📷:27/02/2026 Exminster, near Swan's Nest, road sign reads 'Road Closed'. It is to vehicles due tree having collapsed taking with it part of the lane. It remains passable on 🚶&🚴‍♂️. Flooding has abated Map Coordinates:- 50.677566,-3.474834 @exetercycling.bsky.social #cycling #cyclist #cyclinglife #bike

📣An exhibition currently running at Exeter Custom House. Presents historic photos with a particular focus on Exeter Quay and surroundings. Collection started by Peter Thomas now being expanded and preserved by South West Heritage Centre. An interpretation video provides background. Recommended.

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 'How winter storms are rapidly reshaping our coastline' [Featured: Torcross & Slapton] 💬"This is going to become increasingly common," Masselink says of the erosion seen at Torcross and Slapton beaches. Worryingly much of our UK coastline under threat from erosion.

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 💨Teignmouth taking a battering from Storm Ingrid. Sadly outer portions of the pier lost. Also, new railway storm defences being pushed to the limit and in part failing.

Shocked at how prescient this is. Compare with what is happening in the USA today. I've just picked this book up (20% into read) but evidently a great choice. Set near-future (today?), conjures perfectly the (could happen to anybody) 'lost soul in oppressive authoritarian regime'. 📖 Recommended!

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Ah ha! Google are at last catching on with their Willow quantum computer the likes of which was first seen in episodes of the Dr Who UK television series in the 1960s. Will it be capable of transporting us through time? Where's the police call box? 😉

My year in reading courtesy of Goodreads. Rather neat. It's been a good reading year for me. Every book read has merits. Personal favourite of group is All the Light we Cannot See (WWII setting); quite exquisite writing.

🔗 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/devon/... The Red Dress - Killerton (NT) Interesting and unusual. Unifying in a time of division. "We have more in common" ... Joe Cox #NationalTrust

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Only in England! 🙂 No one should ever trifle with the English! 💬'Four people have been arrested after custard and apple crumble was flung at a display case containing Crown Jewels at the Tower of London.'

All fans of the seaside are bound to love what is a surprise find in Wilko this December. Seaside themed string-pulls. There are beach huts, seagulls, rowing boats and surf boards. Perhaps a bit wacky but, hey, this is England.

@ledbydonkeys.org dunno if you wonderful lot were responsible for this poster spotted apparently in south london before sadly quickly removed…? Of course it would be terrible if we were to spread it on social media!

"Start 'em young," my parents would say. After a trike and a bike, both with solid rubber wheels, this bike with pneumatic tyres was a major step up. Spot the 'I've got a tiger in my tank' sticker? Came with a furry tail. Who remembers this 60s advertising campaign from Esso? Too young!

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🤭🛌 Oh dear!

🔗 www.amazon.co.uk trading site working just fine; funny that. Sites I've noted down: www.flickr.com / www.ancestry.co.uk / www.findagrave.com

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl... Attended interesting 'Explore Exeter Cathedral in the 1920s' event in the Cathedral Library & Archives Reading Room yesterday. In hall there's this fabulous model mock-up of the construction of a Roman Baths with cut-through showing hypocaust.

🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... Pleased to see plans are in motion to improve route and junction heavily used by pedestrians and cyclists in #Exeter An important connection to the City centre that is currently hazardous. Gets my ✔️

🔗 www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_scrapboo... Interesting photo showing post-war rebuild of South Street that began in 1955 at top of which St Peter & the Devil can be seen. This is in fact the third position for this statue, the fourth and current being RAMM.

🔗 www.heritageopendays.org.uk Yesterday a 🚲 to Killerton. The Columbjohn chapel was open (1pm-3pm) for Heritage Open Days with experts available to talk history & about recent archaeological dig. Access to Killerton House (NT) free to all today. Walk route (follow Tudor rose): 🔗 tinyurl.com/2s3eepyp

⚡ A real-life Back to the Future moment. Perhaps?

