Swifts shape a fly-by, their high, riotous piercings, and one year’s shot past. My first Swift Diary of the year. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...

Oh my god, 1:59:30. Mind blown.

💚 Happy 10th Anniversary Peak District Mosaic! 💚 Thank you for inviting me on your sponsored walk donations 22-29th April doubled by Earth Challenge fund donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... @peakdistrict.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @wildsheffield.bsky.social Got my bluebell fix 💙

#BboBMbookclub ! 👀

Ooh who said what? I’ve been out walking with @gojauntly.bsky.social today too :)

#BboBMbookclub is back! @libbyapp.com @elifshafak.bsky.social @amyjanebeer.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & Sheffield’s own SIBfest! www.sheffieldindiebookfest.com @helenmort.bsky.social

You don’t need to go far to find wildlife 🐞 Join our insect walk at Shire Brook Valley Nature Reserve City Nature Challenge 🎟 Free, just book your place! 👉 www.wildsheffield.com/events/guide... #Insects #NatureTok #Sheffield #Wildlife

It seems just going for a walk in the park is quite controversial according to a big sponsor of London marathon… I’ve loved using @gojauntly.bsky.social app to have a meander through as many parks as possible for a meet up with @livingstreets.bsky.social team 💚

Sheffield getting its own Indie book fest! This event with Kavitha Rao caught my eye plenty more in packed program check it out here www.sheffieldindiebookfest.com #BboBMbookclub

📝 The Transaction Who will hold the threads of a community in 5 years? A companion piece to What You Can’t Measure (link below, read first) 👇👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/davetris...

Artemis ll captures the clearest view of moon ever. Beauty of moon. Just look at those craters and detail. Thankyou NASA 👏💙😎💫 Science and exploration still prevail

Belle And Sebastian debut new Scottish football anthem "It Only Takes One Lion" ahead of this summer's World Cup stereogum.com/2495466/bell...

Former political prisoner Nasrin Parvaz reads a letter to Keir Starmer signed by more than 100 pro-democracy, pro-justice and anti-war British-Iranians, including other former Evin detainees Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Aras Amiri. Full list of signatories is at togetherforiran.org

Fantastic news to hear such a clear commitment to Vision Zero approach from @willnorman.co.uk in this excellent @podstreetsahead.bsky.social with a big shout out for @livingstreets.bsky.social from the team! Great listen 🎧

Successful foraging for books this morning, quite a haul from Boutique St Luke! #BboBMBookclub

….’That’s what continuity is. Not a policy word. Not a contractual metric. Not a slide on a presentation about neighbourhood health. It’s the thing that lets you see the whole cloth when everyone else is looking at individual threads.’ Brilliant writing by @davetriska.bsky.social thank you 🙏🏽

@samwake.bsky.social thoroughly explores the implications of road widening & effect on levels of NO Health effects of increased pollutants from car congestion are not limited to respiratory disorder, effects can last a lifetime, disproportionately affecting youngest, oldest & poor communities

Thanks so much for the lovely review, Jo! 😀 Happy Easter!

It’s here! #BboBMBookclub is launched! 🚀 @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Lie of the Land @amyjanebeer.bsky.social The Flow Big shout outs for @libbyapp.com @cwjoneschris.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @threeacresacow.bsky.social @vertebratepub.bsky.social & much more!

A local walk today took me past my kids old primary school- well done Westways Primary, a joyful school street! Empty with school hols, in term time still calm as kids safely into class. All kids should get this start to the day @livingstreets.bsky.social @teammodeshift.bsky.social

Sensible, evidence based advice here from Devi. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“when public health works, it’s invisible. We don’t see the outbreaks that haven’t happened.”

Following publication of new guidance from @ategov.bsky.social this week, our @tansbraun.bsky.social joined the Guardian on a walk to talk about the importance of involving women and girls in street design. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

"Streets and public spaces that work for women and girls work for everyone. That’s the principle we need to embed into every scheme, every strategy and plan, and every investment decision." @liliangreenwood.bsky.social takes to the UK #WalkingSummit stage

More and more lightweight, highly functional mobility aids are being made. Is a small person using a power attachment really more dangerous to pedestrians than a big person running? wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/wp-content/u... #MobilityJustice #MobilityAids

88% women in the ATE poll said they don’t feel safe walking at night & routinely change routes to avoid spaces that feel threatening. The guidance from ATE is welcome in designing a blueprint for streets of the future for all #walkingsummit @livingstreets.bsky.social

In Liverpool for @livingstreets.bsky.social Walking Summit had to have a quick leg stretch & visit The Beatles, forever strolling on the waterfront

Just catching up- wonderful conversation with @sutchfun.bsky.social & Clare Balding on #ramblings the joy of walking shines through. The Go Jauntly app does a great job, supporting people to get the benefits of walking well worth a listen!

Interesting podcast episode touching on #reparations with Simukai Chigudu from Oxford University whose recent memoir ‘Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire’ weaves together personal and political/colonial history. www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

'The Invisible', female workers of London series by contemporary artist Caroline Walker #womensart

Women's History Month: 14 UK exhibitions by/of women (UK). www.artfund.org/explore/get-...

Good listen, wearables & AI alone are not enough behaviour change relies on feelings, unpicked brilliantly.

One of the joys of last month was spending a bit of time walking around Paris, where people, pedestrians & sone pedals have been prioritised 💚

The Hidalgo Identity (2026)

Looking forward to hearing from @adamtranter.bsky.social on Wednesday! @livingstreets.bsky.social

‘The pandemic shows us that workforce wellbeing should become a central strategic priority for the NHS’ Thank you @drkevinfong.bsky.social excellent article in today’s Observer. Can’t find a link yet #NHS

As the Covid Inquiry’s third module report is released today, read about the compelling testimony given by Professor Kevin Fong, back in November 2024.

The Observer Walk with Hedi Argent “‘Never again’ – that’s what everybody said once the Holocaust was discovered. But I know that that is not what’s happening." Argent reflects on the rise of antisemitism, over 90 years since she first encountered it, writes Erica Wagner https://bit.ly/4t2ND7f

Module 3 Covid inquiry published last week, topic of healthcare. On the brink of a done-to, not done-with GP contract, it seems WS cannot understand how to translate words into tangible support for healthcare workers.

Revealing who owns England just became Government policy. Here's my blog post analysing this historic moment, as well as assessing some of the other ambitious policies unveiled in the Government's new Land Use Framework: whoownsengland.org/2026/03/19/r...

Nice shoes! @mgtmccartney.bsky.social does it again, well worth a listen- trust in healthcare & why conflicts of interest matter to patients excellent guests @felly500.bsky.social @david-haslam.bsky.social Tim Kendall & more www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

In England a driver can be speeding, using cannabis and a phone, overtake another vehicle, mount the pavement outside a school playground and kill a 4-year-old girl while uninsured — and receive just 3 years 10 months for causing death by careless driving. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Aging doesn't *have* to be decline? A 12-year study found 45% of older adults *improved* either walking speed or cognition (thinking skills). What if our ideas about aging hold us back?

Great show!

Thank you @cwjoneschris.bsky.social for my Mother’s Day gift, can’t wait to read @debscohen.bsky.social

In the latest Two-Way Poetry podcast I talk to Meg Gripton-Cooper about Anne Carson’s ‘Short Talk on Hedonism’ & her own poem ‘Excavating the House of Love’ @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/meg-gripto...

Huge shout out to the fabulous Inch Beach #parkrun team here in Kerry! Sisters Tracey & Francis O’Sullivan run directors were fabulous and I want to come back and do it all again! #loveparkrun

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year