Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire
@paddytracey.bsky.social
Journalist and Producer of 'Jon Smith at Breakfast' on BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Apologies to everyone in Gloucestershire yesterday that had to endure me reading the news for the first time in more than two years.
Whilst there was not enough in the way of animal stories for my liking, I did go large on Leather Shorts, Wooden Stools and Puddles of Beer.
Off the subs bench 🎙️📰
Whilst there was not enough in the way of animal stories for my liking, I did go large on Leather Shorts, Wooden Stools and Puddles of Beer.
Off the subs bench 🎙️📰
October 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Apologies to everyone in Gloucestershire yesterday that had to endure me reading the news for the first time in more than two years.
Whilst there was not enough in the way of animal stories for my liking, I did go large on Leather Shorts, Wooden Stools and Puddles of Beer.
Off the subs bench 🎙️📰
Whilst there was not enough in the way of animal stories for my liking, I did go large on Leather Shorts, Wooden Stools and Puddles of Beer.
Off the subs bench 🎙️📰
🎪 It's the Ashleworth Show.
Burgers, beer and bales
Bouncy Castle and Brass Band
Other letters of the alphabet remain available
Burgers, beer and bales
Bouncy Castle and Brass Band
Other letters of the alphabet remain available
September 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🎪 It's the Ashleworth Show.
Burgers, beer and bales
Bouncy Castle and Brass Band
Other letters of the alphabet remain available
Burgers, beer and bales
Bouncy Castle and Brass Band
Other letters of the alphabet remain available
🏞️⚽ It's looking like a great day for the annual River Football in Bourton-on-the-Water 🌞
Here's a taste of the action from last year🏆
Here's a taste of the action from last year🏆
August 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
🏞️⚽ It's looking like a great day for the annual River Football in Bourton-on-the-Water 🌞
Here's a taste of the action from last year🏆
Here's a taste of the action from last year🏆
🛍️ Had a look at the Cotswold Designer Outlet near Tewkesbury this afternoon 🏪
It's an optimistic name, it's not in The Cotswolds, although you can see the hills from the car park ↗️
But plenty of that famous colour in the stonework on the shops 🧱
Busy car park too for a Wednesday afternoon 🅿️
It's an optimistic name, it's not in The Cotswolds, although you can see the hills from the car park ↗️
But plenty of that famous colour in the stonework on the shops 🧱
Busy car park too for a Wednesday afternoon 🅿️
August 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🛍️ Had a look at the Cotswold Designer Outlet near Tewkesbury this afternoon 🏪
It's an optimistic name, it's not in The Cotswolds, although you can see the hills from the car park ↗️
But plenty of that famous colour in the stonework on the shops 🧱
Busy car park too for a Wednesday afternoon 🅿️
It's an optimistic name, it's not in The Cotswolds, although you can see the hills from the car park ↗️
But plenty of that famous colour in the stonework on the shops 🧱
Busy car park too for a Wednesday afternoon 🅿️
♻️ The greatest way a person can spend the afternoon
The unbridled joy of the slot at The Tip
Sorting out your bits for the various areas
The fluid one way system
The frankly brilliant and cheery staff
❤️ Gloucester Household Recycling Centre ❤️
The unbridled joy of the slot at The Tip
Sorting out your bits for the various areas
The fluid one way system
The frankly brilliant and cheery staff
❤️ Gloucester Household Recycling Centre ❤️
August 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
♻️ The greatest way a person can spend the afternoon
The unbridled joy of the slot at The Tip
Sorting out your bits for the various areas
The fluid one way system
The frankly brilliant and cheery staff
❤️ Gloucester Household Recycling Centre ❤️
The unbridled joy of the slot at The Tip
Sorting out your bits for the various areas
The fluid one way system
The frankly brilliant and cheery staff
❤️ Gloucester Household Recycling Centre ❤️
🚣🍖🏞️🌞 The River Wye at Lower Lydbrook is one of the best places in Gloucestershire during the summer.
People gather on the river bank to share a barbecue.
Paddlers float by, some taking a dip when their balance goes.
And others cool off in the river.
People gather on the river bank to share a barbecue.
Paddlers float by, some taking a dip when their balance goes.
And others cool off in the river.
August 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🚣🍖🏞️🌞 The River Wye at Lower Lydbrook is one of the best places in Gloucestershire during the summer.
People gather on the river bank to share a barbecue.
Paddlers float by, some taking a dip when their balance goes.
And others cool off in the river.
People gather on the river bank to share a barbecue.
Paddlers float by, some taking a dip when their balance goes.
And others cool off in the river.
🚴💨 A good bit of Sunday morning sport.
The peloton approaching Staunton Cross.
The peloton approaching Staunton Cross.
August 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
🚴💨 A good bit of Sunday morning sport.
The peloton approaching Staunton Cross.
The peloton approaching Staunton Cross.
🦋 I met a Poplar Hawk Moth at the Hartpury Church and Paddock Eco Morning.
He had feet like velcro.
Plenty more to see there until midday. Well worth a look.
He had feet like velcro.
