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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

🤣 I meant paper notebooks 📒 that I write in with an ink pen. 🤔 Added photo for other uses like helping liberate spider friends who are just a bit too big to stay inside for their own good. N.B. If spiders are an issue I will delete this response. 🙂

Sweet spider friend in a glass awaiting liberation outdoors where it would risk less harm. Underneath is the orange-yellow cover of a small Rhodia notebook that serves various purposes including making lists. This specific spider was actually found on my shoulder and had various escapades prior to liberation. 🤔

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Nice article on rewilding and the many ways it can work towards preventing fires and floods. Looks much more like a world I would like to inhabit, in particular the paragraphs below on revitalising and the role of wild animals. 🥰 rewildingeurope.com/news/rewildi...

For thousands of years, Europe’s landscapes were shaped by large herds of wild herbivores. Grazing, browsing and trampling created a constantly shifting mosaic of grassland, scrub and woodland that supported rich biodiversity, while limiting the build-up of vegetation that could fuel large, intense fires. Today, human impacts mean most of these natural grazers have disappeared, while rural depopulation and land abandonment have contributed to declining livestock numbers. With fewer animals grazing the land, dense vegetation has accumulated across millions of hectares, increasing the fuel available for wildfires.

Restoring natural grazing is not only about bringing back large herbivores such as European bison, wild horses and Tauros. It also means allowing common species such as red, roe and fallow deer, elk and ibex to recover to densities where their grazing and browsing can significantly shape vegetation. Across much of Europe, intensive hunting and forestry practices have suppressed herbivore populations, limiting this important ecological role. Restoring more abundant and diverse herbivore communities can reduce the build-up and continuity of combustible vegetation, creating more varied landscapes that can slow the spread and intensity of wildfire.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

The paragraph on revitalising alone. I would like to live in this world.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

I'll never forget this TdF for Wout in 2022. How often does the green jersey lead the yellow and white in the TdF up an HC climb? 🥰 And I think the day before was Kuss leading the train to him to finish off after years of pulling yellow jerseys to the line in multiple races. 🤯

Tour de France 2022 green jersey leading yellow and white jerseys over an hors catégorie climb towards the end of the TdF. Just mind blowing.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026

After my first session with this beautiful soul.💗

Female presenting human with long blonde hair holding the head of a brown horse with black mane. Forehead to forehead, thanking each other after a healing session. This horse has such a beautiful soul it is palpable in the image.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

🥰 I actually have Les Triplettes De Belleville as my ringtone because it makes me happy when I hear it. Also, first thought the other day when the article on the Broom Wagon appeared was the image of the woman with the dog riding behind. That film has clearly made a permanent home in my brain. 🤔

Woman and dog sitting on top of the Broom Wagon for the Tour de France in the film Les Triplettes de Belleville. In front of her is a man on a motorcycle and many fans running along the road.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 14/07/2026

Ok. I have been wanting to reshare this photo someone shared on the other site ages ago as this is how I've been feeling about it all. You know not really, but really. 😕

A photo shared on the other site many years ago during the Tour de France depicting a sign made with a cardboard box top corded to a post that reads: 'VELOS DE MERDE. Sport de Cons'. In English loosely translated as: 'Crap bicycles. Sport of idiots'. I don't really believe this, but I understand the sentiment and where it comes from.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 14/04/2026

Here is one of Aragon's poems. 🥰

Image of a poem:

'Suicide'
Abcdef
ghijkl
mnopqr
stuvw
xyz

Louis ARAGON

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 26/02/2026

Oh no doubt there. Very true it is a tradeoff. I think I saw your post about heating elsewhere. And animals in the ceiling can sound like they are bowling sometimes. 😬 This is my dream tile stove (often in the Swedish homes I obsess over).

Tile stove in home in Sweden. Painted with lovely pink lotus flowers and green and gold tendrils.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 15/11/2025

Found them because I am obsessed. 🤔 They were along this really lovely path in Burlats, France. Looks like marking distance, but no idea who or why as the Internet is now broken. 😒

Stone marker along trail in Burlats, France. Sadly I have no idea who is marking the trail and why.

Tunnel along path in Burlats, France, again, no idea who used it and why and would love to know, but Internet searches are sadly no longer useful.

Side of stone marker along trail in Burlats, France showing roman numerals that go in sequence from one marker to another so marking distance, but no idea why or by whom.

Markings on marker along path in Burlats, France all along the way have these markings while the first one at the beginning of the path was different.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 29/09/2025

Yes. Evidently they are put in place to protect the local environment for regrowth and such, but not sure how they work long-term given the French obsession with hunting. 😢

Sign in France from the Minister of the environment stating that all acts of hunting are forbidden on this 'réserve'.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 21/09/2025

really don't have the energy at the moment. Here are just a couple from the bunkers at Capbreton and the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris. I do love how the bunkers have become another space of creativity and expression, like they have been reimagined. Apologies for the poor alt-text, no energy.

