Would you rather cycle to work in the rain (faster than the traffic, taking photos at leisure when safe to do so) or sit in your car, in a jam, wondering why everyone else chose to drive on this of all days.

Had the opportunity to help review a pension decision form. It says "I confirm that I understand my options and have made an informed decision." Might be better if it said "I confirm that the help desk is hard to reach, it was unable to offer advice and the forms are complete gobbledygook."

Into the garage. Tightly defined objectives. Oil my chain. Avoided scope creep. Project delivered on time TQM

Fish ‘n’ Chip Van, Otley Road, Bradford, photo by Ian Beesley. 'The chip shop owner told me he had to fire one of his assistants because he kept parking the van the wrong way round.'

On sale now at The Anglers Rest, Bamford. My new range of greetings cards. Hathersage. Castleton. Tideswell. Ecclesfield. Hope Valley. Flowers and towers.

Cycle to work. Take a look. @streetartsheffield.com #streetart @visitsheffield.bsky.social

Morning sun at Park Hill. Sheffield @visitsheffield.bsky.social

Cycle to work. Necessary unnecessary detour

3 layers. Cap under helmet. Fingered gloves. Cycle to work. Seasons change.

I’m at that stage of life where I look at a lovely view and my first thought is, “That would make a great jigsaw”

That view of the city from Gleadless. Wow. Cycle to work detour.

The look. Cycling.

Drum n Bass on a Bike. Sheffield 2025.

He only went and bloody podiumed a Grand Tour! Chapeau, Tom 🎩

Last Night of The Proms. Perfect prelude to Drum n Bass on a Bike in Sheffield tomorrow. I could imagine Dom Whiting getting The Royal Albert Hall going in a future year #lastnightoftheproms #drumandbass #dnbonabike bellsandbikes.com/drum-n-bass-...

Catching up on sales. 5 more cards sold yesterday. 5 books invoiced to a cathedral bookshop today. Bells and Bikes going strong. Here's the cards and click for the book #cycling #bellringing #greetingcards #author #letour #tourdefrance #tdf www.adventurebooks.com/products/bel...

Q. What do you call a bike race for herbs? A. A thyme trial.

New art in Neepsend

...tell that to David Attenborough, who said off bottom trawling: "The idea of bulldozing a rainforest causes outrage, yet we do the same underwater every day." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You cycle to work, boy?

"Good history writing makes you view the current differently." Will Bosworth at The Ringing World AGM as he welcomes a great new book on 500 years history of ringing in Cambridge. That is such a powerful expression and so true for so much more of the world right now as politicians shred history.

At last, you say 😀 My Tour of Britain web page. Inc. when I met the #tdfbeefeaters #tourofbritain #tob bellsandbikes.com/tour-of-brit...

Practicing my browser unit for The Ringing World Roadshow. Curry tubs and lego to support the cards. The investment is in the quality of the cards themselves. Also selling my book. Oh and I've got a free to enter online quiz with a bottle of wine as the prize. 3 sleeps to go.

Drum n Bass on a Bike. Dom's 2023 ride in Sheffield. bellsandbikes.com/drum-n-bass-...

yeah my bike is carbon fiber, why do you ask?

Right. I'm going to wear my old green top from M&C Stores in Penistone, from 1987, over my 1991 Carrera Blue Jeans cycle shirt today. And Next socks. Absolutely on trend cycling.

Here it is, your #BlueSky #Bike Content of the Day for Monday, 9/1/25, Labor Day.

Wet roofs and Wednesday

Churches of the Hope Valley. Hope and Castleton.

Guess the church

Smart but casual. For me, but you can order one too. Conference wear. Beach wear. Work wear. Author wear.

Excited to welcome folk to my stall at The Ringing World Roadshow on 7 Sept in Sheffield. I'll have - photos and stories of ringing for bike races - tips and chat on PR - my new cards - maybe a quiz - and my book Bells & Bikes Come along. I'm there all Saturday too. And at Dore practice on Friday

First time joining Ranmoor practice. Very good evening. Stedman Triples. PB Doubles. Grandsire Caters. PB Minor. Double Norwich. Call changes.

Updating my website - new pages, new posts. More to come. Major new pages pending #cycling #bellringing #eglises #blackberries bellsandbikes.com/about-bells-...

Not perfect, but alright. Things to do in the garage.

Tree Tunnel, east Yorkshire, August 2005, painting by David Hockney. #NorthernArt

Some politicians know what’s up Unfortunately not enough top ones do

Two men sunbathing, August bank holiday, Blackpool, 1971, photo by Don McPhee.

You'd think I'd been competing in the Stade Bianche but actually it's dust from the Tissington Trail

Un régionalisme passé sous les radars... Saviez-vous qu'en France, tout le monde ne dit pas #soucoupe mais sous-tasse pour désigner la petite assiette destinée à être placée sous une tasse assortie ? Perso j'ai toujours cru que TOUT LE MONDE disait #SousTasse

The last hour of my bike ride

Ashford in the Water. 65 miles done. 15 to go.

Derbyshire churches on my cycle ride Sheffield - Ashbourne (and back). Back being work in progress right now. Stanton-in-Peak. Winster. Kniveton. Mapleton.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u... He also says our museums focus too much on the past, and he plans to hit them as he’s hitting universities. We cannot allow this man to destroy our access to accurate information about our history, friends.

The Leadmill, wiped "clean"

Let's say it again, "the economy" is entirely dependent on the environment. No economy on a dead planet, no #PublicHealth on #biodiversity-depleted islands www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Exactly this. Wouldn't it be neater to take VAT off commuter bikes / adapted cycles and then issue top-vouchers to lower-earners as they do at a local level in France www.eta.co.uk/news/cycle-t...

Or just holler "Ding Dong!" In your best English accent.

Occasional reminder for anyone in France that the superb Carte IGN app has maps that are pretty much the equal of Ordnance Survey, and unlike OS, the app is FREE.

And a copy of my book sells, out of season, on Amazon. It's usually a December surge for Christmas but, no, one has sold in August. This could be a rip roaring Christmas sales build up. Quick. Buy now.