John Ryan
@welburnoldfart.bsky.social
Interested in WW1 RN Surgeons, CWGC volunteer, fine wine, good food. 20 years in the Senior Service 😄
Back home after an amazing trip to the Euros Final. What a fantastic advert for how football should be. No drunken louts, no swearing, no aggro. Just an inclusive, friendly, safe and hugely enjoyable festival of fun.
July 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Back home after an amazing trip to the Euros Final. What a fantastic advert for how football should be. No drunken louts, no swearing, no aggro. Just an inclusive, friendly, safe and hugely enjoyable festival of fun.
Got our tickets for the Euros Final on Sunday. Flights booked, hotel booked, Bob care booked. Basel here we come 😄😄
July 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Got our tickets for the Euros Final on Sunday. Flights booked, hotel booked, Bob care booked. Basel here we come 😄😄
65 hot and hilly miles in the bag. What a great day.
June 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
65 hot and hilly miles in the bag. What a great day.
Well that’s me as prepared as I can be for my epic 65 mile ride across the Yorkshire Dales on Sunday, raising money for the Royal British Legion. If you could spare a penny or two via my justgiving page that would be awesome 😄
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Yorkshire Dales Sportive for the British Legion.
Help John Ryan raise money to support The Royal British Legion
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June 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Well that’s me as prepared as I can be for my epic 65 mile ride across the Yorkshire Dales on Sunday, raising money for the Royal British Legion. If you could spare a penny or two via my justgiving page that would be awesome 😄
www.justgiving.com/page/johns-y...
www.justgiving.com/page/johns-y...
Surgeons Gow and Ward, both killed on 13 Nov 1916, serving with RN Division at Battle of Ancre. Their names are the first and second on the Thiepval Memorial! No known graves. Rest in Perpetual Peace.
June 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Surgeons Gow and Ward, both killed on 13 Nov 1916, serving with RN Division at Battle of Ancre. Their names are the first and second on the Thiepval Memorial! No known graves. Rest in Perpetual Peace.
Honoured to have reunited Surgeon Godfrey Walker RN with the medals he never knew he’d earned. He lies at peace in Hamel Military Cemetery alongside colleagues who were killed with him, tending the wounded.
June 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Honoured to have reunited Surgeon Godfrey Walker RN with the medals he never knew he’d earned. He lies at peace in Hamel Military Cemetery alongside colleagues who were killed with him, tending the wounded.
Last day in Saumur. Off to the Somme tomorrow.
June 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Last day in Saumur. Off to the Somme tomorrow.
Visit to a mushroom museum. Random but very informative.
June 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Visit to a mushroom museum. Random but very informative.
No cycling but another great day. This a normal shop yes?
June 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
No cycling but another great day. This a normal shop yes?
Inside the Ackerman cellars
June 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Inside the Ackerman cellars
Another day of Loire fun in the sun.
June 4, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Another day of Loire fun in the sun.
Another cracking day in the Loire Valley.
June 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Another cracking day in the Loire Valley.
Great day cycling in countryside around Saumur. Lovely area. Nice beer too 😄
June 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Great day cycling in countryside around Saumur. Lovely area. Nice beer too 😄
Time for a drop the local brew 😁
May 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Time for a drop the local brew 😁
Day 1 on the Loire. Saumur is very pretty. And very hot 🥵
May 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Day 1 on the Loire. Saumur is very pretty. And very hot 🥵
Bob hasn’t quite mastered the art of actually sleeping IN his bed 😳
May 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Bob hasn’t quite mastered the art of actually sleeping IN his bed 😳
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Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/ky2i
Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts
Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition ...
38d.gs
May 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/ky2i
Not long now until our trip to France. Cycling in the Loire valley, and of course a whistle stop visit to the Somme.
May 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Not long now until our trip to France. Cycling in the Loire valley, and of course a whistle stop visit to the Somme.
Good Morning from the Goldfinches 😄
May 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Good Morning from the Goldfinches 😄
My mission is complete. I’ve been locked out of Twitter for saying rude things about Trumpton 😄
May 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My mission is complete. I’ve been locked out of Twitter for saying rude things about Trumpton 😄
Thrilled to have become custodian of this Military Medal awarded to Pte R Beasley, an original Barnsley Pal! Think he may have quite a back story….
April 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Thrilled to have become custodian of this Military Medal awarded to Pte R Beasley, an original Barnsley Pal! Think he may have quite a back story….
So sad to hear about Dame Joan Plowright. She was a stage and screen legend. Rest easy Ma’am.
January 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
So sad to hear about Dame Joan Plowright. She was a stage and screen legend. Rest easy Ma’am.