actions for a lower carbon industry.

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The Fram is amazing. Best museum visit ever.

Hollie for England captain

I am reading them this year, aged 48, as i felt i finally should. But my controversial opinion is that they are highly over rated. Amazing description of places, a story in the sense of lots of events, but little character development, and very male.

That yellow shirted girl part way up Paglia Orba, in front of the remarkable face of Tafunata which have a hole straight through it to the Fango valley below.

So, yeah, very pleased indeed to be back out among the hills in the last couple of weeks. Still some more strength, flexibility and resilience to build, but things are looking up finally.

A swollen and bandaged knee on a hospital bed

The nice young doctor in A&E in Lamlash was ultimately correct in his diagnosis but it took months waiting for a scan and moving through the system for confirmation and it was late June before I could get it fixed.

Me, all in purple, on the summit of Goat Fell, with the sharp ridge of the Glen Sannox Horseshoe behind me

In retrospect, I probably damaged the meniscus in my knee in February, while walking in North Wales, but it wasn't until the end of March, triggered by lots of ascent and descent in Scotland that things went acute.

Women in yellow top with dodgy knee on top of high mountain with a cross in the foreground and surrounding hill beyond.

Last week I stood atop Paglia Orba. Known as the Matterhorn of Corsica, although obviously much much easier else I would not have been there. It felt like the beginning of the end of five months of struggle, in which I have had few adventures to share on here.

Welcome to the club!

A good question. And where is leadership more generally?

Had an unexpected stab of sorrow today. Realised it was the anniversary of VJ day. 80 yrs to the day since my mum was concieved as my grandparents celebrated the end of the war. Born mid May the following year. She would have been 79 now, but passed away 10 years ago. Miss her still.

Just to note the dates are wrong on the website. The role is for start asap and will be fixed term for 8 months.

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📣Job alert: geophysicist required for seismic interpretation at shallow geothermal research sites. Its only a short term role, but is on the existing SmartRes Project (www.imperial.ac.uk/earth-scienc...) with @geophysics-adam.bsky.social @geosolutions.bsky.social.
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An example of the map explorer within the UK Geothermal Platform, with layer controls. The graphic shows an illustration of a computer screen, with a map of the UK on it, and to the left are the layer controls. Above it says in blue text 'UK geothermal platform'. The BGS logo is to the top right.

An overview of geothermal energy potential for four geothermal technologies in Great Britain: Closed loop GSHP, open loop GSHP, hot sedimentary aquifer and deep geothermal, EGS granites. Contains OS data © Crown Copyright and database right 2025, data © Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 2025, data BGS © UKRI 2025.

BGS has launched the UK Geothermal Platform, which provides national- to local-scale information on geothermal potential.

Geothermal technologies have the potential to decarbonise heating and cooling, supporting the energy transition to net zero in the UK.

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Welcome back!

But doing nothing and continuing without functioing services also helps them. The brave would support growth as an actual exit strategy from the predicament. But there seems very little bravery anymore.

And again!

So far so good!

Because each event is independent, every time Nat does the toss the chance of her winning it is still 1 in 2. But if you look back and say what was the chance of her calling correct in 8 cases, then you need to multiply the 1/2 up 8 times to get 1 in 256. But its still 50/50 tonight!

I am so pleased you have this joy. At a time where the world contains many aweful things, you are also one of the most uplifting follows on here so i wanted to say thank you for sharing your journey and your joy. Keep up the good work.

Quote from the restaurant at the end of the universe. "The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. "

Adams was an excellent observer as well as prescient on many things. The quote i think about a lot these days is