Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉
goakl.bsky.social
Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉
@goakl.bsky.social
Published on 19th Century Vendéen memorials. Former PwC partner. Trustee at Institute of Historical Research. Trustee at NHS Retirement. Active travel in Bishop’s Stortford. Keyboard warrior. Bearsted CC. Cricket, cycling, rugby à XV. France and England.
Could you have a look at this boil…
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Broken record here (and actually born in Lowestoft!). If we removed most of the demand (work from home,15 minute cities, insulate homes) and built solar/wind/tidal/battery supply we wouldn’t need nuclear or gas…or the auto/oil industry.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
“Reordering the world” and “reducing private consumption” are the same thing. They don’t necessarily need to be painful. A world where people live a work with walking/cycling distance of everything they need, where free solar and wind powers their home/transit removes the auto/oil industry.
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
On the train. 8 minute journey. Will miss the anthems!
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I had my left arm set and plastered there when I was 12…

Bit of Devon do surpass all understanding.
November 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Monsters.
November 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Does Bishop’s Stortford count as nice?

Back to England for work meetings, children, grandchildren, concerts and rugby. And central heating. Pub tonight.

One of these days I’ll finally retire and live in my little paradise 365 days a year. Though I may need to be less miserly with the radiators.
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Robert Gildea - Marianne in Chains

Simon Schama - Citizens

Jean-Clément Martin - La Vendée de la Mémoire 1800-2018
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Cherry goes so well with game dishes doesn’t it? I should have a go at one. With venison or hare maybe. Seem to remember having that a lot in autumn when I was working in Switzerland.
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Cheery sauce sounds like something the Irish could do with right now.
November 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
But your meal sounds perfect for a game finishing at stupid o’clock
November 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Not sure I have another game in me tonight. But at least I don’t have to wake up in the middle of the night for cricket!
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I can tell you that the orange sauce - finely chopped red onion, orange peel and juice, marmalade, red wine, Cointreau - freezes really well in small portions. I’ll remember that for the Christmas visit.
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
You miss out on all the dodgy hair on the radio.
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
To the left, to the right.

UK political comment?
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Agadir - direct cheap flights.
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM