Yeah I think we need 110 degrees for cycling motion. Gonna try and get on the indoor bike /turbo trainer tomorrow (didn’t try today after being stuck in Plymouth gridlock for hour and a half on only my second day back driving 😬.) half expecting to possibly only manage to turn it around 2 or 3 times.

Well crikey, out of private appt already. I could do the straight leg raise without issue and 90 degree knee bend. He said this is excellent progress, referred now to physio. Don’t have to go back. Allowed to go on bike indoors but just to turn pedals. Running realistic 6 months after op date!!

Oh that’s annoying. Fortunately my surgeon left a fast schedule for getting me up on my feet (which one doctor frowned at and wouldn’t have implemented but had left by the time physio went for her advice and he decided just go with my surgeon’s schedule.) hopefully no reversing on that today!

So I’m off right now to see the private guy… will let you know how it goes!

Ouch that’s a pain. Here. Sort of. NHS consultant said yes brace can start coming off but then when I said I’m transitioning to private refused to say anything more as ‘orthopaedic surgeons’ have similar but differing views on recovery programs and he didn’t want to contradict.

Shout out to one of the most diverse and interesting labels in the UK, Hive mind records . Finally got around to buying some of their latest releases (Yara Asmar’s tintabulating ‘everyone I love is sleeping’ + Wolfgang Perez’s uneasy tropicalian ‘so ouco’). Both superb… #MusicSky #CurrentListening

A tangled wood, the sun peeps through the crook of a branch warming the whole picture, moss festoons standing, falling and fallen trees. There are ferns growing on some of the trees, this is temperate Atlantic rainforest.

Looking through up to a bare leafless over story. Branches suggest grasping fingers reaching to the sky from sleeves of ivy and moss

Managed to make it up Largin hill fort, for the first time, difficult given current immobility, but worth it. 2 days left before the brace comes off. Incredible place will look to return in summer when more mobile #Cornwall #FoweyValley #Trees #Rainforest #Hiking

‘Lee Anderson was my mentor’ … one for Prevent ?

Feel exactly the same @support.bsky.team please make configurable. And while you’re here, on Top + Latest tabs, greater weighting in Top to today’s postings. Weekly threads like #StandingStoneSunday #TombTuesday show old postings and lack engagement. Xitter did this well before MechaHitler ran amok.

A small rectangular pit lined with slate slabs (modern) on two sides and exposed ancient stonework on two. At the base is a black and white (now black and green) set of tiles arranged in a pattern where there are three large black squares in a row broken up by white/green squares and around the middle on each corner of the square are four smaller black squares.

Four designs of monochromatic tiles are found from the region on an information board, the Pont croix, Finistere is a simple checker board pattern , another from Pont Croix is an octagon filled with a checker board pattern and in the centre another octagon with the sun inside.The third Le Gavre, Loire atlantique has a complex circular kaleidoscope like pattern and the fourth le Hogolo is as described in the previous photo.

Roman bathhouse tiles/paving from Le Hogolo Thermes at Plestin-les-Grèves Love how each villa/baths has its own style. #TilesOnTuesday

I can’t help thinking that this truly epic thread about a bus driver going rogue has some unfortunate parallels with where the US currently finds itself…

A large stony mound which outcrops of grass, moss and thrift threaten to consume. At the base are two black portals and in between them a side that reads in French ‘ thank you for not climbing on the tumulus - protected site’

An inner chamber vault with exquisite stone work lit by a small doorway through which daylight floods. This was built in the Neolithic, if someone told you it was a medieval abbey crypt you probably wouldn’t argue.

The truly epic Ile Carn tumulus, one that can only be reached, on foot, at low tide. #TombTuesday #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh

I'm a fan of Craven Faults, it's that kind of hypnotic ambient shapeshifting electronica like watching ripples on a river.

Markets on edge as Trump threatens more tariffs on Europe over Greenland U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to implement further tariffs on imports of goods from some European countries until the U.S. is allowed to acquire Greenland, a move that could send a jolt thr...

I get the feeling the same people are going to meet the same hard wall of reality sooner rather than later too - given the Deutsche Bank comment about Europe owning 8 trillion dollars of US bonds and equity: www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Palantir Boss Louis Mosley: Keir Starmer 'Gets' AI, 'You Could See In His Eyes' In a bid to boost growth, Labour has thrown open government’s doors to controversial US tech firm Palantir. In his first ever sit-down interview, P...

