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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
@mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy
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I live in Central England
I'm a retired NHS Scientist & Manager with a BA(hons) French & Art History

I cycle, sketch, try to grow stuff on our allotment & play […]

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Back home from a visit with our daughter to Bletchley Park where we had a bit of a mooch round parts of the museum, and we had afternoon tea in the Mansion.
Of course the highlight for me was operating GB3RS at the National Radio Centre ( as in my previous […]

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GB3RS QSL Card (IYKYN) with a union flag, the NRC sign, and the main beam superimposed on the side of a white wartime hut One of the Bletchley Park buildings with a beam antenna on the roof. The building is two stories and has grid shaped windows. Two ladies sat at a table set for afternoon tea. The nearest one is my wife, the furthest has the face obscured and is our daughter Yours truly operating GB3RS. There are multiple computer screens and several tranceivers as well as ancillary equipment. The old bloke is in a red jacket and showing his paunch.. Above the screens is a sign saying Radio Station GB3RS
November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Cake made.
Looks OK although it could have risen a bit more.

Oh! I'm such a domestic god(dess)🤣
A round fruit cake on a cooling tray.
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Right, I've got the recipe book out. Ready to go.

(It's from 1969)
Be-Ro Home Recipes book with a smiling girl wearing a,Miss Be-Ro sach. It is very faded
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Northampton town centre
Flying sculpture & demolition

#northampton #unclassifiedphoto
Two stylised figures on posts - one dark, one light. In the background just below the figures is a partially demolished building
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I've stumbled into St James's Church in #northampton - what a splendid building in such a mediochre town
Church interior with ornate ceiling and altar. There are lights and pews
November 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Second coffee of the day - the cherry borek has all gone (and jolly nice it was too)
It seems to be getting colder and damper here in Northampton

#northampton
Table with a partial glass cup of brown fluid, an empty blue plate with a fork. Theresa a pot of sugar in paper wrappers and a pair of glasses. The table is wood Through the window there are market stalls and beyond some buildings
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Good grief!
We were young once (although what she ever saw in that bloke I'll never know!)
I know I still fancy her though.

#oldphotos
a collage of 5 photos. They variously show a gorgeous young woman with fly away hair, a grumpy lad in very 1970s clothes and a couple of photo booth pictures of a girl and a long haired couple.
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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I don't only ride bicycles!

#oldphotos #morocco
An old photo of a man on a camel. The man is wearing a beige jacket and dark trousers. The camel has a yellow and red stuped saddle. There are palm trees behind
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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I've just found some old photos that I'd forgotten about

This is me in one of the only two cycle races I participated in.
I'm riding my 1946 Hetchins bike in a 10km Time Trial - The Tin Can Ten in Nottinghamshire in about 1998.
How stylish!!

#cycling #biketooter #hubgears #hetchins
An old photo of a man on a bike. The man is dressed in a purple top with a purple helmet, he's got tight black shorts. The bike is black and has distinctive Hetchins chain stays. There are fields behind the rider with trees in the distance
November 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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I'd completely forgotten - we are seeing Riverdance this evening.
Leicester DeMontfort Hall.
It looks like being packed out.

#leicester #riverdance
Theatre with a view of a stage - the backdrop say "Riverdance 30 the new generation"
November 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Didn't sleep well last night but I've still been fairly productive this morning.
I've tidied the kitchen and sorted out the bags in the front garden that had the tomatoes in them.

The postman brought my London - Floris - London tee shirt!

He also brought a […]

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Right hand with a grey & black half glove covering part of the thumb and part of the wrist. Logo on black material which has the words London Floris London 2025
October 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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@moof @jon
It's an Elefant not an Elephant
Cartoon picture of a City Elefant train with a cartoon elephant saying words in Slovak
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Costa Coffee* (chai latte) and bicycle ride.

It's a grand morning for a gentle bike ride - I'm still coughing but it's good to get some air in my lungs.

*Yes, yes, I know but it's the nearest place to sit & drink (3.5km) that's open in the morning. It's a […]

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View out of a window partially obscured by a frame bar. There is a bicycle next to a stylised railing outside. A McDonald's is visible behind a fence. On the table in the foreground is a tray with a spoon, there's a glass cup with brownish liquid in it.
September 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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We're in our cabin on the boat.
The tea is brewing.
The sun is setting (it's more than a bit cloudy though).

I've got snack food for tea. Sacha still doesn't want food.

I think we set off in about an hour and a half.

Here's hoping for a restful night.

No […]

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A ferry cabin with a pair of pink toed socks in the foreground. There's a reflection of the porthole widow below a blank TV screen. To the right there's an illuminated area and at the end of the photo is a door with safety information.
September 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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[Photo of food]

I finally found some currywurst!

Lecker!

#food #germany #tatrastraintrip
A bowl of sliced sausage in a brown curry sauce
September 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Drinking excellent milky coffee overlooking the Rhine in Remagen.

We've stopped off here to recharge our souls on our way to Cologne.
The river is a short walk from the station and there seems to be frequent services.
It's a nice town.

#tatrastraintrip #germany #interrail
Two large glasses of milky coffee on a wooden table top A paved plaza with parasols and restaurant tables
September 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Dresden Hbf also has a model railway layout you can play with for €1 - bargain!
Complex model railway with four tracks, lots of buildings and scenery in a glass case which causes reflections
September 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Dresden Hbf is an impressive building

#interrail
Huge building seen from a distance. The central part has a dome. The two outer parts of the building are curved train sheds. There is a road in the foreground with tram tracks
September 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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While I was missing the last few rounds in the #tramwm I was out shopping and caught the vintage #dresden tram
Old style tram crossing a cobbled street
September 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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View from the breakfast table.
This the Zwinger

#dresden #tatrastraintrip
Baroque palace with a green roofed squat tower to the right. Stone walls with balustrade. Grounds beyond with more palatial structures. Trams lines in the foreground. The photo is taken from a high angle
September 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Yes! We've got our reserved seats -the nasty family left at Prague.

The people in the compartment are friendly Germans.

We've had a really nice affordable lunch in the dining car.

The train has picked up time and is now running only 55 minutes late.

It's […]

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Two plates of chicken salad across a train table with tablecloth. There are two green glass bottles and two glasses. Scenery is blurred through the window
September 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Obligatory Regiojet toilet flower photo

#regiojet #interrail #tatrastraintrip
Sorry looking flower in a small jar on a metal sink top in a train toilet compartment
September 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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ČD First Class
Olomouc to Brno
Coach 372 (who comes up with the numbers?)
Next to the engine.

#interrail #tatrastraintrip
Train seats in red. Four seats across a table perfectly aligned with the window. There's a black suitcase against the table with a green strap, and brown rucksack on the nearest seat. There are luggage racks above the seats.
September 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Sitting in the square again in Žilina, in the sun, drinking excellent coffee (at not-Costa prices).
She's reading, I've been drawing.
I could really get to like #slovakia
View of a white building in the distance with a lot of trees to the left in the middle ground which are partly hiding a Marian statue on a tower. In the foreground is a tree with a bench and a café parasol top left. There is sun and shade A photo of monochrome drawing of a couple of lamps with a statue on a tower with trees behind. There is a tree in front of a bench to the right. The lighting of the photo could be a lot better
September 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM