Rob Fleming

Energy security is national security.

It is not an optional nicety to reduce society's demand for oil. It is a necessity.

Post by Jason (user name LongWall26): "Confident in my ability to properly tennis, I take the court. I smile at my opponent. Serena does not return the gesture. She'd be prettier if she did, I think. She serves. The ball passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly." In response to survey results posted on YouGov account: "One in eight men (12%) say they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams." Link to survey at yougov.co.uk/opi/surveys/...

For International Women's Day, I need do no more than repost this banger by @longwall26.bsky.social.

Happy International Women’s Day!

We are proud of the women of #TeamUofG, past and present. Here are just a few who have shaped our community over our 575-year history.

Learn more: Gla.ac.uk/explore/575

Lionelle is such a cool cat! 🇨🇲

Hope the jet lag hasn’t kicked in just yet!

#JumpOnBoard #IWD2026

Habari Afrika! Let’s have a chit chat with Sonia Lalla 💜 #JumpOnBoard #IWD2026

Where to next? The segmental spinal. There’s only one woman…
#JumpOnBoard #IWD2026

Where shall we go next? I know. Tokyo! 🇯🇵
#JumpOnBoard #IWD2026

Happy international women’s day. Let’s go on a journey #JumpOnBoard #IWD2026

Happy International Women's Day 2026 to all the inspirational SAS women out there.

This year's official UN #IWD2026 theme is #RightsJusticeAction.

Women all over the world have fewer opportunities to achieve their potential in healthcare, and worse health outcomes.

We must do better.

Exactly that. It seems easy to mock this particular affliction, but it is pain like I couldn't have imagined. I was sobbing on the sofa at 2am trying not to wake my wife during one bout. It can be horrific.

Bless you. After my third I went on allopurinol. Would rather cut off my feet than experience it again!

Believe me, you will know. If it turns into a proper flare, you won't be able to sleep. Worst pain I have ever experienced in my life!

You have my sympathies dude.

Sunset view across Strangford Lough from Kircubbin, with golden light reflecting on the calm water and scattered shoreline rocks in the foreground. A seagull glides across a sky filled with warm orange clouds as the sun begins to set over the distant hills. 🌅🕊️

#ColorADay #OrangeSun #Stunday #Ireland #NorthernIreland #EastCoastKin

Today marks the 115th International Women’s Day! 🌎

It's an opportunity for us to celebrate the stories of the incredible women in our membership and organisation.

Find out more about how we support women in healthcare: www.medicalprotection.org/uk/articles/...

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026

Entering another year of my life, and reflecting on the last few.

We lived through a pandemic. We supported though their illnesses, and then grieved my mother-in-law, and then my dad.

There have been better bits, which I often overlook, but so much sadness, and so close together.

I feel old.

Up to and including the strategically drippy edge. She is good at this.

I asked Susie to recreate the aesthetic of a Colin the caterpillar cake. She has done awesome work.

Chocolate cake covered in m&m's.

Slice of chocolate cake on a plate, held up in front of the chef.

Cake.

I do love a path.

My wife is baking. I hope it is for me, but it is tricky to be certain.

Card with a picture of a sausage dog that says "Happy Birthday to you", with a handful of wrapped presents and a dinky lemon tree.

The only perks of getting older are:

1. The nice things people say in birthday cards.
2. Another year avoiding the alternative, which is dying.

Dough, proved and slashed ready for baking, resting on parchment on a baking sheet.

Loaf, freshly out of the oven. Slashes have opened to create a four pointed star.

Sliced loaf, showing large bubbles and smaller bubbles. Quite a nice rise.

Buttered slices of sourdough bread, on a green and white plate resting on the arm of a leather armchair.

I have kept my sourdough starter alive for more than five years. It goes in everything I bake for flavour, but I don't use it to rise loaves very often anymore. Good to know I still can.

White and spelt flour from a local mill.

Canon 20D, 24mm pancake lens.

#baking #photography

I thought about this during COVID-19, and wondered why we don't talk about the 1918 H1N1. Why is there no art set in the period? No books, no plays. It is a mostly forgotten period of history.

Now I get it. We don't want to remember this time either.

Kids will learn about "eat out to help out" in school, and refuse to believe anyone could have been so stupid.

They will read about the post-pandemic fall in vaccination, and learn something about how poor crisis management and the resulting mistrust of authority costs even more lives.

‘A new normal’: inquiry’s key findings on how Covid changed UK society Final module focuses on legacy and impact on mental health, particularly for key workers, vulnerable and bereaved people

I wonder how many things the COVID enquiry will tell us.

Governments follow the science only if it doesn't impact what they wanted to do anyway.

Key workers will indeed work for claps.

We all forget it all, all too quickly, because remembering hurts.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Warmer in London than the Midlands, definitely. It doesn't look like this at home yet.

Blossom.

Magnolias.

Definitely spring in Tavistock Square.

Phone #photography, as it is all I have on me for a change.

I am reminded of two concepts.

"4D chess" - what supporters of a political movement think is going on, when its actions seem to be foolish.

"Playing chess with a pigeon" - what everyone else sees, as the foolish pigeon knocks over the pieces, craps on the board, and struts around like they won.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Calm sea to the left, deserted beach with dunes to the right, low hills beyond. Two sorts of clouds, fluffy ones and stretched out ones, both altocumulus

Oh be still my beating heart, altocumulus floccus AND lenticularis. What an evening.