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Like the quiz? Why not give it a go with your colleagues! Corporate events Christmas / Summer parties Leaving dos Team socials Tried and tested, The Jolly Geo Quizzes provide plenty of corporate-friendly fun and entertainment. You might learn a thing or two along the way! (about your colleagues too…) How does it work? IRead more

Sat 20th June was 2020’s Summer Solstice, and the day we put up our pinhole cameras, an attempt to track the sun from Solstice to Solstice. It’s both dragged and flown by, but six months later the Winter Solstice is here. 21 December, super year 2020… And after a grand finale of glorious uninterrupted sunshineRead more

EIGHTEEN rounds and 126 contestants down. And still going! If you haven’t already played, book yourselves in players. (Just message me.) I hope to have this Edition wrapped by end of Jan (Xmas can’t continue forever!). Scroll down for the leaderboard… Remember, here’s where you can show a bit of quiz looove and donate toRead more

TEN rounds down, some still to go. Book yourselves in players, the Christmas Quiz is coming mid-December! And here’s where you can show a bit of quiz looove and donate to FIVE exceptional charities: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/thejollygeo Going into this new edition together we’d hit the £700 mark. Help us edge towards that £1000 milestone!Read more

Round Three, The Jolly Karters Against all odds, a new track added to the list! 800 m outdoor go kart track at Brentwood, Essex. An enjoyable one, with some demanding turns we never quite figured out. Peak speed – just shy of 63 kmph, in 200 cc karts. Congrats to Arnaud for another impressive win.Read more

Here be the top half of the FINAL quiz standings. Eleven Twelve rounds down, we’re finally done! 77 of you took part. Only TWO of you hit the 300 mark. Rory (Mr Rozzo McNozzo) was top for ELEVEN of the twelve rounds BUT THERE WAS LATE DRAMA! Pipped at the death by a Selfish Egg scoringRead more

New release! A neat video by My Naturewatch featuring The Jolly Geo, on the Royal College of Art website 🙂 #ProjectHogwatch Over the last 12 months I’ve been collaborating on a fun project exploring the role of design and technology, in connecting people with nature. It’s been awesome working with so many great design andRead more

Design Museum, London With Project Hogwatch complete and deemed a success, we were invited down by My Naturewatch to the Design Museum in London to show off our work. Here I am in the interview seat being asked about the project (just after finding out our MP had mentioned our hedgehog project in Parliament!) FootageRead more

UK Parliament, London Climate breakdown e-petition debate Yep, it’s a passing mention rather than the key message, but a mention is a mention! Motion moved by Daniel Zeichner, MP for Cambridge. And you can see the original e-petition here.Read more

The Jolly Geo met Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner at the Wildlife Trust BCN Trumpington Meadows Reserve, to mark the release of Nora, our first hedgehog in the release programme! Great opportunity to showcase the use of wildlife tech to help us meet conservation objectives. Kudos to Daniel – he seemed to genuinely care and stuckRead more