diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 3m“Lights out! Guerrilla Radio! Turn that sh*t off!” 🎶 Wet weather gear in effect this morning. F+ck me; I bought the Sealskinz for the Welsh trip this year; but boy have they been a discovery. Sun put in a shift the way home but only 3 wk before lights out and cycling in the dark for 4-5 mths 000
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Into the Sunset Wife back from the theatre and I’d batch cooked a bunch of food for her and the kids so no l-one needed needed me. Hour before sundown; bough for a quick blat to Checkendon 170
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026While this is one of my favourite places; haven’t been this way for a while. Summer feels a ways off now so I cdnt believe how low the river is. First time I’ve been able to cycle the ford. Usually a foot or two deep. What a disaster for the wildlife… 160
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A day down the Pang Valley coz I’ve not been that way for a while. Thing o love about Reading is your only a few minutes from Ace! 1130
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Just got some feedback for my Welsh homework from my tutor. Am a happy camper 020
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tryna make Pangbourbe before the light goes coz the tracks are quieter the other side. Job done I guess 050
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Pitstop. £9.80 for a pint and a bag of crisps. I may not be going in for a second 250
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Thought I’d make best use of my limited time and head out west coz I haven’t for a while. Reading is pretty long and thin, like the county (which has a pleasant symmetry) - so opened bagging some suburban @wandrer.earth miles with a shoegaze-metal-core soundtrack 180
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I find conversation to have momentum. Once you get going and have calibrated, it’s easy enough. But if I’ve not been near humans for a time. Just made a recent connection with neighbours over the road, coz of their eclipse. Saw one clipping their hedge; went over. The sh*t that came out of my mouth 030
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Brunch. Or Brupper? Only got rubbish bread but I got the eggs perfect. Usually autumnal crisis: closing sunsets vs my insatiable craving for sleep. 4h to get in a decent ride 040
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Friday didn’t want let me go. Work got rearranged and ended doing a solid 10h+ schlep. Ahead of time my first ride home in the dark, of the season. Really need to put some emergency lights in the bag 060
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That’s a low slung sun and I got off on time. A few more weeks and the hard work begins 060
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Its Thursday and the night before Friday and I have Hope 160
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think my biggest problem with the story and the elephant in the room is that there was an Admiral Klakring. And not just any admiral but a Rear Admiral www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.uk'Ship buster' missiles sink old US warship in live fire training off ScotlandThe 43-year-old decommissioned frigate was used for target practice off the Outer Hebrides last Monday. 040
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have to walk by this lavender every Tuesday and Wednesday, in my role is corporate slave. Currently setting up my trypophobia; makes me feel a bit queasy for lunch. 030
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A proposal of nothing; I just found out that in some versions of the multiverse a Boltzmann brain is statistically more probable than me, my timeline, and my bike ride on Saturday. (Don’t look it up) Does that mean I don’t have to go to work in the morning? 120
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Monday finds me in need of another weekend 150
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026How bright is it ?! Just spent 2h speaking Welsh. Well, Wenglish. There are some words and grammar I don’t know yet so sometimes I have to revert. But someone thought I was local coz of my ability and they see me a lot 150
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Carried away by a moonshadow. How bright is the moon. That and the mist in the valley 140
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Thing I love about Wales is how something like this is designated a road on OSMaps. Def pays to bring a MTB… 0101
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Did 25k less than intended but my back, quads and pecs are rinsed. That was a lot of climbing on some ambitious surfaces. Quality not quantity. Followed the Llwybr Mary Jones before crossing the valley and coming back via Rhydymain 160
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“I wanna live forever…in a ditch” 🎶 High up, exposed, quite technical in places. Loved. Every. Minute. Can recommend. 160
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In a chapter where the MetOffice got it wrong and the sun came out (and I got up late); decided to head up the Bwlch on a tip about a right of way across the mountain. Some old fella in the pub thought it was impassable, coz of scrambling bikes but you gotta see. Just a small matter of the A470 171
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Bring me the Horizon Which is funny, cause that’s what I was listening to 061
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Buzzard. He didn’t seem too fussed by me. 130
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When the sun is out, makes you decide to do something ambitious; you’ve commited to It full chested and you look over your shoulder, only to see weather coming over the mountain 040
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sunsets and meditations. Took the chance to visit my spirit places… 020
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Prynawn da pawb! Evening all. Not got here as early as I wd like as, well sleep was needed last night. Still had time for a cheeky 20k before sunset 030
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Not something you want to find yourself saying in Wales, but I’ve just cycled up the wrong hill 160
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If late breakfast is brunch, is early supper lupper? I can’t see catching on as a term. 120
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t be bothered cooking on the camp stove in the rain. Early chips supper gonna save me forking out on something more expensive later. Need to recoup that half tank of petrol. The price of petrol! Shows her often I don’t drive. I must save the family a packet. 040
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Shropshire mizzle. Have to try the chippy in Craven Arms. They don’t have much of a veggie offer and no picked onions. Gon have to go with a pickled egg 220
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Been coming this way for years, only just noticed there is a public loo, which is a huge strategic find, with a middle-aged bladder… 030
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Clee Hill. Looks like cloud cover over Wales & the Beacons. Guess I’m in for a drab weekend. The chip shop has closed. Changing management. Like my little anchor points in life; and this was one, for at least a decade. Bloke used to recognise me and the kids. Sad. And peckish. 030
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cefn gwlad (kevn goo-lad) - countryside (welsh). Transliterates as back country. Best go back then. 020
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Stop the world, stop the world; I’m getting off!” 🎶 That’s me done South of the river. As a consequence of a v sensible decision made back in late Jan, it appears to be the weekend, for me. Don’t mean to gloat. Much. 030
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Off on time this evening: first Welsh lesson of the new school year! If only the weather was looking like this in N Wales this w/end NGL the new tutor is veeeeery purdy. I may have a crush. However she did the whole lesson in Welsh, which was a baptism of fire… 141
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A day in windowless rooms sandwiched by sunlight on the way in and the way out. I’m eyeing the clocks going forward with nervousness 040
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Getting the Sunday heebeegeebees 030
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026F*cking about with said drone. TBH the footage on portrait (for other SM outlets) was better I think but battling available memory and child related giving up attention 050
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Y’days ride inspired me to take the youngest to mess about with drone up to St James’ 040
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026New ways. Not sure how I’ve never done this bridleway before - especially as it is so handy. Late out and up against sunset (last weekend with sunset after 7 till next year; how did that happen?!); but bagging them good S Oxon @wandrer_earth miles 050
diminutivefox.bsky.social @diminutivefox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Praying in the Church of Bike Evensong, obvs 170