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If I’m at home, I’m most likely listening to music! I’ve gone to the same music festival in Bucharest, Romania (where my wife is from) almost every year since 2018, and find that music is perfect to accompany any mood. Sad? There’s a song for that! Excited? There’s a song for that! Schaudenfraude??? There’s most likely a song for that but it’s a complex emotion so it’d probably take ages to find I think!

Whenever I’m able to visit a culture that’s new to me, I really love to go on a food tour. It’s a great way for me to learn the history of a city or country through its food. In the last few years, I’ve done this in Mexico, Malta, Canada and Greece (there’s so much delicious food everywhere!).

A lot of my work is about making sure that a company isn’t going to cause unnecessary harm to the environment. Whenever a company wants to make a product, there will probably always be emissions (which can be gases like carbon dioxide). This is expected, and it’s not always a bad thing compared to the benefits of the product that they want to make. But it’s my job to check this.

I do this by looking at their plant, and the different activities they want to do and judging whether the amount of emissions they expect to do are okay. For example, if a plant is making medicines for sick people or making toys for children. The emissions that they are allowed to make depend on the different equipment that they use and how big they are. I also look through their safety checks. Some companies have very big plants, and so if something was to go wrong then it can have bigger impacts on the people who live around it. For my checks, I look at what their plans are in case things go wrong, so that everyone who lives near them can feel safe.