Only the Tony
@acripedes.bsky.social
Hills, mountains, outdoor stuff, bikes and cycling, books, general carping and trivia. I do not have a cat.
Location: off on a tangent.
Location: off on a tangent.
Here's an idea. Pain au chocolat but with THREE strips of chocolate not two.
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Here's an idea. Pain au chocolat but with THREE strips of chocolate not two.
If I was the solicitor of anyone in prison (I'm not), I'd be advising them to apply for accidental release.
December 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
If I was the solicitor of anyone in prison (I'm not), I'd be advising them to apply for accidental release.
Bluesky hivemind! Your ideas please for a Christmas present for a Gen Z male cishet relative, high earning & high-performing ADHD diagnosed with a predilection of buying stuff on impulse online and so has everything. Target cost <£35.
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Bluesky hivemind! Your ideas please for a Christmas present for a Gen Z male cishet relative, high earning & high-performing ADHD diagnosed with a predilection of buying stuff on impulse online and so has everything. Target cost <£35.
Yay! Look what the postman just brought! 😀
@annacycles.bsky.social
@annacycles.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Yay! Look what the postman just brought! 😀
@annacycles.bsky.social
@annacycles.bsky.social
From my archives. Stoppard with Diana Rigg and John Thaw.
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
From my archives. Stoppard with Diana Rigg and John Thaw.
Introduce yourself with five pedal cycles you've owned.
Viking Severn Valley (red, stolen)
Dawes Stratos (white, yellow, black, retired and donated to charity)
Marin Muirwoods (silver, blue, now a shopping bike)
Colnago AC-R (white, red trim)
Specialized Diverge (ice blue)
Viking Severn Valley (red, stolen)
Dawes Stratos (white, yellow, black, retired and donated to charity)
Marin Muirwoods (silver, blue, now a shopping bike)
Colnago AC-R (white, red trim)
Specialized Diverge (ice blue)
Introduce yourself with five pedal cycles you've owned
Bright yellow Ofo hire bike
Arcade Cafe Tandem
Christiana box trike
Batavus Personal
Tern Link
All currently in use
Bright yellow Ofo hire bike
Arcade Cafe Tandem
Christiana box trike
Batavus Personal
Tern Link
All currently in use
Introduce yourself with five pedal cycles you've owned
Alpha 7 Velomobile
Brompton M6L (a bastardisation conversion from an S2)
M*ulton TSR30
Tall Bike - DIY build
Bamboo café racer - DIY build
Alpha 7 Velomobile
Brompton M6L (a bastardisation conversion from an S2)
M*ulton TSR30
Tall Bike - DIY build
Bamboo café racer - DIY build
November 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Introduce yourself with five pedal cycles you've owned.
Viking Severn Valley (red, stolen)
Dawes Stratos (white, yellow, black, retired and donated to charity)
Marin Muirwoods (silver, blue, now a shopping bike)
Colnago AC-R (white, red trim)
Specialized Diverge (ice blue)
Viking Severn Valley (red, stolen)
Dawes Stratos (white, yellow, black, retired and donated to charity)
Marin Muirwoods (silver, blue, now a shopping bike)
Colnago AC-R (white, red trim)
Specialized Diverge (ice blue)
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Farewell to the brilliant Tom Stoppard, who constantly reminded us of the sheer joy to be found in language and in life. He always seemed to relish his art, which is part of what makes it wonderful.
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Farewell to the brilliant Tom Stoppard, who constantly reminded us of the sheer joy to be found in language and in life. He always seemed to relish his art, which is part of what makes it wonderful.
I assume the Party With No Name Party launch conference room in Liverpool is now empty as everyone's walked out in their own personal protest about something. Is the empty room being streamed live?
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I assume the Party With No Name Party launch conference room in Liverpool is now empty as everyone's walked out in their own personal protest about something. Is the empty room being streamed live?
"You missed a bit"
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"You missed a bit"
When my cunning plan for world domination comes good the next things I'm going to do after seizing the assets of all billionaires is to decree that baked bean tins should be stackable LIKE EVERY OTHER F*KING TIN and to ban those EXTREMELY ANNOYING little plastic labels on individual pieces of fruit.
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
When my cunning plan for world domination comes good the next things I'm going to do after seizing the assets of all billionaires is to decree that baked bean tins should be stackable LIKE EVERY OTHER F*KING TIN and to ban those EXTREMELY ANNOYING little plastic labels on individual pieces of fruit.
Every medical professional should read this! It's quite long but worth it - right to the end.
This is heart breaking of course, but also really important and insightful about the arrogance of the medical system despite its clear limitations in dealing with uncertainty and complexity. lucyfoulkes3.medium.com/welcome-to-m...
Welcome to my body
After twenty years of pain and repeated medical dead ends, a stranger sent me a message on Instagram. It led to a diagnosis all the doctors…
lucyfoulkes3.medium.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Every medical professional should read this! It's quite long but worth it - right to the end.
No, I definitely didn't forget I'd already opened that pack of blueberries from the supermarket.
And even if I did I certainly didn't spill a large number of blueberries around the inside of the fridge.
And even if I did I certainly didn't spill a large number of blueberries around the inside of the fridge.
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
No, I definitely didn't forget I'd already opened that pack of blueberries from the supermarket.
And even if I did I certainly didn't spill a large number of blueberries around the inside of the fridge.
And even if I did I certainly didn't spill a large number of blueberries around the inside of the fridge.
I know Gove's fortunes have come and gone as he's taken on the various roles he's performed, and perhaps there's been a tendency to overrate his intelligence, but I've always thought he's a dangerous snake in British public life.
"It’s curious that the Orwell Prize – Britain’s most celebrated award for public interest journalism – has turned to a man who’s spent much of his career trying to stifle it.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I know Gove's fortunes have come and gone as he's taken on the various roles he's performed, and perhaps there's been a tendency to overrate his intelligence, but I've always thought he's a dangerous snake in British public life.
Paging @secondmentions.bsky.social ! "The smirking former No 10 aide". 😀
Let's recall Vote Leave knowingly lied. Even Laura Kuenssberg says so. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Dominic Cummings has admitted the Leave campaign won by lying – we should never forgive him
The smirking former No 10 aide has confirmed what we knew: the EU referendum was won on false pretences.
www.newstatesman.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Paging @secondmentions.bsky.social ! "The smirking former No 10 aide". 😀
I'm thinking of starting a crowdfunder to raise the cash for someone to follow #Farage everywhere he goes with a loudspeaker playing "Bless 'em All". The Vera Lynn version works better than George Formby, I think.
youtu.be/xf4jhb9p2v8
youtu.be/xf4jhb9p2v8
Bless 'em all - VERA LYNN - For all World War II Sweethearts
YouTube video by Guillaume Richard
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I'm thinking of starting a crowdfunder to raise the cash for someone to follow #Farage everywhere he goes with a loudspeaker playing "Bless 'em All". The Vera Lynn version works better than George Formby, I think.
youtu.be/xf4jhb9p2v8
youtu.be/xf4jhb9p2v8
Browsing tonight's TV schedules with the sound off it struck me how similar those antiques shows are to the shopping channels. In the bit I saw a man was earnestly looking and speaking directly to camera while gently caressing a tin jelly mould.
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Browsing tonight's TV schedules with the sound off it struck me how similar those antiques shows are to the shopping channels. In the bit I saw a man was earnestly looking and speaking directly to camera while gently caressing a tin jelly mould.
"Raedwald Hoo?"
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Raedwald Hoo?"
Is there such a thing as mulled gin & tonic? Asking for a friend.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Is there such a thing as mulled gin & tonic? Asking for a friend.
I hate to throw food away, but these tomatoes I bought from one of the smaller national supermarkets taste of nothing. The closest I can get is that it's like eating cardboard with thin plastic film on one side after it's been held under the tap for a minute or two.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I hate to throw food away, but these tomatoes I bought from one of the smaller national supermarkets taste of nothing. The closest I can get is that it's like eating cardboard with thin plastic film on one side after it's been held under the tap for a minute or two.
When people list all the things that were bad in the 1970s they never seem to include avocado bathroom suites. How quickly we forget!
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
When people list all the things that were bad in the 1970s they never seem to include avocado bathroom suites. How quickly we forget!
I can't cook purple sprouting broccoli without hearing David Suchet's Hercule Poirot voice saying "'Ow do you call it, 'Astings, this broccoli that is sprouting? And purple?"
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I can't cook purple sprouting broccoli without hearing David Suchet's Hercule Poirot voice saying "'Ow do you call it, 'Astings, this broccoli that is sprouting? And purple?"
Now we've got Hitler's DNA sequenced can we do Churchill next? Just for comparison, obvs.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Now we've got Hitler's DNA sequenced can we do Churchill next? Just for comparison, obvs.
While I was in M&S today I thought I might buy a new jumper, but apart from the reindeer-and-snowflakes options this season's offering was either 'twilight drab' or 'cosplay a lumberjack'. I guess I'm just not their demographic for men's knitwear.
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
While I was in M&S today I thought I might buy a new jumper, but apart from the reindeer-and-snowflakes options this season's offering was either 'twilight drab' or 'cosplay a lumberjack'. I guess I'm just not their demographic for men's knitwear.
Just pre-ordered @hutchinsondave.bsky.social's new book "Essence". The new clunky PayPal desktop interface has assigned it to a previous address and doesn't show me any way to change it despite my new address clearly showing as my default. Publisher emailed. General enshittification continues.
Out on December 9, available to preorder fromNewCon Press now. Do you believe in miracles?
The Essence, Dave Hutchinson - Books - The Essence
NewCon Press is a multiple award-winning independent publisher specialising in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and horror.
www.newconpress.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just pre-ordered @hutchinsondave.bsky.social's new book "Essence". The new clunky PayPal desktop interface has assigned it to a previous address and doesn't show me any way to change it despite my new address clearly showing as my default. Publisher emailed. General enshittification continues.