PETE CACKETT 🇪🇺🇺🇦

A screenshot of my YouTube review of 2025 showing me in the top 4% of viewers of the Biffa Plays Indie Games channel, watching 46 videos this year.

I have bad news for you...I've gone down a percentage point instead 😬

Ooh! Look...there goes my evening.

Loving the fact that Alresford station near Colchester is bracketed with Mid Hants, not Essex. The real Mid Hants version isn't even on the map as it is part of the heritage Watercress Line.

Loganair ATR 42-500 parked on the apron at Kirkwall Airport. Aircraft reg is G-LMRB and features Loganair livery of the distinctive tartan colours of red, black and white on the tail.

Landing into Dundee Airport at 4pm yesterday on a Loganair ATR 42-500 was definitely in the spicy category!

A cartoon image of the user. Wearing a green t-shirt, with blue eyes and dark blonde spiked hair. There is also a QR code to scan to find the users profile on Duolingo.

Come and follow me on Duolingo, see my progress at learning German.

I don't want to be that typical English person and expect others to speak my language when on holiday. Or more likely on a day trip there!

Hallo. Ich heiße Pete und ich bin lernen, aber spreche Klein Deutsch.

#Deutsch 🇩🇪

Being Southend born and raised, these were part of my childhood. Still remember the farewell Saturday and riding them around the LTS Rail network ❤️

A screenshot of the Fitbit app showing an average of 11,248 steps per day in 2025.

Poorly in comparison! But the flu in March, plus putting my back out in both April and May. Could be worse.

YouTube video by Geoff Marshall Stratford - End of the Line Ep.24

I'm not 100% sure on the history, but as of now, platforms 1 and 2 are the high level Overground platforms.

@geofftech.bsky.social has previously recorded a video on the mess that is Stratford station, well worth a watch.

youtu.be/HBDlim0s4Zw?...

A picture of an Antonov An-12 aircraft, blue livery with red stripe, and registration of UR-CNT.

My favourite is flown by Ukraine Air Alliance, this fantastic Antonov An-12 to share with people you are fond of...

@flightradar24.com Extremely minor query, whenever I add a Loganair (LM coded) flight to MyFlightRadar, it always defaults the airline to the defunct Livingston Energy Flight (previously LM coded). Any chance you can update the default for LM flight numbers please? 😅

Since I was still a user of the website formally fronted by a bird this time last year, this evening is the first time on Bluesky I can say...

It is #Eurovision time! 🎉

The significance and sheer change in travel across London that EL brought will probably never be seen again in my lifetime.

The speed of journeys, the disability improvements, the sheer mammoth scale of the stations.

Colchester to East Croydon in 91 minutes is my record. Unthinkable before EL.

It was a fairly impressive sounding show today from the Cotswolds Wildlife Park. Basking in the sunshine a few miles south of all the thundery action!

372 also to Lakeside Shopping Centre.

A picture of myself, strapped into the wing walker position on top of Boeing Stearman aircraft.

Found a flight I'm unable to log into my tracker on My @flightradar24.com - that would be the charity wing walk I took part in today.

I have a whole new level of appreciation for the professional wing walkers, it is much more challenging than it looks.

A huge thank you to AeroSuperBatics today.

View out the window of a Embraer ERJ 145, showing part of the wing and entire, whilst flying over the northern coast of Northern Ireland.

View of the Derry Girls mural, from the Derry Walls. Showing the characters of James, Michelle, Erin, Orla and Clare from left to right.

A view of the Peace Bridge in Derry, taken from the western bank of the River Foyle.

A view from the eastern bank of the River Foyle. The Peace Bridge is on the right of the picture. Across the river can be seen the centre of the city of Derry, with standout buildings of the Guildhall and St Columb's Cathedral visible.

The latest day trip a few weeks ago saw myself and some friends spend a few hours in the extremely pretty city of Derry in Northern Ireland. A city steeped in history, it was lovely to explore, friendly locals and a city I would love to return to in the future.

