Making art with my boy this evening. It's his homework but I'm quite enjoying myself. It's the Tour de Tanguy at Brest.

Yep. A sop to pearl clutching autocrats which absolves the curators of online spaces from their responsibilities.

They'll also frame the private sector as "bold innovators, providers of solutions to all society's ills". Turns out what the private sector really like is for nothing much to change, thank you very much.

Mystery vandal paints over yellow lines in Groby The hunt is on for the culprit after a village's yellow lines are twice painted over.

Someone painting over double yellow lines near a primary school, here, described as a "prankster". I can think of more fitting epithets.

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Yes. Basic respect for pavements, verges, road-side green-space, cycle lanes, pedestrian zones... can't be relied on. Drivers need physical restriction and enforcement to prevent damage and injury. Paint is not protection. More of this in #Bradford please. #Bollards

I think I know this property and it's not unusual to see their visitors parked on the zig-zags ahead of the zebra crossing.

See also the property just after the Avondale Rd. grass verge higher up Moorhead Lane. Frequent pavement and verge parking there too.

Oh, and the corner of Roundwood... 🙄

If you can't put in a temporary road closure, for roadworks, to ensure safety outside a primary school, where exactly can you?

"Rule 112 of the Highway Code states:

'The horn. Use only while your vehicle is moving and you need to warn other road users of your presence. Never sound your horn aggressively'".

Unless they're presenting danger, what are drivers warning of?

Using the horn is a usually a tell.

Reads very much like she got impatient, sounded her horn, then tried to get past without sufficient room. In that context the £200 and 3 points is poor, IMO. Sounds more like dangerous driving than carelessness.

Whenever I see a car with a "dirty" VRN plate I think, "there goes a driver who wants to break the law & not get caught. I wonder what else they're up to". Some may think it a small thing, but it's corrosive. Many would probably be horrified to have their car seized for it but it should happen more.

For many Reform candidates, it seems, Farage's grift is a bridgehead into politics for much more extreme views. Plenty of defection of failed Reform councillors into Restore Britain.

A shambling run/walk in my local woods. Bluebells, trickling becks and sunlight through new leaves. Sadly also run at by an out of control alsatian that got its mouth round my hand. I thought I was going to have to fight it off. Shocking, blasé response by one of the adults with it. Had to sit down.

I think of all the "dirty" VRN plates I see on cars around Bradford. Typically high end German cars, Range Rovers and the like. Such a clear announcement of criminality.

I'm still, I think, pretty bold in descending, off road, on a mountain or gravel bike. It's exhilarating but I'm never scared and I've rarely hurt myself. It's cycling in traffic that spooks me and where I've got injured by being driven into.

Looking landward from the west pier at Whitby. The railings of the west pier are in the foreground and the stone-built lighthouses on the west and east piers are in shot. In the background, on the headland above the town, is Whitby Abbey and St. Mary's Church.

In Whitby today with students studying coastal geography. We mused on where you'd make landfall if you sailed straight out of the harbour...

For an east coast port, Whitby harbour has an intriguing orientation...

Bring back the goods van!

It's been great, the last couple of years, put my bike on the train in Leeds and take it all the way to Aviemore and back for a week's gravel biking. The time I took the sleeper was ace.

Even better if there was a little more space, for wider handlebars, and the hooks fit fatter tyres more easily.

In my happy place. On my bike, out in nature, an off-road trail leading ahead. In the Cairngorms last week.

Best wishes with that. I hope that the young people's enthusiasm is amply rewarded (as adults I think we owe them that). The best chance is if they graduate into a supportive setting - within their family, a club or among more capable peers. Biking, away from bad drivers, can be a lifelong joy.

A better support for primary age cycling would be bike-buses and, of course, infrastructure (as well as aggressive motor vehicle enforcement).

BikeAbility would be more effective beyond age 11, I think, after kids have some background in supervised, bike-bus, cycling.

BikeAbility is mainly aimed at primary school kids, with limited autonomy. It makes little difference to independent cycling, at that age, for kids not already in "cycling families" or "parentally under-supervised".

Our road culture isn't adequately safe for independent cycling by 8-11 year olds.

It's, perhaps, a little different for adults who already have an understanding of our road culture and can morally "own the risk" to a greater degree.

I sometimes feel like the frog in the warming pan. It's only tolerable to me because I've got used to it from when the water was merely tepid.

I am very cautious about encouraging cycling in Bradford, where I live. I have a background in cycle training for beginners, usually children, and the BikeAbility programme, against everything else, simply doesn't ensure adequate safety for novice cyclists.

Image showing Jesus turning water into wine at Canna. People gather, kneeling, in worship.

Nothing more than a guy sharing the fruits of his home brewing hobby. Just making a lot of people feel a whole lot better.

Students often eat in rushed shifts, in busy halls, on hard benches, from cardboard containers and with plastic "cutlery". Staff, at their desks, keyboards pushed out of the way.

It certainly is and solutions, in lots of ways, lie outside their direct influence. Lots of questions for wider educational culture and much more generally. Some truth in the idea that "the French live to eat, the British eat to live" re: food attitudes in the UK, perhaps.

A catering manager in the MAT I work in was explaining his job recently, "we've got to get them in, fed, and out...", he said. Understandable, but that's part of the problem. Food as fuel. And often pretty low-grade stuff at that. Instrumentalism around food and mealtimes. Where's the joy in that?

There were those too, in the bottom of our bunk room wardrobe. 😆

A spectacular black and white speckledy moth on the toilet cistern at Loch Insh OEC.

If there isn't a spectacular moth in the toilets are you even staying in an outdoor education centre? #AmIRite