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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Does anyone have a good explanation for why I can’t just rock up to an EV recharging point, swipe my debit card / phone, and immediately start charging? The friction involved in charging an EV is insane. Every point requires a different app, which is buggy and forgets your details and / or crashes.

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That didn’t last long. Cold calls have restarted…

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In the market square in Daint Antonin Noble Val for jazz and beer. Pleasantly cool in the shade. Roasting cycle over though…

Saint Antonin market square, super busy waiting for a jazz band to start…

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Anyone know why the fast jets were scrambled over SW France last night? Half a dozen over our village at 0100…

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

But where does the money go? Asset prices falling assumes sales. I can see that for individual assets, but systemically? Bond yields are going up so not tradable, gold prices driven by CBs, cash hamstrung by inflation, BC total tulip. Where would it go?

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Disaster! My coffee grinder has expired and I am having to use the decorative hand grinder. 5 minutes for a single espresso…

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

First cold morning of the season in the Gorges d’Aveyron…

Photo of a frosty field in the shade with hills in the sunshine behind. Mist in the trees in the middle. The mist is over a river, which is not visible in the photo.

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

A most odd cross. Apparently raised to ward off the Phylloxera in the late nineteenth century.

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The flowers are falling from our Japanese Pagoda tree. They must be still full of nectar as the bees are going inside them. They roll around, as if in the throes of passion!

A bee getting nectar from a flower that has fallen to the ground.

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Generally taking these snaps when out cycling…This was in early spring-this year was incredible for blossom.

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I’m going to post pretty pictures from our area hoping they make people happy.

Statue in Cordes of a monk releasing a bird.

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

@bellacycling.bsky.social great new videos! Bit of living vicariously for me as I had to abandon my cross Pyrenees adventure this May due to food poisoning. Ironically, at Lourdes! I know that station (and its ‘facilities’) well…

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

@TRIP-US this episode a real sales pitch for BTC. Very disappointed.

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Information for heat pump skeptics: it’s -7 outside and we’re toasty inside. Only heating is our heat pump running a blower inside. The meter shows it’s using 2.2 kW. This is heating our downstairs, which is open-plan 14m x 6m, in an old uninsulated stone farmhouse…

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Matching jacket and fruit on this morning’s ride to the market…

Cyclist with orange jacket standing in front of a persimmon tree which is in full fruit.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Listening to Marquee Moon on the train back from Paris. Such a truly brilliant and beautiful album though wondering if the extravagant electric guitar might not be rather unfashionable these days.

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slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social @slow-the-beat-down.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

Collecting flour to (finally) start a sourdough. This mill started in 1181! I wonder how many sourdoughs it has fed, and how old the oldest is.

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