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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Caught on camera - my #allotment wildlife camera caught this magnificent fox yesterday. #UrbanWildlife

A brown and white flecked fox walking across a photo. There's an apple tree in the background. The ground is soil.
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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Sacha and I have moved the fireplace back into position - it's mainly MDF and quite heavy. The decorator has finished and we're happy with the result. The next milestone is the carpet you can see being cleaned on Wednesday morning. We're then moving that carpet into another room.

A fairly bare room with a blue camping chair, a decorated fireplace with two items of wood furniture in alcoves either side. There are windows behind the chair. There's an old fashioned green and yellow carpet

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I got everything done as intended. Got a nice cardigan (although they didn't have the one I wanted). It's a lovely soft material, which means that I can wear it without a top underneath. The buttons are on the wrong side, but ... whatever! And I've had a […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Man with face partially obscured, but beard and moustache visible. He's wearing a maroon cardigan and blue trousers. Sitting on a grey settee. There's a couple of photos in the background

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Although it seemed to have been a poor year on the #allotment things are picking up now. We've got the best carrots harvest ever, and we're doing well with beetroot. We've come home with those as well as a few squashes, a calabrese head and a cauliflower as […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Carrots with foliage. A calabrese and a cauliflower and a cabbage

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

So I sat on the hotel terrace and tried to draw the view across towards Rimini. I'm fairly pleased with it (the photo seems to have introduced a bit of curvature that's not really in the original) #ItalyWithSaga #Sketching #TravelSketch #MastoArt

Watercolour and pen sketch of a seascape. There's buildings on the horizon. There's a strange building on the pier. You can just see the beach, and a few people, between the trees and their leaves.

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

We needed biscuits. The hotel has free hire bicycles. Well, why not? #ItalyWithSaga #GabbiciMare #cycling

Screenshot of a map showing a red line of a 3.4km bicycle ride in Gabbici Mare

Black utility bicycle next to a white wall with the word Monte in green on it

A view into the sun across water to a port area

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

On the road up to Gabicce Monte there's a memorial wall to the great Marco Pantani. This hill (more like a wall) was one of his training routes. #Cycling #CyclingHistory #Pantani #ItalyWithSaga

A section of wall alongside a road. Green with horizontal championship stripes . There's a stylised cyclist and words about Pabtani

A wall alongside a road, mostly green with a white panel

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

The view from our Italian hotel balcony. I'm too knackered to fully take it in at the moment. #ItalyWithSaga

Wide angle view showing a pool, some trees a stretch of beach and blue sea with rick pontoons. The sky is blue with a few white clouds

View of a beach with rows of coloured parasols with blue sea beyond. Blue almost cloudless sky

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I walked to the village church in Narborough, Leicestershire while Sacha is having her nails done #leicestershire #drawing #sketching #MastoArt

Watercolour and pen drawing of a traditional church with a tower

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

[Food description and photos] #Gousto meal cooked & eaten. We're giving it 8/10 There's too much coleslaw. The cooking time for the chips was too short. I still can't caremelise onions properly. Very tasty currywurst but overwhelmed by the amount of coleslaw […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Plate of chips, coleslaw and sausage & onion in a bread cob.

Gousto meal card headed Currywurst style hot dog & fries with a photo of the meal

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Fukit! I hit a bollard in the car park while driving Sacha's car out out of a parking space at the Park & Ride car park. Entirely my fault (I should blame my hormones but not sure that's fair). Insurance company aren't bothered so no excess to pay, plus it's […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Yellow car door with blue scratches and small dents

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Playing with my retro digital camera today in Market Harborough. Fuji Finepix S2980 #photography #leicestershire

Wooden arches supporting a timber framed building

A church spire with a timer framed building to the right. Cloudy sky

A town square with a prominent slender tower with a cross at the top. The base is surrounded by flowers. There's a building behind. Trees to the side extremities. A couple of people with a bicycle can be seen on the left

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

We met our daughter and her nice new girlfriend. We had iced coffee in the park and then went to the Ice Cream parlour. It was good. #today

4 servings of ice cream sundaes in different flavours. Each dish has a spoon on it.
They are on a white table with the lettering where you see the letters LONE'S and G

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

We've had an excellent day. We pootled round Barnsdale Gardens and found a couple of nice places to sit in shade. Afternoon tea was splendid but we eat too much despite bringing all the cake home. The gardens were pretty much devoid of flowers except for the […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Sign with instructions as to how to communicate with fairies

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Update on the flexible skirting board question I posed a few weeks ago. I sourced some that looked suitable from Cap & Cove - this avoided the self-adhesive options on Amazon that didn't fill me with confidence, and were generally too small. The "toe" that […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Curved area of wall with white skirting board. Carpet is visible on the floor

Curved area of wall with no board and gaps in the plaster, and gaps between the wall and floor. Carpet and a yellow handle tool are visible on the floor

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

The first time we've had a really disappointing #gousto meal kit. It could have been improved by supplying Chicken Breast meat instead of thigh, and using less coriander (and maybe more orange) No hint of the ginger or orange in the final tasting. #cooking

Part of a recipe card headed Orange & Ginger Chicken Thigh Stew with Rice and a photo of the finished dish.

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

I've completed the bike ride 51km well within #audaxuk time. But it was hard! Lumpier than expected, hotter than forecast, and the wind was gusting in all directions - none of them favourable to me. I can't say that more than 10% of the ride was scenic - […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Bought these mugs when the children were little. We took them on a day trip to Efteling. It rained. All day! Our first time on a bendy bus. Our first time in The Netherlands. Our first time as foot passengers on a ferry. Memorable. #DieEfteling #Efeling

A pair of mugs with characters from Die Efteling.
Black marbled surface

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Back home from a 55km wedding anniversary cycle ride. By heck it's hot out there! I was starting to struggle more than a bit towards the end. Rode for a while with someone doing a 200km Audax ride from his home in Wrexham - chapeau! Had lunch at the Stoney […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Cafe terrace with a lake in the middle distance

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

A couple of photos of photos in the Titanic museum - they give an idea of the scale of the ship while being built (and it was built in Belfast if you didn't know)

A row of monumentally huge boilers stretching into the distance in a sepia print photo

Three massive propellers with some tiny men for scale in a sepia print photo

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

The Titanic museum in #Belfast is an amazing building - an an excellent #museum The front of the building - in the photo - is the same size as the front of the ship Titanic. The building is in the shape of a star, as in White Star Line. #BoatTripNorth

Very modern, very triangular building. Very high and very impressive. The grey of the building is set off with darker horizontal lines. There's a tree and a display board in front of the building on a light brown tiled area. The sky is blue

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

A morning in Tobermory in the rain! I suspect that when it's not crowded with cruise ship crowds it's a nice town. Sketch below started in the dry, and got rained on. Touched up back in the cabin and I'm quite pleased with it. #mustntgrumble […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Rough watercolour pencil drawing with coloured houses and green area. Lots of white space.

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

We aren't where I thought we were. This rubbish photo is of the islands off the southern coast of #iceland . These include Surtsey and Heimay Islands. I only know of Surtsey from #AmateurRadio controversies about operating from the rock a number of years ago […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Blue sea with sun. Some rocks are visible

Blue sea with rocks jutting out of the water

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

We went to the Blue Lagoon near Reykjavik today. I don't like swimming pools but with the water at about 38°C this was very acceptable. It wasn't too crowded - this photo shows the bar area so isn't really representative of the whole. The ground is silica and […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

A tiled area with a modern building to the left.
There's blue water in the middle distance with a number of people walking in it.
In the far distance there's hills and steam clouds from the geothermal extraction plant.

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Visit to various places this afternoon including this waterfall above Isfjordur #Iceland. All the town's water is snow or ice melt from streams like this. Lupins are an introduced invasive plant that stabilise the volcanic soil. #BoatTripNorth

In the foreground are purple and white lupin flowers. There's lots of green vegetation. In the distance on the hill you can just see a waterfall

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Ayureki has heart shaped stop lights on the traffic lights. Supposed to cheer up the drivers! #iceland #BoatTripNorth

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

It's the coast of Iceland in the distance. We are sitting on the deck of our #cruise ship in brilliant sunshine under a clear blue sky. It's cool but not unpleasant. (There's men in tee shirts and shorts - I assume they're Real Men!) The ship's clocks go back tonight #BoatTripNorth #Iceland

Lots of blue sea with land in the far distance flecked by hills with snow caps

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

The jasmine, honeysuckle and rose on our side fence have all grown together and are smelling wonderful this evening #garden #flowers

Lots of leaves. White roses, yellow honeysuckle and pinkish jasmine all mixed in together

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

There seems to have been a collision between two trains at Bedford. This will affect EMR & Thameslink services #Railway #Bedford #TrainCrash

Two trains which have collided. Both are upright.
A rail worker is visible

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Birthday bike ride complete! No rain, but a bit chilly on occasions. Using the HRM to keep my heart rate down has definitely helped - I don't feel like I'm going to pass out now I'm home! I'm modelling the new Audax UK top and cap - stylish or what?😆 #cycling #BikeTooter #AudaxUK

Fat old bloke in cycling clothes standing by a bike with a wood fence behind. The cyclist has sunglasses on.

Bicycle handlebars with a muddy lane stretching into the distance

A plate of food. A Cup of coffee and a bicycle can be seen

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Well, I did come out for a Birthday Bike Bash. I had a slice of (birthday) cake for 11s at the nursery in Thornton and now I'm having lunch at Sutton Cheney Wharf. Very slow ride because I'm trying to keep my heart rate down and not exhaust myself (it seems […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

View of open air cafe tables alongside a canal. The café has a sheltered area. A bicycle is in the foreground leaning against a picnic table

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

I've got a new cycling top for my birthday. It's a bit....... bright! #cycling #BikeTooter #Audax #AudaxUK

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Redcurrants anyone? This is about ⅔ of one neglected bush #allotment #fruit

Three tubs of redcurrants with some leaves and stalks

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

I took some photos of my #allotment shed this afternoon because I didn't have time to sit and draw it as I had intended. Here's one for your amusement

Lots of green vegetation. There's a couple of trees.
A shed is visible behind some of the growing stuff. In front of the shed is a table with an orange bag on it and some other bits and pieces. To the right side of the shed is a green water butt.

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

My vintage bicycle is featured in this month's Veteran Cycle Club magazine. #cycling #Hetchins #BikeTooter

Magazine article headed 'My Machine' with three photos of an old drop handlebar touring bike. Lots of text.

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

[Photo of injury (plus an unpopular opinion)] My son did a triathlon today (well part of one!) - he hit a kerb at ~50kph in the cycling section. He landed in a ditch, but since he's been home has been getting neck pain - so he's being taken by ambulance to […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

Back view of a man. There's several deep scratches over the left shoulder blade

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

My son has been trainspotting (as opposed to what he does to pay his mortgage) and got this photo of Flying Scotsman and Tornado on the Great Central Railway (North). #trains #SteamTrains #nottinghamshire

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

I've only just realised that the pencil they give you as your 'admission ticket' at the Pencil Museum in Keswick is a special pencil! I'm wondering if a museum purely devoted to pencils might be one of the most Mastodon places in England? Maybe it's one of […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

black HB pencil on a grey background.
The silver writing on the pencil says
Made in Britain
Derwent Pencil Museum
HB

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Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @mikefromlfe.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

I have a new wrist & thumb support for my arthritic hand joints. It really helps with the pain. But it's very inconvenient not being able to move my wrist or most of my thumb. #Arthritis

Forearm and hand above a leg with green trousers.
The arm and most of the hand is covered by a rigid black gauntlet.

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