WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️
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Brighton Bimble! Get your Brighton Bimble route guides here!

What's a #brightonbimble? My newest multi-day cycle route guide! Stunning Sussex scenery, terrific traffic-free trails and much more, all just a single train ride from #london!
What're you waiting for? […]
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Sat people watching, while waiting for youngest daughter's train to arrive.
Now my body is NOT proportional: my arms and legs are too long for my body.
Just saw a man who has the polar opposite. I suspect I got the better deal.
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For your Friday afternoon listening pleasure, this is This Boy, by Sweatband, with the delicious Wendy Oldfield on lead vocals.
It's a song from South Africa in the late 80s and I distinctly remember belting out "he swore religious to rock& roll until he died"
Worth a listen […]
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GoCycle – Brighton Bimble

Brighton Bimble is a 105 mile circular route that starts and ends in Crawley, and that (as the name suggests) circles through Brighton. Almost a full two thirds of the route is traffic-free, and it passes through stunning Sussex scenery. The start of the route, Three […]
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Brighton Bimble – finally done!

So, you're based in, or near London, and you're looking for a great, ready-made, two or three day cycling adventure? Oh, then I have really good news for you! […]
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You heard of the #cameltrail, haven't you? But did you know about the Wenford Branch of the trail?
Just as beautiful, but usually FAR less busy, with a great café at the end!
See for yourself! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csgF_Jd23AE
#trafficfree #cornwall
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Hinder is a vastly underrated band, and the lead singer has an awesome voice.
Bet you've never heard of them!
Go have a listen - you'll thank me after.
https://youtu.be/RiSfTyrvJlg?feature=shared
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An act of rebellion

You can't accuse me of not nailing my colours to the mast. I loudly and proudly oppose racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, xenophobia, genocide and more. Climate change I understand the severity of the threat climate breakdown poses, and that we're rushing headlong […]
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So, Spain, Italy and Turkey are providing naval protection for the Gaza flotilla. Those are all NATO members. Israel is not.
NATO's Article 5 says an attack on 1 member is seen as an attack on all.
Where does that leave the USA, should Israel attack?
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Went cycling in #torbay and can confirm it's blummin hilly!

Also, 1 carrot, driving a full liveried company van, is getting reported for a stupidly close overtake.
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In the late 80s, at the height of Apartheid in South Africa, a ban called Bright Blue released this amazing anti-apartheid song.
They even got away with inserting part of the song Nkosi Sikele Afrika (which was illegal at the time)
https://youtu.be/qdyu_jcLYW8?feature=shared
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It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"
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Over the years, I benefited enormously from others' efforts, when I used the Ultimate Guitar website, so I thought it was time I gave back to the community.

I transcribed this superb song (really, go listen to it!) and added the chords and lyrics (not available anywhere on the web) to UG […]
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Want to see luscious green woods, Dartmoor ponies, a few tunnels and some amazing viaducts and bridges, all on a 20-mile, almost completely traffic-free cycle route?
Of course you do!
Know what's even better though? Cycling the route yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXC2BA-OIVM
#cycling […]
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I keep threatening to remedy it, but never do: my German is poor, and in my head, I seem to translate 1st from German to Afrikaans, then from Afrikaans to English.
That's very sub-optimal, and I really should put in the effort to get my German up to conversational level.
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Subsidising e-bikes instead of cars could really kick the electric vehicle transition into high gear
https://theconversation.com/subsidising-e-bikes-instead-of-cars-could-really-kick-the-electric-vehicle-transition-into-high-gear-261429

So, you can get £3,750 off a £37,000, but we are told that […]
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No, you're mistaken: the rapture DID happen, and all the genuinely good and true Christians were taken.
Guess the fact that you're still here says it all about what sort of Christian YOU are.

Maybe it's time you stop being such a judgemental, hate-filled carrot?
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The number of people I see cycling in Plymouth keeps rising.
Just 10 years ago there were FAR fewer, and on my daily commute, I'd count perhaps 5 other cyclists. Back then, they were all in lycra and hivis, too, whereas today it seems most are in normal clothes.
This is good!
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Rant following:
HTF can you be remotely competent at your job, which requires you to spend all day on a computer, when you get confused when I ask you to open Explorer?
How can you be so incompetent to think OneDrive and a mapped drive is the same?
How don't you know how to create a new doc?