Plenty more to see there until midday. Well worth a look.
August 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🦋 I met a Poplar Hawk Moth at the Hartpury Church and Paddock Eco Morning.
He had feet like velcro.
Plenty more to see there until midday. Well worth a look.
He had feet like velcro.
Plenty more to see there until midday. Well worth a look.
It's the display of Local Plums at the Hartpury Orchard Centre.
The wasps behaved themselves 🐝
And the Ploughman's Lunch and Cake offering was great.
But best of all... The Perry 🍐🍻
The wasps behaved themselves 🐝
And the Ploughman's Lunch and Cake offering was great.
But best of all... The Perry 🍐🍻
August 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's the display of Local Plums at the Hartpury Orchard Centre.
The wasps behaved themselves 🐝
And the Ploughman's Lunch and Cake offering was great.
But best of all... The Perry 🍐🍻
The wasps behaved themselves 🐝
And the Ploughman's Lunch and Cake offering was great.
But best of all... The Perry 🍐🍻
🥓🍳 Needs mushrooms ☕
July 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🥓🍳 Needs mushrooms ☕
🏴 Love a Charity Shop. Love a themed window display. But absolutely LOVE the thought that's gone into this one.
Bring it home Lionesses 🦁🏆
Bring it home Lionesses 🦁🏆
July 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🏴 Love a Charity Shop. Love a themed window display. But absolutely LOVE the thought that's gone into this one.
Bring it home Lionesses 🦁🏆
Bring it home Lionesses 🦁🏆
🌡️A hot weekend for The Tewkesbury Medieval Festival.
Naturally you wear a Wolfskin.
Stay cool out there Gloucestershire ☀️
Naturally you wear a Wolfskin.
Stay cool out there Gloucestershire ☀️
July 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🌡️A hot weekend for The Tewkesbury Medieval Festival.
Naturally you wear a Wolfskin.
Stay cool out there Gloucestershire ☀️
Naturally you wear a Wolfskin.
Stay cool out there Gloucestershire ☀️
⛅ This is my kind of summer's day.
Ambling along in a quiet part of northern Gloucestershire.
Bit of breeze, plenty of high fluffy clouds, but still lots of sunshine too.
Winner.
Ambling along in a quiet part of northern Gloucestershire.
Bit of breeze, plenty of high fluffy clouds, but still lots of sunshine too.
Winner.
July 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
⛅ This is my kind of summer's day.
Ambling along in a quiet part of northern Gloucestershire.
Bit of breeze, plenty of high fluffy clouds, but still lots of sunshine too.
Winner.
Ambling along in a quiet part of northern Gloucestershire.
Bit of breeze, plenty of high fluffy clouds, but still lots of sunshine too.
Winner.
⚽ Robbie Savage is the new manager for Forest Green Rovers.
This will be the club's sixth permanent manager in the space of three years.
Savage left Macclesfield this week ➡️ bbc.in/4etaD9n
This will be the club's sixth permanent manager in the space of three years.
Savage left Macclesfield this week ➡️ bbc.in/4etaD9n
July 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
⚽ Robbie Savage is the new manager for Forest Green Rovers.
This will be the club's sixth permanent manager in the space of three years.
Savage left Macclesfield this week ➡️ bbc.in/4etaD9n
This will be the club's sixth permanent manager in the space of three years.
Savage left Macclesfield this week ➡️ bbc.in/4etaD9n
Back to work after a knee op.
Now to remember how all this stuff works.
Like riding a bike right?
Now to remember how all this stuff works.
Like riding a bike right?
June 24, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Back to work after a knee op.
Now to remember how all this stuff works.
Like riding a bike right?
Now to remember how all this stuff works.
Like riding a bike right?
🌩️ some BIG rumbles of thunder here in Gloucestershire but skies look benign for now 🤔
How long can it last before the big downpour hits? ⛈️
How long can it last before the big downpour hits? ⛈️
May 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🌩️ some BIG rumbles of thunder here in Gloucestershire but skies look benign for now 🤔
How long can it last before the big downpour hits? ⛈️
How long can it last before the big downpour hits? ⛈️
🇵🇱 It's Polish Heritage Day in Gloucester.
Get down to the Park from midday.
It's an amazing event drawing people from right across the country.
And @jonysmith.bsky.social is hosting.
Bands, Crafts, Food, Sports and much more.
Get down to the Park from midday.
It's an amazing event drawing people from right across the country.
And @jonysmith.bsky.social is hosting.
Bands, Crafts, Food, Sports and much more.
May 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🇵🇱 It's Polish Heritage Day in Gloucester.
Get down to the Park from midday.
It's an amazing event drawing people from right across the country.
And @jonysmith.bsky.social is hosting.
Bands, Crafts, Food, Sports and much more.
Get down to the Park from midday.
It's an amazing event drawing people from right across the country.
And @jonysmith.bsky.social is hosting.
Bands, Crafts, Food, Sports and much more.
⚡ @simonforstroud.bsky.social was one of only a handful of people to complete the BBC Radio Gloucestershire Buzz Wire Challenge in Uley on Bank Holiday Monday.
