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Alix Kroeger
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Text editor at the Associated Press, London. Previously BBC News website and BBC na srpskom. Oxford Climate Journalism Network 2024. Ukraine, Balkans, climate change, bicycles and the rest.
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Beep beep, Bermondsey
Person in a Lime bike passing a mural with the Roadrunner, Bermondsey, London
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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November 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Perfectly normal Saturday afternoon in Bermondsey, yes
Man dressed like an escapee from Amadeus in a blue coat, white jabot, black tricornered hat with gold trim. He's riding a black electric cargo bike with a sound system which is blasting a disco version of Mozart. His face is concealed by a gold mask. A Basque flag flies from the front of the bike
November 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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The door of St-Gatien cathedral in Tours, France (photo from September 2025) #adoorableThursday
Central door of Tours cathedral
October 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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There is no cat in this photo
Two green eyes of a black cat stare out of a bay window in a north London house. The cat is virtually invisible against the dark background of an unlit room
October 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Olive harvest in Primrose Hill
A single olive on a tree in north London
October 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Autumn in the garden
Red-skinned pears hanging from a tree in a north London garden. Behind is a garden chair Herbsttag Herr: es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr groß Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren, und auf den Fluren laß die Winde los. Befiehl den letzten Früchten voll zu sein; gieb ihnen noch zwei südlichere Tage, dränge sie zur Vollendung hin und jage die letzte Süße in den schweren Wein. Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr. Wer jetzt allein ist, wird es lange bleiben, wird wachen, lesen, lange Briefe schreiben und wird in den Alleen hin und her unruhig wandern, wenn die Blätter treiben. - Rainer Maria Rilke
October 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Door of the 12th-century church of St-Gervais and St-Protais, Savonnières, near Tours, France #adoorableThursday
Romanesque door with tympanum on church in the Loire Valley
October 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Saw this goat enjoying a night out on the town in Tours last week
Goat in a neckerchief beside a cafe table of people on a night out in Tours
October 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Same
Road bike propped against the entry sign for the chateau of Villandry, in the Loire Valley. One wing of the chateau is just visible in the background
September 27, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Micromobility - Tours, France
Two children's bicycles and helmets locked to a bike stand
September 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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First drones in Poland, now planes in Estonia. 3 Russian fighter aircraft entered Estonian airspace without permission Friday and stayed there for 12 minutes, the foreign ministry said
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September 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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And here are a few more #morningwalk #blackandwhitephotography
Vaguely menacing seed pod of a plant in Clissold Park, looking like a creature that's emerged from the primordial swamp Deer having a good breakfast of carrots and swede, Clissold Park Late-ripening blackberries near Clissold Park Who knew grapes could grow so well in north-east London?
September 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Some black and white photos from a morning walk around Clissold Park. Very autumnal #blackandwhitephotography
A conker about to emerge from its shell, Clissold Park, north London It turns out there are rather a lot of hops in Clissold Park. Three budgies in an aviary, Clissold Park A plant with white bell-like flowers, Clissold Park
September 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Tuxie solidarity with Sam - glad to hear he's on the mend
Tuxedo cat doing her best panther impression by hiding behind some chard in a north London garden
August 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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First harvest of tomatoes from the garden: better to get them before the squirrels do
(That tangle of greenery is just two cherry tomato plants which must have been interbred with a magic beanstalk to get that big)
Four cherry tomatoes, lying on slate, with the leaves of a tomato plant behind Two cherry tomato plants that have turned into absolute triffids, in a London garden
August 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Pre-work spin out to Victoria Park in the sunshine. Happy Friday ☀️🌸
Bee going mad in a pink cosmos flower Narrowboats on the canal, Victoria Park Pavilion Café, Victoria Park, with lots of people sitting outside by the lake Agapanthus!
July 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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MUSÉE DES BEAUX ARTS by W.H. Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. They never forgot In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
July 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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This image from Giant Military Cats clearly shows how cats have grown (apologies to @giantcat9, who appears no longer to be on Bluesky)
A giant fluffy grey and white long-haired cat sits on the deck of a modern warship, with a ship from antiquity alongside (not going to venture a guess as to where it came from)
July 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Drop something blue from your gallery
Herat glass, mostly deep blue, for sale in Kabul. Photo from 2008
July 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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#fingerpostFriday
Fingerpost in Cornwall overlooking a beach at Daymer Bay
July 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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On the hottest day of the year so far in London, please enjoy these very good dogs keeping cool in the fountains at Granary Square
Husky-type dog trying to catch water out of the air A more successful attempt at drinking from a fountain by what I'm pretty sure is an actual husky Dog-walker with three dogs from northern latitudes doing their best to cool off Two dog-walkers, five dogs, Granary Square
July 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Will this do?
Six jars of homemade marmalade in a London kitchen
June 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Looks like AI but is 100 per cent real: osteospermum in my garden
Dark red osteospermum with a yellow centre, surrounded by green leaves
June 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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#FingerpostFriday
Fingerpost in East Sussex pointing to Ditchling and the Beacon
June 20, 2025 at 6:03 AM