A shrub, possibly wisteria, trained along the top on iron railings, woven in and out of each upright. Rather lovely in the sun. Imagine it full of purple flowers too! #Gardening
01.03.2026 20:57 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A shrub, possibly wisteria, trained along the top on iron railings, woven in and out of each upright. Rather lovely in the sun. Imagine it full of purple flowers too! #Gardening
01.03.2026 20:57 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
London Eye from Westminster Bridge with a fine old 3-light lamppost in the foreground looking the same size. Also County Hall is in the background.
Statue of David Lloyd George with flying coat tails. Further away is a statue of Winston Churchill (a few days before it got paint daubed on it). Beyond that is Big Ben, and in the very far distance is The Shard. The pavement is wet and the statues, some pedestrians and Big Ben are reflected.
A view from the side along Westminster Bridge to Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament.
#Westminster views from @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route Waterloo to Victoria. #London #BigBen
01.03.2026 20:52 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of trees surrounded by mist with the sun behind. Beams of sunlight shine through gaps
Misty morning photo from a walk a while back near Widnes.
#silentsunday #photography #nature #landscape
Inside the booking hall of Richmond Station. Square lampshades, Crittall windows, sleek straight lines, but curved glass at the sides of the doors.
Outside Richmond Station. Flat porch canopy with curved corners, flagpoles and supports in a sweeping style, blocky lettering.
A ghastly boarded up shop front with giant wheelie bins in front of it. But the the floors above are beautiful, in an Arts and Crafts style, I think. Next door is an M&S with Art Deco upper floors.
An ornate lamppost on Putney Bridge.
Tried out a new @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Richmond to Putney #London. Pictures of the two ends but in between was lots of Richmond Park and Putney Heath and not very much road. #ArtDeco #Railway #Architecture
01.03.2026 10:27 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Looking along a line of small trees, face on to the big wheel. It's a very grey damp day and there's not much colour in the scene.
Looking along a line of small trees, face on to the big wheel. It's a dark night and the moon is visible near the centre. The wheel rim and supports are lit up in blue, and the line of trees have golden fairy lights in them.
The same view of the #London Eye, day and night, from my recent visit to the city. Quite a contrast!
28.02.2026 20:04 — 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
With the Gorton and Denton win, our opponents have been working overtime to misrepresent Green Party drugs policy. Heroin in corner shops? Crack for kids?
Let's clear this up. 🧵
Oh well done!!
27.02.2026 18:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tall vertical building stands alone on the Kings Road. Industrial looking and covered in sandy coloured 'toilet tiles'. It does have a bookshop at street level to redeem it.
View looking downstream along the Thames from Putney Bridge. The water reflects the blue sky. The tide is out and mud flats show on the near bank. A footbridge seen connecting Putney centre to the opposite bank.
Grey footpath, straight, between tall plane trees. Grass between the trees. Roehampton.
Richmond Park. A brown gritty path winds through grassland towards bare trees. Blue-grey sky. Didn't see any deer though.
More #SlowWays walks with @maryoz.bsky.social this week, Richmond to Chelsea via Putney and Fulham. A real mixture. Open parkland to busy highstreet; olive grove to views across the Thames.
27.02.2026 09:29 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Three weeks til our big fundraiser, the Night of Flight-Free Adventure. 12 epic flight-free stories using PechaKucha = a whirlwind of inspiration!
Have a great night out while supporting climate action ✊
Online as well as in-person tickets available:
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The lower half of the black iron railings is completely within the tree trunk as the has grown around it. The tree trunk is mottled shades of brown.
A plane tree very slowly consuming a fence for #ThickTrunkThursday
26.02.2026 09:29 — 👍 192 🔁 15 💬 10 📌 3
Well-to-do terrace town houses flank a crescent road.
Wide grey path curves right around a building. A high green wall to the left with pale blue-grey sky. A streamlined aquamarine glass skyscraper inches middle distance. Near Paddington Station.
Under the Westbourne Flyover by the Grand Union Canal. A triangle of sunshine shows barges and buildings. Above the dark underside of the Flyover, below dark shaded pavement.
Large Plane tree in Hyde Park close to Kensington High Street. Blue sky and surprisingly warm sunshine.
Very much a Spring day in London, #SlowWays walking with @maryoz.bsky.social Town houses, shops and canals. Hyde Park beginning to blossom in the sunshine.
23.02.2026 07:34 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The line of coping stones disappearing into the distance up the middle of the picture is the edge of the towpath, which is on the left of it. On the right, completely filled with trees, is where the water of the canal was.
An empty, overgrown lock marks the beginning of a section of canal with water in it, where it actually looks like a canal.
