Matthew Tosh

@matthewtosh.com

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Presenter, pyro, science, live event & safety specialist (he/him). BHF Data Science Centre PAG member. I 💜 arts, bells, equality, #PPIE and tea. 🏳️‍🌈 #ARVC ❤️‍🩹 #Cardiomyopathy www.matthewtosh.com

T-shirt front showing a blue-on-white logo featuring a breaking wave. The text reads "The sea isn't real.com" followed by "Say no to the sea".
LEGO Technic-style elephant model on a bookshelf. The elephant is built from grey struts, gears and panels, with its trunk lowered and legs standing on round supports.
A view of the nave of York Minster, looking towards the West Window from the chancel crossing. The rear of the high alter is in the foreground.
A view of the twin bell towers at the West End of York Minster, basking in the evening sun again a blue sky. On Bluesky. See what I did there?
A view from the south-west tower of York Minster, looking down onto trees and buildings on the street below. Evening sun is creating long shadows on the road and pavements.
A slide from the Digital Health session, outling how patient arrhythmias could be better managed using a range of interlinked technologies and patient data.
Rocks'y, the Lancashire Heeler, on her back. She is being tummy-tickled by Matthew’s hand. The dog is looking straight at the camera.
Looking out over a calm sea at Burnham-on-Sea beach at dusk. A bit of the beach is visible in the foreground. I love watching the sea and this image always makes me smile.
A section of an ECG trace showing abnormal rhythms (a premature ventricular contraction couplet).
A dark sky filled with spectacular golden brocade (glitter) shell bursts, over the top of 11 pink and gold mines erupting from the ground, with 22 45-degree gold-glitter comet punctuations.
CureHeart logo featuring a stylised red heart and DNA strand within a circular icon, alongside the word “CureHeart” in bold red lettering.
A power-time output chart, showing a reduction in output between 10am and midday.
Headed meeting papers on a table in the foreground, showing the union name "EQUITY". The content is not visible (cropped out). In the background are union members out of focus.
Matthew is on stage in a large Victorian City Hall venue, with a high arched ceiling and theatrical lighting overhead. In the foreground is the audience who are watching the show. A six-metre high wall of pyrotechnic gold and silver sparks is erupting at the front of the stage with dramatic effect.
A theatre lighting truss with colourful paper streamers hanging from it.
A vertically hanging bellrope with three figure of eight knots in it. A blurred ringer is sitting in the background.
Picture of Chilcompton church and tower on a sunny summer day. The tower is Norman style with castlellations around the top.
A plate of ground spices, arranged individually in small piles, including chilli flakes, coriander, cumin, turmeric, cayenne pepper, paprika and cinnamon.
Matthew's left hand holding a pyrotechnic device and positioning it on a mounting frame. The device is made from cardboard, is cylindrical and painted black on the exterior.
Screenshot of a mobile device showing an ICD monitoring app. The message on the screen says: "Checking your heart device... This may take several minutes. Keep the app open and your mobile device nearby."
A grassy park, with a line of trees on the horizon - deliberately framed to be ambiguous.
A notice in a shop window which reads: "NOTICE. Thank you for noticing this new notice."
A side photo of Matthew making a model person out of purple modelling clay during a recent conference. Matthew is working at a table with colourful lollipop sticks, modelling clay, pens and pipe cleaners.
No peeking here for clues! You are looking at the underside of a civil engineering structure. It features triangulated girders and a cantilever deck running along the left and right sides. The blue sky has a few white clouds visible.
A toy Welsh dragon, made from red felt. It is wearing a multi-coloured scarf and some metal pins badges. Sorry, I mean him, not it. This is going well already, isn't it?
The (nearly) white-walled ringing chamber of Bristol Cathedral. Twelve blue rectangular peal performance boards are displayed on the facing wall, with an additional two on the left wall, each featuring a different performance scribed in gold lettering. In the foreground are seven visible ringers out of eight who are ringing on ropes with blue wool sallies.
A plasticine character with big googlie eyes. It is on green skis, made from ice lolly sticks, and is holding tinsel scissors.
A photo of a junction of the Coventry ring road.
Bristol Harbourside.
An artistic painted heart, made up from diagonal rainbow strokes in watercolours.
A plastic vial containing a mixture of saliva and preservative. It is an orange solution and looks a but like a urine sample, but it's not. I promise!
