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, othertimes it  has been stuck. 

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The positive elements are growith in the number of bookings for public speaking,  for the next year already into the  twenties.  I am also  registered  as a STEM ambassador and so can now take the  message into schools.

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The area  which has been very dissappointing is reaching out to professionals and  professional  offices, which has  yielded virtually  no response whatsoever.  It  could  be that  I  offere  no commercial  benefit  and so  engagement seems pointless. I  have concluded  that  the problem with cliamte change is that people  adopt  certian beliefs about it which suit their particular area of expertise, they assume their verison of climate change is the only one  with  validity,  they become so heavily invested in their  beliefs and assumptions that  it becomes a  problem if  someone comes along to tell them that there is perhaps another  equally  valid  version. 

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Linkedin remains one of  my main methods of sharing my thoughts.  The Linkedin platform itself is stil 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 this September  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 avialable here.  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 foodsteps  and a  commentary  on  rural UK.

 

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

 

The second  is E-mission,  which is  a collaction of  my  previous  posts  and skecthces 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