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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 22/09/2026

Waking up to the dawn is one reason I love autumn so much.

Dawn seen in a modern housing estate. Houses are silhouetted along the horizon, framed by trees on the sides of the picture. The dawn peeks out from between a gap in the houses, rimming the clouds nearby with golden yellow, and those further up the sky in soft pink.

Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 20/09/2026

Certainly more esoteric than the rather pedestrian one I came across yesterday, which feels like it might lead to The Shire.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 20/09/2026

Well I think it’s safe to say you’ll need something a little more advanced that the iOS Photos app’s “clean up” feature, if this quick attempt is anything to go by… But I’m sure that’s hardly the state of the art right now.

A picture of Rod Hull and Emu, except with Emu removed with the iOS Photos app’s “clean up” feature.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 12/09/2026

Daily picture: 2026-09-12 I like to doodle when I’m thinking about things – keeping my hands busy with something simple and comparatively mindless seems to allow me to concentrate on something else with fewer internal distractions. It would appear I’ve been doing a lot of thinking today!

An A5 notebook showing a blocky grid of angular lines that have been shaded with hatching as if pointed. A bit like viewing a a network of buildings with pitched rooves from above.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 11/09/2026

Daily picture: 2026-09-11 I find it slightly fascinating that the internal reflection within the camera lens reveals that the apparently solid bright white light of a streetlamp is actually a neat grid of white LEDs.

A picture of a streetlight at night, with the bright light at the top left, and an internal reflection within the camera lens towards the bottom right showing a neat 6x4 grid of white spots.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 11/09/2026

Daily picture: 2026-09-10 Wherever I live, it’s important to me to find quiet places very close by where I can at least give myself the illusion of being in the countryside. I’m not sure I could ever live in many cities for this reason.

A narrow mud path through a tunnel of brambles and undergrowth on either side.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 10/09/2026

Daily picture: 2026-09-09 The last gasp of summer in our garden.

A bright magenta flower which has sprung up from the dahlia in our garden, while the rest of the plant dies away as we head into autumn.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 09/09/2026

Daily picture: 2026-09-08 I was feeling quite unwell all day and never left the house, which made finding any pictures to take a bit of a challenge!

A picture of our front door at night, with a hanging basket full of flowers the foreground, illuminated by our lantern-style porch light.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 08/09/2026

Is it potentially affected by other factors, however? For example, in England second-generation immigrants pupils out-perform non-immigrant pupils. What if Wales has a lower proportion of such pupils? Just one possible example, maybe not the best. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a9ea5...

A table from the PISA 2025 report showing that non-immigrant pupils in England scored an average of 523, first generation immigrant pupils scored 504, and second generation pupils scored 530. The OECD averages for comparison were 495, 437, and 460. So second generation pupils in England out-performing non-immigrant pupils is quite a departure from the OECD averages.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 07/09/2026

Daily picture: 2026-09-07 This picture is certainly not beautiful. But the reason for the door to the lower left of this picture fascinates me. Maybe there’s a huge trampoline just out of shot below?

A picture taken from the train near Bethnal Green station. The railway is raised, so the shot is level with the upper floor of yellow brick terraced housing, probably 4-6 decades old. As well as windows, one of the buildings has a door which opens out into thin air, with no trace that there was ever a balcony or fire escape for it to open on to. It’s a Dutch door and the top half is open, so I hope nobody leans out too far!

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 06/09/2026

Daily picture: 2026-09-06 I recently saw that @levparikian.bsky.social had a thread where he was posting a picture a day. I thought that would be a great habit to motivate me to slow down and pay attention to the details of world around me. So here we’re go, let’s see how long I can keep it going!

A rather flimsy bivouac made of fallen logs and branches in an open area of woodland. It was taken in the Wandlebury Country Park in Cambridgeshire, UK. If you wove some leaves into it, it would actually be a pretty decent shelter – at least until a gentle breeze brought it down on your head…

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 05/09/2026

Seems like there’s a quiet day every 50 years.

A small, metal plaque on a fence post, saying, “IN 1832 0N THIS SPOT NOTHING HAPPENED.”

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 30/08/2026

I’m not in that area, but you can see in the photo from the far kerb that there’s a slight rise, which implies there’s a slight rise.

The detail from the Fotta in the original post showing our fire curve towels off indicates a slight rise in the road at the junction.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 30/08/2026

I think this is a great visual aid, but I guess technically shouldn’t be required as all road users are supposed to give way anyway. I guess the MUST added by the zebra crossing presumably does allow for harsher punishment for dangerous drivers who ignore the rules, though.

