Embracing the grey

As a nice illustration of generational divide, son has headed to a Sketpa and Fred Again concert with tickets he got on tiktok, which is great because it means we can watch Sewing Bee on catch up

Getting a chance to review the annual GMC training survey for paediatric cardiology at EvelinaLondon Children’s Hospital

8 Green Flags 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

Overall satisfaction:
💥 2023 100%
💥 2024 100%
💥 2025 100%

Great reflection of all we do as a department to train future paediatric cardiologists

Central London on a warm summers evening is quite the place

Janey Godley speaking for a nation

On the Eve of Trumps arrival in Scotland it is only right to remember the late great Janey Godley

Little Bell in graduation gear

Bath Abbey

Bath Abbey

Bath

A Bath Uni graduation does not disappoint

There’s something quite nice about having the whole gym to yourself

A revolving door of cranks and crooks

The private trials of Keir Starmer | The Observer The prime minister reveals the quiet grief and inner determination of his first year in office – and why he ‘deeply regrets’ his ‘island of strangers’ sp...

Fundamentally a decent man, doing the hardest job in the UK and willing to admit mistakes. He has my support.

Starmer says he picked up Trump’s dropped papers to avoid security scare UK prime minister says it ‘would not have been good’ for anyone else such as member of media to try to help

UK Prime Minister assists confused elderly man

Big Ben and the Thames in the sunshine

I’ve been working here for years, but on a lovely sunny London day still appreciate the view from the gardens of St Thomas Hospital

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Very much looking forward to reading this. One of the best politicians to have ever come out of New Zealand so can’t wait to see what she has to say

Battersea powers station

Industrial art deco

Glimpse of art deco control room

Converted turbine hall

First visit to the converted Battersea Power Station, very impressive and really love the preserved bits of art deco

a man in a nike shirt is standing in front of a door and talking to someone . ALT: a man in a nike shirt is standing in front of a door and talking to someone .

Do they do them with the voice of Roy Kent?

Me stretching at the gym

Starting my week of leave as I mean to continue…hanging out at the gym

Awesome day at London Zoo with the team from echo-uk.org, loads of our cardiac patients and families and some amazing volunteers

Starmer to scrap two-child benefit cap as Treasury told to find money | The Observer Policy change will lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty after pressure from cabinet and MPs

This is more like it

No 10 delays child poverty strategy with tens of thousands more facing hardship Exclusive: Flagship policy put back until at least autumn amid fears cost of removing two-child benefit cap will outweigh political benefit

Lifting the two child benefit cap should have been one of the first actions of this government, but the suggestion it is political perception and gain holding them back is deeply troubling

Peppa Pig: New baby sister Evie arrives The news was even announced live on ITV's Good Morning Britain breakfast news programme.

Big news in paediatric clinics this week

So today thanks to my international colleagues I discovered that unlike UK cats, Italian cats only have 7 lives

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Interesting to hear that in this interview that Labour think can they can ‘win the debate’ against Reform.

The democrats tried this and lost.

People aren’t interested in the debate, they are interested the headlines and most of Labours headlines have been bad

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At Evelina London we are looking for two clinical fellows in CT and MRI

A great opportunity to get loads of experience in one of the busiest of UKs paediatric cardiac centres

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Little garden on the third floor of the hospital basking in the spring sunshine

A teeny little oasis hidden away on the third floor of Evelina London

A very expensive ice-cream

One benefit of spending more time at the Royal Brompton Hospital is access to the King’s Road and overpriced gelato

Have a great run!

Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool | Jonathan Freedland This presidency places authoritarian ambition above all – and now the people of Ukraine are paying the price, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Every single word

Spring blossom and beech hedging in the Darent Valley car park

The people who designed the carpark at Darent Valley Hospital really knew what they were doing with their spring landscaping

Trump's betrayal of Ukraine is complete Ukraine simply cannot accept this peace deal with Russia

If these Ukraine peace terms are as reported, they are a historic betrayal. Nothing in American history would come near to it. It would side the US squarely and definitively with dictatorship inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

US ready to abandon Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress, says Marco Rubio Secretary of state threatens to pull plug ‘within days’, as Kyiv says it has signed mineral deal memorandum

Trumps foreign policy can be summed up in one word

Betrayal