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Cycle campaigner, beret wearer. Film-maker and comms. Former clown, expect jokes. Posting about tech and work stuff here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-francome-523a3619?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
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HELLO FROM LEUVEN IN BELIGIUM! 🇧🇪 First off- just LOOK at these traffic lights!! Delicious! Just saw a bunch of things 🧵1/6

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Hello Brussels! Found a lovely cafe with chairs on the pavement where they spoke only French 🇫🇷 Managed to just about order a cafe latte ☕️

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

The funny thing about the Eurostar is that if you, for example, have a snooze and miss your stop, you could wake up in another country! 😳🤯 So I’m trying to stay awake …

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Eurostar trip 2: the pre-tunnel chapter …

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Wasn’t expecting traffic lights to be fit, but here they are! What a bunch of saucy minxes …

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It’s official! I’m chuffed to be doing a TEDX talk this Wednesday evening in Belgium, about how growing up in a family of clowns still impacts my life today 🤡 🙌🏻 I’ll be talking about how others can embrace their inner clown, even at work, and even if they have a serious … 1/5

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

How not to take a photo of a daffodil on this beautiful spring day. Only the stem is in focus! Crocus’ came out better though!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I can only bear to listen to Trump when these guys are guiding me through it … “There has never been anything like it in the Oval Office of the White House” … “I’m not sure we’ve seen anything like it full stop. Not in the history of diplomacy” 😳😳 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Utterly unbearable to read the full transcript 😩😩😩 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

OOH - new consultation- worth supporting! Westminster is the heart of our cycling city …

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Blossom’s out! Sun’s out! Feel it! Big hello to the driver this morning with his engine on when we were all walking past to school. He told me it was “none of my business”. I assured him it WAS my business, as the fumes were going in to our lungs. Engine was turned off.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Shout out to everyone involved in the WOW - walk to school challenge. We walked with joy this morning as my daughter went to hand in her badge competition entry- a tree with apples, and food raining down. The ideal walk to school clearly! Lots of other kids had theirs too …

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve now written the final (ish) version of my TEDX speech, following the feedback last week 🙌🏻 Thought you all might like to know that some campaigning parts are IN. The Green Lanes debacle, and The Face™️ The Face we have conveys the feeling quite well doesn’t it. … /1

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Look I know X is owned by you know who but it still has its benefits. Alt text: Bernard: “Fake noooze!” Me: “It’s actually my real nose I know that’s hard to believe”. “No I meant news!” Shamaze.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Michael Fabricant or a young Trump, pick your politician. #SchoolRunChic

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Just did the whole school run, talking to lots of people including a real architect, without realising my hair looked like this. I hadn’t looked in a mirror today clearly- this hair clip was in last night, pulling hair back. I slept in it, and it fell forward like thus ⬇️ I had so many … 1/2

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I discovered a secret path through London today! I went to a legal event at Exchange House on Primrose Street, near Liverpool Street station. The views of London were wild, and it was great for cycling - and loads of Forest Bikes. And something interesting happened after the event … 1/3

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

My 9 year old son today: “Mum can you have some thoughts that stay inside your head? Ever? Whenever we see people we know in the street you just blurt out whatever you’re thinking. It’s so embarrassing for me” 🫣😆 I mean he’s not wrong to be fair.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Brilliant footage of the cycle spiral bridge!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Keep thinking about the twirly wirly cycling bridge in Leuven- will get a better video next time. It was delicious! Alt text: it’s circular so you go round and round to get up there. So good!

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Why the heck did we ever leave the European Union? On the Eurostar this morning they were serving QUICHE Europeans are just so classy!

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments