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Ian Wacogne
@ianwac.bsky.social
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Husband, dad, paediatrician, ex-editor, CCIO Ride a bike too. Take your pick. Don't like these opinions? I've got plenty of others.
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Sad to hear of the death of Brian Patten.
This poem, shared with me when I was at Uni, might seem a bit trite but really spoke to me, and got me to read some poetry, probably for the first time I didn't "need" to for study.

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Undeterred, by Brian Patten I out my hand into the lucky dip. It was full of acid. Undeterred, believing luck Something with which One has to grapple I dipped my hand Into a barrel of worms Pulled out an apple
October 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Day 3, Melton Mowbray to home.
Tail winds, but I took it slow the first half as I was meeting a friend for some lunch. So much to see...

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A glimpse of a fishing lake through the trees The church in Newtown Linford. Ian with cake and coffee. The cake must have been about a billion calories... A church across a field near Bosworth The cyclist memorial in Meriden
September 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Day 2, Cambridge to Melton Mowbray. Lots of wind, and when I finally turned out of it there was a diversion that added 10 km! Beautiful day. Places in the alt text.

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Ian in the foreground, to the left, still river and a bridge, in Cambridge Wide sky over a country road; the road is central there are a few trees, a blue sky and a single cloud Ian and bicycle by a church in Stambridge Pretty church across a field, Cottesmore
September 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Day 1 of my ride home from Essex. Picture from Southend, Battlesbridge, Finchingfield and Audley End.
Now in Cambridge, about to eat all the food...
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Laden bike with sun, sea and beach Sunshine at Battlesbridge Finchingfield. Church on a hill, pretty houses, village green in the foreground with war memorial. Audley End. Stately building seen through the ornate gateway.
September 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Sometimes Southend can be splendid...
Sunshine over the Sea, the pier on the horizon, coffee and bicycle on the left in the foreground
September 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Out and round a fabulously hilly peninsula.
All the sorts of scenery.
And two coffee breaks - go me!
Just lovely.
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Coffee cup in the foreground, blurry harbour and sea behind I'm front left. Mousehall harbour is behind, with a glimpse of the road I'll need to cycle up to get out... Tilted picture to include Land's End and the sea. Sennen beach and sea and countryside
August 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Visiting some old and some new Cornish roads, North Coast (sort of) to South...
Damp and could have been miserable but it really wasn't - even when I couldn't even see the sea from the coast road back into St Ives.
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Coffee cup in the foreground, then bike helmet and top tube of the bike, then, blurred and in the distance, St Michael's Mount Upright wooden sculptures, then beach and sea and St Michael's Mount. Woodland both sides of the road forming a canopy Smiling but damp me, with the canopy of trees behind me
August 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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It was a long ride today so I needed to make a second food stop...
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Toasted teacakes and jam and coffee Vegan roll and lemon cake and a canof pop Across the River Severn looking West towards Bridgenorth. Looking upstream at the bridge over the River Severn at Bewdley
June 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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And this morning I tried setting out with a destination in mind - Dalish Bakes near Tardebigge - but no fixed route in mind... Went down some new (for me) roads. Had cake so needed to work that off!
Lovely ride.

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House partly concealed by trees covered in blue blossom Me, and trees The view from my handlebars, straight down, with the shadow of me and the bike on the tarmac.
May 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Up and out before I get trapped by the laptop... strava.app.link/YqSwI8aUdTb
Bluebells in a wood with sunshine through dappled leaves. Blue sky with contrails, hedges in the foreground in the shade, fields in the distance in sunshine
May 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Being a bit of a wuss today so decided to walk.
Feels like the trees sprung into green all of a sudden. The Horse Chestnuts are in full leaf.
Leafy path through a churchyard, very green
April 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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A longer faster ride today. Amazing how much better a high street looks when it isn't used to store quite so many cars...
Blue skies and sunshine and coffee and teacake.
Bicycle, Alcester high street, lovely old buildings and blue sky with clouds Church and tree and sun and blue sky Me with my coffee. Attempting also to capture the sun and other things in the window reflection. Coffee and toasted teacake
April 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Went out on a gentle bike ride with a friend earlier - demonstrating to her that you can see some beautiful stuff with surprisingly little effort, a few pedal turns from home.

Oh, and coffee and a brownie help...
Bluebells in the woods Bluebells in the woods Coffee and a brownie
April 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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And this morning's snowdrops!
Snowdrops in the sunshine Snowdrops in the sunshine
February 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I was watching a bit of Pacific Rim last night and he didn't look anything like this.

(This is a pun. Work with me here.)
A pot of Iris Alida
February 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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From a ride last weekend...
Daffodil
February 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Saw a single one in bloom up near Waseley last week...
A daffodil
February 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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I sort of think that the line about him owning office space in Central London should be in the headline.

BBC News - Lord Sugar tells workers to get bums back into the office
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Clip from the article saying "The businessman-turned-TV personality, who owns office space in central London, has launched into the debate over remote"
January 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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There are very few times I agree with Kemi Badenoch but this is one.
I only disagree with the bit where she says, "for a while".
I'd say "forever"
A headline saying Kemi Badenoch 'wants Liz Truss to shut up for a while'
January 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I read this last year - captures this beautifully...

Going Without Saying by Bernard O’Donaghue
Text of a poem Going Without Saying by Bernard O’Donaghue i.m. Joe Flynn It is a great pity we don’t know When the dead are going to die So that, over a last companionable Drink, we could tell them How much we liked them. Happy the man who, dying, can Place his hand on his heart and say: ‘At least I didn’t neglect to tell The thrush how beautifully she sings.’
January 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I walk past this trolley several times a week and I am at risk of over identifying with it...
A trolley with a handwritten message written on it: "Please take me back where I belong"
January 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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This, from yesterday, on the Bournebrook.
Bold but cautious.

#FoxOfTheDay
A fox among the grass and scrub.
January 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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When you are in a cafe and you have a bright idea...
Me with a light behind my head
December 31, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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Blue skies for #BlueSky.
A lovely ride into the countryside, sunglasses all the way.
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A narrow road without hedges, an early green crop in the fields, sun and blue sky. A large oak in silhouette, sun and clouds and a blue sky above a green field Sun on a nearly clear blue sky over a reservoir.
December 30, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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Psst - bargain alert - I reckon these Christmas Trees will be pretty cheap.
A nearly empty yard with a few forlorn unsold Christmas Trees.
December 30, 2024 at 11:36 AM