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mumbike.bsky.social
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. I ride a bicycle or 2 wheeled mumtaxi about locally, resplendent in a fluorescent helmet and jacket, transporting my kids, dogs, cats and shopping. I love drinking tea and have a fondness for pastries.
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Lots to do but wanting it easy and quick and not worrying about traffic and parking-so I plonked the kids in the cargo bike and stopped by the gp, the pharmacy, Greggs, the barber, post office, phone shop, kids shoe shop and the butchers. In glorious sunshine. The kids loved it. This is the way.

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This time last year.

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Saturday errands with a Bakfiets in the west of Scotland.

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The holiday is here. The car is packed and ready for a scottish camping trip for 2 adults, 2 children and 2 dogs. Someone is coming to feed the cars. Everything fits even the kids' scooters. We leave tomorrow morning. After a week of sunshine, it's now raining. Sigh.

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rebranding the 15 min city.

submitted 39 days ago • 49 comments

Project carrying dogs on bike showing some signs of success.

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Middle age rage is real. Wow. Thank goodness for long dog walks.

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This week let's celebrate the German language! 👉 Your favourite German word? 👉 That incredible trip to Deutschland? 👉 Your German teacher, aka the best teacher of all time? Use #ShoutOutForGerman and show everyone what German means to you!

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FIP (Radio France). A very enjoyable and eclectic selection of music that is a pleasure to listen to.

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Many & varied failed attempts to get the kids to eat more fruit & veg until success with "mummy's special green pesto" (as many green veg as can fit in a pot & be pureed-also available in red) & my latest offering: choc mini muffins with pureed apple, pear, beetroot and banana. Sigh. Yummy though.

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What a lovely place is Mugdock Park. After lots of walking, running, cycling, climbing, and playing, all kiddos and doggos are thoroughly tired out and happy. This is what bliss looks like:

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www.cyclinguk.org/article/11-r...

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I did a lot of cycling about last week: shopping, to the gym, dentist appointment for the kids. It was fun, economical and quick and I did a lot of extra exercise which is always a bonus. And yet it was also depressing due to the negativity directed my way from both drivers and pedestrians.

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I was asked to make my eldest a "very chocoately butterfly cake, with chocolate all over and that white chocoately butterfly a Smarties all over" for her birthday. While I'm no artist or much of a baker, I'd like to think that I understood the assignment.

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Successful lunchtime dash to pick up prescription, drop in off, then the gym, then post office, then pick up from pharmacy, then shop and then back to work. No waiting in queues, no circling for parking and super quick. Love love love my bike.

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Successful family outing by bike into the west end. At the weekend. Got to try out the new cycle lane on byres road, too. Any suggestions for safe backfiets parking there are welcome!

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

These days I take comfort where I can. And there is nothing quite like sleepy snuggle hounds for that.

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I finally did it! Took my lovely new bike on its maiden trip to the office. The Kelvin way is a lovely cycle if very higgledy but at least off the road. Yet I did not enjoy cycling down Elderslie road (why does the cycle track jump sides?) or being dumped out on St Vincent Street w/o a cycle path.

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2 good doggos on a long walk. And we came across a sauna by a wee loch. Love discovery walks.

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“We shouldn’t be afraid of cycling; we should be afraid of driving.” youtube.com/watch?v=vDhG...

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If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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@xela-bear.bsky.socialInteresting study on ebike battery safety. It seems standard ebike batteries "withstand extreme abuse without going into thermal runaway". The problem seems to be with people using the wrong chargers with conversion kit batteries. www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/unp...

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Commuting and travelling by train is my preferred mode of transport. Just sometimes I wish public transport was more joined up. A journey of 46 miles across the central belt should not take 3 hours.

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