Also discovered just yesterday too from Palantir links to British fascism - Louis grandson of Oswald , of course im just being paranoid (or not) www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A lichen covered square slab of granite protrudes from broken branches as though it’s being released from the netherworld. Bramble and greenery half bury it and behind several trees provide it with shelter.

Sometimes the menhir dots on French maps turn out to be hard to find and very ruined. This, the Allée couverte de Kerivalan near Gouarec in #Brittany #Bretagne #Breizh radiating a ‘dark woodland’ energy (actually in brash by a ploughed field). But let that illusion be for #StandingStoneSunday

The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship The long read: Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out

Oh yeah they are truly beyond the pale. Reminds me of the time a bunch of these fools bought a cruise ship to set up a ‘tech utopia’ . Unsurprisingly it didn’t go well www.theguardian.com/news/2021/se...

Spoke to our local lichen expert who said Fulignosa is more common on the reserve but it is very hard to differentiate from Sylvatica and the latter is ‘more lobey’

A Stinky Sticta (I think it’s a Sylvatica? ) I discovered while coppicing in October last year and it changed the whole plan as we had to start haloing around the willow with these specimens on. #FungiFriday #Moss #Lichen #Cornwall #GolithaFalls

Ha a total quad masher! I said to my consultant before the op well I wasn’t planning on ever running another marathon again anyway and he said ‘don’t say never, could be quite possible’. I feel like he’s set me a challenge now…

Sounds good, going from locked to having movement made such a difference to me, my body had forgotten what to do, still occasionally forget to bend it! It definitely frees up the walking too. I find crutches the single thing most likely to trip me up. Have kicked them countless times by accident.

Ooo that has a more modern design than mine! Take it, it went well today? I was allowed/trusted to set mine to 90 yesterday on my own. Hopefully I’m less than 2 weeks away from being allowed on a bike (albeit indoor), which you need 110 for. Won’t be allowed gears , inclines, or pressure if so…

That’s cool - do they play live much - and where?

I have 3 or 4 old synths and a bunch of pedals from my band days , now all the kids flying the nest I can tinker once again. (When they’re around I’m too self conscious)

Oh cool, that nice bit of jangle there too! I once did a comp of electronic stuff that I’d play in the car with Squarepusher, Aphex, Boards of Canada, Daft Punk plus older stuff like Yellow Magic Orchestra. Youngest loves BoC from there, he makes some ambient sounds/music for the games he builds.

Yeah don’t think my oldest has been to any on his own. Also have twins. The younger twin though he comes along with me to electronic stuff (saw Jane Weaver’s offshoot Fenella, which he loved). He’s definitely the biggest music fan, he loves any kind of retro electronic/computer games stuff.

He liked it but MES was being pretty weird, spent the first few songs off stage while singing and then came on and started messing with people’s amps and Eleni seemed pretty peeved. The encores were excellent though - Mr Pharmacist etc

I took my (then) 14 year old son (now 24) to see the Fall for his first ever gig in Falmouth (must have been one of the last they played!)

Thanks - Oh yes and also finally getting through the box set of Twin Peaks - The Final Season and the uber long woodlands dark and days bewitched: a history of folk horror doc on Netflix. Definitely getting stronger, 2 and a bit weeks until I shed the brace and crutches.

Pile of 6 books - Flights - Olga Tokarczuk, Pan The Great God’s return - Paul Robichaud, Kindred Neanderthal Life,Live, Death and Art - Rebecca Wragg-Sykes, The Western Rising of 1549 - Mark Stoyle, clothes, Music, Boys - Viv Albertine, Shouting Out Loud, Lives of the Raincoats, Aubrey Golden, Ninth Street Women Five painters and the movement that changed modern art - Mary Gabriel

While being mainly housebound while healing post -op, I have been making good inroads into my TBR pile (this is about a fifth of it!) Tokarczuk’s, Flights is excellent but tough reading about a surgeon who dissects his own amputated leg, when my own leg still gets quite sore if I overdo it #BookSky

A tall slab of granite, dotted with lichens protrudes from a grassy and dried mud outcrop. Surrounded by deciduous trees you can see a fallen menhir on the right and stretching into the distance behind benches and either another fallen menhir or a glacial erratic.

One of the Geants de Kerzeho on the Erdeven megalithic trail, a six metre plus monster. #StandingStoneSunday