WDW Kate
@wetdarkandwild.bsky.social
Loves books & blogs about them at For Winter Nights, not as much as I should. Judge: HWA Gold Crown. Former digger, now tied to desk, loves nature, history, crochet, jigsaws, spaceships. Pro cycling addict. In Oxford, UK.
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WDW Kate
@wetdarkandwild.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I'm enjoying discovering old and new friends on Bluesky. A bit like the good ole days! So here's a short list of what I like to post about:
Books!
Cycling! I am a pro cycling addict and watch every flippin road and cx race
Nature - I'm a twitcher
Archaeology
A good movie
Winter sports
Oxford traffic
Books!
Cycling! I am a pro cycling addict and watch every flippin road and cx race
Nature - I'm a twitcher
Archaeology
A good movie
Winter sports
Oxford traffic
Great news that Wout and Mathieu will both be competing in the mega sandpit spectacle that is Zonhoven. And really pleased Wout is doing my other favourite CX race - Dendermonster!
Mathieu van der Poel 🇳🇱 vs Wout Van Aert 🇧🇪 CX
20th Dec - Antwerp 🇧🇪
22nd Dec - Hofstade 🇧🇪
29th Dec - Loenhout 🇧🇪
2nd Jan - Mol 🇧🇪
4th Jan - Zonhoven 🇧🇪
Van Aert 🇧🇪 is only racing 8 CX races whereas Van der Poel 🇳🇱 is competing in 12, possibly 13.
20th Dec - Antwerp 🇧🇪
22nd Dec - Hofstade 🇧🇪
29th Dec - Loenhout 🇧🇪
2nd Jan - Mol 🇧🇪
4th Jan - Zonhoven 🇧🇪
Van Aert 🇧🇪 is only racing 8 CX races whereas Van der Poel 🇳🇱 is competing in 12, possibly 13.
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Great news that Wout and Mathieu will both be competing in the mega sandpit spectacle that is Zonhoven. And really pleased Wout is doing my other favourite CX race - Dendermonster!
I started watching season 1 of Stranger Things today, to see if I've been missing something. I've been missing something. What with this, Pluribus, Down Cemetery Road, and Cooper and Fry, my week of drama is golden.
November 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I started watching season 1 of Stranger Things today, to see if I've been missing something. I've been missing something. What with this, Pluribus, Down Cemetery Road, and Cooper and Fry, my week of drama is golden.
The Biathlon season starts today and that makes me so happy!! Great first race ❄️
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The Biathlon season starts today and that makes me so happy!! Great first race ❄️
Watching this week's Down Cemetery Road and rather surprised to find Polperro in Cornwall acting as a Scottish fishing village. I'd recognise The Blue Anchor anywhere!
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Watching this week's Down Cemetery Road and rather surprised to find Polperro in Cornwall acting as a Scottish fishing village. I'd recognise The Blue Anchor anywhere!
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But who wore it better ? 🤔
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
But who wore it better ? 🤔
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First round of the CX World Cup will be streamed FREE on the UCI youtube tomorrow, all 5 races.!
MJ: www.youtube.com/live/AzSLa-t...
WJ: www.youtube.com/live/lXCCNZo...
Mu23: www.youtube.com/live/EWYUgaW...
WE: www.youtube.com/live/xqJ1r-l...
ME: www.youtube.com/live/tP0PcJl...
MJ: www.youtube.com/live/AzSLa-t...
WJ: www.youtube.com/live/lXCCNZo...
Mu23: www.youtube.com/live/EWYUgaW...
WE: www.youtube.com/live/xqJ1r-l...
ME: www.youtube.com/live/tP0PcJl...
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
First round of the CX World Cup will be streamed FREE on the UCI youtube tomorrow, all 5 races.!
MJ: www.youtube.com/live/AzSLa-t...
WJ: www.youtube.com/live/lXCCNZo...
Mu23: www.youtube.com/live/EWYUgaW...
WE: www.youtube.com/live/xqJ1r-l...
ME: www.youtube.com/live/tP0PcJl...
MJ: www.youtube.com/live/AzSLa-t...
WJ: www.youtube.com/live/lXCCNZo...
Mu23: www.youtube.com/live/EWYUgaW...
WE: www.youtube.com/live/xqJ1r-l...
ME: www.youtube.com/live/tP0PcJl...
Well, I'm rather glad I didn't persevere with the cricket yesterday beyond 3 minutes. I'll stick with the alpine skiing.
November 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Well, I'm rather glad I didn't persevere with the cricket yesterday beyond 3 minutes. I'll stick with the alpine skiing.
@ianfindlaytv.bsky.social ski jumping is back!!!
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
@ianfindlaytv.bsky.social ski jumping is back!!!
For the first time in living history, I am going to try and watch some cricket this weekend (because Rob Hatch is the commentator). If I can watch a cycling monument for 6 hours and a Grand Tour for 3 weeks, surely I can watch some cricket without falling asleep and dribbling? #Notconvinced
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For the first time in living history, I am going to try and watch some cricket this weekend (because Rob Hatch is the commentator). If I can watch a cycling monument for 6 hours and a Grand Tour for 3 weeks, surely I can watch some cricket without falling asleep and dribbling? #Notconvinced
Watching Cancer Detectives on C4 and it's my Oncology dept being featured! I am so grateful to them!! Amazing people.
