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"When a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones.” Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman

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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 1h
This is the first demo in my life (since age 18) I’ve been tear-gassed thankfully not much…French police against young school students. What?!!
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 1h
🙂
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 7h
Nowt wrong with using the heel of your boot to stop a bike. I agree, though, about the absence of N+1. With your "keen cyclist" credentials, Will, you should have more than six or seven cluttering up the hallway.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 20h
Very best of luck and great times ahead to you!
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
PS well done! "Keep on moving, don't stop".
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Only TWO? Well that would be Baby Can I hold You (Tracy Chapman), and Ride on Time for tackling the hills on my bike. But that means no Simply the Best, Keep on Moving, Pump up the Jam and Back to Life. Not fair!
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
James Hetfield. The nerve!
Cowardly Lion in Wizard of Oz.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I thought "Hang on ... isn't he the man who suggested that Jeremy Corbyn was responsible for his heart attack"? Yes. I recoil from such people, no matter what story they might tell me now.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
He designed a set of truly beautiful and over the top red cashmere polo neck gilets and arm warmers for women cyclists. I have a set that I bought by chance in a second hand shop. Forever loved xxx
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
No - what has he ACTUALLY done, besides talking? And talking about making pensioners poorer and removing grants for cleaner heating?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
He looks remarkably like the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz. How apt.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I think it is a huge cop-out by TfL and the Mayor, reminding me of the Silvertown Tunnel fiasco. If the Netherlands can cope with pedestrians and cyclists sharing spaces, then TfL should be able to design something for both. What does it say for a UK capital city banning cyclists like that?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
But cyclists will not be allowed on Oxford Street? Where will they go?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Many years ago I cycled a time trial over 202 miles in twelve hours on four bananas, four crunchy bars, eight fig rolls and a lot of water. Yes, you doubters say I should have ridden on a bike, but pah!
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I find that am older than the Pope! I wonder should I start giving out plenary indulgences?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Great name!
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I live in a flat in France and I have heat pumps in every room. My electricity bills are tiny.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I like that. I don't like that it is probably all men doing that stuff.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Threads reminds me of someone else’s most delicious embroidery sampler on here.
A cute embroidery sampler…
Until you realise it says « Warning this is proof I have the patience to stab something 1,000 times »😎
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I don’t think I saw either…was too busy visiting England, watching Suffolk folk driving wedges into massive oak beams. No witches burned while I was there.
Sutton Hoo boat 
project splitting timber to make their amazing replica of the long boat found under the burial mound
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Have you seen the massive environmental and, worse, human being destruction caused by incessant wars and genocides? Lands and people ravaged by sophisticated weapons. That is a huge Green issue staring you in your face. Just not so comfy to face it.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Happy birthday you wise bird xxx
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It is true. It means if I JUST miss a parcel delivery, I can run (or cycle) after my postie and catch up with them at the end of the road! I love this.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
« Connerie »
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Zionism is not a religion.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bamboo bicycle 1897!!
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They should twin with Mankinholes in Calderdale.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seriously? He literally had his police forces dragging blind people and old age pensioners into custody for holding up signs opposing the genocide of Palestinians while giving his milquetoast speech.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Social care would not become free, just wait and see. Plus 1.3m state pensioners (nearly 10 per cent) live abroad and receive no winter fuel allowance or benefits, 0.5m get no yearly increase and none would benefit from any social care.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think you are right. Plus 1.7m pensioners who receive the state pension live outside the UK and will probably not get any help towards their care costs. Just like they don't get winter fuel allowance any more, despite surprise surprise! having cold winter weather. Chip away Labour.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Catatonia?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He is his management.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Now wash your hands"....
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Go for it!!!
Bamboo bikes on sale in 1897 in Holborn of all places…round corner from Condor Cycles?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reminds me of when German Shepherd Dog "Fang Face" got me when I was leafletting in the 1970s. I still have a dent on one of my fingers.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It is. I am rather stung that Satyajit Rai just gets a vague reference.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Best! Has any previous Bollywood song ever contained the word Communist?
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What it’s like inside my head…
Photo from an incredible exhibition at Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan…reminding me of how the British government watched Irish hunger strikers die in internment.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dont forget the cat redistribution society!
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You should be here in the south of France where all the little swifts have flown off to Africa. So miss them! But the jackdaws are back in town.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Not when I l view it in France. it still calling it Lake Ontario. No idea why!
Screen grab of Lake Ontario from Google Maps this morning, showing that they are still calling it "Lake Ontario" when viewed in France.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
To the Miro Musée in Barcelona yesterday. Impressions: He wore a lovely suit and polished shoes to work at his ateliers. He has created a deadly fountain and mobile using gallons of mercury in the centre of the city. I love his artistic creations. I have one of his prints on my wall at home.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google hasn't yet genuflected to Trump here in France, however. Must be some entente cordiale. Google Maps still show it as Lake Ontario.
Despite Donald Trump's deranged demand that people call Lake Ontario "Lake America" or something, Google Maps France have refused to bend the knee. HaHaHa
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Somehow here in France it still shows up as Lake Ontario. Could I suggest that Trump and Mark Carney have a swim-off, and the one who swims the width of the Lake first gets to call it by whatever name they choose? They can do the equivalent width in a public pool if they want, no cheating 🙂.
Google Maps France screen grab showing Trump-mania hasn't yet hit the French representations of Lake Ontario.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Utterly disgusting for all their and our futures. My German B-I-L, Vice Chancellor of a UK university, living nearly 60 years in the UK, married to UK citizen all those years with numerous British children and grandchildren, was not allowed to vote.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions," I am so sorry, Thomas, but it is true, our favourite lovely kindly and most naughty people are peeling off. our Most Detested are still here. Stay strong matey.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll. Rain and then its bow enfin in Perpignan.
Rainbow appeared so strong over our roofs last night after a strong downpour. The plants loved it.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well ha ha ha down with them!!!! I bought a Brompton in defiance. Then bought another lighter Brompton, with 12 gears.
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I agree with myself, just on this occasion. Because I have all these little lovelies came out this year, each just one morning. I love cactuses!!!!
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Spoquey @spoquey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I seriously don't know how you find out all your Cool Bike Art. But it is a copious supply of such different types. This one was so lovely. Thanks!
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