Tom Hallett
@thomashallett.bsky.social
Content manager in academic publishing comms. Keen pedestrian, cyclist, and runner. Less keen driver. Dorset-based.
Reminds me of this. Great Remembrance Eve watching.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Reminds me of this. Great Remembrance Eve watching.
👀 Seven vehicles a day on average driving more than 100mph on this (60 mph limit) stretch of road where 4 people have died in collisions since 2024. www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/w/improving-...
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
👀 Seven vehicles a day on average driving more than 100mph on this (60 mph limit) stretch of road where 4 people have died in collisions since 2024. www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/w/improving-...
There's still a massive bomb crater on Lenthay Common, just outside Sherborne. It fills with water every winter. I read that they attacked Sherborne because they became disoriented and thought it was Yeovil, as both towns had a railway taking a similar route to the south.
October 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
There's still a massive bomb crater on Lenthay Common, just outside Sherborne. It fills with water every winter. I read that they attacked Sherborne because they became disoriented and thought it was Yeovil, as both towns had a railway taking a similar route to the south.
Are you trying to say the cars don't enhance this vista?
August 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Are you trying to say the cars don't enhance this vista?
This advert on my train highlights the lack of investment in our railways.
The train I'm on was introduced on this line in 1993...
The train I'm on was introduced on this line in 1993...
August 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This advert on my train highlights the lack of investment in our railways.
The train I'm on was introduced on this line in 1993...
The train I'm on was introduced on this line in 1993...
Exeter is such a nice place to visit. Thriving high street, quirky shops and cafes, the cathedral, great quayside area, random chapels and old buildings amongst modern architecture... and loads of people riding cargo bikes.
July 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Exeter is such a nice place to visit. Thriving high street, quirky shops and cafes, the cathedral, great quayside area, random chapels and old buildings amongst modern architecture... and loads of people riding cargo bikes.
In former days, Google Search would have given me the answer I needed in an instant.
Now with AI Overviews it has to show has "clever" it is.
Now with AI Overviews it has to show has "clever" it is.
July 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
In former days, Google Search would have given me the answer I needed in an instant.
Now with AI Overviews it has to show has "clever" it is.
Now with AI Overviews it has to show has "clever" it is.
Here's a good example at my local Sainsbury's. Cycle racks hidden around the side, behind some benches, on a camber, on a footway with no dropped kerb nearby.
July 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Here's a good example at my local Sainsbury's. Cycle racks hidden around the side, behind some benches, on a camber, on a footway with no dropped kerb nearby.
Kids in bed. Run to the pub.
June 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Kids in bed. Run to the pub.
We took ours camping last year. Granted, the tent was tiny.
June 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We took ours camping last year. Granted, the tent was tiny.
Another training run with sign spotting for @showmeasign.online in the bag. Bit wet.
June 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Another training run with sign spotting for @showmeasign.online in the bag. Bit wet.
Google's losing the plot. Researching parasorb cones for tooth extraction and these are the "people also ask" suggestions.
June 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Google's losing the plot. Researching parasorb cones for tooth extraction and these are the "people also ask" suggestions.
Just remembered I took this for you a couple of weeks back.
May 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Just remembered I took this for you a couple of weeks back.
This headline is wrong on so many levels, especially as forensics showed the driver (not the car) would have seen the cyclist from at least 200 meters away.
May 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This headline is wrong on so many levels, especially as forensics showed the driver (not the car) would have seen the cyclist from at least 200 meters away.
This reminds me of the Bargate in Southampton. It was part of the city walls but the walls and surrounding buildings were demolished for road widening. Now it's pedestrianised anyway.
May 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This reminds me of the Bargate in Southampton. It was part of the city walls but the walls and surrounding buildings were demolished for road widening. Now it's pedestrianised anyway.
Peak apple blossom season.
May 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Peak apple blossom season.
We've got bike parking at our doctor's but I recently discovered it's not bolted down!
May 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We've got bike parking at our doctor's but I recently discovered it's not bolted down!
That's my MP. They've been discussing a blanket 20mph limit in my town (Sherborne) for years and are currently justifying not having one because the average (not top) speeds hover around 20 in the town centre. Not all streets are like this one though!
April 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
That's my MP. They've been discussing a blanket 20mph limit in my town (Sherborne) for years and are currently justifying not having one because the average (not top) speeds hover around 20 in the town centre. Not all streets are like this one though!
Cider at the source.
April 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Cider at the source.
It's so simple to make decent homemade cider when you have a little patience.
Pressed some Dabinett apples in autumn 2023 and this is the result.
Pressed some Dabinett apples in autumn 2023 and this is the result.
April 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's so simple to make decent homemade cider when you have a little patience.
Pressed some Dabinett apples in autumn 2023 and this is the result.
Pressed some Dabinett apples in autumn 2023 and this is the result.
Pavement parking must cost councils a lot in repairs too on certain surfaces. Here's our (formerly) lovely paving. The council have filled in a load with tarmac recently.
April 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Pavement parking must cost councils a lot in repairs too on certain surfaces. Here's our (formerly) lovely paving. The council have filled in a load with tarmac recently.
This seems accurate...
April 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This seems accurate...