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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 3h

Celebrating rain dodged this morning, and a nice tailwind. I'll pay later. #BikeCommute

Is blue sky with altocumulus, cirrus, and other misidentified clouds.

Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

NO SPOILERS PLEASE! Now, attention all shipping. I pretty much became a meme last night. While brushing teeth: Mrs Roach asked if I was OK and I had two options: 1. Yes I am OK. 2. I've no idea why, but, I am trying to remember all the sea areas in Shipping […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

is "He's probably thinking about other women" couple in bed meme, man is reciting shipping forecast.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@avengoyle @Aviation_Librarian I struggled to attach these photos to a reply-toot. Flight engineer's station of a Constellation, at the Museum of the USAF in Ohio.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Tonight's washing up tunes ... Roach Minimus has not retreated to NC headphones, this is interesting.

Is cover of Simple Minds album New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) with large crimson cross motif on silvery gold background.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I give you the Flora Incognita portable telephone application for identifying different vegetation, supporting me in my continuing quest to "mess about and find out".

Is screenshot of Flora Incognita portable telephone application showing photograph of moth and application has correctly identified the object as moth.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

To be clear: not Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

Is newspaper website cropped screenshot stating that UK-Iran national arrested under Terrorism Act over RAF Fairford incident.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

My approach to "delivery instructions" warranted some pink highlighter.

Is address label with instructions to.delivery person highlighted including "if out please leave in repeat in porch" and "And everyone have a lovely day"

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

#SilentSunday ; also this is what you get when someone listens to your demands for a shrubbery.

Is statue of early English warrior (intended to be King Arthur) with sword & shield surrounded by shrubbery and with a contemplative expression as if wondering where next to do some weeding.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[cat eye contact] Oscar, 29 Sep 2007. Gorgeous, but never a lap cat. I can count on one hand the number of times he was happy to sit physically touching me. #caturday

Is brown tabby cat with green eyes looking directly at viewer.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Can anyone find a more inane headline today that the second one down? Actual LOL.

Is cropped screenshot of Guardian newspaper website.

Top headline: football club broke financial rules.

Headline below: person says players are "not to blame"

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Well that solved the clicking noise after I installed a new chain 😳 #BikeToot #velophant #cycling #BetterShifting

Screenshot of bettershifting website reminding me to install the effing chain so it doesn't run over the effing chain guard.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

A variant of #-womensmilingwithsalad I discovered just now is definitely #OlderPeopleHavingFun in pension brochures.

is eleven stock photos from a pensions brochure showing older people smiling and enjoying themselves including preparing to cycle, laughing at a laptop, reading with a child, looking at photos, carrying a child, holding hands with a partner, and, of course, preparing to do skydiving.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The tiny part of me with a Tees Valley upbringing is muttering "Hathaway an' shite", of course. #AnneHathaway #NoNotThatOne

Is Anne Hathaway's Cottage, two storey half timbered is thatched cottage surrounded by trees and fronted by informal kitchen garden.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

"Her real name isn't Nancy," said Peggy. "Her name is Ruth, but Uncle Jim said that Amazons were ruthless, and as our ship is the Amazon, and we are Amazon pirates from the Amazon river, we had to change her name. Uncle Jim gave us the ship last year. We only […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

Is inside front cover of 1953 hardback of Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons" with map of lake surrounded by hills

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Stopped ahead of me at traffic lights: a flat bed truck towing a trailer on which was mounted a hand operated road roller with the handle pointing backwards. Reader, I was sorely tempted. Have you ever held on to a moving vehicle while cycling?. #BikeNitePQ @ascentale

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Observing the anniversary of Arnhem first lift & sharing a raid report from the crew of the 190 Sqn Stirling tug that explains why, 82 years ago to the minute, Great-Uncle George would have to arrive in Arnhem on the 18th with the second lift. #Arnhem

Is raid report from 190 Sqn showing Horsa Chalk 435 took off at 1030 DBST aiming for LZ 'Z' with a jeep, trailer and motorcycles of 1 Abn Div HQ but broke the tow 6 miles west of Fairford after rising over the top of the tug in cloud.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Vole video. Roach Major gespottiert whilst out running. No, neither would I. JYou'll have to rotate your phone, or choose to believe that voles live their lives orthogonal to, say, mice. #vole

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

The lawn patch kit appears to be highlighting that, in fact, swaths of lawn aren't coming back. #UKGsrdening #BourgeoisProblems

is patch of new green grass surrounded by dead grass

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Probably because of the hot summer, the big aloe vera plant, that was once a small aloe vera plant that we picked up in Mullion years ago for a nominal fee, has spawned 8 small plants. Mrs Roach has separated them and potted them and advertised them and now […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

Well now, who's to say, but it's a photograph, right, a photograph, of somebody's porch at t'front of their house. And in t'porch are three white carrier bags. And if you look very closely at t'bags you might see each bag has one or two small orange plastic flowerpots, each with a plant in. And it looks like someone has written people's names on t'bags in black marker, like. There's "Sarah", "Hannah", and "And".

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Accompanying my afternoon coffee.

Is chocolate in Father Christmas themed foil sitting on laptop computer.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Cracking day out on the South Island Randonnée although numbers were way down on last year's event. On the plus side I didn't miss the May Bank Holiday traffic queues where the route crosses the approaches to Ryde. Gentle SE wind meant the run along the […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

A two lane rural road viewed from bike level.

View from grassy hill across blue bay to a peninsula.

Row of Georgian houses leading down to a wide river.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Like last year, I left at 0710 to get the 0750 ferry. Half way there I realised I'd taken half the time I had. The second half of my gentle amble to the ferry... #randonnee #BikeToot #cycling

Cropped screenshot of bike ride track showing personal best on a piece of road called "sprint to the ferry"

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

The old avoiding lines at North Road, repurposed to have an extra island platform, offert für #StilleSonntag #SilentSunday #Darlington

Is railway station with no trains, in distance is few people on platform.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Scheduled toot 10 weeks later in case you'd forgotten who created value.

It was the goose that created value. Picture of a goose with wings outstretched with text "Goose value 71" next to an equation 74-3=71 and a picture of 3 golden eggs.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Lucky with the light over Grangemouth.and the state of the tide. #photography #scotland #ScotlandPhotography

Is sun setting under cloud bank with estuary in foreground, tide half out so sunbeams reflect on water and mudflats

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

#FensterFreitag from the ferry Barfleur approaching Poole Harbour at sundown.

Is port bridge wing of ferry at sunset. Viewed from same level, single storey metal structure with three windows fore and aft, and two to port. Atop structure is VHF antenna, and 2 floodlights. Through windows sunset over coast & calm sea is visible. Inside bridge wing is glowing screen of electronic chart display and one ship's officer with his back to camera in white shirt.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

#FensterFreitag looking back from the 0727 Rennes - Chateaubriant last Monday.

Is view of single track railway through narrow slot window in front of unoccupied driving cab of train.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

There is an impressive oak that overhangs the very bottom of the garden and the birds and squirrels spread the acorns widely. I uprooted this from the rose bed, and if it survives the transplant I shall have a bonsai oak. #UKGardening #TreesOfMastodon #OakTree

Is small oak tree about 15cm tall in plant pot.

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I daren't risk the disapproval of mastodon users by putting this out for #FensterFreitag; it's not valid, as it's a view downward through a grille in the floor.