• yoga, for sure
• good news (...pass it on!)
• green tea
• swimming

• Seasons over perpetual summer
• Calmness over disturbance
• Autumn over spring
• Understated over obnoxious
• Cats over dogs
• Faith over atheism
• Quality over quantity
• Values over pride
• Manners over impropriety

• Pistachio
• Cherry
• Coffee, naturally
• Vanilla, with an espresso shot poured over it
• Cookie dough, if I'm feeling indulgent

But why choose ice cream if there's the option of frozen yoghurt?

5 years

• More sure of my religious beliefs
• Cat
• Children, probably. One or two.
• Successful business, employing around 12 people
• Spending a few months a year on the eternal sunshine island and the rest somewhere cold, cosy and closer to home
• Documenting something with photography

10 years

• Beautiful family
• Tesla and charming home [September 2018 edit: Volvo and charming home]
• Private pilot's license (only 10 years late)
• Studying physics part time
• My auto-immune disease taken care of by some new medicine

25 years

• Actually put my phone away
• Camera around my neck
• Miss being productive
• Spend most of the time outside
• People-watching
• Listen to local radio stations
• Wake up excited

• car wheels on gravel
• shock-waves on a frozen lake
• rails whispering before a fast train
• feet crunching in snow
• orchestra tuning
• a cappella choir
• wood pigeons

• I broke that PDA thing when I was at school
• Nothing much else because I take care of my stuff

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I used to love the world as it was. One evening I looked out of a 17th-floor window overlooking the City of London and saw perfection in everything I could see. Lights stretched to the horizon, and in those few square miles I saw so much possibility.

Yet change is inevitable, and my view of the world has changed. Times have changed, or so it seems if one pays too much attention to the news. Increasingly, I'm aware of the ills of the world.

There's a lot we have to fix together, and I hope that we can do our fair share before passing the torch to our children. Seven billion (and counting) souls on an increasingly crowded and unstable spaceship. Even if we could get off we have no other home.

What we painted through the centuries we are pissing away in our exuberance. Safe to say, I'm not complacent about the stat...

I feel at home in the wilderness. It's part knowing that I'm sharing an experience with ancestors, part being away from people, and part having space to think about what really matters.

• Once, whilst driving on the moors near where I grew up, I saw sunlight fall across the landscape in front of me in such a way that convinced me there is a higher power. The moment transcended physical reality.
• Death Valley was intensely exciting to be in. Something about the dry wind that blows warm even at 11 pm in October. Sunset and sunrise are timeless there.
• That Narnia-like forest in Quebec Province, but more importantly, the emptiness of the beautiful nature which surrounded our cabin.
• Seeing the stars, whether from Furnace Creek or the shores of Mauritius. It allows...

2006

• Snow Hey Oh Chili Peppers - the last holiday with my family before moving out.
• Naïve The Kooks - This was me in halls

2007

• Take on Me Aha - walking to the least rewarding job I've ever had

2008

• Black & Gold Sam Sparro - Kimberley Road
• Infinity Guru Josh Project - Freshers take two

2010

• Feierlicher Einzug... Richard Strauss - city in snow
• Like a G6 Far East Movement - Boston yo
• Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Vaughan Williams - Lonely semester

2016

• Seven Years Old - life-changing move to the island of eternal sunshine

• Christmas tree
• Mulled wine
• Lavender

• Kerbal Space Program (the definition of an educational game)
• Factorio (even if it's stupidly addictive)
• Minecraft (the perfect mix of creativity and discovery)
• Bioshock (amazing atmosphere)
• Team Fortress 2 (for taking out frustration on goop-filled cartoons)
• Call of Duty: World at War (playing co-op with Matt was _so much fun_)
• Open Transport Tycoon (my vice)
• Age of Empires 2 (truly epic with friends, and insane when played over LAN with room phones for telephone diplomacy. Not sure I'll ever have so much fun again in a computer game).

UK (bold = lived in):

• London
• Newcastle
• Durham
• Edinburgh

Europe:

• Vilnius
• Lisbon

Elsewhere

• Boston
• San Francisco

To visit:

• Hamburg
• Stockholm
• Rome

Ticked = visited, bold = visited together, others: bucket list

• ✔ UK
• ✔ Canada
• ✔ France
• ✔ Mauritius
• ✔ Ireland
• ✔ Germany
• ✔ Belgium
• ✔ Spain
• ✔ Portugal
• ✔ Italy
• ✔ Turkey
• ✔ Greece
• ✔ Monaco
• ✔ USA
• ✔ Kenya
• ✔ Reunion Island (France)
• ✔ Lithuania
• ✔ Seychelles
• Norway