Cue the most active person in every friendship group walking round looking like DC Rainmaker! NHS bod - you went from doing <1,000 steps a day to running a 23 minute 5k every other day? 🤔

Now, where have I seen this years British GP trophy before? www.reddit.com/r/formula1/c... 🫪

Does anyone like those two tier bike racks? (Also, how the duck are you supposed to lock your bike (rather than just a wheel) to them?)

Burnham wants a number 10 of the North, investment in the regions and (G) London, the creative industry is one of the fastest growing parts of our economy, the HoP are an asbestos riddled fire risk, and more technical placements are needed...

FAB1 if Lady Penelope worked for The Hood instead of International Rescue

Very pertinent point here - just like the wild west we have with eScooters and eMotorbikes due to legislation failing us - we'll end up with people buying unregulated inefficient noisy Temu junk out of desperation if governments don't step up.

🤯🥵 Wonder if I'll be able to cool the house down before the next heatwave? 😬

Coconut oil turning into a liquid while in the "cool dry place" aka kitchen cupboard. You can tell it's been warm 🥵

Got to love it when something which was obviously a stupid idea becomes a viable things due to progress... I present the Solar Street Light

After 20+ years of being abandoned the former Texaco petrol station at Trent Bridge, Nottingham has finally been replaced.... .... With another petrol station! The more things change the more they stay the same!

They took all the trees Put 'em in a tree museum And they charged the people A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Got to be getting close to the point where businesses not adapting to climate change are going to lose more money through inaction rather than making themselves more resilient hasn't it? Been a week of mainly empty fridges at Asda now! (& they were emptying some of the rest & freezers this evening)

Every hometown's got the ominous megastructure. What's yours?

Useful things out in public that can be very handy when out walking or cycling. 🇪🇸 Drinking Water 🇩🇪 Bike Tools 🇧🇪 Suncream 🇧🇪 Footpump Anyone else spotted similarly useful things?

Do not, I repeat, do not let techies name anything... This is how your end up having to work with... Git GIMP NONCE LAME Masters & Slave hard disks (IDE era) Floppy & Hard Disks 🙄

Keep the blinds and windows closed all day and then open them at night to cool the room down.... Sure.... 🥵🥵🔥

The climate stripes get even more scary if you go to bar chart mode 😬🥵🫠 1976 is a nothing but a minor blip!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Somebody is going to end up with a very drunk and cursed eBay purchase turning up at their door aren't they?

www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new... Signing a surrender agreement in *Versailles* in *June*?!?!?

www.theguardian.com/environment/... ‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies ☹️

If you see this post a pic from your device with no explanation.

Apparently the shortest histories of England & Germany are both longer than that of Europe, which is about the same as the Littlest History of Nottinghamshire 😂

Ay-up mi-ducks

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

"after a car collided with the bowling alley" That's more than a car (given a driver has been arrested i'm assuming it's not a driverless one) "colliding" with a bowling alley! It's ploughed through the alley crossing all the lanes & into the opposite wall! www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If only we had plans to build a modern mainline railway that was dependent on Victorian infrastructure and the compromises that inevitably brings... Oh, and of course the bridge was wearing hivis. SMIDSY

Is the fish Tinned or Canned? 🤔

I see the new bridge, opened last Tuesday, is the most clearly defined bit if the Strava Weekly Heat map for cycling! Of all the other red bits in Nottingham app have some form of cycle infra/low trafficness except Trent Bridge where pavement cycling is endemic.

British Councils 🤝 Monaco F1 Track Pothole repairs failing.

From Grey Roads to Green Routes... 🤔 Hmm, where are the bus lanes or cycle tracks then? Also the petrol station being built in the background undermines the greenness a tad.

If you've ever wondered what's inside a Pelican Crossing call box.... it's basically a lightbulb! Dunno what I was expecting, but it was more than this - guessing all the complexity is in the Plessey/Siemens cabinets. (Reported this to the council).

We are in an era where all sorts of devices are using the same logic controller (usually an ESP32) to run bespoke software which controls/reacts to a load of GPIOs. It doesn't feel unreasonable to suggest there should be a standard logic board which can be flashed with the manufacturers* firmware...

"Small packets of ketchup, mayonnaise or sugar will soon disappear from restaurant tables in the EU." Good they are always a pain to use and never have the right quantities on the table. However, Is there a good alternative milk ones in hotel rooms? www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...

The Waterside Bridge and Basin Bridge are now open. Lots of dogs getting a lunchtime walk today 🐕‍🦺

Ah, big tech showing yet again it plays fast and loose with the rules... 🤦‍♂️

It's no wonder us Brits moan about the heat, we don't get time to acclimatise to the heat before the temperature drops and the drizzle returns! 🥵

Next week sees the opening of the first new bridge across the Trent in Nottingham since the 2nd Clifton bridge opened in 1972. Lets go on a tour of the bridges we have today & the ones we've lost from the M1 in the west to Gunthrope in the east Map : umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/trent...

By 1936, Nazi Germany had the 3rd largest whaling fleet in the world. Much of it operated by Unilever. The result would be the near-extinction of the Blue Whale, all in the quest for something worth more to the Nazis than gold: Margarine. Find out more on this week's Untitled History podcast!

Going past Brook Mead Academy in Leicester a couple of days ago I noticed they had solar canopys over much of the car park, but also over the cycle parking and numerous picnic tables and part of the playground - not only providing energy but a place to be out of direct sunlight/rain.

So which Padle are you doing today? 🚣🎾

Good job we aren't trying to ram this "astrology for men" down everyone's throat and build our economy around it. Oh, oh, oh 🫠

I always hit no on these, stuff like this stops me "enjoying" the app!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "more effective than the current system of relying on 4G and 5G signal provided by local mobile network operators' masts." 4G/5G?! I'd assumed EMRs Meridians were using carrier pigeons carrying 5¾' floppy disks!

www.lbc.co.uk/article/over... "Overnight heat record broken in UK at 21.3C after 'tropical night'"

If @jontyscorner.bsky.social needs some ideas for his next miniature paint job!

I see my local authority, due to be abolished next year, has got enough cash in the kitty to put up some "Welcome to Rushcliffe" signs - in one of the few towns/villages in the borough with no Welcome to Town/Village sign! 🤔

Did I miss France invading Monaco while I was out, or are ITV-X just poor at geography? 🙈

Can someone explain how on earth it makes the most sense for the most visible part of politics on our daily life (I.e. the stuff done by The Council) to be a broken basket case that can't deliver anything because it's broke and relies on writing bidding documents for everything?

www.blogpreston.co.uk/2026/05/timi... The coincidences between Nottingham and my home town of Preston continue... Within 2 weeks of one another they'll be opening new walking & cycling bridges across their main rivers!