A small clump of mushrooms in a plastic punnet. The mushroom bodies are erupting from the same base and it looks like they are competing to out-grow the punnet.
A screen shot of the most commonly searched terms by Matthew's website audience. In first place is "Matthew Tosh". In second place is "Matthew the hedgehog". Matthew is now considering an alternative lifesyle as a flea-infested, slug-eating erinaceid.
A view of Birmingham Cathedral ringing chamber. Eight out of the twelve ringers can be seen, pulling on the red, white and blue striped sallies. Other people are sitting squashed up around the edge of the ringing chamber. There are three cooling fans in the centre of the room, pointing outwards to keep the ringers cool.
A metal rope spider (hooks for ropes) hanging from a ceiling in a bell chamber. It has 12 legs or hooks.
Matthew is picture on stage at the Aberdeen Arts Centre. He is gesturing, with his arms outstretched, at a rainbow of fire, nade from five two-metre-high flames. From left to right, the vivid flame colours are red, yellow, green, blue and purple.
Graphic of a loudhailer with LGBTQ+ History month written on the side and an LGBTQ+ flag coming out of the mouth of the hailer.
St Mary's Redcliffe Church, Bristol - view of the exterior from the North-East.
Photo of a church spire against a blue sky.
A TV screen on top of a cupboard, showing CCTV images of the bell chamber and the bells. There are 8 bells hung for full-circle ringing here.
Looking across the ringing chamber. There is an oil radiator in the foreground. Some ringers and ropes are outof focus in the background.
Coventry Cathedral ruins bell tower at night, floodlit from below. The viewpoint is looking up from the foot of the tower. There is a large glass window, through which the bellringers and ropes can be seen.
Matthew demonstrating a controlled fireball during a science show at a primary school. Children are in the foreground, watching the show.
A pair of home-baked mince pies on a plate. They have been dusted with icing sugar.
A pile of risk assessments and safety paperwork on on office desk.
Night time photo of a frosted glass window in the West end tower of Chilvers Coton church, Nuneaton. Lights are on in the tower. There is a dark wooden door beneath the window.
Matthew is carefully positioning a bowl of water in front of a high-speed camera in a lecture theatre. Members of the production team are standing either side of the camera lens. They are preparing to film the highly-explosive reaction of caesium and water.
A computer monitor showing a log-in screen for a BBC studio live link. There is an audio-level gauge at the centre of the screen. A studio microphone can be seen on the left in the foreground.
Matthew's left had holding onto a shopping trolley handle. His wrist shows a medical SOS wristband with a rainbow-coloured band.
Photo of a waist-height suspended candle-lantern in the foreground in a church yard. In the background is the entrance to the church, slightly out of focus, decorated with more lanterns and an illuminated star above the door. A churchyard path runs from the foreground up to the church door. Other lanterns can be seen along the path.
A partially blurred Google Streetview image of Matthew walking along a pavement in front of a stone wall in Newport, South Wales. The merging of multiple images has completely erased his legs and backside. He appears to be floating.
Matthew is on top of scaffolding, on the roof of his house. He is grinning at the camera. Behind him is his newly restored roof and six solar panels.
A roof rafter with screws protruding from it. The screws have caused the rafter to split lengthways over approx 25cm.
A paper takeaway food box containing a baked potato, vegetable chilli and salad. The takeaway box is on top of a wheeled flight case. Next to it is a hard hat with ear defenders.
An upper torso manakin in a shop window. The manakin is wearing a white t-shirt with the red-coloured "Easy Runner" branding on it. There is a running show in front of the manakin.
A pop-up 3D advent calendar, depicting a nativity scene in a snowy (!) stable. Several of the stars in the night sky have numbered doors. Other numbered doors are dotted about the scene, which features musical cherubs, a donkey, some pine trees and a wooden fruit barrel.
The tail-end of a supposedly "soft" bell rope, bent into a wiggly zigzag shape. It is so stiff that it holds its shape. It is being held by a young ringer who is standing in a ringing chamber. Other ringers are blurred in the background.
A young child is in the foreground on the shoulders of an adult (out of shot) amongst a crowd of people watching a firework display. The child has his back to the camera and is holding up a small circular LED toy in the air against a backdrop of large red firework aerial bursts.