More bees and bee mimics from the fabulously clean air of central London these days, thanks to the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone.

London really knows how to do window/railing boxes 😍

Super-chuffed to hear the @griffith.edu.au team I helped train won the @racsurgeons.bsky.social QLD state competition! And not an RM Williams in sight. 🤣 #DiversityAndInclusion

Fortnum & Mason have really outdone themselves with this biscuiterie dollshouse replica of all 6 levels of their store. Three pics in increasing close-up give some indication of the whimsy and incredible detail.

My favourite spot at the Royal Albert Hall nearly overhanging the stage at the back ('Choir'). What a treat to 'prom' on this trip, and to work on my next project surrounded by the other oddballs who inhabit the Choirs 🤣❤️🧶🎶

Incredible light, even at 7pm 😍

Last, off to salute James Kay-Shuttleworth, born James Kay, who became a doctor, took his wife's name of Shuttleworth, and then spent his whole long life establishing the public elementary education system *and* uniform teacher training to support it. Hat tip sir. 🙏

Next, Sir William Crookes (and ?4 family members in the same plot- inscriptions are very worn). Pioneer of cathode rays and discoverer of thallium, we can thank him for everything from sunglasses to TV screens. He had a notorious gullibility to psychic woo though. 😅

Next up Violet Brooke Hunt, born into wealth but a champion for the working class, setting up public reading rooms on her family estate (= early library). Later she championed women into politics. Died only 39. 💔 Love the wee snail 🐌 taking sanctuary on her gravestone.

Next up, John Snow, who famously took the handle off the cholera water pump, thus birthing modern epidemiology. He died aged only 45. His original gravestone was destroyed by enemy action (presumably the Blitz?) in 1941, with the current replica kindly erected by @assocanaes.bsky.social 🙏

Righto. Off to the Brompton cemetery to pay my respects to some inspiring people. First up, Emmeline Pankhurst, the great suffragette. 💜🤍💚

Despite the recent heatwave, plants and insects seem to be thriving in central London. The preservation of green space is such a asset to this city. 😍

What is this 'summer' you speak of, London? 🤣 (✈️ Window ice on landing at Heathrow during an otherwise gorgeous sunrise)

The public commentary was often abusive or racist. I imagine that came through in the submissions.

Wonder if anyone at Qantas has spotted it yet? 😖

Last light on a drizzly day. Wishing everyone a peaceful night ❤️

Do you know someone who has made an exceptional contribution to #SurgEd? Nominate them for the Faculty of Surgical Trainers Medal 🏅, closing August 3. Nomination link- www.rcsed.ac.uk/funding-awar... Importantly, nominee, nominator + seconder do not need to be affiliated with @rcsed.bsky.social 🎉

Mending the seam on a well loved but very threadbare duvet/doona... again!... because adult kid still wants it. This thing might eventually be more seam than blankie 🪡🧵 🤣

LOVE the new FLASH banner art too, designed by program participant Ruth Stachowski (Yorta Yorta) and drawing on Indigenous knowledges. Flattened hierarchies, the impossibility of knowledge siloes, the need to lead oneself before leading others- what's ancient is new again. 🖤💛❤️

Anne-Marie Hadley, Chief Experience Officer of NSW Health opening the day at FLASH (Fostering Leadership) at Western Sydney LHD (Westmead) with a poignant, personal experience of healthcare. She encourages all HCWs to pause and take time to look a little deeper. Amazing speaker. 👏

Have progressed to Celtic knots. Interestingly, written patterns and stitch charts don't make sense to my brain but a good photo does. If I can see, say, that the cable goes right with purls transferring to the left behind it, well, it just... happens. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #BrainsAreWeird #EyeHandCoordination

We grow kumara (sweet potato) for the leaf, but I've accidentally also got a harvest of absolutely massive tubers this year. 🤗 The big ones are too fibrous to eat so I'll sprout them for next 'spring' (temps are pretty springy already). The rest will turn into chips/mash. 😋 #gardening

Ouch 🤣🏉🍫

What a fabulous match #NRLRoostersEels was- a hat trick for Daniel Tupou in his 300th match with the Tongan PM and princess Tuku'aho in attendance, plus the first try for the first Kurdish player in NRL history, Araz Nanva, right on full time. Monoculture can get in the bin. 🏉🎉

Here is hubby- a doctor- dutifully reading the insert for a new medicine. Surely there's a better way. How many people read them, how many actually understand them, and what about people who can't for whatever reason? (CALD, low literacy, bad eyesight...) 🤔 #PatientSafety

A enjoyable project for a bunch of tiny (<2m each) yarn leftovers. There's faux leather, faux fur, recycled plastic bag yarn (comfortingly scratchy for NDers) sequins, buttons, glitter yarn and more- all framed together with sturdy black double cotton.

Black holes! Three women physicists! 🤩🎉 Everyone within cooee of Pune India should go. 🙏

Thanks Trish! Listening to my own voice is still a bit like this 👇🤣 but I'm getting better at it with practice.

There are trees still attempting to do 'autumn' in almost-summery midwinter temperatures. I appreciate their beauty so much ❤️

What a treat to fly in one of Qantas' Pride Is In The Air planes today! 🤗❤️🏳️‍🌈