My friend's "compact & bijou" cabin near Nykőping, Sweden, which was my accommodation for my week away 🙂
#Nykőping #Sweden #Relaxing #Peaceful

Just returned from a relaxing week in Sweden.
I got to drive an older sibling of Freja, this Swedish registered left hand drive XC70 of 2009 vintage 😁

I get the distinct feeling that all I'm doing here is shouting into a void ☹️

It always amazes me what you can find in the back of a pick-up truck 🦎
Somehow this viviparous lizard found its way into one of the National Trust's vehicles 🤨
It was removed from said vehicle and re-homed in the garden of the Countryside Office

Crafty 😜
Chocolate & Vanilla aromas, with malty, caramel & roast flavours combine with a sweet body, followed by a dry finish.
#craftypints
#realale

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

Freja visits the North York Moors

Crafty 😜
#Realale #Craftypints #oatmealstout

Freja has had a face-lift.
Modified grille and a new LED light-bar for better illumination on those dark country roads 🙂

Crafty 😜
Boasting a complex malt base, this Baltic Porter has rich chocolate notes and caramel roastiness, with some dark berry and plum. 
A fine collaboration between Neptune Brewery and Ossett Brewery 😁

Collared Earthstar (Geastrum triplex)

Apparently Space Karen doesn't like it that people are now calling Teslas "Swasticars" 🤣

Freja doing some work this morning.
Ferrying drivers off a ship once all the brand spanking new Land Rovers were loaded for their trip across the Atlantic.
British made vehicles are about to get much more expensive for American consumers once the big Orange Shitgibbon hikes the tarrifs

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♀️

Crafty 😜
A medium bodied golden ale with fruity & hop aromas, a dry hop bitterness & fruit on the taste, with a light dry hop finish.
Inspired by the painting "The Mauretania in Dazzle paint" displayed in the Maritime Museum, Liverpool

Yes, Elon Musk did just give the Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration No, the Roman salute wasn't a real thing. Either Musk didn't realise... scrub that. Musk knew exactly what he was doing with the Nazi salute

Believe what you see, not what they are telling you.
I see a Nazi salute.
Republicans are telling us that it's not.
If it walks like a duck, & quacks like a duck.....it's a Fűćking duck!
Space Karen is clearly signalling his acolytes.

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

#GreatMetaWalkoff
Well, that's me gone from Facebook and Instagram.

Crafty 😜
A dark, rich Old Ale. Great chocolate flavours with a roasted, warming followup. Perfect for those chilly days and nights.
I have it on good authority that this is the last barrel of this in the country.
It will not be brewed again until the end of 2025

UK PM Keir Starmer and all governments: Fix the rules on political donations. Elon Musk just poured millions into electing Trump president, now he wants to buy the next UK election – and he won’t stop there.Musk also endorsed Germany’s extremist right party, the AfD. But if we

Billionaire Elon Musk is endorsing and threatening to donate millions of dollars to extremist parties around Europe – from Nigel Farage’s Reform to Germany’s far-right party, the AfD.

action.eko.org/a/uk-pm-kier...

My Crafty pints musings will now be migrating to here on Blue-sky.
Crafty 😜 pint of Beartown - Créme Bearlee
A sweet, indulgent Stout with chocolate and vanilla aromas, with malty caramel & roast flavours.
Delicious 😋

I'm a refugee from the Meta platforms.
I refuse to be party to their regressive actions that puts a target on women's and marginalised groups backs
FFS, it's 2025, not 1825
#GreatMetaWalkoff

LETS DO THIS: Close your Threads, Instagram and Facebook accounts … at high noon on 20 Jan 2025 right after you do it to X.
The #GreatTwitterWalkoff can also be the #GreatMetaWalkoff.

Let’s do it simultaneously and show our power.

Whilst the whole world turns into a fascist shit show, I had a brief escape again today with my volunteering.
New gate posts, gate and wooden posts installed as a pre-emptive strike to prevent unauthorised parking by the public on a protected dune heath