Giselle du Toit

There'll be blue tits over the white cliffs of dover probably wouldn't have been as much of a hit

Kevelaer.

Tilburg.

Red and green pedestrian lights from various places...

A very slow moving thread...

No tractors, except tractors.

Temporary traffic sign, just one pole inserted into the small gaps between bricks

Close up of the bricks

Eindhoven temporary signs. Again instead of trip-hazard sandwich boards with sandbags taking up valuable footway space, it just fits in-between the bricks. Relies on bricks being present so perhaps not as easy to reproduce in the UK as the German variety.

Didn't get a photo of the bigger ones but they have a larger rectangular baseboard which more of the weights stack onto each side

Temporary diversion sign, pole stuck into two heavy rectangular weights

German alternative to sandwich boards and sandbags. Seems much more sensible with a smaller footprint where it matters to pedestrians and cyclists.

Picture of double deck bike parking, with the bottom racks nearly full and the top rack empty

Even in the Netherlands where two tier racks are common, the preference is clearly for the bottom rack. (Also these only really work if you have a frame lock, there are no locking points on them.)
Nijmegen Plein 1944

Art: Cat riding a bicycle

Left with 20 separate hardcopy tickets which I now need to not lose.

Took c. 1 hour *at a ticket office* to buy train tickets with a bike reservation yesterday. I'd given up on doing it online as most of the apps don't let you, and the others were saying "no reservations available" - I think because the trip involved a Northern leg, which doesn't do reservations.

the lads who chopped down that tree got FOUR YEARS

People under trees in Lisbon

It is 39°C in Lisbon today. The same in Madrid. In Paris next week it will also be 39°C.

Look at this picture. People are under trees, where it can be up to 12°C cooler.

Given trees take decades to mature and many don’t survive, cities need to plant many more street trees. And urgently.

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

I keep getting ads telling me to use AI to answer my emails for me, and everything I know about the theory of induced traffic tells me that this ends with an exponential increase in pointless emails as robots chat away to each other and minimal actual productivity gains

Offer to walk them to your bike? Take a photo of you standing next to it in their parking?

As the author, I’m immensely proud of this report. But mainly I hope people read it and take notice. This is about the rise in ‘fake e-bikes’, and what’s driving it appgcw.org/resources/in...

(2) Any person directed by a notice to queue, or when asked to queue by an authorised person, shall join the rear of the queue and obey the reasonable instructions of any authorised person regulating the queue.

(1) An Operator or an authorised person may require any person to queue in order to regulate order or safety on or near the railway.

Most British byelaw ever?

I expect front basket. You can try ours if you like. We also have multiple front bags.

Watching nearly every political party in the UK chase the same 20% of the worst people in the country, ignoring the other 80%, just to please the papers.

Nothing will change in the UK until the papers are taken in hand. Not all the media, just the papers. The rest will flow from there.

Please say it's bollards? Or Sheffield stands?

Somewhere (not sure where) suggested it was playing with his kid.

Photo of a speed bump/raised table with precast sides and brick top

Premade Dutch style humps in the wild! Stockport Grammar school car park.

Yes indeed!

Apparently most rail trips are now for leisure purposes. So it's great that we still do engineering works on bank holiday weekends then....

Could do with slightly longer cycle green times imo as it's a bit tight

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Today is 80 years since the Nazis executed Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was imprisoned for his part in the plot to assassinate Hitler. His words have never been more relevant and we need his moral clarity and courage more than ever before.