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Dad, husband, Yorkshireman. Cumbrian. Ex-national newspaper art director delighted to find himself living halfway up a Lakeland fell after 30 years in London Beer, Vespa, history, hill, life, lake, bike Libraries gave us power

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 1d

That looks right up my strasse.

Have you read 'Ghosts Over Britain by Peter Moss? Maybe the best book of first-hand accounts I've ever read.

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's a cliché to call 4x4s panzers but the zig-zags and double yellows by my local primary look like Rommel's mustering point outside Arras in 1940.

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Pilot @pilotbeer.co.uk · 1d

Look, we hate craft beer as much as the next person but it's rapidly approaching the end of 2025 and we've just seen a fairly well known satirical spoof news site doing a story about how there's lots of IPAs with stupid names and hipsters like them. Mind boggling.

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 1d

The Germans should have just used Decathlon's online returns system instead of Enigma. Even Bletchley Park would struggle to send back a mis-sized anorak.

TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 1d

Arnison's department store Of Penrith is closing in December - after 275 years of trading. A great shame. The business is still profitable. Hopefully someone will take on this grand old lady.

A cyclist pauses outside the windows of Arnison's department store in Penrith

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 1d

I've got a long-standing and solo campaign to rename the Piece Hall in Halifax as Piazza Wilfred Pickles.

TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 1d

Not yet had the pleasure - although my folks have and they liked it

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 1d

Took three years but I found my first miserable Cumbrian.

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 1d

They look like they've been dancing for 18 hours at gunpoint

TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone here look like they're having a good time?

Cover of an old flamenco vinyl album. the couple on the picture look very pained

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, I do absolutely hate gardening

TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 3d

mate I'm just trying to plant some daffodil bulbs ffs

A 'relax and do a breathing exercise' message warning on a garmin smartwatch

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Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social · 3d

This week's edition of news, nuggets and longreads is now up, with all sorts of great stuff, including several responses to one of our own posts from earlier in the week. 🍺🍻

boakandbailey.com/2025/10/news...

News, nuggets and longreads 11 October 2025: The Bird That You Can’t See

Every Saturday we round up the best writing about beer from the past week. This time, we’ve got Deptford, Belgian craft, and more on beer festivals.

boakandbailey.com

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Henry Jeffreys @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social · 4d

"In my early days of drinking, back in the 1990s, often the only way of knowing if a pub was posh was the clientele. The pub itself looked exactly the same as the other ones, except all the punters were wearing Hunter wellies." Some great nostalgia in Will's latest.

Will Hawkes @willhawkes.bsky.social · 4d

There is a new @londonbeercity.bsky.social out today, featuring the King's Road and a pub called the Queen Charlotte. You can get it for free by signing up here: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...

The magnificent interior of the Cadogan Arms, featuring lavish brown and green tiling, mirrors, cushioned bar stools, chandeliers and a moulded plaster ceiling. It's in the King's Road

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 4d

It's a real worry. I'm sort of glad there was no www when I was 14/15.

Mind you my wife confiscated one of her pupils' phones when she caught him in class watching videos about tractors.

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 4d

He's probably watching Andrew T*te tutorials on his phone anyway

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 4d

I see your ex is taking the divorce well

A car in London covered in bizarre anti Sadiq khan and ant Keir starmer slogans. Taken from a Facebook post

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 5d

"Solid comeback".

Not my words, Carol, the words of Strava AI.

#accidentalpartridge

TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 5d

...what?!

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 5d

First 5k since God-knows-when. About 20 minutes slower than my PB but after The Great Year Of Wheeziness And Endless Bloody Coughing I'll take it.

A Garmin running watch showing a time of 39 minutes and 47 seconds taken to run 5 kilometres

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 7d

Everything AND the vampire apparently

TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 7d

Cumbrian church for sale.

Disclaimer: has a vampire locked in a vault in the graveyard.

cumbriacrack.com/2025/10/07/c...

Cumbrian church could be yours for £100,000 cash – cumbriacrack.com

cumbriacrack.com

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 7d

THE WAR ON MOTORISTS

Owen Massey @bookllyfr.bsky.social · 7d

A parish council in Oxford has refused to install a bench on a quiet side street in case people sit on it and get hit by a car

www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2552131...

#motonormativity

@apiln.bsky.social

Proposed 'eyesore' bench causes outrage among community

Plans for a new artistic bench that have been two years in the making have caused outrage among residents in Botley near an Oxford Brookes campus.

www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk

TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 7d

Leytonstone. 2011.

Doctor: Do you cycle a lot?

Me: (wheezing) Yes. To Tower Hill every day.

Doctor: You've got asthma from riding through diesel soup.

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 7d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social · 8d

Newspaper art directors

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out