Some quick photos from walking around Kensington / Hyde Park.

I wrote a blog about The Robot Needs Home Collective turning 20. You can read it here.

I’m not really a Linkedin post kind of guy, but I’m very pleased to be stepping into a new professional role as International Operations Director at Armada Merch. Having joined the company back in 2024 to lead the then nascent international tour team, I’ll now be bringing both sides of Armada’s international business under one operational remit – both E-Commerce and Tour services.

Some Kyoto leftovers

Some film photos from a walk around Hampstead Heath a couple of weeks ago:

A good few years ago now I was recommended Haruki Murakami’s book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and it was genuinely pivotal in my persisting with running and, ultimately, starting to run marathons. In that book he talks about running laps of the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo, and whenever I’m here I try and make the effort to go and run that route.

Mount Fuji from the Nagoya to Tokyo Shinkansen.

My favourite photo from the Japan trip so far. Walked past an open luxury taxi garage that was catching some perfect light.

Walked The Philosopher’s Path in Kyoto yesterday expecting it to be absolutely heaving with tourists (like everywhere else in Kyoto) and was delighted to find it almost completely quiet.