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Mary Oz
@maryoz.bsky.social
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I'm an avid Slow Ways walker.
I like train travel, astronomy, canals, maps, graphs, prog rock and a bit of jazz, beer, remnants of the past, countryside furniture...
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walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social
We're recruiting for a Network Development Manager.

More info and apply here 👉 buff.ly/VZa3cws
Graphic reads: We are recruiting for a Network Development Manager Contract: Permanent Location: England: Yorkshire & Midlands / Hybrid. The role involves in-person meetings and site visits. Full time 37.5 hours per week – we are happy to talk flexible working £32596 per annum (pro rata for part time) Closing date: 23:59 07 December 2025
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Late afternoon on the #Lancaster #Canal on a @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk from Garstang. #reflections #UKCanals #trees
Late afternoon sunlight on a row of tree trunks on the opposite bank of a canal. The lower part is in shadow and the sky behind the trees is blue. The scene is mirrored by the canal, in the lower half of the image.
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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ianwalker.bsky.social
In Goodwin Curve news, @willhaycardiff.bsky.social's latest newsletter notes how the immediate aftermath of the Welsh 20 mph speed limits saw a petition raise 400,000 signatures. Today, a second petition has just 2387 signatures
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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transportaction.bsky.social
Do you have any high risk outfalls on roads near you? You can check, using this @watershed-i.bsky.social map.

Use the key on the left to show just the National Highways outfalls.

watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
The Watershed Pollution Map - Watershed Investigations
Wondering what's in your water? Now you can find out. The Watershed Pollution Map reveals a huge range of potential pollution sources that can harm rivers, lakes, groundwater, coasts and more. Click t...
watershedinvestigations.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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#MilepostMonday on the Trent and Mersey Canal, from a recent @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk.
#UKCanals
Typical low level, black and white, curved sign. One side says Shardlow 79 miles, the other side says Preston Brook 13 miles. A tiny note at the base says R&D Stone 1819.
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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#MuddyMonday or is it
#MuckyMonday given the presence of those cows 😲
Very muddy or mucky section of unavoidable field leading to a footbridge. Cows in the distance. Hoofprints in the mud. View along a very muddy narrow metal footbridge into a field.
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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A ventilation shaft above the disused Docks Railway from Edge Hill Station to #Liverpool Docks. Spotted on @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Belle Vale to Liverpool.
A really tall brick ventilation shaft in a park, with graffiti at the base of it.
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Bins
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Shadows
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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hikemaker.bsky.social
How to create a new route in Hike Maker...

Tap "+ New", choose your distance, tap "Generate route".

#iosdev #maps #walking
November 21, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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#PostboxSaturday in Childwall on the way into Liverpool on a @slowwaysuk.bsky.social walk from Belle Vale.
A standard red postbox with GR written on it in plain capitals. Suburban background of road, houses, trees and hedges.
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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As if I would want to trespass here?! @slowwaysuk.bsky.social from Prescot to Belle Vale near Liverpool.
A wooden barred gate covered in brambles. I it was possible to open it, you'd be straight into a small field completely filled with brambles more than a metre high. A faded notice on the gate says "No entry. Private property."
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Two for #FingerpostFriday from further north. @slowwaysuk.bsky.social
Rural fingerpost between Northwich and Stretton. Lots of fallen leaves. Liverpool Loop Line cycle and walking track. Lots of ivy and brambles from the side of the track.
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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#FingerpostFriday from Somerset @slowwaysuk.bsky.social with bus shelter, #bench and #postbox. It's sad that the word "Station" had been painted out though.
The fingerpost pointed to Edington Station but Station is painted white like the background instead of black. Other destinations include Bridgwater and Glastonbury.
November 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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mikehudema.bsky.social
Things are not always what they seem: The deer isn't crossing the road. The road is crossing the forest! 🌳

We need nature more than ever. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #nature
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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railwalks.co.uk
Do you know how to download, record, edit and follow a gpx file on a mapping app? This series of three videos shows how:

www.railwalks.co.uk/how-to-help/...
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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goodbinary.bsky.social
Had a beer in the rather posh town of Uppingham last night. Olde architecture.
#olde #architecture #photography
Photo into the courtyard area of an old school. Cobbled pavement, brown sandstone brick walls and arched doorways. Photo looking up at the onside of an old brown sandstone building. Narrow paned windows and parapets
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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slowwaysuk.bsky.social
Why not use #SlowWays to set yourself a walking challenge?

beta.slowways.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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#PostboxSaturday
A Victorian wall box in Thurloxton on @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Bridgewater to Taunton.
The old brick side of a building with a filled in window and a small postbox with the letters VR on it. Ivy growing up from the ground with sign of earlier cut back ivy higher up.
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Fingerless #FingerpostFriday
Approaching Wells on the East Mendip Way. @slowwaysuk.bsky.social
Wooden post at the end of a wooden gate next to a wall. The writing on the post is vertical and in capitals. It says Dinder 1/2M Kings Castle 1/2M Wells 2M
November 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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#Remembrance
#FingerpostFriday
with added #bench @myfavouritebench.bsky.social
@slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Midsomer Norton to Wells
On the grass between two roads stands the silhouette of a soldier in front of a fingerpost pointing to Trowbridge, Wells and Nettlebridge. In the background a bench, a bin and a tree.
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Sadly not quite so #ADoorableThursday. Looks as if it was once lovely with #tiles on the floor and sides, and a nameplate above.
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
🅿️ Pavement parking is dangerous. It pushes vulnerable people and children into the road. That's why we're campaigning for city-wide measures to get parking back under control.

📍 Why not highlight your local hotspots on @livingstreets.bsky.social map?: www.livingstreets.org.uk/ge...
A wide pavement in a suburb. Several cars, a van and a campervan are parked in different places on the pavement making it hard to navigate around them.
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Four views from @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route from Street to Bridgwater in #Somerset.
Old AA roadsign in the village of Stawell. It's a yellow metal plaque on the wall with black writing. There's a car in front of the wall (naturally) and a red wall postbox. Looking along a straight drainage channel in the Somerset Levels, with sunlit poplar trees lining one side. Blue cycle route signs on a post, red-berried hawthorn, stone wall, grey sky, partial rainbow. Looking along a quiet single track road. Tree silhouetted against a cloud in a blue sky with the sun behind the cloud.
November 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM