👋 Welcome!

My daughter was on a trip in Bosnia and had not been feeling well the final two days. So, I had to pick her up at Frankfurt Airport after the return flight.

I was sat outside the arrivals gate, waiting. After the plane had landed it took forever for the display to change to baggage collection. Bored and doom scrolling on my phone, I was waiting for a group of about 40 kids to appear. But my daughter collected her baggage and left as she knew I was already there.

She sent me a text about whether I had a new phone. I wondered how she knew that, maybe somehow from my messages. A few seconds later she sent me this photo:

She'd been sitting next to me for about a minute and I hadn't noticed! 🤣🤣🤣

My excuse is that I got up at 5am to get to the airport for 8am.

A wonderful concert from Pink Martini at the Rockhal.

Last week I was in Manchester for three days to give a presentation on the "EU approach to age assurance and age verification", at the Global Age Assurance Summit. My 15 minute presentation went well and there were plenty of questions afterwards to fill the remaining 10 minutes.

The event was interesting, showing the amount of effort that is going into keeping children safe online. This is something that should have been happening 20 years ago.