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Hills, mountains, outdoor stuff, bikes and cycling, books, general carping and trivia. I do not have a cat. Location: off on a tangent.
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Thank you for this. It drives me crazy when people get this the wrong way round.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I hadn't heard of the Freedom Alliance until a young man (I thought 'schoolboy' at first) stuffed a leaflet through my letterbox. He had his Dad with him though to look after him and see he didn't get up to any mischief. He seems to advocate a bewildering mish-mash of libertarian ideas 1/2

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

In the "Well, fancy that" category I'm here to tell you that if Google Maps is to be believed, in the City of London not far from St Paul's Cathedral a street named Trump Street continues into Russia Row.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Watching Paris - Roubaix #ParisRoubaix and remembering my friend Jonny I, founder of Quarry Roubaix, the Oxford celebration of cobbled cycling, happening on the day of the race in France. Taken too soon. RIP Jonny. Are those angels in the box of your bakfiets?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

My joke about Epictetus isn't very funny, but I'm not bothered because I can't change it.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Ours has introduced himself as 'beat manager' so I assume he's a DJ when he's not on patrol.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

#alphabetchallenge #WeekOforOodles Oodles of stones.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Trump: I'm gonna bring jobs back home to America. iPhones will be filled with American screws by American workers. Musk: We should use glue instead, like my Cybertrucks.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Another friend, this time in Eugene OR, reckons about 10,000 on the streets in a city of 200,000. #HandsOff

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

A friend of mine lives in a retirement and care community in Philadelphia. She tells me that yesterday about 100 of the (generally elderly) residents took to the street outside the development to protest Trump and Musk. #GreyPower

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments