Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sounds a bit like the 'fact' that coconuts kill more people per year than sharks, which was based on stats from one hospital in a coconut growing region then extrapolated to the whole planet. 003
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I have a Scottish grandparent, and Irish and Italian great grandparents so Braverman presumably doesn't think I'm English? 000
Reposted by Mike McTimoneyDarlington Green Party @darlingtongreens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Keeping Reform out of Darlington this May… If not now, when? If not you, who? 093
Reposted by Mike McTimoneyDarlington Green Party @darlingtongreens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We stand proud to support #BlackHistoryMonth 083
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Our previous biology teachers used to start a rumour about the other physics teacher each year, then see how long it took a student to ask him about it. They were usually about previous jobs - he used to be a cage fighter, he used to be principle male lead in the Royal Ballet,... 010
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 30/09/2026*"You know when you narrow the opening of a hosepipe with your thumb? Wait, that's outside. Is there an app for that?" 100
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 30/09/2026*"A magazine? It's like someone printed out a bunch of Instagram posts." 100
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 30/09/2026After I'd made a couple of hilarious jokes about "kids these days" a Year 12 asked "why are you dragging our generation, you must only be 15 years older than us?" He did not believe me when I told him he was out by 18 years. I may have a new favourite student. 200
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The majority of Reform's voters left school before GCSEs started. People who have left school recently are voting Green. 001
Reposted by Mike McTimoneyambrosen @ambrosen.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026This is a really clearly written article about what Britain needs to do and is doing about sorting out its energy supply. 042
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don't usually wear my smart watch overnight, but I did on Thursday night. Apparently my heart rate gets quite low overnight. 010
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There are definitely hills that make this atheist ask god for strength. 010
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I've not ridden it since, but it must really have left an impression to remember it 17 years later! 010
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just had a nice reminder that a) blogs were great and b) I used to do stupid rides on a singlespeed mountain bike. 020
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It was 2009, and it was that road: mikeactually.blogspot.com/2009/07/tees...flickr.comRoad between Westgate and NewbigginLooking back into Weardale about half way up the climb. - uploaded by ShoZu 110
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think I rode that, or a similar Weardale to Teesdale road, once in the pre-Strava days. Crossing over from one dale to the other the weather changed completely, from sunshine to rain. 110
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Today is the 11th anniversary of the inaugural AGM of @darlingtongreens.bsky.social , which was attended by @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social 121
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If I'm thinking of the same person, he had the rear triangle replaced mid race, after lashing the broken one together with a spoon to get to the bike shop? 111
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We've enrolled 1100 first years, compared to their 220 :) 100
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I had to stop referring to the current specification as "the new spec" last year, when I realised that the students were only just in primary school when it came out. 000
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Our new first years start today - 122 shiny, new A-level physics students! Some of them were born in 2010, which is simply unacceptable. How can someone born in 2010 have GCSEs already? It was only five years ago! 231
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Sat under a poplar tree on the edge of a field of sunflowers. 230
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We've enrolled "quite a lot" of A-level physics students to start next month. Made me wonder what the largest centre cohort in the country might be. Any ideas? 321
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 14/08/2026They're amazing! Worth watching them all in order as things keep escalating. 010
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Nobody told me that there was a new Bobby Fingers video, so I'm telling you all that there's a new Bobby Fingers video. 220
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Back to work tomorrow, after a pretty packed and very enjoyable summer, with lots of time outside. I don't think I'd quite realised how exhausted I was (January to April were pretty awful) until I stopped for the summer. 010
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Back to work on Thursday! My first day as a part time teacher! 110
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I think we have some in work from the last one so I might pop in tomorrow to get some. 010
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 10/08/2026They maybe roll a little better, and even 1% really helps! 010
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Two spare tubes, but it was a thorn that was still in the tyre so I could just pull that part of the tube and patch it. Amazingly quick. 120
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Guess who got a puncture with seven miles to go? 100
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 05/08/2026They worked great on my 60km ride on Islay last week. About to use them in their third country! 110
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Made some changes since my test ride to Reeth: proper pedals, better tyres, food bag on the bars, clothes in the under saddle dry bag, tent on the frame rack, tools in a small frame bag, switched to a foam sleeping mat. 130
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Packed and ready to get the train to Chepstow tomorrow, and then ride from South Wales to North Wales along the Lon Las Cymru route! 292
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 04/08/2026On Thursday I get the train to Chepstow to ride the Lon Las Cymru route on my Brompton with an old uni friend on his Brompton. A mix of camping and B&Bs for the overnights. I think I last spoke to him at his wedding, about 21 years ago! 130
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 02/08/2026After spending a week on Islay, the yellow grass back at home is very jarring. 000
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 30/07/2026www.instagram.com/p/Dba43fQDeNS/ Last full day on Islay - went for a nice bike ride. Just over 60km on the Brompton.instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 010
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I've often said that I'd rather my A-level students arrived without having been taught any electricity - they seem to just bring hard-to-unteach misconceptions. "Current doesn't change in a series circuit" is the most common. 022
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Made a little friend while gardening today. Slightly more wholesome than yesterday's discovery of a mummified rat. 040
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 19/07/2026A slightly different tone to the Channel 5 intros. 011
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I'm ten years behind you, but going part time from September. 030
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 15/07/2026We've just walked the dog and it's like a ghost town. Is something on? 010
Mike McTimoney @miketually.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Spent yesterday turning the cupboard for an integrated fridge freezer into an end panel ready for a new freestanding fridge freezer arriving later in the week. Spent today moving a plug socket in my shed and sorting out my workbench. I like the summer holidays. 000