A May Of Marvels

*The Queen’s card to Pat and Tim for their 70th wedding anniversary on 8 May*

*A statue by Antony Gormley overhead in the Wellcome Trust building – where we plan to hold the Volans 10th anniversary event*

*Yinka tries out the stairs for size – and comfort*

*Stairs in British Museum when we went to the Rodin and the Art of Classical Greece exhibition*

*Beehive on a North London station, thanks to Energy Garden*

*Watering cans and a passer by during our Energy Garden adventure*

*Clover (Hogan) pores over background briefing*

*Yinka (soyinka) with the briefing document*

*Heading east: Taylor Roark, Agamemnon Otero and Jacqueline (Lim)*

Solar roof on public housing (click on the image to see at larger scale). Once again, though, I seriously banged my head in climbing onto the roof. But if bleeding is healing, as they used to say, I have been well served.

As Yinka and I walked back through Stratford station, we were passed by a young woman energetically talking into her cell phone about “sustainability”, then when we were walking back up Southampton Row to our office, we saw this T-shirt. Spot the fifth value in the second line. If we hadn’t been in such a hurry to get back in time for lunch with David Wheeler, I might have asked the man ahead what he thought sustainability meant.

*Clover shoots a number of us back in the office*

As I breathe a little ahead of a trip to Shanghai on Tuesday, have been reflecting on the month to date.

Marvels this month have included a trip across to Little Rissington to help Pat and Tim celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on 8 May; the discovery of the Wellcome Trust Reading Room (and booking it for the Volans 10th birthday party); an extraordinary learning journey with the team to visit projects developed by one of my favourite social entrepreneurs, Agamemnon Otero, and his teams at Energy Garden and Repowering London; and the co-hosting yesterday at Imperial College of our carbon capture event with Noah Deich and his team from the Centre for Carbon Removal.

But the top story by several country miles has to be the birth of our first grandchild on 22 May: Gene August Lushington. Wonderful to meet him on Thursday at University College Hospital.

Hania called him ‘Thumper’ when in the womb, because he was so active. One of my colleagues, Lorraine Smith, noted that Thumper the rabbit in Watership Down warned of incoming challenges, so maybe a case of like grandfather, like grandson?

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