The beginning of October 2024 marks a year since I set 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  moving in the  right  direction. 

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The positive elements are growth in the number of bookings for public speaking,  for the next year already past one event per month and with a far greater geographic spread from Somerset across to East and West  Sussex and up into Bedfordshire. I have also registered as a STEM ambassador and so,  now take my message into schools  and colleges. It is likely that my total  audience  will exceed  2000 in 2025  and then hopefully  increase to 5000 by 2030. 

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The area which has been very disappointing is reaching out to professionals and  professional  offices, which has  yielded virtually no interest whatsoever.  It  could be that  I offer  no commercial  benefit  and so  engagement seems pointless. 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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Linkedin remains one of  my main methods of sharing my thoughts.  The Linkedin platform itself is still something of a  mystery,  usually my posts  generate between 10  and  20 likes and  500-1000  impressions.  However, one  post  recieved  10000  impressions  and over  100  likes, so  clearly  people are  looking, even if  not responding.

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The next year will  see  a  number of significant  developments.  Firstly September  2024 I  set  out  to walk  east  to west  across the  UK, a  distance of  400  miles.  I completed 5 days and 110 miles  then suffered  from major blisters  and had to stop. However, in Spring 2025, I  will resume  and complete.  Short  videos were posted  each day  to  Linkedin and  Instagram and are now available through  the  "Cross  Country" page.  My  aim on completion is to publish a  book  entitled "Cross The Heart - Hope Not  To Die".  It  will be a guide  for anyone crazy enough to  follow in my footsteps  and a commentary on rural UK.

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I  have published  2 other  books,  the  first "Grandad  Counts" is aimed at  3-4 year old children just learning their  numbers.  It is  in effect a visual  advent  calendar, no chocolate treats I am afraid,  but  you do  get a  corny joke each  day. 

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The second  is E-mission,  which is  a collection of  my previous posts and sketches covering various  aspects  of the climate crisis.   

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If  any  of these  are  of  interest  please  contact me at  cc@cquester.co.uk

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Thanks