He puts it down to "the steady hand of the surgeon".
He puts it down to "the steady hand of the surgeon".
May 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
⚡ @simonforstroud.bsky.social was one of only a handful of people to complete the BBC Radio Gloucestershire Buzz Wire Challenge in Uley on Bank Holiday Monday.
He puts it down to "the steady hand of the surgeon".
He puts it down to "the steady hand of the surgeon".
🇬🇧 Hope you’re having a great Bank Holiday Monday.
We spent it at Uley for their VE 80 celebrations.
There are events right across Gloucestershire this week, so get out and support them near you.
Listen to the show through BBC Sounds 📻👇
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
We spent it at Uley for their VE 80 celebrations.
There are events right across Gloucestershire this week, so get out and support them near you.
Listen to the show through BBC Sounds 📻👇
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
May 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🇬🇧 Hope you’re having a great Bank Holiday Monday.
We spent it at Uley for their VE 80 celebrations.
There are events right across Gloucestershire this week, so get out and support them near you.
Listen to the show through BBC Sounds 📻👇
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
We spent it at Uley for their VE 80 celebrations.
There are events right across Gloucestershire this week, so get out and support them near you.
Listen to the show through BBC Sounds 📻👇
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Can he build it? Perhaps he can 🧱
@jonysmith.bsky.social takes on his latest challenge to become a dry stone waller 👷
He learns the ancient craft at Gloucestershire's A417 Missing Link project.
@jonysmith.bsky.social takes on his latest challenge to become a dry stone waller 👷
He learns the ancient craft at Gloucestershire's A417 Missing Link project.
April 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Can he build it? Perhaps he can 🧱
@jonysmith.bsky.social takes on his latest challenge to become a dry stone waller 👷
He learns the ancient craft at Gloucestershire's A417 Missing Link project.
@jonysmith.bsky.social takes on his latest challenge to become a dry stone waller 👷
He learns the ancient craft at Gloucestershire's A417 Missing Link project.
🦊 I can't claim this one, it's from my Father in-law's garden in Gloucester.
Amazing to see the vixen and her three cubs doing so well in a city garden.
He filmed this on a wildlife camera he's set up and gets regular visits from the fox family.
Amazing to see the vixen and her three cubs doing so well in a city garden.
He filmed this on a wildlife camera he's set up and gets regular visits from the fox family.
April 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🦊 I can't claim this one, it's from my Father in-law's garden in Gloucester.
Amazing to see the vixen and her three cubs doing so well in a city garden.
He filmed this on a wildlife camera he's set up and gets regular visits from the fox family.
Amazing to see the vixen and her three cubs doing so well in a city garden.
He filmed this on a wildlife camera he's set up and gets regular visits from the fox family.
A beautiful Saturday morning in Gloucestershire.
Sunny but with a little bit of a fresh breeze.
Get out there and enjoy it whatever you're up to 🌼
Sunny but with a little bit of a fresh breeze.
Get out there and enjoy it whatever you're up to 🌼
March 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A beautiful Saturday morning in Gloucestershire.
Sunny but with a little bit of a fresh breeze.
Get out there and enjoy it whatever you're up to 🌼
Sunny but with a little bit of a fresh breeze.
Get out there and enjoy it whatever you're up to 🌼
🍻 I hope your Saturday's working out as well as mine.
March 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🍻 I hope your Saturday's working out as well as mine.
🌷While the weather's this good I urge you to get out to Gloucestershire's Golden Triangle.
This is Gwen and Vera's Field one of the last meadows of wild daffodils that used to carpet the area.
This Saturday and Sunday it's The Oxenhall Daffodil Weekend.
Get your boots on and get walking 🥾
This is Gwen and Vera's Field one of the last meadows of wild daffodils that used to carpet the area.
This Saturday and Sunday it's The Oxenhall Daffodil Weekend.
Get your boots on and get walking 🥾
March 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🌷While the weather's this good I urge you to get out to Gloucestershire's Golden Triangle.
This is Gwen and Vera's Field one of the last meadows of wild daffodils that used to carpet the area.
This Saturday and Sunday it's The Oxenhall Daffodil Weekend.
Get your boots on and get walking 🥾
This is Gwen and Vera's Field one of the last meadows of wild daffodils that used to carpet the area.
This Saturday and Sunday it's The Oxenhall Daffodil Weekend.
Get your boots on and get walking 🥾
Just a standard Friday night in Gloucestershire.
We've all had a few and it's time for The Wassail at The Hartpury Orchard Centre 🍐
After all this, surely we're getting some good blossom 🌸
We've all had a few and it's time for The Wassail at The Hartpury Orchard Centre 🍐
After all this, surely we're getting some good blossom 🌸
January 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Just a standard Friday night in Gloucestershire.
We've all had a few and it's time for The Wassail at The Hartpury Orchard Centre 🍐
After all this, surely we're getting some good blossom 🌸
We've all had a few and it's time for The Wassail at The Hartpury Orchard Centre 🍐
After all this, surely we're getting some good blossom 🌸