One of the towers at Cannon Street Station basking in the sun at the end of the day.

#architecture #London

Patrick Michael O’Shea, known to most simply as Rick, passed away in 2025 at the age of 59. A man of great heart, humour, and humility, Rick lived a life defined by kindness, purpose, and a deep commitment to helping others.

❤️ 🙏 Read our full obituary:

www.careif.org/news-and-eve...

📅 Reminder: On 13 September, between 2-5pm, Careif will be supporting an event to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr Suman Fernando who had an international reputation regarding advocating for race equity in #MentalHealth.

Find out more and register👇

www.careif.org/news-and-eve...

A rare new ACGT blog post from me inspired by a recent podcast episode by @andrewjpage.bsky.social and Kevin Libuit:

www.acgt.me/blog/2025/7/...

#bioinformatics

Today I've passed the milestone of *one million steps* walked on my walking pad since I purchased it in late October!🚶‍♂️

That's an average of 6,339 steps a day over this period and a total distance of about 400 miles walked...all while working.

h/t to @hailley.co who inspired me to buy it.

London’s skyline changes so fast. For the last five years, the lop-sided ‘1 Blackfriars’ has dominated the views around the Blackfriars Bridge.

Now, the 50 storey ‘Opus’ — part of the Bankside Yards development — is starting to obscure views of 1 Blackfriars from the east.

#London #Architecture

We've been running this for a few months now and can already see that the QR codes have been used almost 700 times.

More information about it in this blog post written by my colleague:

www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

This is to make it easier for doctors to share this information with patients during a consult. E.g. a psychiatrist can bring up the page on their computer and the patient just scans the QR code to get the page on their phone.

No need for emails or printing out paper!

I'm pleased to announce that I have helped finish this piece of website work for my employer that has added QR codes to almost 100 #MentalHealth information pages.

My 11-year old son has been doing so much amazing #art lately.

I’ve encouraged him to make a 'roundup' video that showcases some of his recent output as there are just so many cool things he does now (including model making and animations).

youtu.be/do8UHhLqSC0

Lovely view of Tower Bridge this morning with the sun rising up creating a beautiful orange glow.

#sunrise #London

This is St Helen’s Tower in the City of London. Completed in 1969 with 23 floors, it looks set to be demolished this year to make way for 1 Undershaft…a skyscraper that will be the same height as the Shard and will have 73 floors.

#architecture

I think I may have listened to just a little too much politics news this year! 😀

This was partly due to their being elections in both the UK and the USA. I will definitely try to step back from listening to so much politics in 2025 as I don’t think it is generally healthy for me.

#YearInReview

My boys have somehow amassed *4* different advent calendars each this year.

I tried explaining to my six-year old that, when I was his age, advent calendars didn’t contain chocolates…they just contained a little picture.

He looked at me quizzically and asked ‘Was that in the olden times?’.

🤣

Tall Christmas tree spotted in London.

#Architecture

Dipping my toes in the waters of bluesky.

After a year of following way too much political news (UK and USA) across other channels, I need some respite.

So here for books, astronomy, architecture, and content that will calm my soul.