Prateek Buch

Umm Wrexham might well pass Spurs on the way down...

I'm enjoying the champions league basketball #ATMTOT

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds and the word same written on his face . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds and the word same written below him. The man has a forlorn expression

Car battery: 14%

Phone battery: 15%

My battery:

Fly safe bsky.app/profile/prat...

It's just boring. Sincerely, an India fan

Par score, six overs remaining #T20WC

Even the luck going India's way. Bizarre powerplay

Miracle unfolding at Murrayfield... #SixNations

Hahaha

Ceci n'est pas une vue

A paper letter telling me that my energy provider is switching to paper free communication

Feels like EON could've emailed me to tell me this...

#ThisLetterCouldveBeenAnEmail

Maybe yes, will explore!

Woah looks cool thanks!

Does anyone know of a cloud-based home admin service? User story:

As someone who shares home admin with wife, I need somewhere I can upload scans of letters (then shred) and email attachments, so we can track various tasks such as insurance renewals, TV licence etc

MVP = Google drive folder...

Costs half as much tho...

Pheasant in a garden

Pheasant

Moved house recently, fifty miles away from London.

How is it, you might ask?

Well, a pheasant just tapped on my patio door so there's that

UK Address Matcher logo

We are pleased to release `uk_address_matcher`, a free Python package for address matching and geocoding, developed by Tom Hepworth and me.

The package has several aims: simplicity, speed and accuracy.

I'm glad I saw this *after*I just flew back from Mumbai to London... Grateful for safe passage 🙏🏽

🙏🏽Ah thanks Beth! And agree, there's something reassuring about bringing fresh food from farm to plate!

Ah thanks, always a bright side of life to look on...!

Airport sign saying "gate 6, 7"

Rajkot 'international' airport, where only domestic flights arrive or depart

Rajkot airport: built for, and possibly by, teenagers

A construction worker near an open window without glass, working on an interior wall. His small baby sleeps in a hammock nearby

Lastly, a construction worker breaking down an interior wall of a seventh floor flat as it's being built, while his tiny baby sleeps in a hammock. Note the distinct lack of safety gear, or indeed windows...

Two piles of dried cow dung in the middle of the road, in India

The Holi bonfires are powered by pure cow dung and built on road junctions the day before. I left before the cleanup operation took place...

Next, a 'bonfire' for the Hindu festival of Holi (despite Bollywood depictions, Holi involves a fire ritual. The throwing of colours is on the following day, known in Gujarat as dhuleti)

Spent 5 days in India at short notice, helping my mum who's supporting her 95 y.o. mother. Sadly she's too frail to fly back with me as planned, so it turned into respite care trip...

Here's a threaded timleline cleanse.

First, A Short Film: fruit and vegetable sellers of Gujarat

🤣🤣🤣

Surgery, and more broadly, medicine? Dentistry?

I suppose many other professional practises such as law, accountancy...

I often describe myself as just that tbh 👍🏽

Yes some do self-select out of mainstream discourse because they cannot see beyond own blinkered views, and yes that can make debate feel like treacle. I'm still not persuaded we should build walls and exclude (not that you're suggesting so...), cos that way ruin lies

Some minds cannot be changed, agree - but to exclude from debate is very different to out-competing their ideas to ensure they never achieve such positions of power... Again naive/idealistic maybe, but there you go :-)