#Derry #NorthernIreland #DayTrip

The gap in air traffic over southern England today is quite something and fairly obvious!

I just hope that airport and airline staff are being treated well by those caught up in the disruption.

It's great to have you here, on a much fresher and friendlier platform. Only see the feeds I want to see.

This platform has allowed me to reset my own brain health from the downward spiral of 2024.

A view inside the main nave of Salzburg Cathedral.

View across the Salzach river in Salzburg, housing on the left hand bank of the river and hills in the distance.

Night time view across the Salzach river in Salzburg, showing Fortress Hohensalzburg in the distance above the city.

View from the highest point of Fortress Hohensalzburg, looking across the countryside to the Untersberg area of the Alps.

Not your typical stag do.

Earlier this year, the lads and myself had a little trip away for someone's stag do. Oh, that's me!

A lovely city, beautiful architecture, stunning views, and fantastic memories.

#Salzburg #Austria 🇦🇹

My rail atlas fairy was the Royal Mail a couple of weeks ago 😅

My first edition of it too, haven't bought the rail atlas previously.

Just had a very weird glitch with the link to the product page there.

Seemed to take me to a logged in page on Crecy and showed me a couple of other customer details including addresses, order number, phone number, email address.

Can't replicate now but weird nonetheless 😳

My biggest gripe, is the 10 pack of eggs is now an 8 pack with no reduction in physical packaging and a hefty increase in standard price at Tesco. Will very much help me in reducing my creme egg and caramel egg intake.

8 pack boxes of Cadbury Creme Eggs and Caramel Eggs on a supermarket shelf.

Easter items being on sale is not an outrage.

The outrage is that Cadbury have shrunk the contents of 10 pack eggs to an 8 pack.

No reduction in physical pack size. And a hike in price from £4.95 last year to £5.50 this year at Tesco.

Ouch.

@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com

#Inflation #Easter

For a little Easter egg, can you put a small shark against the Headington name as a nod to the Headington Shark 🦈

Santa flying eastward over far-northern Russia on the Flightradar24 map.

We’ve received word that all presents are loaded and the reindeer are ready. Santa is heading east for the first gifts of Christmas. Follow Santa at www.flightradar24.com/R3DN053/3875...

@square-enix-games.com Finally got round to completing the main story on Just Cause 3. Only taken the 7 or so years.

A spectacularly beautiful game that continued to surprise me with its stunning world design.

Medici looks like a nice Mediterranean style area to live in, dictatorship aside.

Ah for some reason I thought the latest Atlas was out this month. Glad to hear it won't be too long 👍🏻

YouTube 2024 Gaming Recap showing Biffa Plays Indie Games as my top gaming creator.

YouTube 2024 Gaming Recap showing I was in the top 3% of Biffa Plays Indie Games fans.

YouTube 2024 Gaming Recap showing my top games as Cities Skylines II and Cities Skylines.

I'm only in the top 3% of @biffaplays.bsky.social fans on YouTube. I must do better in 2025!

#gaming

Four fine male specimens standing in front of a Christmas Tree at Casemates Square, Gibraltar.

A view down the runway at Gibraltar airport, showing tire marks on the surface.

Close up on the Gibraltar twinned with sign.

A view of the Rock of Gibraltar from the airport terminal, with an Airbus A320 belonging to British Airways on stand.

Last weekend, the flying crew had our yearly pre-Christmas pilgrimage to the ever beautiful #Gibraltar

24°c and Christmas decorations is still just weird to me 🎄 ☀️

But a fantastic day out with the usual laughs. And another 2 stamps in my passport for a brief 15 minute walk into Spain and back 🇬🇮 🇪🇸

YouTube Payment page confirming membership benefits.

1st December means only one thing @geofftech.bsky.social 👍🏻

Closed a little before my time. But I remember the humongous road bridge that used the span the railway lines here.

Now the road has been diverted and the whole area is now a warehouse city.

How times change.