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Chris Dale

@chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social

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Solicitor who promoted eDiscovery/eDisclosure in England and Wales and elsewhere. Now retired to my photographs of places, birds, and the dog. In Oxford.

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Stephen Gower @sjgower.bsky.social · 5h

I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.

A street map of Oxford.

Woodstock Road, Banbury Road and the streets in their immediate vicinity are coloured pink. Botley Road and streets off it are coloured green. Cowley Road, Iffley Road and Abingdon Road and streets off them are coloured blue. Streets in Marston and Headington are coloured orange. The ring road matches the colours at each junction and fades between colours as it goes around. A small area in the middle is coloured yellow, and labelled "Central Permit Area". THe Congestion Charge traffic filters are indicated by black circles circles with white segments, those white segments correspond on a 24 hour clock face with when the filter isn't operational (and the remaining black, when the filters are operational). Crosses mark other filters in the city that are enforced by ANPR but are not part of the Congestion Charge scheme.

Text at the top of the image reads "Temporary Congestion Charge for Cars in Oxford 2025-2026. Any road outside the Central Permit Area can be accessed without passing any traffic filers by using the Ring Road and selecting an approporiate exit junction (matching colours on this map)."

A key at the bottom matches the filter types, with text "Traffic Filters. Hollow Way & Marston Ferry Road 7-9am and 3-6pm. St Cross Road, Hythe Bridge Street, Thames Street and St Clements, 7am-7pm. £5 daily permit covers all Congestion Charge filters. Free Permits available. For example for residents, business use, health and car, SEND and disabilty. Congestion Charge permits do not apply for other filters, such as High Street or in East Oxford/Cowley."

Small print reads "Full details at https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-and-travel" and "©@sjgower Contains OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Locations of highway filters are approximate and for overview purposes only. v1.3"

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 5h

As with others who have addressed a related question, he would want to know if they are African or European swallows.

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 5h

Colic yes. They don't (necessarily) need a special diet, just a balanced one. If you ask these twerps if they'd want random strangers slipping food to their healthy dog, they'd be appalled.

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 6h

Rotting apples thrown down on the meadow, presumably as a "treat" for horses. Don't do this.

Rotting apples of red and green on the edge of a large green field. There are trees beyond the field.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 9h

Heron surveys the world and is unimpressed

The head and body of a heron looking cross. Its body is grey, with white lower breast and throat. The beak is yellow underneath and black and grey above. Its eye has a yellow ring round a black centre.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 19h

Out with the dog for his late night wee. Fusillade of fireworks close by. Dog runs for home. Just ban private fireworks.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

Migration charts for swallows and house martins. Amazing journeys.

Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the map for the swallow. Each dot represents a bird, and each line links the places where they were found.

A map of Europe and Africa, with multicoloured dots, and connecting lines leading roughly north to south.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

Late afternoon down at the Bailey bridge

Late afternoon sun behind a metal bridge and a river. There is a dark cottage across the river whose reflection is seen in the water.,

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Her three arms/hands are the big tell in this case...

Screenshot from a TikTok video with red circles around the person's three hands and arms

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

The computer mouse was invented by a dog to enable you to scroll with one hand while stroking the dog with the other.

The head of a black dog with a hand stroking under his chin.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

@annadillon.bsky.social Thanks for the ref to Hugh Clout's book, which I did not know about. Not in the local library, but I might just buy it - there is a chapter on reconstruction in Peter Liddle's "Passchendaele" which got me interested enough to want to know more.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 1d

Late afternoon down at the Bailey bridge

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 2d

Catching the light while hoping to catch some fish

A white gull with orange beak flies by, with trees in the background

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 2d

The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 2d

It is on my wife's allotment, and I don't have a picture of it laden with fruit - time I went back to update my allotment pictures. She has posted a local notice inviting anyone to come and help themselves.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d

Sleeping swan

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d

Lots of that being made here this week.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 3d

Useful mini-thread that puts the restricted eligibility for this year's Covid jab in perspective 👇

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 3d

Bit nerdy, but it's worth having a skim over the number needed to vaccinate figures here. E.g. to avoid one hospitalisation in otherwise healthy people JCVI estimated 60-100k would need to be vaccinated (based on Autumn 2024 data).

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Appendix A: estimating the number needed to vaccinate to prevent a COVID-19 hospitalisation in autumn 2024 in England

www.gov.uk

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d

Delivery man sees barrow of allotment quinces at the front door and asks what they are. I tell him and invite him to take some. He looks doubtful. Take one, I say, experiment, and come back for more if you want to.

Purple wheelbarrow full of yellow quinces.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d

Sleeping swan

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d

It was. Thank you, Claire.

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, Elizabeth

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d

Good old-fashioned retail. First, a shoe shop, without the x-ray machine of my childhood but otherwise the same experience.

Then a bookshop with instructions to choose something. Facing me was the biography of someone I knew a long time ago, so that was easy.

Then cake and candles. A good day.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 4d

Flying dog

Black and white photograph of a black dog jumping for a ball in a big field.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, Rob