Rule H2 - Rule for drivers, motorcyclists, horse drawn vehicles, horse riders and cyclists
At a junction you should give way to pedestrians crossing or waiting to cross a road into which or trom which you are turning.
You MUST give way to pedestrians on a zebra crossing, and to pedestrians and cyclists on a parallel crossing (see Rule 195).
Pedestrians have priority when on a zebra crossing, on a parallel crossing or at light controlled crossings when they have a green signal.

Rule 170
Take extra care at junctions. You should
• watch out for cyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians including powered wheelchairs/mobility scooter users as they are not always easy to see. Be aware that they may not have seen or heard you if you are approaching from behind
• give way to pedestrians crossing or waiting to cross a road into which or from which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way (see Rule H2)
• remain behind cyclists, horse riders, horse drawn vehicles and motorcyclists at junctions even if they are waiting to turn and are positioned close to the kerb

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 29/08/2026

Just came across this beautiful thread, thank you for sharing! Who doesn’t love an old door? In case you’re interested, here are some favourites from my photos.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 29/08/2026

People say my cycle to Ely station (for my commute to London) is easy because “East Anglia is so flat”. I have absolute proof that it’s not! Look at this: non-zero elevation gain! And that levee is really hard to cycle up for almost ten seconds!

Details of a cycling workout as part of my commute.
Distance: 6.32 miles
Elevation gain: 35 feet

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 24/08/2026

This example in particular seemed intended to try and cause annoyance, in a fairly unsophisticated childish way. It’s all rather bemusing.

@schizanon.bsky.social has added you to the "This List Is Not Your Business" moderation list

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 22/08/2026

Post a picture that should be an album cover.

A photo of train tracks, taken in the late evening a little after sunset. The sky is a greyish blue, fading down to yellow as it nears the horizon. Ragged strips of cloud lie across the sky, and the setting sun is reflecting deep red against the underside of the most distant clouds. The foreground is entirely silhouetted against the sky, formed by thick hedges and low trees either side of the tracks. The rails themselves are bright, white lines against the black, as they reflect the sky, heading in a straight line into the distance.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 16/08/2026

They’ve changed it by now, but it’s still terrible! This is why I haven’t read the BBC news for years. The UK has some of the worst press in the developed world, so the bar to be better is set incredibly low, and the BBC consistently still fails to clear it.

The headline now reads: “Reform UK plans to overhaul welfare system to save £50bn”

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 11/08/2026

Out of interest, quite a lot of people in London manage pretty well without. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

London had a higher percentage of households with no cars or vans (42.1%) than the other
English regions and Wales. The local authorities with the highest percentages of households with no cars or vans were also all in London,
with the City of London (77.2%), Islington (66.9%), and Tower Hamlets (66.4%) topping the list.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 10/08/2026

It’s nice to finally start seeing some bees on our flowers – there have been very few so far this year. Rather worrying!

A large sunflower, bright yellow in the sun, against a deep blue sky. A large bee is crawling around the stamens at the edge.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 09/08/2026

They can be placed over covered cycle parking just as easily. It’s clearly a false dichotomy to say this it’s either this or solar farms, but I don’t see much downside in putting panels basically on every suitable roof available.

Covered cycle parking at Cambridge North station in the UK. The roof is largely glass, but does have some solar panels, and could easily have more.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 08/08/2026

I’d be more concerned about being followed by levitating acorns, if I’m honest…

A detail from the centre left of the image above, showing a pair of acorns hovering in the air behind the rider.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 04/08/2026

The UK has quite a few SUVs, but it’s certainly rare to see anything as absurd as an Escalade – you just wouldn’t be able to park it anywhere for one thing. Here’s a comparison with the Skoda Kodiak, which is typical of the SUVs I see a lot on UK roads. The difference in grille height is clear.

The Skoda Kodiak is significantly narrower and lower than the Escalade.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 29/07/2026

It’s a fairly similar story in the UK, except a little worse, and without the economic improvement.

Graph showing US and UK food prices in relative terms, taking 2012 as 100 in both cases. The US ends up on 141 (41% rise), then UK on 146 (46% rise). The lines vary a little, but overall track quite closely.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 28/07/2026

I’m always surprised how reflective railway tracks become, leading to cool illusion of lines of liquid fire leading into the distance at sunset.

