Peter
@gatesheadgeek.bsky.social
Yorkshire-raised, Smoggie-born engineer with a penchant for photography, LEGO, travel, food & wine. Based in Tyneside since 2007, but once lived & worked in New Zealand. Servant to Hild the cat & occasionally to her brother Bede. Blood donor.🏳️🌈 he/him/his
I need to give the city another go - on a Canada holiday a few years ago, we arrived tired in torrential rain. Added to the need to adapt to the language, I felt less enamoured than I should have
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I need to give the city another go - on a Canada holiday a few years ago, we arrived tired in torrential rain. Added to the need to adapt to the language, I felt less enamoured than I should have
Sadly it’s the last one due to the change in control of the county council.
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Sadly it’s the last one due to the change in control of the county council.
What was the final tally, wine-wise?
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
What was the final tally, wine-wise?
Yes even better having staff who care and know stuff. I remember a DIY store in my local village near Wakefield in my childhood called Mak-a-Home - it’s still there apparently.
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Yes even better having staff who care and know stuff. I remember a DIY store in my local village near Wakefield in my childhood called Mak-a-Home - it’s still there apparently.
They’re great. I’m not sure if it was your post or someone else’s that prompted me to buy some (there goes being good!). I think I prefer the gingerbread and white chocolate cookies though. They’ve got a nice kick!
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
They’re great. I’m not sure if it was your post or someone else’s that prompted me to buy some (there goes being good!). I think I prefer the gingerbread and white chocolate cookies though. They’ve got a nice kick!
I have some catching up to do…
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I have some catching up to do…
Why so little wine today?
November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Why so little wine today?
Hild was less impressed. She’d been out all day and ran in to hide under my bed soon after I got home. She seems to have calmed down although I’d back under the bed again!
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Hild was less impressed. She’d been out all day and ran in to hide under my bed soon after I got home. She seems to have calmed down although I’d back under the bed again!
I don’t know whether anyone has ever even suggested this, but I presume motorail style trains (providing seating and car carrying) through Channel Tunnel from points other than Folkestone/Fréthun would be very unlikely/impossible
November 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I don’t know whether anyone has ever even suggested this, but I presume motorail style trains (providing seating and car carrying) through Channel Tunnel from points other than Folkestone/Fréthun would be very unlikely/impossible