Adding tea in for me 🤣

Bikes are just beautiful things, aren’t they. The best remedy for almost everything.

It’s brilliant isn’t it, we will try 😂

Love this, those shifters!

Isn’t it just! He’s delighted with it. It needs some work, but just the project he was looking for.

He had a bargain for sure, they’re going for a lot more on eBay I’m told. Just looked up your Dawes, how pretty, not so much on climbs though? 😂

Picnic in a gateway.

#cycling

Absolutely, it’s perfect for him

He’s wanted one of these forever, found it just off the back of the truck the other day. A £15 bargain 😂

He’s doing a restoration project on it, keeping it true to its original form 👌

Made complete with downtube shifting 😂. Thanks!

J’s new £15 retro bike that is older than us and absolutely hilarious to ride (tried and tested by us both yesterday). Cannot wait to see him grinding up Humphrey Hill on this beast.

Love it.

#cycling

Really looking forward to not being on a clock for something. Two more to go and then freedom, at last.

I see you Kev, just about.

Don’t forget to breathe.

Van decompress at the end of a long day with lovely people. Everyone has a story.

Really needed that. J on two gears due to a broken shifter - I did offer to ride his bike up the climb for him.

#cycling

I can’t believe I missed this, it’s one of my favourite places Gerry. Great shot.

A black and white photograph taken from inside Forton Services. Long shadows are cast by the overhead walkway on to the motorway below.

Forton Services was built on the Preston-Lancaster section of the M6. The architect was T. P. Bennett and Sons . It fully opened on Wednesday 14 July 1965, with 276 staff. #blackandwhitephotography #architecture #lightandshadow

Perfect morning with J.

Just us in the cove today.

Theme Reveal Deception and dirty realism Submissions open April 17 to May 22 Underbelly Press logo in the bottom right corner Text is on a black background. There is an image of a skull behind the text.

Poetry (30 lines max), submit up to three. Short fiction (1,000 words max), submit up to three. Art & Photography (of any medium), submit up to five. Please note that submissions will be responded to after the reading period. Acceptances and rejections will start being sent out after May 22. Editing will take place throughout June (I am away from mid June to early July). Issue 7 tentatively set for mid to late July. For poetry and short fiction, if you were a contributor in the last issue we won’t be accepting submissions for the consecutive issue in the same category you were published. The theme is DECEPTION. For our two year anniversary, we’re returning to our roots. Issue 7 calls back to our initial core focus - dirty realism.We’re looking for work that is gritty, unflinching, raw. The mundane, the overlooked, the everyday struggles. Think gritty noir and kitchen sink realism. The underbelly of contemporary life. Where does deception live within that? In lies, fractured relationships, self delusion, blurred truths, the things we refuse to face, the things we conceal or convince ourselves of. For artwork, we’d love to see pieces that explore illusion and distortion, as well as greyscale or black and white pieces.

Submissions open April 17 to May 22!

For our two year anniversary, we’re returning to our roots. Issue 7 calls back to our initial core focus - dirty realism.

Where does deception live within that? In lies, fractured relationships, self delusion, blurred truths...

Thank you!

Exactly, and a hat too.

Not envious of my brother’s current location, not at all.

Solitary low wind days are midweek punishments.