Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Swim in the Varembe pool. Seemed to go quite a bit faster than last time, and also somewhat more relaxed in terms of the surrounding crowd - perhaps the first time I've actually enjoyed a swim in this location.

It's slowly dawning on me that being responsible for a 2011-15 five-year climate assessment that is going to be released the week before the Paris conference means that I probably have more of a platform than any scientist has previously to tell the world about what's happening to the climate right now, ahead of a big UN climate conference. It's a significant responsibility...

C • Something about the right man for the job? 2

I'm over in the UK for the weekend. The flight across was on time and with no dramas, but the 90 minutes after landing weren't a wonderful advertisement for Britain (despite the niceness of the immigration official), the highlight being almost refused entry onto the shuttle to the airport hotel because I only had a 20-pound note for the 5-pound fee (in most of the world this would be a free service anyway) and the driver didn't have change - another passenger came to the rescue. We then spent 40 minutes doing an extended lap of Heathrow (by the end of this, the thought was crossing my mind that I could have just about got into central London by now), whereupon the hotel couldn't find my booking (it turned out they'd filed it under Blair rather than Trewin - not the first time this has happened and undoubtedly not the last). Other annoyances were that both Oyster card machines at Terminal 5 were broken (I was hoping to get one tonight to give me the option of getting a bus out tomorrow if that turned out to be the most efficient way of doing things), as was one of the hotel lifts.