Bells and Bikes

There's no big mystery.

This wasn't "electoral fraud" or "postal votes" or "family voting" or "sectarianism".

Reform's platform is all about shouting at foreigners and Muslims.

And a diverse, young, well-educated population told them where to go.

It was no deeper than that!😆

25/25

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Flowers and towers
#flowersandtowers #bellringing

I'm enjoying watching the map now.

Researching new TV. Started at 43" but sofa distance says 56". Tried to mock up some cardboard to get an impression of 50". Michelin Carte Routiere with one horizontal section folded over is close. OS map too small. Any better recommendations?

No surprises, surely?

Candidate is arrogant charmless TV presenter & hates everything: lose.

Campaign is entitled technocracy + smearing left-liberalism: lose.

Candidate is local & can make OK speech about how a good job should lead to a good life: win.

Normal politics is trying to be born.

Lowry. BBC2. Fascinating.

Lights tonight on the cycle home

With the passage of the years I increasingly see the joy in such things as a decent bar of soap or a good pair of socks. An absorbent tea towel is a very fine thing too.

Eden Valley Brie.
What a discovery.

Furry croissant at The Veg Patch. 10 miles from the race route and ready for Le Tour de France 2027. Tourist Information oblivious, despite only 16 months to go, but a soft plush croissant from The Veg Patch is just the job. Allez allez allez #tdf #tdf2027 #letour

Whittington

Sausage curl and a pint of Bowland Pheasant next

Wetter and otter.
A rainy walk by The Lune.

When its eleven years since your first book was published, a paddle of beers at Kirkby Lonsdale Brewery might help the next edit of book two #author

A Ribbon of Wildness Between Road and Pasture At first glance, the scene is an ordinary roadside wall – a strip of stone edging the tarmac footpath, with a fence and pasture beyond. Yet the top of this wall tells a richer, more hopeful story. …

Between tarmac & pasture, a wall-top blooms with Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Harebell, ferns and fine grasses. A narrow ribbon of biodiversity squeezed between two low-diversity landscapes. #WildflowerHour #Biodiversity #Cumbria forktail.co.uk/2025/08/27/a...

I'm 110% Yorkshire but now and again Chorley Cakes and Lancashire cheese just seem right. Gets you in the zone for the 2027 Tour de France #letourgb #tdf2027

Narrator: the 2027 #TourDeFranceFemmes
will ride over it!

Agreed! Full mudguards, mudflaps, racks & dynohub lights is what I see as a complete setup for all cycles.

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A wooden police box painted in mint green.

That's not my Tardis.

It's doors are too green.

Colours on my cycle to work

Mudguards all year round I say. Makes the bike look complete.

There is sunshine.
Canada Geese fly overhead. An aeriel peloton smoothly switching places.
The washing line stirs from its sleep.

Col du Cannon Brewery.
A new foothill on the approach to the former ski village.

Cantis are messy and a bit irritating but I kind of know what I'm doing. Discs feels like an unknown world. But then pre-2020 so did SPDs.

Special tools do help don't they. I was back to an old towel and a screwdriver today and it did the job for now but your kit sounds great.

It's that time again

Nidderdale. The River Nidd.

The Nidderdale Way.
Pateley Bridge St Cuthbert.
Kendall's pork pies.
And a rock. A taster of Brimham Rocks ahead. #yorkshire @nationaltrust.org.uk