🔗 www.mysteryguides.co.uk/products/exe... I'm not able to vouch from personal experience but can say I've seen 3 family groups doing this about #Exeter in the last week, something I'd not seen before. I spoke with one couple & they thought it great & would recommend as a novel way to explore a place

Sometime between AD 55 and 65 a man named Lucius Julius Hipponicus scratched his named into a Samian Ware drinking cup Because of this simple act, he is one of the first residents of Exeter (ISCA) for whom we have a name 📷 May 2025 @rammuseum.bsky.social #FindsFriday #Roman #Archaeology #Devon

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Good to see the old Gaumont/Odeon cinema in Plymouth receiving funds to protect this 'heritage at risk' property. Planned to repurpose as shop units. Historic images @: 🔗 historicengland.org.uk/images-books...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I had not known Dartmoor Prison, Princetown, held (1,000) conscientious objectors during World War One. This booklet has to be quite momentous with special significance for the county of Devon. Owner: " ... would very much like to find it a good 'home' for posterity." ✔️

Seaside Bar, Lindau, Lake Constance (or Bodensee), Germany. With a little stretch of the imagination it would seem 'seasides' can sometimes occur in rather unexpected places.

🛳️ My g-grandfather, William Henry Rockett (b.1892), was due to sail from Southampton to America but was late arriving at the port (typical!), missed the sailing on 10th April 1912 and instead boarded a later sailing on the 13th. The #Titanic sank on 15th April 1912. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

A four part story about what you can achieve when you don't just get a bunch of delinquent kids to burn down a listed building for you on that land you want to "develop".

Whilst on the subject (sort of) of Trews Weir, #Exeter, some 📷 I snapped Sep 2022. It had been a long hot/dry summer and the River Exe was running lower than I'd ever seen before. To some extent due to St James Weir having failed on the lower reaches. People were strolling around the river bed.

🔗https://devontwentiesfestival.co.uk/events/dawlish-and-the-exe-estuary-in-the-1920s/ I could be cycling to Dawlish tomorrow! If the web link on this post fails, as it did for me, try link above (copy/paste) from which event details can be found [Android not permitting me to post actual links].

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Hope of life being breathed back into Torquay Pavilion after years of neglect. It's easy to imagine Poirot taking tea here. In the town Agatha Christie made home it seems only fitting to preserve this elegant building.

🔗 tinyurl.com/2hd4t69s Visited the #NationalTrust Unflappable 20s fashion exhibition at Killerton yesterday. It's quite extensive, well sourced and stylishly presented. References are made to this this being the early age of film going and motoring. Beach pyjamas (see 📷) were new to me!

🔗 www.francisfrith.com/exmouth/exmo... [#Exmouth]: A fine display of daffodils on the seafront yesterday. The seafront shelter still giving good service after all these years.

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🌊 Ebb and flow 🌊 * Financial Times (4th March 2025):- 💬'Across the pond, Donald Trump's return to power for his second term has helped drive an upsurge in Americans applying to be UK citizens, the paper reports'

demolition-exeter.blogspot.com/2010/12/nos-... At the time of Census 1891 family member Thomas Morris is to be found at '7 West Street (Blackamoor's Head Inn)'. 'Head': Sidney Ireland, Licensed Victualler 'Pub' (15 occupants!). Just discovered this snippet of 'historic context' for this building.

Explore Exeter’s papermaking history with Double Elephant Print Workshop at Positive Light Projects this week with a stellar exhibition that maps Exeter UNESCO #CityofLiterature's rich (and surprisingly globetrotting!) paper production. More info: www.doubleelephant.org.uk/projects/pap...

Fascinating discovery as Armada Way works uncover Sir Francis Drake's leat 🔗 www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout... 💬'... found by contractors on a £21m project to revamp the [ #Plymouth ] city centre.

www.pemberley.com/images/landt... Colleton Crescent (note absence of balconies), #Exeter, almost obscures Exeter Cathedral. Footbridge would seem to dictate this is Exeter Canal as I'm not aware of a bridge over the River Exe this early. 🔗Exeter Quotations: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

🔗 www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/swansboro... My brother Michael and I delivered morning newspapers as paper boys (1968-74) for Bell shown in #Exeter 📷 under previous ownership. 1hr/day 7-days/wk, paid 80p/wk. Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day were holidays. 🌲 Merry Christmas 🎅

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... .. Interesting but also note:- ° Follow BBC Technology of Business Editor Ben Morris on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/bemo... ° Follow BBC Business Correspondent Theo Leggett on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/theo... BBC quietly & conscientiously slips allegiance away from 'X' 🤫

My Bluesky journey begins as my conscience tells me it is time for change. Partial view of Mr Caleb Hedgeland's model of #Exeter (1817-1824) #RAMM. View of Cathedral and St Mary Major (that was). The old Broadgate entrance from High Street visible, as is St Petrock's and All Hallows.