Towpath on the left, canal on the right, very overgrown with reeds.
An empty line of space between trees, from left to right we are looking along the towpath, coping stones, wide canal (all soil and fallen leaves, no water), and the stone far bank of the canal.
My @slowwaysuk.bsky.social #busandback also involved large chunks of the lovely but derelict #Manchester Bolton and Bury #UKCanals.
20.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Cobbled footpath uphill between trees, a green fence, and some houses.
Wide earthen footpath through woodland.
A pedestrian and equestrian pelican crossing! Instead of a green or red pedestrian, the lights show someone on horseback. For a bridleway of course.
Looking along a very long viaduct, now a cycle track, heading into Bolton. There's a complete metal fence cage around it, disappearing into the distance, as there's a dual carriageway way down beneath it, out of sight.
I walked a @slowwaysuk.bsky.social #busandback from Bolton Station - bus to Radcliffe, walked a wonky semicircle through Whitefield, Kearsley, Little Lever and back to Bolton.
20.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We've a new legend and route styles that make it easier to see and find great Slow Ways! Have a try here beta.slowways.org
20.02.2026 11:49 — 👍 29 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Clock tower in the foreground on the right. Way off in the distance, on the left, is the church, with a large area of grass between them.
On the subject of #church #architecture how about this one with a standalone clock tower at Ringley, Kearsley, north #Manchester?
20.02.2026 10:38 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Approaching the church tower from a muddy lane. You can see right through the arch under the tower.
View across the road, through the gates, and straight through the tall, slim arch, which is three quarters the hight of the main part of the church, and half the height of the tower it's in.
Close up view along the side of the church on the left, with a red door and an old lamppost. The arch is on the right.
Looking up the tower, perspective view, with the arch appearing to take up most of it.
I found another #church with a huge walk-through arch under its tower or steeple! This one is All Saints in Whitefield, north #Manchester. #Architecture
20.02.2026 10:32 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
19.02.2026 20:00 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0There seems to be a lot of confusion around about which types of e-bike are legal. But the law in the UK is very clear, legal e-bikes are officially known as EAPCs. This stands for 'electrically assisted pedal cycle', and these bikes are restricted to 15.5mph, with a 250W motor, and no throttle.
12.02.2026 07:46 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Every year, we raise and kill around 76 billion chickens. That's almost ten chickens slaughtered for every person on Earth. It's also more than ten times the number in 1960, and almost twice as many as in 2000.
Part of this rise has come from gains in the "efficiency" of chicken production.
Yes, a year or two ago, I think, judging by Google Maps.
16.02.2026 18:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
And anyway, this is why cycle.travel doesn’t unthinkingly route over highway=track www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
15.02.2026 23:28 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0That's the Old Post Office café in Silsden I think! Nice.
16.02.2026 10:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We've updated our research on the precise extent of aviation emissions. Need some solid stats to back up your flight free conversations? Look no further. flightfree.co.uk/post/what-ha...
16.02.2026 10:01 — 👍 19 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
The Government is consulting on the biggest shake-up of planning rules since 2012.
But it remains weaker than what was in place between 1994 and 2012! That previous policy rightly identified traffic growth as damaging our towns, countryside and planet.
actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
Milestone in the earth next to a fence and tree. It has an M above the digits for eight and three quarters.
#MilestoneMonday
#UKCanals
A milestone on the derelict Manchester Bury and Bolton Canal, which still has lots of its quarter mile markers.
Historic stone boundary marker as described.
The boundary marker is in the background. To the fore is a slightly newer milestone with distances to Liverpool 30, Ormskirk 17, and Preston 1. There's a benchmark on the top.
An old boundary marker of the Port of Preston alongside the River Ribble. EB means East Bank, LQ on the top means Legal Quaystone. Strangely, the date 1844 has the 4's reversed.
#MilestoneMonday
#BenchmarkMonday
#Lancashire #history
A perspective view along a straight, muddy farm lane, with hedges on either side. The sky is mostly cloudy and overcast with no blue, but a misty sun is just peeping through, and is reflected in one of the many puddles. There's a hint of irridescence in the reflection.
#SilentSunday
Even cloudy skies and muddy lanes can have their own winter beauty.
I loved Copenhagen when I did my great train journey there last year. And the station is gorgeous! Hope you enjoy your time there.
14.02.2026 22:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That's the one! The flying ferry. Love it!
14.02.2026 20:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of two terracotta plant pots on a wall both with green fronds of crocuses but lots and lots of small mushrooms sprouting out and no flowers.
When you plant crocuses and life gives you mushrooms.
14.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0