Jack Thurston

@jackthurston.bsky.social

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Mechanised tramp. Writer, snapper, occasionally TV & radio. #LostLanes books, Slow Cycling films on GCN+, The Bike Show podcast. Words & pictures in The Guardian, FT, Sunday Times & more Insta: _lostlanes

Sign in a supermarket advertising whole cantaloupe melons for 87p down from £2
Scorch marks at the base of a large oak tree following an attempt to burn it down
Stunning mountain bike / gravel / rough stuff trail in the Ligurian alps, with a cloud inversion in the valley
A pair of menacing concrete bunkers, probably WW2?
A solar charger on a lawn, charging two rechargeable bike lights
Screen grab of a Guardian article that reads as follows CGT is levied on profits from a variety of assets, most notably investments (funds and shares) that are not held in an Isa, property that is not your main home, and most personal possessions worth £6,000 or more, apart from your car.
Small, palm sized aubergine
Google Streetview screenshot of Thurston Lane in Pembrokeshire, showing a lovely narrow country lane with green verges, hedgerows and a strip of moss/grass up the middle.
Shelf of six Scotch whisky bottles and two vintage glass soda syphons
Classic Dawes touring bike in green, with a can of petrol on the rear pannier rack
Illustration featuring a cyclist in blue riding on a quiet lane in the Scottish landscape featuring a loch and distant mountains
Grace Jones at the Tunnel Club, looking majestic with some kind of headdress
Set of five greeting cards featuring colour illustrations by Andrew Pavitt. All are of a cycling theme, picturing landscape, landscapes, nature and the British countryside as seen on a bike.
Adam Hayes at work hand decorating the 1000th frame produced by Starley
Postcard illustration by Adam Hayes, showing a cyclists in a striped shirt with a pony tail riding along a country lane that's also the white cross of the national flag of Scotland.
David Attenborough in 1980 answers a child’s question about whether he spent much time in the countryside when he was a child. He explains that he grew up in Leicester but used to explore the Midlands by bicycle, looking for fossils and observing foxes, rabbits and birds
Touring bike with red rear panniers outside a timber clad church hall in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
Signed copy of Lost Lanes Scotland by Jack Thurston with the inscription “Enjoy every lang Scots mile”
Scottish road sign saying "Otters crossing - Please slow down" beneath a red triangle with an otter symbol inside
Small seedlings of Sungold F1 tomato plants
Purple sprouting broccoli
Seed tray with first germination of lettuce plants
Three pannier-laden cyclists climb the lost lane up Glen Lyon in Perthshire, blue sky, golden morning light, shapely hills on the horizon
Logos of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
Orbit Romany for sale on Facebook Marketplace
A cyclist riding through the woods beside verges of wild daffodils.
Ailsa Craig, a small vertiginous island in the Firth of Clyde
Road now only open to walkers, cyclists and equestrians
The Tyla climb
Aerial view of Fairbourne in North Wales
Houses close to the waters edge await demolition in the Marrams, Norfolk.
Parts of the road are now a sandy beach
White cliffs of the Isle of Wight getting ever closer to the Military Road - a spectacular road, but for how much longer?
A road falling into the sea in Devon. the A387 near Torcross.
Late 19th century sdvertisment for the Hub Two-Speed Gear, Made in Manchester.
Carless Whisper cargo bike tyre
Enormous thorn causing a bicycle tyre puncture
3d image of Lost Lanes Scotland: 40 Glorious Bike Rides on Quiet Roads and Gravel Trails by Jack Thurston. Cover illustration by Andrew Pavitt.
Map of postcodes in England and Wales indicating hard / slightly hard / slightly hard areas
AI generated guidebooks