Andrew Godwin

Went to a lovely local bakery/brunch place this morning that had "Croissants and Gravy" on the menu and I am torn between this being a food crime and being actual genius.

Passed my EMR exam so I am now certified to give oxygen, splint things, patch up bad holes, and mostly go "oh yes, you really need someone much more qualified than me". Will probably go up to EMT at some point but that requires quite a bit more hands-on training!

Pictured: One cat, shortly before he realises that now there are presents under the tree he can avoid the anti-cat spikes and try to climb it

Nice long break ahead means I can finally get around to rewriting my travel checklist app properly (and add on the house regular-maintenance items functionality I've always wanted). Past me would have added user accounts and stuck it up for everyone to use; now I'm instead thinking "what if I didn't go through all that hassle?"

In rather excellent news, we're now at the point where a light aircraft can detect its pilot being incapacitated and successfully land and then shut the engines off fully automatically. My hat is off to the Garmin engineers who built this system.

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Aircraft landed safely at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport near Denver on Saturday afternoon.

For reasons known only to myself, I documented and reviewed nine different Christmas sandwiches on my trip back to London. Please, maybe, enjoy. (Mostly I wanted to get practice at lower-effort single take filming!)

The new V&A East Storehouse is fantastic. Not only is it the most pure, channeled form of the V&A's eclectic collection, but the big pieces on display are great, including an ENTIRE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT OFFICE.

Popped into Hamleys (the world's oldest toy shop, and something of a dream destination when I was little!) and while it is definitely still delightfully packed with toys, wow is it smaller than I remember. Though I guess I'm a lot bigger now as well.

Lost my Google TV dongle a trip ago and decided to try a Roku stick in its place. I'm quite impressed - power still works off a TV USB port, you can Bluetooth your phone to it, you can have it send audio to your phone (and headphones), and it asks if you're sure when you press the Netflix button!