@highpoh.bsky.social

@highpoh.bsky.social

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🎶I love to ride my bicycle! I love to ride my bike.🎶 Usually a late adopter of new things. Likes cake. Speaks fluent sarcasm.

Photo showing a blue painted cycle lane across a junction. The cycle lane and the nearaide traffic lane are coned off and there are big hoardings up. Curse Thames Water!
Close up of the Embankment counter showing the time (19:01l and 10,860 cyclists today and 925,318 cyclists since the restart in late April.
Embankment counter showing 10,854 cyclists today and 854,564 cyclists since the restart in late April.
Embankment counter (at a jaunty angle) showing 7745 cyclists today and 819,633 cyclists sibxe the restart in late April.
Picture of the Embankment Counter and the lane showing 10,102 cyclists today and 808,476 cyclists since the restart in April. Again, probably an undercount by 1-2 thousand.
Photo of the River Thames and the "concrete barges" which were part of the D-Day flotilla in 1945. There are reeds in the foreground and a very cloudy sky overhead.
Ingredients for strawberry, cucumber & halloumi salad. Balsamic vinegar, basil, mint leaves, pine nuts & olive oil
Embankment counter showing 10,973 cyclists today and 735,653 cyclists since the restart. Feels 2-3k too low to be honest. Lane still super busy at 7pm.
Embankment counter showing 6465 cyclists today and 71i,024 since the restart in April. Also a reflection of part of the photographer. Sorry about that
Embankment counter showing 7540 cyclists today and 672,689 cyclists since the restart in early April.
Watching a lock fill up....
Embankment counter showing 12,758 cyclists today and 637,840 since the restart in April.
Picture of a celeste coloured hybrid bike (if you squint it looks like a Bianchi celeste coloured bike with red pedals. The bike has mudguards and a pannier rack on the back.
My dad (who hates having his photie taken) with the European Cup won by Celtic in 1967.
My dad and one of my many cousins (Helen) sitting on a bench which dad made outside his house (on the patio which he laid).
Two raspberry macarons in a patisserie in Avignon. I wanted one and then the shop was queued out the door!
Embankment counter showing 4928 cyclists today and 573,570 cyclists since the restart in late April...
Embankment counter showing 10,874 cyclists today and 566,287 since the restart. Broadly working while I was there but missing a few if lits went over the counter at the same time
A cross stitch with an element of a house from thr Bayeux Tapestry featuring a figure gesturing and the text "Behold the field in which I grow my fucks.... lay thine eyes upon it, and thou shalt see that it is barren"
View over RSPB Rainham Marshes. Some water is visible but it's mostly reeds. In the distance is the A12 and HS1 (Eurostar trains going whizzing by)
Picture of a giant hogweed plant. Ye Gods we were warned so much about this as children! The plant is about 6 feet tall with round or flatter groups of white flowers. It has large spikey leaves. Steer clear of this stuff - if the sap gets on your skin, combined with sunlight it can cause blistering burns.
Photo of Embankment counter showing 6305 cyclists on Friday and 531709 cyclists since the start.
Embankment counter showing 10587 cyclists today and 504,470 since the restart in late April. This side of the totem has all the pixels. The other side some pixels have fallen off a bit.
French high voltage power line and tower (pylon). The top of it looks a bit like a space invader....
Slightly blurry photo of the Embankment counter showing 10519 cyclists today and 467,448 cyclists since the restart.
Embankment counter showing 5087 cyclists today and 451202 cyclists since the restart in April. Beginning to close in on half a million already.
The Palace of Westminster lit by the sun against a dark grey sky.
Picture showing roadworks doll off the cycle lane at the Millbank entrance to Parliament Square and the inside lane for vehicles.
Embankment counter showing 9838 cyclists today and 444003 for the "year" (I.e. since late April. Pretty good considering the weather conditions.
Embankment counter with its new display which I only noticed the other day includes a clock! Showing 10094 cyclists today abd 374,387 since the restart about a month ago.
A black tray on a wooden table, with a large slice of Victoria Sponge cake on a white plate. A can of rhubarb crush and empty glass also sit on the tray
Photo of the screen of the Embankment cycle counter rebooted and suited and with a cheery message "Enjoy cycling" counts today 7333 and "year" (since late April) 312,713
The main altar of the church in Bram. The walls are beautifully painted and there is stained glass in the windows.
Not actually a trebuchet but there are plenty of people who could be yeeted in this at Fort St André
I'll be honest, I'm not sire what this fossil is. It is a mess of legs, body and moar legs. A mystery sea dwelling critter. Might actually be an insect of some sort....
A reconstruction drawing of what a belemnite squid would have looked like. The cone which is preserved is in the bit coloured green in this example.
A painting of a large cream coloured bull with horns. An absolute unit one might say.
A bonkers "Chinese style" wooden box bed which has extremely inticate carvings etx. The room has red wallpaper.
The Court - beautiful Gothic arches.
Sand dunes, sandy beach and a raging sea beyond under blue skies. Bracing and beautiful
A very large ceasar salad and a cassis sirop.
Salmon served with rice and sauce. It's like half an entire fish! I did actually eat most of this!
This. After riding 64km into a headwind? And you expect me to ride up this? Fuck off. Photo of a very steep street in Béziers with cars parked to one side. There's a building on the right with white detail on the outside which is a sheltered accommodation complex.
Le chat qui pêche restaurant. A traditionally French building with a covered terrace. Totally devoid of customers which is a shame as tbe food was amazing.
Boat (right) entering the bottom of the lock (followed by a second bateau, and a third! Blimey.) Some decent bateau handling on show.
Plate of dinner with a glass of blackcurrant sirop (squash) in the background food is cod loin, chorizo crust on the cod, wild rice and a bed of veggies.
Large wooden wardrobe witb a long mirror in the front. It's a rather grand piece of furniture!
Photo of a high ceiling-ed bedroom. There's black wallpaper witb gold palm trees . There's a very large window and red tiles on the floor. It's GLORIOUS
Church of St André in Marsaillette.
The citadel of Carcassonne. Yes, you need to do the "your mother was a hamster" speech from the battlements. I have done on a prior visit
One of the concentric streets in Bram.
My (v heavy) steed for this trip. (A hybrid bike with front suspension and 2 red panniers on the back
Locks at Montgiscard where I stopped for a spot of lunch. Warning. There are a lot of locks along the Canal....
View of tables in the foreground but a large place (square) with a rather attractive classical style building in tbe background beneath blue skies....
Cloister garden the Convent du Jacobins (Dominicans) in Toulouse. The sky is clear blue and the box hedges are very green.
Photo of the picture of a cross stitch design. It has a fluffy tabby & white cat lying on a Persian rug which is mainly green in colour.
Flamingos in a wetland in the south of France. Taken from a speedy TGV (hence the reflections) cue much excited squeaking from the photo taker.
The Palace of Westminster with the Elizabeth Tower (clock tower) in the background. Big Ben is the name of the bell that "bongs" on the hour.
Photo of the Palace of Westminster from College Green.