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Road sign warning of hedgehogs and school
A wildfire in Provence, France
Dunwich Heath, Suffolk, last year
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, by Henry Gee, now in paperback in the US and Canada
My garden full of shrubs (no lawn)
My pet royal python (Python regalis)
My daughter is awarded her MA
A cat sitting in front of my computer
3x as many jugs of caffeinated coffee than decaf at science conference
Cover of US edition of my book 'A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth' with endorsement by Eric Idle.
A royal python, recently
‘Everywhere is a beach eventually’ - Dr Who (Ncuti Gatwa)
'Never been a fan of growing up' says The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) in the Dr Who episode 'Fugitive of the Judoon'.
'We are way past Peak Human' says tech bro Daniel Barton (Lenny Henry) in the Dr Who episode 'Spyfall'.
'Like, reverse the polarity, or something?' suggests Yaz (Mandip Gill) to the Doctor (Jodie Whitaker) in a 2018 episode of Dr Who
'Are you experiencing comprehension deficiency?' asks the android Ronan (David Shields) of Yazmin Khan (Mandip Gill) in the Dr Who adventure 'The Tsuranga Conundrum' (2018).
'We've also got high-explosive rounds for Yetis', Brigadier Lethridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) assures the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) in the Dr Who serial 'The Battlefield'.
'Anyone remotely interesting is mad in some way or another' -- the Doctor (the cruelly underrated Sylvester McCoy) in 'The Greatest Show In The Galaxy'.
Senegal bichir (Polypterus bichir)
‘I once built a gun out of leaves’ says Missy (Michelle Gomez) eternal adversity to the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) in Dr Who