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AndyDenizen
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Oxfordshire.
Active travel interest. Cycling. Some Audax.
Photography.

#ClimateCrisis
#EndSewagePollution
#BetterinEU
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Here is a hastily constructed animated gif from different NASA satellites showing the progression of the Hayli Gubbi eruption. Note the tall ash plume spreading NE (right) and a lower, light tan ash flow(?) moving NNW. #eruption #volcano
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Great to be on Whenua Hou last week, helping attach GPS tags to #kakapo ahead of the breeding season. We caught up with Rakiura - whom we're hoping will use the same nest for the 7th time. That's unusual - kākāpō normally don't re-use nests. #conservation #parrots
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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"Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don't get the biggest one, I'm putting my family at risk."
November 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
New pedals & cleats time... Pleased I'd greased the pedal threads previously - saves on joint breaking effort to remove them. A historic stuck seatpost & snapped crank bolt have reinforced this behaviour in me... 😁
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Do you want to know why Michelle Obama won’t run for president?

Here it is, and she’s not wrong…
November 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Wallingford Bridge, "Do not overtake cyclists".

Oh, guess what? 🤦‍♂️

#MGIF #ClosePass #MuppetDriver #Oxfordshire
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The Chilterns looked amazing in the autumnal sun today. Did a 75km ride up to Christmas common and back through Stoke Row, & Wallingford. Loads of riders out; chatted to someone who was doing the Henley Hilly 100. Nice day ferit. #Oxfordshire #Cycling
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Refuel at the Spire & Spoke, Watlington. Now for Watlington hill to Christmas Common... #Oxfordshire #Chilterns
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Not gonna lie - this driver annoyed me yesterday, in #Oxford High St. More or less just shaved past, overtaking a parked landyacht. I resisted the urge to slap the bus' bodywork, because that can end badly - Newton's 3rd & all that. #Cycling
November 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
80km ride up north of Oxford to Enstone and back. New non rattling or buzzy SKS Edge Al 28" mudguards do the trick. Some great autumnal colours at the moment. Enjoy a good 'unsuitable for motors' stretch of road. 😉 Quite a bit of wind about, but my north / south route wasn't too bad. #Oxfordshire
November 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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🌊 Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct"

Following the record-breaking 2023 marine heatwave and the ninth mass coral bleaching, staghorn and elkhorn corals have dwindled to populations too small to reproduce

oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...
Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct" - Oceanographic
Following a record-breaking marine heatwave in 2023 Florida's critical staghorn and elkhorn corals have been left 'functionally extinct.'
oceanographicmagazine.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Well worth supporting BBOWT if you don't already... "Chimney Meadows" is the largest of their nature reserves. Warburg in the Chilterns a great place too - have walked there a few times, & earlier in the year cycled a bridleway from Cookley Green through Warburg, to Bix & beyond. Good stuff.
🌳 The current owners of Hamgreen Wood have carefully managed the woodland rides over the past thirty years.

When the time came for them to sell, they knew BBOWT had the expertise to care for their precious land.

👉 Please support our appeal: bbowt.org.uk/hamgreen
Continuing a legacy for wildlife at Hamgreen Wood
Help us to continue a legacy of careful management for wildlife and protect Hamgreen Wood for future generations: https://www.bbowt.org.uk/hamgreen
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October 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Still a few days left to have your say on the East St Helen Street Active Travel scheme in Abingdon...

#Cycling #Walking #Cyclists #Pedestrians #ActiveTravel #Infrastructure #Abingdon #Oxfordshire
🚲 Big win for Abingdon! £1.5m secured to fix the missing NCN5 link + boost walking & cycling

Plans include a new two-way contraflow on East St Helen St, Dutch entrance kerbs, continuous footways + better crossings

Have your say by 28 Oct – letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/east-st-hele...
October 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.
October 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Thames Water has announced that the hosepipe ban for OX postcodes is to continue after receiving 50% of the average rainfall over the last six months. They also warn of increased likelihood of localised flooding during periods of heavy rain on exceptionally dry ground, due to increased run off.
October 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Easiest way to use the hopeless GWR vertical bike spaces, for one stop & when train is quiet, with some handy reusable cable ties...
October 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Still going after all these years. No longer made though...

#Bikester
October 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
"The biggest legal claim ever brought in the UK over environmental pollution in the country has been filed at the High Court."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit
Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Trip to Abingdon Ock Street, October fair last night. One of my tasks was to bring home some candy floss - cable tied to the saddle pack... Also tested out the new Lumintop B01 bike light - pretty good. Takes 21700 or 18650 cells...
October 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Another miracle performed by your friends at the #WorldBollardAssociation
October 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Also… this kind of thing is just frustrating. On several greenways (which are signposted traffic-free cycleways) near me the A frame barriers are far too narrow for this e-bike. I imagine anyone with an adapted cycle would find this impossible to get past.
October 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM