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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The shaded area highlights areas that may be "blind-spots". The Trixi Mirror improves the situation when mounted alongside the traffic. trixi-spiegel.de/aktuelles
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I love Šašek's illustrations.
Front cover of Mike and the Model makers by M Sasek.Pages from Mike and the Model makers, all about making Matchbox toys.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A big David Nicholls fan, I'm assuming.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Bad apple? Family tree? There's a clue... #TheArchers
Photo of a Jazzer apple.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Detective Shaft.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Stereolab at Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton last night. Looks like they are playing "Percolator"☕️. 😉 @ajennyondioline.bsky.social
The band Stereolab on stage at Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton. There's a curtain behind them bathed in a turquoise light.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Looked up Barry Bucknell, who popularised hiding of Victorian decoration with hardboard, and I discovered that he designed the Mirror sailing dinghy. Here he is with a Mirror on a Mini. Thought you might enjoy this @lordscroley.bsky.social. #MiniMoments
A classic Mini car registration 840RKM with an upturned Mirror dinghy on its roof-rack. Barry Bucknell is in the driver's seat.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Here y'go!
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I'm loving the new Royal Mail smart pillar box design!
A red pillar box with a knitted bagpuss cat on top. He's pink and stripey.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Believe it or not, this seatpost is at "minimum insert".
Peugeot hybrid bike with the saddle up very high.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
You don't see many of these around here! #Honda
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Historically, Transport for London (TfL) and London boroughs have used injury collisions reported to the police to identify places to improve. This study examined 317 hours of video footage from 60 cyclists. Near misses put people off cycling. Fewer near misses means better conditions for cycling.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It's maybe not as easy to "tweak" as you think. TfL say:
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Got it!! Jon Fray 1, #Plastic Pollution nil. #plasticpollution #litterpick
Me in hi-vis holding my improvised foil balloon fishing rod aloft and the balloon caught at the end.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
You don't see many of these around here! #Toyota
A light green 1986 Toyota Corolla GTi
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Fun to hear Petula Clark on the BBC Radio 2 @thejeremyvine.bsky.social show reminiscing about taking the 65 bus to Kingston and her first public performance at Bentall's department store, aged 7.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Damned foil balloons. 😠
A deflated blue foil balloon caught in a tree.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Keep on truckin', little Kingpin #DawesBike.
A dark brown Dawes Kingpin folding bike with a saddlebag.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Recommissioned a lovely #DawesBike I bought from the refuse and recycling centre (tip) for £10. Needed a new chain and brake and gear levers and a little lubrication of the shifter mechanisms.
A red Dawes Street Cruiser ladies bike with silver mudguards. Close-up showing the Dawes and Street Cruiser decals.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The word "Free" is certainly redundant, and perhaps the whole sign is. By and large, people aren't leaving their bikes at the Eclipse (busway) bus stops.
A blue direction sign pointing to "Free cycle parking 140 yds"
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
This graphic on the #NickLowe + Los Straitjackets Jet Pac Boomerang video made me chuckle. 👓
Graphic of Los Straitjackets masks surrounding a silhouette of Nick with his glasses contrasting.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Urgh!! 🤢 Plastic packaging like this is totally unnecessary, and is polluting when it's littered and smashed into a hundred pieces. Needs to be prohibited. #plasticpollution #plastic #litterpick #RichmondPark
Bebeto "Metergum" green plastic packaging smashed into dozens of fragments.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A Dawes isn't just for Christmas, it's for life! #Dawes Gazelle #DawesBike
A red ladies bicycle with stainless steel mudguards and a plastic carrier box on tye rear carrier.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
From my experience, Kenley Road has a terrible problem with some drivers racing along it, way in excess of 30 mph. It needs physical measures of some sort. With parking on one side only, it's a drag strip for some.
A mapr of Kenley Road which runs from North-west to south-eat and has a right-hand bend and the top and a left hand bend at the southern end (travelling NW to SE). It's straight between the bends.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A bike that's lasted a long time and still used regularly for transport? That'll be a #Dawes then. D #DawesBike.
A 50's or 60's? Dawes touring bike with straight handlebars fitted, green panniers and a rack-top saddlebag. Green frame and white saddle.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Today, I learned that, according to Wikipedia, musician Joe Jackson was nicknamed "Joe" because of his resemblance to schoolboy genius spy Joe 90. There was a time at school when I was teased for my likeness to Joe 90, too.
Joe 90Joe Jackson
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Austin Cambridge A55. #Notatacarshow. 67 years old.
Cream coloured 1958 Austin Cambridge. Front and off-side view. It's raining. Same car rear and off-side view.Rear view showing the Cambridge and A55 badges. Chrome bumper. A very well preserved car.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🍅 The striped tomato!! 🍅
A red Ford Transit van with a Starsky and Hutch white swoosh on the side. Belongs to Spary & Hutch Electrical.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Did a #litterpick in the September sunshine in advance of the @kingstoncycling.bsky.social fun ride this Sunday. More than a hundred cans, glass and plastic bottles trailered off for recycling #biketrailer #SustainableSeptember
Me in orange hi-vis, holding a happy litter picker. Someone dumped a blue kayak!! 😪
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Delighted to see that Kingston Council is building a "swift tower" to provide nesting places for the birds. The tower appears to reference the chimney that was at the original Eagle Brewery. #swifttower
An artists' impression of the brick swift tower with "Eagle brewery wharf" lettering down it. The brick swift tower under construction behind scaffolding. An old painting of Eagle Brewery in Kingston with a brick chimney showing. In the distance is Kingston Bridge.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I'm not often an M&S shopper, so I was new to these initiatives to reduce plastic use, and to reduce food waste. The aluminium detergent bottles get refilled apparently, and the 🍌 🍌 🍌 🍌 that are ripe are sold cheaper(35p for 4) in paper bags. #Tolworth.
An M&S Refilled display unit with aluminium bottles filled with detergents etc. There is a bin to return empty aluminium bottles into. Photo of 2 paper bags with "Ripe here, Ripe now" each containing 4 bananas for 35p. These may be considered too ripe for regular display and sale.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Spotted this handsome car in a local car park! I didn't know what it was, but the owner said I'd be forgiven for not knowing, as only 15 were built. Photo borrowed from Derbyshire Car Spotter on Facebook.
A grey 2-door sports car from.the early fifties.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Don't often see this road sign used. It's not very deceptive, or is it?
A prohibiting road sign. A red circle border on an otherwise white blank sign.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I don't remember Le Car 2, but I have a memory of the Flair edition, because in 83 or 84 my Maths teacher bought one. It was a lovely shade of blue.
A metallic blue Renault 5 Flair edition.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I would expect a ticket with that name to include all buses on this map. Is that not the case? How did you find out?
Bus map of the Fareham and Gosport area for First Bus.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This '67 grey Ami estate was a regular around the Waterloo area of London as recently as 2018 🧀🥖🍷
Front nearside view of Citroën AmiRear nearside view of Citroën Ami estate in The Cut, London. Window sticker: "No cheese, baguettes or wine left in vehicle overnight".
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This one was at the Bond Minicar gathering in Morecambe recently.
A turquoise and cream Autobianchi. Showing the front and driver's side. Nearside view of the Autobianchi in front of the Midland Hotel, Morecambe.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
International Code Flags
A poster of the alphabet of international code flags, Morse code and semaphore.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I'm feeling very thankful for the National Health Service treatment I've had in the past few days. Everyone I've met has been kind and helpful. #NHS. Exceptional!
Me looking piratey with an eye patch after retina surgery.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This liquorice tasted awful. Not recommended. 🦌 🤣. #RichmondPark #RichmondParkLitter
An empty plastic wrapper of Panda liquorice littered on the grass, next to deer dung.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
An unusual #classic mini spotted in Kingston upon Thames. The lesser-known John Player Special version!! 😅 #mini 🚙
A classic Mini estate car (probably was a van and windows have been added). It's black with gold details such as the external door hinges, wheels, door handle and grille.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It's an attractive #biscuittin by Huntley and Palmer, but is it worth £20 to me? #CharityShop
A rectangular printed tin for Huntley and Palmer Cocktail assorted biscuits. 1950's perhaps?
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
When you compare the eulogising over the design with the reality, it becomes easy to be dismissive and sceptical of awards for this type of thing.
Text describing how wonderful the design of the Bike hub is. E.g. This project invites visitors to enjoy slowing down, connecting yo healthier, quieter, and more sustainable self-propelled ways of moving around our cities"A set of 20 lockers intended for helmet and glove storage. Never used. Vandalised  and graffitied. An electronic indicator sign on the ground floor showing how many buke parking spaces are available on levels 1 and 2. It's never worked and it's never been needed as.very few people use the bike hub.A vandalised public bike pump. The handle was stolen immediately and the hose has disappeared too. Never used.
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Seen in a #charityshop. Tempting.
A print of "Portrait of a man" circa 1720, attributed to Arnold Boonen, with the funny caption "Yes sir...I can boogie."
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Cute #Dawes Duchess bike with 60's Flower-power designs.
A ladies Dawes Duchess bike with yellow frame and purple mudguards and basket on the handlebars.Flowers, coloured circles and peace sign on the end of the rear mudguard
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I've played this perhaps once in 35 years of ownership 🙄. This is the day....This is the hour.... to give it a second chance.... #PWEI
PWEI LP "This is the day...this is the hour...this is this!"
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It wouldn't take a minute to steal this bike. Why do people not thread bike locks through the bike frame?? Note the front wheel is "quick release".
A bike chain with combination drapes around the top of the front bike forks. The front wheel is "quick release".
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Jon Fray @jonfray.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Road Safety Auditor bit of me says that these white lines need painting again. #NewMalden #Norbiton
A cross roads with worn out Giveway markingsWorn white linesA kini roundabout with worn circulation markingsA mini-roundabout with faded/ worn markings
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