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Watching Cancer Detectives on C4 and it's my Oncology dept being featured! I am so grateful to them!! Amazing people.
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Happy publication day to Claire North for #SlowGods, out today from @orbitbooks.bsky.social (to whom thanks for an advance copy). Perfect slice of #SF theology, exploring suffering, guilt and redemption. This is how SF should be! #BookSky 📚💙
Review - Slow Gods by Claire North
Slow Gods Claire North Orbit, 18 November 2025 Available as: HB, 422pp, audio, e Source: Advance copy ISBN(HB): 9780356526188 I'm grate...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Happy publication day to Claire North for #SlowGods, out today from @orbitbooks.bsky.social (to whom thanks for an advance copy). Perfect slice of #SF theology, exploring suffering, guilt and redemption. This is how SF should be! #BookSky 📚💙
I love Game of Wool but I wish at least one of the judges were younger than me. And who on earth wants to crochet a deck chair?!!! I've crocheted for years and not once has it occurred to me.
November 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I love Game of Wool but I wish at least one of the judges were younger than me. And who on earth wants to crochet a deck chair?!!! I've crocheted for years and not once has it occurred to me.
It's been a while so here is a cross stitch update. It's a fiddly little blighter, so many confetti stitches... About a quarter done. #cross-stitch
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It's been a while so here is a cross stitch update. It's a fiddly little blighter, so many confetti stitches... About a quarter done. #cross-stitch
So today Thames Water has extended Oxfordshire's hosepipe ban even though much of the county is underwater after a month's rain in one day. I can't imagine a time when one would need a hosepipe less, so why not cancel it?
November 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
So today Thames Water has extended Oxfordshire's hosepipe ban even though much of the county is underwater after a month's rain in one day. I can't imagine a time when one would need a hosepipe less, so why not cancel it?
No ad-free coverage of the Men's CX today. Not good, TNT Sports/Discovery+ 😞
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
No ad-free coverage of the Men's CX today. Not good, TNT Sports/Discovery+ 😞
Just want to say that Pluribus on Apple+ is flippin brilliant. As is Apple's Down Cemetery Road, the book that I accidentally bought twice because I loved the cover too much for the good of my pocket. In other news, can nothing rid me of this troublesome cough!!! I want to wring my lungs out.
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Just want to say that Pluribus on Apple+ is flippin brilliant. As is Apple's Down Cemetery Road, the book that I accidentally bought twice because I loved the cover too much for the good of my pocket. In other news, can nothing rid me of this troublesome cough!!! I want to wring my lungs out.
Our hosepipe ban is starting to take on a new air of daftness, especially as I can barely see the hosepipe for the huge pool of water it's lying in. Is it ever going to stop raining?!!
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Our hosepipe ban is starting to take on a new air of daftness, especially as I can barely see the hosepipe for the huge pool of water it's lying in. Is it ever going to stop raining?!!
When I was young, I had to go to a library and read a book. I had to be curious. No Internet. No Google. I remember when at work we huddled over a monitor and saw Google for the first time. I was advised today by my phone provider that I need to keep up with technology. I've done that for decades!
I meet adults who are frustrated by the inability of young people to google things how we did at their age, seems to be from losing touch with how it's all trash now. our lives either don't need it as often or we take for granted we gradually learned to work around slop as it festered
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November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
When I was young, I had to go to a library and read a book. I had to be curious. No Internet. No Google. I remember when at work we huddled over a monitor and saw Google for the first time. I was advised today by my phone provider that I need to keep up with technology. I've done that for decades!
The men's CX Euro Champs today was absolutely fantastic! Such an exciting race.
I love my cyclocross but, blimey, the elite women's Euro champs race today was dull. I hope the race tomorrow is better. Lovely scenery, though, amongst the sand dunes!
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The men's CX Euro Champs today was absolutely fantastic! Such an exciting race.
I love my cyclocross but, blimey, the elite women's Euro champs race today was dull. I hope the race tomorrow is better. Lovely scenery, though, amongst the sand dunes!
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I love my cyclocross but, blimey, the elite women's Euro champs race today was dull. I hope the race tomorrow is better. Lovely scenery, though, amongst the sand dunes!
So sorry to hear about the loss of the wonderful Pauline Collins, whom I first knew as Sarah in Upstairs Downstairs and then loved in one of my very, very favourite films as the magnificent Shirley Valentine ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
So sorry to hear about the loss of the wonderful Pauline Collins, whom I first knew as Sarah in Upstairs Downstairs and then loved in one of my very, very favourite films as the magnificent Shirley Valentine ❤️
Fabulous 💖
Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter review – Tom Daley is a twinkling, passionate joy of a presenter
Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter review – Tom Daley is a twinkling, passionate joy of a presenter
The ex-diver is so fantastic that this needle-based Bake Off wannabe is 80% better every time he’s on screen. He absolutely makes this show
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Fabulous 💖
Will be watching Ghostwatch tonight. Pray for me 🙏 👻
October 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Will be watching Ghostwatch tonight. Pray for me 🙏 👻
@billylezard.bsky.social Did you see the news about Julia Simon?!
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
@billylezard.bsky.social Did you see the news about Julia Simon?!