Minimum viable action: what I do when I feel 'blocked'. I ask myself: Can you write 500 words? No. Can you write 50 words? Maybe. Can you write 5? Yes. But invariably when I sit down to write 5, I never get less than 100 words. I do this every hour, until I feel normal again or the next day.

Ah British trains… yesterday took 9 hours to get 2 hours away from London due to cancellations etc. Today our rail replacement bus got lost so we missed the connecting train home. Nothing is open. I really miss Chinese trains! 🚂

Y’ALL. Someone on the other site tried to make a Minion™ pizza and I cannot stop laughing; we’ve allllll had things go wrong in the kitchen, but this is a pretty vivid example... 🤣🤣🤣

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Just realised this week marks the 20th anniversary of me starting my MSc at NHM London. And I'm still here! And I still love it ❤️ (I did spend 10 years in other places around the world in the middle). As is tradition, here's a picture of me looking adoringly at something (a tenrec) in a jar.

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