A picture of straight railway tracks going into the distance between two hedges, silhouetted against a sunset of peach-lined grey clouds in a light blue sky. The tracks are reflecting the sky, forming two bright lines leading into the distance against the nearly black foreground.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 26/07/2026

How much discussion do you think went into branding environmentally friendly cotton buds as “ecoslurps”?

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 24/07/2026

That’s already explicitly catered for in the EAPC guidelines, actually. Provided the assist can’t go above 3.7mph (6 kph), then it counts as a standard EAPC and doesn’t need the special approval that full speed twist-and-go bikes currently require (AFAIK). www.gov.uk/government/p...

2. 'Walk assist' functionality (where the speed doesn't go above 3.7 mph) is outside the scope of type approval.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 21/07/2026

I’ve no idea whether the image has been doctored or not, but it’s worth noting that there are a bunch of very similar images on various articles.

One of four similar pictures of Rahul Gandhi being manhandled by a crowd at a protest.

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 21/07/2026

The Cambridge Local Plan (2018) has some details if you’re interested. greatercambridgeplanning.org/media/obhlat...

Policy 82: Parking management
Planning permission will not be granted for developments that would be contrary to the parking standards set out in Appendix L. This includes:
a. providing no more than the car parking standards for new residential and non-residential development set out in Appendix L, taking into account the accessibility of the site to public transport and the nature of the use. In the city centre, and on streets with overnight parking stress, on and off street (non-disabled bay) car parking levels should be maintained at current levels for shoppers, residents and workers;
b. providing at least the cycle parking levels in Appendix L; and
c. providing at least the disabled and inclusive parking requirements in
Appendix L.
Car-free and car-capped development is acceptable in the following circumstances:
d. where there is good, easily walkable and cyclable access to a district centre or the city centre;
e. where there is high public transport accessibility; and
f. where the car-free status of the development can realistically be enforced by planning obligations and/or on-street parking controls.
The Council strongly supports contributions to and provision for car clubs at new developments to help reduce the need for private car parking.
Electric vehicle charging points or the infrastructure to ensure their future provision should be provided within a development where reasonable and proportionate.
Developments should also provide adequate provision for servicing and public service vehicles.
On-street parking will be managed in partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council to ensure the safe passage of cyclists and pedestrians, emergency service access and to reduce nuisance to residents from commuter and shopper parking.

Dwellings (C3 use class)
L.7
In addition to the parking rations set out in Table L.1 below, provision should be made for visitors at the ratio of one space for every four units.
Overall parking should be a mixture, with some parking allocated (to specific dwellings) and some parking provided as unallocated - particularly visitor parking and any parking above one space per dwelling (see Manual for Streets for advice on design). Allocated parking should be marked appropriately.
New developments do not qualify for residents' parking permits within an existing on-street parking scheme - they are 'car capped'.
Table L. 1: Dwellings (C3 use class)
Dwelling size
Inside controlled parking zone
Outside controlled parking zone
Up to 2
bedrooms
space per dwelling
No more than 1 No more than a mean of 1.5
spaces per dwelling
3 or more bedrooms
No more than 1 space per dwelling
No less than a mean of 0.5 spaces per dwelling, up to a maximum of 2 spaces per dwelling

Business uses (B use class)
L. 12 Limited car parking will be allowed in the controlled parking zone (CPZ) for these types of uses, no net additional parking in the City Centre.
Access will primarily rely on public transport, cycling and walking. Car urneys will be accommodated through public parking, including Park and Ride.
Table L.7: Business uses (B use class)
Type of
Development
Inside controlled parking zone
Outside controlled parking zone
Offices, general industry
1 space per 100 sq m
Gross Floor Area plus disabled car parking
1 space per 40 sq m
Gross Floor Area,

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 18/07/2026

It’s not like the UK lags behind the rich world in terms of social housing, we have some of the highest proportions of it. So I think it’s fair to try to understand why we appear to be so much more in need of it than anyone else. Maybe we should be trying to solve the problem in other ways as well.

Bar chart showing social rentals (of all types) as a percentage of total housing stock for OECD countries. The UK is fourth on around 16%, behind Denmark (21%), Austria (24%), and Netherlands (34%).

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Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻‍💻 @andy-pearce.com · 15/07/2026

Fairly close to me, I’m always amused to see that Barton’s Belt is not even close to going all the way around Six Mile Bottom.

An excerpt from the 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey map at TL 57774 56945, which shows the village of Six Mile Bottom, and a nearby strip of trees called Barton’s Belt.

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