alexmargison.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

I’ve officially reached the age where I need a couple of days recovery after a holiday before I can contemplate doing anything like work!

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Nice to finally be back on the rock! Wonder how lo be it’ll take for the cat to forgive us…

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A chilled out final day of culture & coffee. Been a great trip, despite the lack of snow ❄️ Next stop Helsinki! 🇫🇮

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Somewhere over Whale Island the clouds cleared just enough

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Not enough snow for dog sledding today 🙁 so last minute change of plans. A few sea eagles & seals about, and passed the site of the Tirpitz sinking too

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

First time for everything 🎿

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Finally made it to Tromsø

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

End of the line at the world’s most northerly standard gauge station 🚂 Got to switch to the bus to keep heading north! 🚌

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

30 minute stop at Abisko. Time for a leg stretch & locomotive inspection!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Fun day out & about in Stockholm - next stop Narvik! 🇳🇴

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I’m the furthest north I’ve ever been 🇸🇪 Until Monday…

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 71 comments

It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

submitted 11 days ago • 156 comments

Mademoiselle Billaud after winning a cyclocross race. It's the 100th anniversary of this photo, and it still goes harder than anything on the Internet. February 14, 1925 #otd

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Ah, biscuits #HalfTermTravel #LizzyLineStrike

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”

submitted 17 days ago • 485 comments

This is amazing. Via @nytimes.com

submitted 18 days ago • 67 comments

Cars are getting 1cm wider every two years. That may not sound much, but over time it adds up, and they're showing no signs of slowing down 😬 That's #carspreading. Our new campaign is calling on city leaders to make parking policies fairer by varying costs based on the size of a car. Why? 🧵1/8

submitted 18 days ago • 37 comments

If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. The real #TwoTierPolicing www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

submitted 19 days ago • 100 comments

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

submitted 24 days ago • 412 comments

‘It’s not just a few ships doing it’: how the world’s plastic ends up on a Guernsey beach

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

Booked our Condor sailing to St Malo last week for our summer hols - 3 of us plus car - £312. Just did a test booking for DFDS from Jersey to St Malo for the same dates - £410... 👀

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Bicycle use for the morning commute has increased by almost 60% in two years, according to Guernsey's Better Journeys Project. https://www.islandfm.com/news/guernsey/60-more-bikes-in-guernseys-cycle-lanes-since-2022/

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

💛WIN A BOLLARD💛 The most popular competition in the history of social media is back. It's the prize you've all been waiting for. Repost and follow to be in with a chance of winning this gorgeous Monoscape Bridgeford Smooth Grey Concrete Bollard worth £252.42. #WorldBollardAssociation

submitted 33 days ago • 65 comments

bsky.app/profile/isla... If only there was a small daily change people could make to prevent their chances early death, hospitalisation for any reason, cardiovascular disease, cancer mortality or treatment for mental health problems 🤷‍♂️

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

5 1/2 years and 8,764 coffees later, time for an upgrade… ☕️

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Nice to get some sunny miles in this morning 🚴🏼 ☀️

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

#Caturday ☀️

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

I’m not saying today’s ride to work was the wettest ever, but did get stuck behind an ark at one point

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Listening to the planes circling and feeling for those diverted to an airport they neither took off from nor wanted to land at today. Can’t say I’ve ever fancied spending Christmas at a random Premier Inn #fog #islandlife

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

NEW 🚨 In recent years, Guy Hands has focused on legacy. He retired from Terra Firma to focus on philanthropy, & last week ended a controversial deal with a £6bn swan song. But former staffers described to me & @carolinebinham another side to Hands. 1/4 www.ft.com/content/20bd...

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

Having my advocate get in touch at the weekend always fills me with dread. Either something has gone horribly wrong, or I’m about to pay him a lot of money. Or usually both 😕

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

17-year-long Scottish study of 82,000+ adults finds commuting by bike reduces your risk of: • early death • hospitalisation for any reason • cardiovascular disease • cancer mortality • treatment for mental health problems. Yeah, but those LTNs and bike lanes are really annoying.

submitted 74 days ago • 24 comments

Friday 13th. Work Christmas do. What could possibly go wrong?

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments