Fi Daisy G

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Engineering Academic, Chartered Structural Engineer, Open University Staff Tutor, global citizen living in UK, Mum, she/her.

Screenshot from BBC UK news page with the story "New guidance on single-sex spaces comes into force" below "Couple woke to find shirtless intruder in Travelodge room"
Screen shot of ALT text for compass exercise, with original image visible behind. Spellings and word order are muddled eg 765 541 What was hore? ... 760 537 hat colour paint on rock on Worth side? ...
Screenshot zoomed in on architects' render to show a tree on a terrace. The deciduous tree is well grown and in full leaf but the trunk rises straight from the concrete slab with no pit or roots visible
Photo of a bridge by a park
Screen shot of FatFace listing for a "Blue Short Sleeve Seafood Print Shirt £45". The shirt is pictured worn by a black male model and has line drawings of crab, lobster and squid on a plain blue background. A roundel shows a cream version is also available.
Photo of the Guardian newspaper with a full page advert by Boeing next to an article about hydropower plans and a UNHCR appeal for venezuela earthquake response A Lego model is on the desk next to the paper - Samwise Gamgee defending Frodo from Shelob
Photo of a large glass of iced tea beside a computer keyboard
Photo of a Midlands style dead-hedge in parkland, with a sign explaining the technology. The sky is monotonous grey and the long grass in the foreground is very wet
Screen shot of bluesky feed. A Guardian article "Help! I'm being held hostage by a car salesman" is lined up just below a post about why harder is needed to shift attitudes on road user safety and reduce sales of SUVs
Photograph of a shelf with objects on it including a model dinosaur skull, cardboard office block and wind turbine, a jar of mixed pasta shapes, a Wallace and Gromit diorama ...
Photo of a stone squeeze stile by a park fence, lined with poppies in bloom
Photo of a cafe in a park. The cafe is in a modern building with a large window onto a deck. There is a boules court in front and a wooden footbridge over the river to the right
Photo of a mosaic floor with a grid of geometric emblems and a border panel. A modern ramp runs round the mosaic, inside a white concrete wall
Photo of a grand prix car, on display in a building. Text behind reads "Race around buildings? We go through them". A clock displays "Time to race: 095 09 45 08"
Photo of an Avery impact testing machine at the de Havilland museum
Photo of a bolted joint engineered to minimise thermal bridging. The components have different densities and thermal conductivity, best understood by handling
Photo of old turnstiles either side of a green-painted, wooden hut with a pitched roof. The stiles are embedded in a modern green corrugated metal fence, blocking the route
A squeeze stile of two curved stones on a footpath, which now bypasses the stile to either side. The green industrial fence has a gateway just beyond, where the footpath curves into a modern housing estate (2010s)
Screenshot of start of an article titled "Electrical research and the home" by Miriam Griffiths BSc FInstP, including a black and white photo of "The author carrying out tests with the experimental heat pump"
Screen shot from article in The Electrical Age October 1951, with a detailed paragraph on "The simple electrically operated Crowd Counting Panel ...". "A watchman's patrol unit" gets a short mention before a further paragraph on "checking and dealing with fire"
Screen shot of an article from The Electrical Age October 1951, titled "Behind the Festival Scene" by Phyllis Thompson. A black and white photo shows the South Bank Control Centre and the opening paragraph highlights "the effect of colour and light"
Screenshot of bullet point from Institution of Civil Engineers news item on updated ethics guidance. Text reads: "Sustainability. For the first time, all members are required to give the environment full regard in their decision-making. This puts it on a par with health and safety"
Photo of a McDonalds drive through on a high street. A pedestrian is waiting to cross beside the stump of a felled street tree
Photo of a bus on Fishponds Road, decorated to celebrate 'Inspirational women in transport 1944-2024'. The bus is showing Centre 48
Photo of The Heron pub, near London Paddington station, on a spring evening
Black Heart Orchestra at Rondo Theatre, Bath
Photo of Bristol at night. The Moon and Jupiter are visible in a dark sky, above illuminated buildings and their reflections in the Floating Harbour
Photo of the night sky over Paddington. There is still a hint of pink on the horizon, deepening into blue, with a crescent moon competing with lights from the station and buildings
Photo of a car parked completely on a pavement, by a sign reading 'caution beware pedestrians'
Screenshot of full page advert showing a woman sat on a washing machine beside a pylon, with the strapline "she can't have one without the other". Text under identifies advertiser as CEGB and top of following page identifies source as The Electrical Age, January 1962.
Photo of three folk musicians on stage at Christ Church, Downend
Photo looking over a flyer for Bristol Folk Festival (1-3 May 2026) towards the stage at Christ Church, Downend
Photo of two postcards showing the carbon footprint of 1 kg of bananas (0.67 kg CO2e) and vine cherry tomatoes (organic, UK) with a calendar page indicating March (28.2 kg CO2e). A QR code links to https://bananasgame.co.uk/
Screen shot from Google street view showing a bus stop at New Station Road. Signage directs cyclists across the bus lane and alternative routes for drivers
Page from How things work 'on tusk trimming and attendant problems'
Photo of Whitby Abbey at dawn, viewed down a street from across the harbour
Screenshot of Bristol as a close up of map; A trunk extends into the sea
Photo of Clevedon pier on a windy day with heavy cloud. A flag is fully extended and a couple of people are steadfastly walking out to the two storey tea room at the end. Wales is a darker blur on the horizon.
Photo inside a station building, looking out from an elevated walkway. The ceiling is an array of riveted beams and an old clock cantilevers from a brickwork wall. The hall is enclosed by a glass screen, with large letters M C R visible beyond. A passenger is wheeling a bicycle towards the escalator
Photo of a packet of Welsh Cakes on a buffet car counter
Photo of a rainbow at Newport station. The arc of the rainbow links the curves of the canopy over platform 4 and the footbridge rising between platforms 2 and 3
Photo through a railway carriage window at Bristol Temple Meads. A copy of The Structural Engineer is on the table, the image of 'Low-carbon transformation' at Nottingham University echoing the arch of the station roof
Screen shot of Know Your Place map. Charlton is shown on an old map in the top half with Filton shown as modern mapping below. The divider is positioned along the runway, which stretches East-West
Photo from the beach at Robin's Hood Bay looking towards the Old Coastguard Station, coffee shop and visitor centre
Google screen shot of a journey in Milton Keynes. A bus route is highlighted, taking 1 hr 7 min. The bottom ribbon shows 2 hr 24 min for walking, 39 min for cycling but just 11 min by car
Photo of leaflet for Walking with Dinosaurs exhibition at Bristol Museum
Photo of Walking with Dinosaurs book and video. A small model dinosaur is clambering onto the book
Photo of a stone stile, looking out from the cathedral to the road. A collection of traffic cones and a large orange bin are next to the wall
Screen shot from google maps showing a bus stop and ev charging point on Broad Street, Staple Hill
Photo of a stone building. A plaque on the gate post identifies it as a school attended by Roald Dahl
Photo of Llandaff Cathedral from the far side of a masonry bridge
Photo of The Dean's Steps at Llandaff Cathedral. Broad stone steps rise up between random rubble walls. There are drainage channels to either side and a cast iron handrail down the middle
Photo of a stile set between a stone wall and a stone gatepost. The stile is a stone slab, thinner and lower than the adjacent wall, placed vertically to step over. A corner of the cathedral is visible beyond.
Photo of an exhibit labelled Beagle 2 full size model. A gold lined case is displayed on a surface, coloured and textured to resemble Mars. A collection of black octagonal plates adjoin the case.
Photo of concorde keeping a watchful eye on space fest exhibitors in a hangar at Aerospace Bristol
Photo of a cat sorting socks, besides a pile of t-shirts and jeans that have already been folded
Photo of a Moomin mug and coffee pot, set up to pour over once the kettle boils
Shelfie photo with a hard back copy of The World of Moominvalley pulled out to show the cover. Two cuddly Moomins are visible beyond, sat on a 'too be read' pile
Photo of College Green after dark, taken during Bristol Light Festival 2026. A cyclist has just passed an illuminated sign reading 'Bristol is always a good idea', at the front of an open space filled with an interactive installation of scale model hot air balloons. The Council House is visible beyond with blue lights on the top storey
Photo of a statue of Henrietta Lacks. The bronze statue is life size and stands on a gravel path with well managed borders beyond