🇺🇦It is the fourth anniversary of the full scale invasion of Ukraine. In a tiny act of solidarity I’m wearing these beads, made in Ukraine and shipped from a war zone. Regular reminder you can search by country on Etsy. I’m gonna link to some of my fav Ukrainian stores. Go support them if you can.

TFW you make the bus but with a TT style sprint Mark Cavendish would have been proud of. In heels. And with a basket on your bike. Sorry to the other passengers just gonna spend the next 10 mins swearing and doing heavy breathing.

Well done Oxford.

Nature is wild. Does anyone need to see some calming sea?

This is … wow …

🦫🥳We're celebrating ONE year since our beavers arrived in Northamptonshire. They been busy beavering away in their new habitat! Read all about it here www.wildlifebcn.org/news/one-yea...

Lovely thread: this is how they celebrate in @hookland.bsky.social …

The kids are all right.

Be more Europe.

“A year after the $1.1 billion overhaul,” which added a new lane each direction, “the 405’s rush hour drive times were a minute slower than they were before the workers broke ground. Five years later, traffic was worse at all times of day.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Be more Paris

Utterly brilliant sign in the car park at #TheFishes in North Hinksey. The Seacourt stream and the river Thames are indeed overflowing. Floodplains doing their thing.

Making a list of ‘good’ places to visit when I finally dare to visit America again. I miss the country it was.

A Valentine's Poem.

There is, one study estimated, 5.5 square miles of London used for on-street car parking. Rather than whinge about the massive popularity of a sustainable, healthy form of transport, boroughs could instead just do more to accommodate it.

Banbury gets this, and we get.. more lab space. CITY CENTRE PLAYGROUND WHEN, @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social ?! Maybe we should #bemoreBanbury Bit of imagination?!

Awww. Love is in the air. And excellent cheese reco.

Cycle commute in the rain. Make up has migrated halfway down my face and I’m sweaty underneath the waterproofs. Any tips other than ‘more makeup and perfume in bag’ and ‘ride slower’? I’m sure it used to be an easier than this.

Has anyone been to Prague? I have plotted a sleeper train based adventure thanks to @seatsixtyone.bsky.social and now need best tips of things to do with a small boy.. Anyone?

I have a purring cat on my lap. May someone please bring tea, and also do all my chores. Thanks.

Dunelm Mill: if you do not give me a dropped kerb to get to the bike parking then I will pretend to be a car. Eyeroll.

Trying out the River Rapids bus to Reading as there are no trains. So far, on time, very empty, basically giant blue, cheap and very slow taxi. Pray for my bladder though as giant coffee this AM 😱😱😱

My chicken era is over for the moment but these ladies need homes.

Today the weather has been horrible and I needed to not arrive in London like a drowned rat. Oxfords buses have been flawless. Just saying.

My son is very confused. I have been in meetings in London. He genuinely thinks I went to meet Paddington and then as the meeting was in YouTube’s offices I am now in his tablet. ‘Mummy has gone to YouTube’ Oh to be little again 😍

OMG the orange bike helmet! Paging @ollyglover.bsky.social

I’ll be there. And you? Я буду там. А ви? Слава Україні

Can we not just take him to Alaska and tell him it’s Greenland ? He’ll never know.

Paging @apiln.bsky.social

This is just beautiful.

This would make my year.

A feast of Mexican beans made from last year’s dried rosecco beans and summer confit tomatoes plus cumin, chilli, garlic and the end of Sunday’s chicken. This is one of the best and cheapest meals I have made in a long time. #leftovers #allotmentlife

Cat has just come in from the rain and miaowed at me until I dried her. Now she’s happy. Who owns who again?

This is the way.

My veg box cabbages are breeding. I have just made this- broadly- but I need inspiration for about 3 more. Any ideas? Kid friendly 🙈 a bonus

Not a massive fan of the Westgate buuut … Click and collect by bike is sooooo much easier now cars aren’t trying to murder me on a bike. (Also parcels don’t get nicked from my doorstep). Uniqlo thermals, in and out in 4 mins. This may be the way.

Half a day pruning the apple trees on the allotment and I’m broken. May never leave the sofa again.

Deservedly long Sat AM queue at Cowley Road butchers (bikes are not mine mine are out of shot) #OxfordIndies #Shoplocal

Went here (High) on Wednesday (thanks new cycle commute and congestion charge making my life easier) and wow it is lovely. All kinds of unusual things and really nice staff. #OxfordIndies oxfordwinecellar.co.uk

Bought some wheat off a farmer struggling to sell at a decent price. I now have 9kg of unrefined wheat. Oops. 🤣 🤣🤣🤣Can confirm that it makes a breakfast of champions though.. (cooked and dry varieties pictured).

I appreciate any work on road safety. No one should die on the road.

Good evening! It’s Oxford City Council’s special meeting to discuss (but not actually decide…) whether to stage elections this year. Usually this wouldn’t be up for debate, of course, but the Government has raised the option given the impending local government reorganisation.

Labour think tank endorses Oxford congestion charge? 👀

Rail bike commute day 2 ❌ ice on saddle ❌train cancelled ✅ still saving the planet

Not surprised. Proud to have knocked on doors for both these excellent human beings. 🔸

Air in tyres ✅ Lights ✅ Makeup setting spray ✅ Train on time ✅ New commute is 👌

Argh. Just as my commute moves to rail. Be worth it in the end though!

Breaking out the big guns

We all have a plague (girl flu) and I am thanking my past self who in the summer saw fit to freeze allotment veg in accessible soup making bags. Incoming healing #kitchenwitchery #allotmentlife

There is no food in the house and I’ve not unpacked but it’ll all have to wait because I have a cat on my lap