WWII bunker in Capbreton, France with a whale painted on it and the words 'Déambule & Protège ta Dune' reclaiming the space for healing the planet after so much harm.

Woman with long blonde hair standing in front of a Capbreton bunker from WWII with graffiti now painted on it.

Back of monument to Mauthausen camp in WWII Germany at the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris. Sadly I do not have the energy now to type the horrors identified on the monument, but will try to later.

Front of the Mauthausen camp WWII memorial at the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris depicting one of the souls on the journey up the stairs with one pinkish-orange tinted rose lying on one of the steps. Powerful and sobering.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 20/07/2025

Just because I need something happy today and my books make me happy. Here is a photo of the Petit Larousse Illustré from 1905 or something to that effect complete with real ink splatters surrounded by some of my other books. 🥰

Petit Larousse Illustré French encyclopaedic dictionary sitting on a French-Russian dictionary on a wooden table with a French-English dictionary open in front of may paperback books by French authors. Did I mention I love books and languages? ;)

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 06/07/2025

It was amazing. 40+C temps, the roads on the way melting and being sprayed. My health wasn't great, but made it there in the heat anyway and I am so glad just to be able to have been there when Wout was being Wout and to experience the rest. Also Ganna smiling as he passed. 🥰

More riders arriving at the Carcassonne stage of TdF 2022 including Ganna smiling as he rides past among others. :)

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 06/07/2025

all the rest fly by right after B Thomas was caught in front of the Welsh flag for G Thomas. Point is the caravane is massive and people go mad trying to collect the 💩 they throw as they pass by. Fascinating, impressive, but also depressing thinking of the waste. Anyway, a day I'll never forget. 🥰

Benjamin Thomas in breakaway just before he was caught in the 2022 TdF Carcassonne stage in front of a Welsh flag. Yes, not a great photo, but you get the point. ;)

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 06/07/2025

Happened to be in Carcassonne in 2022 staying along the route where every vehicle related to the tour arrived [took hours] and where they left -- people even stand on the road to watch the caravane depart the city. Also made it to about 2km to watch Wout in green Jonas in yellow and ⬇️

Photo of riders arriving just before the 2km banner in Carcassonne at the 2022 TdF. If you zoom in you can see Wout in green and Jonas in yellow with many other riders including G Thomas and C Laporte. Again, not a great photo, but the moment was captured. :)

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 22/06/2025

Did someone say a raft of sea otters? 🥰

Raft of sea otters holding hands so as not to drift apart.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 07/06/2025

Pretty much my style so I vibe with this. See my lovely fashion creation below. 🤣

Décathlon pilates mat cut down combined with a pair of cut up yoga socks to make therapeutic house shoes. 🤔

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 06/06/2025

Entire text illustrated by Fernand Léger. See next posts for links to text in French, English, and more information on the history of the poem which is fascinating.

Fernand Léger’s illustration of Paul Éluard’s poem « Liberté » in its entirety written in 1942 during the German occupation of France. See next threads for links to text in French and English translations and more information.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 06/06/2025

Once again as it is the anniversary of D-Day and I have had the word « Liberté » in my head lately, this Paul Éluard poem of the same name keeps popping into my head. First published in « Poésie et Vérité », 1942. See next few posts below for the entire image and links to text in French and English.

Fernand Léger’s illustration of Paul Éluard’s poem « Liberté » written in 1942 during the German occupation of France. The last stanza of the poem is visible in this crop of the larger version with the entire poem.

« Et par le pouvoir d’un mot
Je recommence ma vie
Je suis né pour te connaître
Pour te nommer

Liberté. »

-Paul Éluard, « Poésie et Vérité », 1942

English translation:

‘And through the power of a word
I begin my life again
I was born to know you
To name you

Freedom’

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 18/05/2025

🤔 Need another cycling feed now as this one's dried up. 🤣

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 25/04/2025

Just reminds me of something like this. 🤣

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 20/04/2025

You know you are poor, living with intense pain, and inadequate medical care when you cut up your pilates mat and yoga socks because you can't afford therapeutic shoes and it hurts too much to walk barefoot around your house. Not sure if it is a good idea or just sad. To laugh or to cry? 🤔

Sad looking DIY 'therapeutic shoes' made from cutting up a grey Décathlon pilates mat placed in lighter grey grippy yoga socks with the toes cut off. One shoe is upward facing and the other faces downward to show the grippy soles. 😩

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 24/02/2025

Honestly, what he did at the 2022 TdF right there earns him 🐐 status. Doesn't need to do anything else in his life, but has still done so much more.

Wout van Aert, the green jersey [points/sprint classification] leader in the Tour de France 2022 pulling the yellow [Jonas Vingegaard] and white [Tadej Pogačar] jersey leaders [leaders of the Tour at the time] up an HC [beyond categorisation] climb.

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Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social · 19/02/2025

Actually elle is referring to the 'marque' de Nutella. The article refers to it as 'le' later on and then there is this [see image below]. So evidently a debate in France as well. Good thing we have important subjects to debate these days. 🤣