The beginning of January  2026 marks just over two years since setting up cquester.  If I am being honest progress has been mixed, sometimes it has seemed to take a leap forward, other times it becomes a  little stuck,  but  overall definitely moving in the  right  direction,  and building  momentum. 

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The positive elements are growth in the number of bookings for public speaking,  during 2025 I spoke to over 25  branches of the  Women's Institute. Having now completed one full year as a STEM ambassador I have delivered talks  to over 20 schools and 2000 children.  The talks cover all age groups, 5-18 and range from practical workshops to  more academic presentations. It remains my aim to start taking my talks into the custodial environment.   

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Reaching out to professionals and  professional  offices, has yielded little interest. It could be that  I offer  no commercial benefit and so engagement offers little obvious value. I have concluded  that  the problem with climate change is that people adopt certain beliefs about it, which suit their particular area of expertise, they assume their version of climate change is the only one with  validity, they become so heavily invested in their assumptions that it becomes a problem if someone suggests there is, perhaps, another equally valid interpretation. The truth  is of course, climate  change has many causes  and will have many  solutions,  all of which will have to be employed to  reach net  zero. 

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Discussions related  to Biodiversity loss are equally blinkered, and often misguided.  The Planning and  Infrastructure Bill has provoked significant levels of concern and criticism, particularly from the nature lobby.  I don't doubt  the  sincerity of the critics but there  allegations are often clearly false, even with a  modest level of scrutiny it becomes  clear that the predicted outcomes will not happen, at least not for the reasons they give. 

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Linkedin remains an important method of sharing thoughts and so I continue to post regularly. ​​

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The last year saw other significant milestones achieved. In May 2025 I completed my one man pilgrimage walking east  to west across the UK, a distance of 400 miles. In total the journey took 20 days to  complete.  

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​​I recently started to write my first book entitled "For  What  Its  Worth"  an  assessment of our  failings  related  to the optimisation of  land use. I remain convinced that Climate Change will force us to take a much closer look at  the  functionality behind the vast majority of the UK which remains undeveloped. 

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Thanks