Yes very nice. Thanks to the good folk setting them up. I saw them on my cycle to work last week. Excellent things.
Moments of joy - when you scrap the broken PIR sensor and find that the screws and washers will fit your bottle cage and panniers*
* Even though you already have enough to last the century
So I'm savouring my microwave lasagne and reading Cycle Magazine when, suddenly, I find I've written 4 notebook pages of an article that I may well submit for consideration. My first beer gone, I shall squeeze past my bike and laden panniers to find another in the garage.
Fascinating article on translation in The Author @societyofauthors.bsky.social. "The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World" by Roman Krznaric. Translation by Shoukei Matsumoto, Japanese Buddhist Monk & empath, seeking to step into the shoes of others & see the world as they do.
Delighted to welcome Sheffield Universities Guild of Change Ringers to Dore today. Their ringing sounds fab. Meanwhile I'm doing a photo expo for Tour de France 2027 bellringing downstairs. We had a rave ringing for the 2014 Tour #tdf #letour #letourfemmes
As its #WorldBookDay I shall cycle home from work on part of the race route of Le Tour de France #tdf #tdf2014. #letour, of course, bring the subject of my own book #author www.adventurebooks.com/products/bel...
Using up an odd days holiday.
Very productive.
Acupuncture to improve breathing, blended some mackerel with salad and citrus as related work lunch experiment (damp removing foods) and then cleaned my bike. Loads of the day left too. Walk next.
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
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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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.
