Derek Allsopp 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
@derall.bsky.social
Occasional cyclist. Hobby Photographer. Liberal Left. NHS Audiologist for 46 years. Ex-2/51 Hld Vols. T1DM. 🍉.
Originally from North Lanarkshire, then Aberdeenshire, happy-ish for now in the home counties, slouching towards retirement.
Originally from North Lanarkshire, then Aberdeenshire, happy-ish for now in the home counties, slouching towards retirement.
Really is the story of my life:
"IT has installed the wrong version"
"IT has installed the wrong version"
December 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Really is the story of my life:
"IT has installed the wrong version"
"IT has installed the wrong version"
Fond memories of Dunnottar, but I prefer the southern castles now, Corfe, Pevensey and their ilk
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Fond memories of Dunnottar, but I prefer the southern castles now, Corfe, Pevensey and their ilk
Oh no, not again
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Oh no, not again
Absolutely packed here at the end of the Metropolitan Line
August 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Absolutely packed here at the end of the Metropolitan Line
Algerian Coffee Stores, Old Compton Street, Soho
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TURKISH BRASS COFFEE POT
Handmade and hand hammered in Turkey, these Ibricks are made with copper and lined with tin. Perfect to make a traditional Turkish/Greek coffee. Available in various cup sizes Please note, cup size re...
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June 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Algerian Coffee Stores, Old Compton Street, Soho
algeriancoffeestores.com/products/1-c...
algeriancoffeestores.com/products/1-c...
Yes, but it's close between that and The Crow Road
May 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Yes, but it's close between that and The Crow Road
Changes with the wind, but would be amongst:
Charlie Stross
John Scalzi
Neal Stephenson
Saki
Iain (M) Banks
Vladimir Sorokin
Martha Wells
Ken Macleod
Charlie Stross
John Scalzi
Neal Stephenson
Saki
Iain (M) Banks
Vladimir Sorokin
Martha Wells
Ken Macleod
May 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Changes with the wind, but would be amongst:
Charlie Stross
John Scalzi
Neal Stephenson
Saki
Iain (M) Banks
Vladimir Sorokin
Martha Wells
Ken Macleod
Charlie Stross
John Scalzi
Neal Stephenson
Saki
Iain (M) Banks
Vladimir Sorokin
Martha Wells
Ken Macleod
Spell check. s/Lewis/Lew
April 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Spell check. s/Lewis/Lew
Cost a fortune (for the time) and as Lewis Grade said "it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic". Probably applies to the real thing too.
April 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Cost a fortune (for the time) and as Lewis Grade said "it would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic". Probably applies to the real thing too.
Food shops always stuck in my memory. Malcolm Campbell greengrocers, Templeton's and Galbraith's early supermarkets
April 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Food shops always stuck in my memory. Malcolm Campbell greengrocers, Templeton's and Galbraith's early supermarkets
Post the first video game you remember playing. Elite on the Acorn Electron. Space trading combat squeezed into a 32k wireframe universe
March 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Post the first video game you remember playing. Elite on the Acorn Electron. Space trading combat squeezed into a 32k wireframe universe