Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Today I had a 🇫🇷 exam: discovered a hole in my idiomatic vocab. Apparently you get red in the face like a 🍅 whereas I guessed 🍒. Learning this language feels like a never ending maze; and today I’m feeling claustrophobic within it. But as my old mum would say, this too shall pass. 000
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026Today’s funeral was a wonderful uplifting celebration of a good life, well lived. Our friend Colin certainly packed in family, work and adventures. Inspirational, tinged with sadness that he’s gone too soon. Much to reflect on, in how we spend our next (we hope) decade or two. 020
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026Well another week on a 🚴 in a new part of 🇫🇷. Correze is a veritable treat, empty roads, beautiful villages, and wonderful food. 010
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026Today I am mostly channelling the late David Pearson’s wisdom: Your lack of forward planning is not my emergency. 150
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026Wondering if there are any good longitudinal studies on the cost and efficacy of different governance structures? Personally I’m a fan of a benign dictatorship. Curious to see if/how that actually pans out at scale. 100
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026Yesterday I learned an old friend died on Saturday, just month after receiving a cancer diagnosis. It’s been a timely reminder to crack on with living today, as our tomorrows aren’t guaranteed. 031
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live Scissor Sisters Dirty Vegas Faithless Toumani Diabate Tinawiren Pink Floyd David Gray Little Feat & Bonnie Raitt The Pogues Jethro Tull 000
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026Writing a list of things we need to do before the the ski season - our counter-cycle life 🤯. Stabilise garden gravel, install ceiling curtain tracks, buy new curtains, deep clean gym, install EV charger, stockpile de-icing salt, repaint ceiling, replace veneer on window trim, sand+seal table… 010
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026Usually I loathe impromptu signs taped to a window, but I’ll make an exception for these… 000
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026Also, the buses are *amazing* if a little €€ for short journeys out in the sticks. But we’ve been able to do a 2 hour scenic fjord-side route from our home exchange house to our next hotel, booked and paid online, comfy coach with seat-chargers and an onboard loo for €20! #norway 100
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026Norway. Surprisingly well served by Thai restaurants. Which suits me just fine, as they all seem to offer the right level of 🌶️🌶️🌶️ . 020
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026And as I listen to VtM in Norway, I’m smiling at the memory of my fave Norwegian, and what a great time we had with JP et al seeing him at Royal Albert Hall. Dearest @TheArly (in the other place) you are much missed, and warmly remembered. 000
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026listening to Astral Weeks. God it’s good isn’t it? Immediately transports me back to the first time I heard it (I came to it late, probably 2008 ish). 000
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026Just finished Half Man on Amazon Prime. What a gut punch of a drama. Not for the faint hearted, but full of twists and turns. Genius. 010
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026Blue Pearl, this is your moment…. youtu.be/MLSGYZpsg9k?...youtu.beBlue Pearl - Naked In The Rain [HD]YouTube video by Colour Bar 010
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026On the train headed home. Jeez families are complicated aren’t they? Not arguing with the rose-tinted spectacles and re-writing of history is my own personal nemesis. 120
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026Another day, another flight flight delay, another airport breakfast. Le sigh. 000
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026And today we harvested 10 cucumbers, so now we have cacık with every meal. Could be worse I guess 😍 200
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026As a slow runner, I would like apple music to create a playlist grouped by fave genres, that gives me whatever bpm fits for running at a pace of X mins per km, so that I stand a better chance of hitting my running goals. #userstory 120
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026Strava: great recovery run! Jayne: oh do fuck off, that’s a PB. It’s all relative I guess. Still faster than anyone sitting on the couch. 020
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026Fair play to Easyjet, exactly one week after the flight delay from hell, and the compo money has landed in my account. 030
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026FB memories: sometimes they make me smile, sometimes they make me sad. Sometimes they make me think “why did I give any emotional energy to the fuckwit friend who has shown me, on more than one occasion, who they are” Older, and maybe finally a little wiser on where my metaphorical fucks are spent. 020
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026A satisfying way to use up the last of the honey…. that’s a cappuccino in a honey jar 😁 000
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 25/07/2026I’ve recently started reading the New Yorker. Generally quite enjoying the long form articles. But jeez, the “diaeresis to break the diphthong” thing feels like an affectation too far. 010
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026Well there’s a rabbit hole I didn’t expect to fall into today… microtonal math rock. Kinda loving the outfits, but not entirely convinced the music is gonna break out of the niche… youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...youtu.beAngine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)YouTube video by KEXP 011
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026Flight delayed by 5 hours, a night in teeny in-terminal hotel, and now a packed commuter train. This meeting had better be worth it. 🤯😬😂. London, I am nearly in you. 000
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026Allowing myself a small amount of hope today. I’m not ready to be Victor Meldrew just yet. 010
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026Related. Asking someone to read your unrefined AI verbage is really poor form. If you can’t be arsed to read/refine (preferably write what you really think unaided), why should anyone be arsed to read it? 010
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026Gemini suggesting an entire email response 180 degrees from what I plan to write. That’ll be a hard no from me then. 110
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026my fave bit of this crazy trip… a 6km hike where we were joined for the duration by a deer and a dog, and they ran down the mountainside with us when we got on the bikes… 020
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026Well Georgia, you have been fab. Am now tucked in a fancy-pants hotel (former Soviet sanatorium) in Kazbegi, close to the Russian border, smiling at all amazing things we’ve experienced in the last few days. A little R&R, then home. 040
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026Cycling in Armenia was hardcore. I’m used to doing 100km a day on french vélo routes. 70km a day on soviet roads is a whole new ball game. But awesome nonetheless. Now for a Georgian adventure. 020
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026Cycling in the Armenian steppe is like cycling in a Windows XP background. And I’m here for it 120
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026Woop. Tbilisi, I am in you. 🇬🇪. Wandered out of our hotel in Sololaki, and into the most wonderful courtyard garden restaurant. Wonderful food, wine, and charm. Looking forward to our Caucasus adventures on a 🚲 040
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 20/06/2026Jeez. just hearing that Steve Hilton is a candidate for Governor of California… good lord. Time to dust off that horrific newsnight interview for our stateside chums. 000
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026Well, that’s both a relief that the reform crew were trounced and the starting gun on a new race to 81. Let’s see how it plays out. I’m deeply unimpressed by Starmer’s own-goals at the politic-ing, but still wondering if there’s an unexpected twist to this plot yet to come. 120
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026just how long can this self-agrandising numpty ramble on? 000
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026One of the (many) things I have put off for years is writing a will. It’s firmly on the list for 2026. If you don’t have kids, how the heck do you decide what to do with it? With added complexity of being Brits in France with some racy taxes to navigate. 320
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026After a lifetime of not being a morning person, I have recently discovered the joys of early morning runs. C25km complete, and I’m now trotting through the forest trails at 7:30am. I do not recognise myself. #simplepleasures 030
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026somewhat surreal watching sky news and realising all their G7 commentators are round the corner in Morzine! 000
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 29/05/2026I’ve made it to the final leg of couch to 5km…. I’ve been getting at 7:30 3x a week to go run on the forest trails. Much to my surprise, I’ve been enjoying it… I think we should cross the 5km milestone next week. So what next? Do I try to improve the time, or increase the distance…? #decisions 000
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026well so long Poland, it’s been great. Clean (the trains were *amazing*), lively (but not rowdy), cultural (2 concerts), healthy (25K steps a day and great food). And surprising - I forgot it was Sunday morning till I saw the crowds outside the church this morning. 100