Smug now….

Enjoy the snow, #tynemouth. Some info below on council gritting & also what you can do yourself. It will freeze overnight, we hold a very small stock of grit ourselves locally so if in the morning you spot somewhere especially hazardous ❄️🧊⚠️ please message us & will see if we can help.

Christmas has officially started, baking on one side of kitchen, home brewed stout on the other

If someone offered you a silver bullet that would drop the traffic speed outside your house by 5mph, would you fire🔥it?

This 👇🏼

So, is your elected representative a psychopath? www.forkingpaths.co/p/how-many-p...

Feeling quite sorry for those who’ve spent their time & money going to Liverpool this week. Contrasts with the military precision with which my local branch of the Labour Party have been arranging our Xmas Party, which isn’t in a brewery this time but maybe we’ll do that next year?

Finished building up my Ice Bike for this year, so you’ve me to thank for ensuing mini heatwave

Fantastic!

It’s a stark warning to all Gen X dads out there, never, ever, get caught in the same nightclub as your Gen Z kids.

Following worrying reports of a rise in Race based Hate Crime in the Northumbria Police area we have obtained the data for North Tyneside. Thankfully following an alarming rise in offences Summer 2024, levels have come back down. tynemouth.news/index.php/20...

Nigel Never Knew Nathan, Russians, you say?” (A Cautionary Tale of Selective Memory) Old Nigel stood puffed by the Channel’s blue air, With a pint and a grin and a well-practised stare. “Now don’t point your fingers, don’t make such a fuss— I barely recall who this Nathan chap was!”

The long walk & ride home.

Tom is at Labour Conference today, so of course is taking a swim with @sascampaigns.bsky.social Against Sewage, great to chat to other coastal Cllrs & MPs about this vital issue 👏🏼👏🏼🏊‍♂️🏄‍♀️🌊

This is patriotism. 🇬🇧 This is pride. This is unity. This is a city and a region saying loud and clear- no to racism and no to a far right agenda seeking to divide us. So much love for our place and our people today. Thank you to everyone who came out and showed who we are.❤️

Great to see #Tynemouth residents today at Monument, out saying loud & clear that Newcastle & the North East stand united against extremism & racism.

This article from a UK Councillor on how he is engaging with school children about road safety around their schools makes for a valuable and practical engagement guide: bsky.app/profile/tyne... @tynetom.bsky.social

RIP 🎶🎶Ron Carrol #legend youtu.be/29tjEX-5Pcs?...

Me in Local Transport Today talking about engaging secondary schools 👇🏼

This is Britain? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nigel Farage and the UK Reform Party? Really UK? REALLY? Seriously, what the hell? Have you learned nothing from the United States dumpster fire incompetent Nazi corrupt clown show? Or even just from your own Brexit disaster? You really want to look at ALL that and say “we can do even worse?

First article written with my “Councillor Tom” hat on, for @transportxtra.bsky.social . Maybe I’m being unfair in calling the DfT’s pace of regulatory change ‘Glacial’ 😉 www.transportxtra.com/publications...

Bumped into Sheila & @revchips.bsky.social out for a jaunt Saturday & then there they are on Look North this morning!

Sevilla / Seville : walkable dense city centre which comes alive at night this time of year ☀️🥵. Blends old & new with street details that just beg to be copied back home.

We think the #TynemouthTenner is definitely the way to go. www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

A newspaper article about a small residential development in Jesmond. The comments 🤦🏼‍♂️😱 mostly from a small group of reform activists. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Hja...

So there’s a Reform Cllr elected & a 5g mast on fire in Whitley Bay? Some sort of celebration?

For tonight only we’ve joined the @cyclehoop.bsky.social #discobike collective - York

Hot off the press, joint statement on 🚶 🚶‍♂️🛴🦽🚲🚴‍♀️ from the regional mayors including @kimmcguinness.bsky.social

York

So @cyclehoop.bsky.social are you bringing the 🔈🔊🔉🎶🚲🚲🚲 to York next week? cyclehoop.com/discobikes/

The big opportunity here is a town planning exercise covering the full 13km of this new line. Going by current performance I think Sunderland will get this. The city is thinking of Urbanism in a way it wasn’t a few years ago. www.nexus.org.uk/news/item/me... Metro to Washington

We’ve completed commissioning of what we think are the first real time junction turning counts in the North East. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year a set of sensors around the Corner House Junction are enumerating vehicle turning movements for Newcastle Council

Boots, boots, 🥾 open.spotify.com/track/2GY7JZ...

That GP of mine in Whitley Bay #DrKelson is ace, great with the kids, goes a bit heavy on the fake tan & getting injections by blowpipe takes some getting used to but 10/10 definitely recommend 👍🏻🩺🧑‍🦲

Watching #Threads on IPlayer. Feels topical 😬

Our superhuman bin & beach crews out clearing up after the first day of el scorchio ☀️🌞 We’ve been out also helping get them get sorted around some of the cabling for events on King Eddies. It’s going to be a long day for the teams so say hello if you bump into them 👏🏼👏🏼

We were at the @sascampaigns.bsky.social 🌊🏄🏄‍♀️ 🏊 Paddle Out Protest at Longsands in May & promised to put people’s concerns about 💩 outfall discharges into The Tyne to Alan our MP . So here’s the changes that are happening to force the 💧 Companies to clean up their act

This week Cllr Tom Bailey joined The @coopparty.party.coop alongside @teamlabouruk.bsky.social becoming a "Co-operative & Labour Councillor". As part of this he's talking to local schools about how we can develop Community Energy projects here in #Tynemouth

Fancy a ride, a beverage and a moan about the glacial pace of the cycleway construction? Meet 6:30 at Spanish City this Friday.

Original audio from Kier 🎶🎵🎶🎧

Happy Monday

@kimmcguinness.bsky.social @teamlabouruk.bsky.social we need work together to stop Sewage outfall into The Tyne, it’s unacceptable that heavy rain means pollution impacting our beach 🏖️ 🏊& 🏄‍♂️

Lots of fun 📹 at the beach yesterday. You can’t always do a lot about big problems as a local Cllr, best I could come up with is helping people who care, communicate with those who can.

Saturday we were at the @sascampaigns.bsky.social Paddle Out on #Tynemouth #Longsands talking to the protesters about pollution of our rivers & coast 🏖️🌊🪧📢🏄, capturing some interviews with some lovely people. Things need to Change.

Two of these big boys on the go & getting very close to harvest time 😉

The interest from the Russians is new