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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · 3d

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.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · 6d

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

Moonrise over the French Alps with a little dusting of snow on the higher peak and the tops of trees in the foreground.

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · 15d

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

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University of Leeds Press Office @unileedsnews.bsky.social · 15d

🏗️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.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · 17d

Summer is definitely over in this country

A selfie of two well wrapped up women with hats and hoods up, with a loch and mountains behind them.

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · 20d

I am waiting for the Highland Chieftan. Somehow adventures are always better when you go by train.
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Highland Chieftain - Wikipedia

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · 24d

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

Graffiti on an old boat on the seafront reads "slava ukraini"

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · 29d

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.

Early morning sunshine over Tower Bridge and the Thames

Panel discussion and audience at the GE Sustainability and Resilience Conference

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Fram is amazing. Best museum visit ever.

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hollie for England captain

Hypocaust @hypocaust.bsky.social · Sep 2

An emergency episode of No Balls the Cricket Podcast, in which Kate Cross takes Alex Hartley through Northern Superchargers' championship winning campaign in The Hundred.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

BBC Radio 5 Live - Test Match Special, No Balls: EMERGENCY - Crossy’s won The Hundred!

Alex & Crossy convene because of Crossy’s Hundred glory!

www.bbc.co.uk

Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Sep 2

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.

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Aug 31

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.

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.

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Aug 31

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.

A swollen and bandaged knee on a hospital bed

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Aug 31

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.

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

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Aug 31

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.

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

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Aug 29

Welcome to the club!

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Aug 28

A good question. And where is leadership more generally?

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Aug 15

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.

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Aug 15

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

Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Aug 15

📣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.
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Geothermal Seismology

Salary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience) University of Leeds (with scope for hybrid working). We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements.Are you an ambitious geoph...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · Aug 11

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.

www.bgs.ac.uk/news/new-pla...

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.

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Aug 1

Welcome back!

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Fleur Loveridge @undertheground.bsky.social · Jul 17

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.

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