My mum and I both discovered a shared love of fantasy when I was 14 (Feist). One day she came back from her fave charity book shop with New Spring, and recommended it to me after she finished.

I read it, and was *very* intrigued. I was sceptical about starting EotW, but then I got hooked. The end.

Now on Mike Duncan's 1st season of Revolutions. Considering I've lived in Blighty all my life, I know very little of the era of Charles I, except, lol head chopped off Parliament is sovereign now.

Can't wait to learn more.

My historical retreats during the past two years of... Well whatever is going on in the world:

- French Revolution (Revolutions podcast) season 3 by Mike Duncan. 32 hours.
- Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, and Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris. (30ish hours).
- Montaigne.

Because Old Man's War *totally* wasn't a political satire in similar vein to Starship Troopers /s

I'm so close but I don't want it to end 😭😭😭

The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.

A massive cloud of gas and dust is seen in dark, dusty red, with its outer portions a translucent, ethereal gray. Several stars and distant galaxies are scattered throughout the image.

A circular-shaped nebula with a complex structure. On the circle’s exterior, particularly on the left side of the image, are curtains of material glowing orange like fire. Interior to this outer shell is a ring of mottled filaments in bright pink, studded with clumps and knots. A greenish loop extends from the upper right of the ring into the central cavity. Translucent wisps of blue, green, and red appear throughout the image.

The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The cluster is seen here above a small portion of the nebula. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars within the cluster. The strong radiation and stellar winds from from these blazing, blue-white stars also pushes the nebular material outward, creating one of many low-density bubbles within NGC 6357.

once again thinking about the fact that this is all just OUT THERE and we can only see it through the eyes of telescopes

Line chart showing house prices rising faster than wages and rents in London

And I guess I should share a random data fact so you know I'm not lying when I say I'm a Data Journalist?

For you Londoners - yes your wages have gone up. And rents have gone up. But house prices went up far faster than anything else

Practice my friend. Practice. Also helps if you had a parent that had a similar habit.

Nah - just joking. If ya take a month off your phone you'll be surprised the means you'll go to to fill boredom.

Other things:

📈 data skills:
- Learning D3.JS.
- Medium SQL skills.
- Dabble in Python
- Mostly visualise in Flourish but I know how to use Tableau and Power BI.

⌨️ writing:
- Other than my website...
- Might be world building a fantasy world. Maybe.

By night 🌑, I'm a reader & gamer. On the last book of the Wheel of Time 📚 (which I've been reading on & off since 2005), and I'm on my heroic quest to finish The Witcher series of games 🎮 (100 hours in on Witcher 3).

Had to take a break, so I'm replaying Tyranny.

Allow me to introduce myself. By day ☀️ I'm a Data Journalist. Used to cover land and planning policy. Featured in BBC, Evening Standard and The Times. Currently doing my own thang on theheasman.com #London #datajournalism #datastories

A collage featuring 100 planetary nebulae captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Well hello there blue sky internet.