Governments of the world: “Lord, make me net-zero – but not yet!”

The Welsh Government should commission some proper research on the effects of the 20mph policy (including opinion polling) and not be bullied by the likes of GB News and flip-flopping Welsh Tories.

Profoundly depressing. What's the use of only having 20mph outside a school, if the aim is for children to walk, cycle or scoot *FROM HOME* *TO SCHOOL* in safety? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-…

On the train to Cambridge. The unfolding view reminds me of Larkin's beautiful poem, 'The Trees':

'The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.

Is it that they are born again
And we grow

Mind blown by these pictures of High Sunderland near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. I need a modernist sunken lounge in my life! historicenvironment.scot/archives-and-r…

After 12 years of not living a particularly healthy lifestyle, I've decided to make a few key changes that I hope will be permanent.

I'll be documenting it along the way - episode one focusses on where I'm at, and why I'm doing it.

If you want to join in with me, you are more

I'm currently trying to make some space by selling our Ridgeback cargo bike. This is unused besides a couple of test rides - it was replaced under warranty last summer and never got used. Lots of details here - it's listed at £2400 but I'm v keen to sell! gumtree.com/p/bicycles/rid…

More AI fun. Urban Abseil Cleanup is the next hot new adventure trend, mark my words!

Love this story and hoping it might make it into the upcoming The Rest Is History pod on Bonnie Prince C. I’m told the townsfolk of Dumfries still bear a grudge about the shoes.

Watch while you can. Good, powerful stuff.

Nurse’s lock on the new utility beast. Love these. This is the one with an optional plug in chain. But when are they called nurse’s locks? House calls?

Had my mum on the phone for half an hour this morning in a panic cos she thought all her devices had been hacked by a sinister man with a beard. Turned out it was the Google Doodle.

For all my Audax United Kingdom followers, fancy being part of a study looking into the effects of endurance exercise eg Cycling & your heart? Below is a link to a study being undertaken at Leicester University. The lead doctor Susil is also a keen cyclist.

le.ac.uk/cardiovascular…

Really appreciating how uncluttered the OS maps of upland Scotland are. Just paths and tracks and none of this footpath / bridleway / byway right of way mess that you have to grapple with south of the border. #righttoroam

Scottish friends. How is Glen Lyon pronounced? Glen Lyon as in the French city? Or Glen Lion as in the big cat and the Bowes-Lyon family?

Paris aims to have 300 “school streets” built by 2026—closures to motor traffic that result in new public amenities.

180 have become permanent car-free spaces—as on Rue Charles Baudelaire—offering a glimpse into a future that prioritizes everyone’s health, safety, and happiness.

'The ubiquitous bicycle' taking over the Scottish Highlands in 1902 (source: Cairngorm Club journal)