If it get's recorded I would love to watch back

Hampstead Heath and the battle over London's green spaces Plus: We speak to the restaurant owner berating locals for not eating at his restaurant, go litter picking with Ed Davey, and explain how we accidentally inspired a crime fighting tool.

Great piece by the London Centric on a disturbing new funding model for City of London green spaces to 'increase income generation'. Another saga in the hyper-commodification of any and every commons in the city.

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Yes!

Children are ***82%*** more likely to be killed when hit by an SUV than by a regular passenger car.

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

London commuters, a tree is 'on its way'. Can it save you? ‘Tree on its way.’ Commuters between London Bridge and the Monument may have seen this rather startling message, stencilled on the pavement in stark black and white, at regular intervals in recent wee...

Re-sharing this piece I wrote yesterday evening for the evening standard, on those 'tree on its way' signs in the square mile, and the problems of nature as superhero: www.standard.co.uk/comment/lond...

Is urban swimming a threat to swimming freedom? - Outdoor Swimmer Magazine There's a growing movement to make our cities more swimmable - but this usually means created controlled swimming spots rather than allowing unrestricted swimming.

An interesting take with an important warning to heed as we continue the push towards swimmable cities

outdoorswimmer.com/featured/is-...

Pleased to say that I completed my RLSS Open Water Lifeguard training at Beckenham lake earlier this week (including an additional Automated External Defibrillator training qualification) learning crucial first aid, CPR and water-based rescue skills.

An excellent few days at my second (and the 50th anniversary of!) @leisure-studies.bsky.social conference in York.

The interdisciplinary nature of LSA always makes for great presentations and discussions around the borderlands.

And thanks to all that came to Tom and I’s workshop and engaged!

Hi Chris, I may be too late to the party here but I would be interested if you still need someone

Arrived in York on a gorgeous day for the @leisure-studies.bsky.social conference

‘Researching the leisure we practice: unpacking and understanding embodied ethnographic methods’

Tom Critchley and I are running a workshop at LSA 2025 next week in York. If you’re there come along and talk participatory, entangled methods!

Hi Claire - I'd be interesting in participating online if possible and seeing if I can add anything helpful from my master's thesis

Will tell you all about it soon!

It was indeed! That also sounds fantastic - big fan of Copenhagen harbour

Some of the other (minimal) photos I took: citizen science water testing workshop, scale model of the Rijnhaven’s grand plans, and a couple of presentation and panel highlights

Inspiring few days at the first ever Swimmable Cities summit in Rotterdam. More conferences with morning and evening swims in the programming please!

A new free lido will open in east London this summer It’ll be at the Royal Docks for one month only.

Big news! Temporary...but a step in the right direction regardless

www.timeout.com/london/news/...

I've just dropped you an email!

Thanks Les. I'd love to chat to you about it at some point as I have indeed heard you were an avid Beckenham enjoyer!

Just listened this morning - loved it Les!

New Research Article 📚

The leisure of grey spaces, urban play and the chromatic turn.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Leisure #GreySpaces #Environment

Thames Water preferred bidder KKR pulls out of rescue deal Future of troubled supplier in doubt as US private equity group says it cannot proceed with acquiring £4bn stake

New developments in the Thames Water saga this morning www.theguardian.com/business/202...

OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited

Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬

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A Shadwell story: the swan and the turtle (/terrapin?)

Blurb from her website is fascinating

Bathing by Tower Bridge, 2018 by fine art photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten. Found in the Guardian this morning

Thanks Dan!

Yes! I love the cock tavern!