Arrived in Sydney after a full day and night of travel. Headed to Bondi for breakfast and caught the Sculptures by the Sea expo again. Beautiful weather for a walk along the coast. ☀️ #australia

Learning how to sketch this week. Bought a few books, watched a few videos, but figure I should share and commit to doing a sketch a day.

Would love to hear from anyone else who has learnt how to draw/sketch/paint. What tips or resources did you find useful?

Love these fresh blue-sky autumn days for running 🍂☀️😀

Nice wee wander over Blackford Hill and up Braid Hills - wee view back to the Observatory. 🍂

What a beautiful day for a run! Autumn leaves and sunshine in the Meadows. ☀️🍂🏃

Trying to shake off the last of a cold with a run. New pair of Brooks Cascadia to help - looking forward to getting some trail runs in this Autumn!

#running #brooksrunning

Wee Edinburgh rainbow 🌈

Wee 3km run along the river - such a beautiful and fresh autumn day! ☀️🍂

Wee trip over to Prague for a couple of days. Cheap Ryanair and an Airbnb bargain!

A lovely fresh autumn day for a walk around the city, coffee and pastries. Some Czech beer later 🍻♥️🇨🇿

Weekend reading. Lots of interesting stuff in here - ways to think about the economy going forward, with the rise of intangibles. Probably important with Brexit and the rise of China as a new arbiter of IP law.

A wee day at the races, where I had no idea what was going on. 🏇🎠🐎🐴

This was pretty good. Realised that I didn’t know a lot about Russian history, and given all that’s going on with Ukraine I wanted to know more. This covers a great amount - highlights the importance of language, culture and historical narrative for forming nations out of different peoples. Worth a look for my political friends.

Walked up to Torrs Point past Kirkcudbright on the bay - fresh and less rain than yesterday!

Wandered about in a field and a forest for an hour. 🌧️

At home for the weekend. Picking dinner. 🍴

#homegrownveggies

Watched the fireworks over the castle tonight from Bruntsfield Links. Lovely!

21km run to Cramond and back, in around 1hr 55m. Training for the Glasgow half at the end of September. If you are doing it too then let me know!

Went to an Edinburgh Book Fest event to hear Bruno Maçães speak about his book “Dawn of Eurasia” - very interesting! The book is a good mix of travel and political/future imagination - worth a read for a new perspective.

#edbookfest #edinburgh

Wee bit of Mogwai ♥️

Loved yesterday’s flying visit to the Thyssen museum so much I decided to do it again properly today. Well worth it - got an audio guide and learnt a lot. Really well structured. If you like paintings and are in Madrid then check it out - free on Monday’s from 2-4pm! 🇪🇸 Now back to the summer heat for the trip to the airport ✈️

Morning run in El Retiro. Golden sunshine and the moon was still out. 🌑☀️