Richard Lane

@richplane.bsky.social

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Community energy nut, environmental activist, cyclist, birdnerd, musician. Work at Sharenergy, director at York Community Energy, trombone in the Blind Tiger Dance Band & Bargestra, guitar in Esk. carfree, flightfree. He/oh no not him

A black and white photo of the original lineup of the cast of the BBC Radio programme The Goon Show, looking dishevelled and ridiculous: Harry Secombe (doing the cheeks-sucked in kissy lips thing), Michael Bentine (glasses raised looking perplexed), Spike Milligan (jacket on backwards, holding a ?fire alarm?) and Peter Sellers (holding a script and a clip light).
A standard wooden field gate bearing a small blue National Cycle Network sign with the number 1 in red. Behind it a partly grassed over gravel track disappears into the distance, rapidly petering out into a narrow silt track through the grassy coastal flat.
Photo shows a brick semidetacted house focussing on two south facing first floor windows, the left one covered with a sheet pulled tight on poles and the right one looking frosted. The house has solar panels and there's a canopy shading the immediate outside area.
Matt Berry as Steven Toast with a caption "Who??" referencing the running joke where he fails to recognise the name of anyone actually famous whilst having an apparently encyclopaedic knowledge of obscure stars with names like Rob Continental, Dwight Difference, Norris Flipjack, Sookie Houseboat or Neil Doobla-Decca.
A photograph of a dandelion clock (seed head) but the stem is bizarrely twisted and contorted, vaguely in the manner of a Salvador Dali painting.
And excavator and a dumper on a building site.
A black and white cat sleeping in an unbelievably contorted pose on his back in a chair with his legs in the air but still apparently with a blissfully happy grin on his face.
A footpath in a woodland leading away up to some steps with a wooden handrail. On either side of the path the ground is covered with a sea of white wild garlic flowers.
Some form of tool consisting of a metal base with two strips of foam over which a lever with a plastic ball end on it is attached to two rails. The lever moves a small hinged metal dooberry to push it flat against the foam strips.
A crane silhouetted against a milky morning sky in Nottinghamshire. A figure in hi-vis is visible on the track leading to it, through a fenced compound.
Racist and appalling human being Itamar Ben-Gvir, a slightly portly white man in glasses, wearing a suit, blue tie and a kippah (only just visible), seated in the Israeli Knesset and wearing a gold bin in the shape of a noose. The pin is enlarged in an inset photo.
A poster on an A-board at a train station which has an illustration of a holdall next to and slightly behind one of those transparent hanging binbag bins, and the text "That looks a bit odd?" in a thought bubble. Beneath that the injunction to report things to British Transport Police.
Ed Miliband, minister for energy security & net zero, addressing a room full of people, seen through something of a crowd.
Emma Bridge addressing a room of people in a nondescript basement room in DESNZ, London.
From left to right, me (Richard), Kirsten and Abi. I'm a white man with short fair hair wearing two conical party hats and grinning. Kirsten is a white woman with long dark hair and glasses, wearing one conical party hat and holding a plate of be-sprinkled doughnuts and a tray on which a number of Gregg's vegan sausage rolls have been arranged to just about spell out "DR". Abi is wearing three conical party hads and has thrown her arms wide in celebration of Kirsten's awesomeness.
A selfie taken at a civic reception following Jonathan's investiture as Sheriff of York in 2016. The shoulders and heads of three men are visible: Jonathan, a grey haired man in rimless glasses, is on the left, beaming, wearing his chains of office. To his left is Andy Chase, a a somewhat younger bearded man with longish dark hair and to his left is me, Richard. We are all wearing suits.
A large bunch of violets (which smell great) flowering in dappled sunshine. There's some lawn grass visible around them.
Bar 33 of Debussy's Claire de Lune circled on part of a page.
Photo of a box containing a solar powered water mill garden water feature, showing an image of the product inside.
A rain-covered man in waterproofs up to his shins in mud.
A large pool of still water (about 3" deep in places) covering a track through a tree-lined cutting. A bridge is reflected, grey and indistinct, in the distance, and beneath it a ghostly figure in black.
Image of the River York level recorder showing flooding occurring from Jan 23rd and receding steadily since the 24th.
A fairly complicated paper model with a nodding dog on top of a box with a axle and crank handle, reproduced a bit approximately from memory from a kit I had ~15 years ago.
Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse in character as two old men in a gentleman's club who discuss whether celebrities are queer.
A venerable beech tree, standing slightly apart and magnificent in a woodland in winter.
Worthing pier in silhouette taken from the beach below. The setting sun glints through the ironwork. The sky above is clear with old, bulbous contrails and the light glistens off the wet sand and stones beneath.
Screenshot of the unit charges for the 'Water Smart tariff' from Severn Trent Water, showing the "Essential block" 0-5m3 per month costing £1.0432, Standard Block (5-10m3 per month) £2.6080 and Premium Block (>10m3 per month) £6.5201.
Slightly awkward selfie of two people (me and Abi from York Community Energy) awaiting the start of the Community Energy Awards 2025, indicated on a large screen to which Abi is pointing, in a big venerable hall (Cutlers' Hall in Sheffield) which is all columns and marble and hung with portraits of rich white men of past ages.
A poster in a window for Bootham Junior School concert featuring a series of possibly professional musicians? Don't know but they look too old for junior school.
Selfie of me (unremarkable middle aged man wearing glasses) in a Big Solar Co-op hi-vis & anorak with hood up in a field of rain with fencing and digging equipment visible behind me, also mud.
The cover of a fairly nondescript report by Renewable UK entitled "Electric Dreams: how the planning system can help deliver the UK's low carbon energy" and showing a white male in a high vis apparently explaining/expounding some technical plans to a darker skinned woman.
Screenshot of bluesky feed showing this tweet about whooper swans sighted immediately following a skeet from "Skellyton" saying "What horrors await us today?"
A hand holding a one star certificate fr the Amateur Athletic Association, sponsored by the Esso Petroleum Company Ltd.
A picture of Price Harry's autobiography with the title 'SPARE' altered to read 'SPORE'.
A wooden RSPB swift box with a homemade ramp attached, on a patio table.
Some blackberries high up in a bush against a blue sky with a wispy cloud.
Three undeniably middle aged people in t-shirts branded either 'YCE' or York Energy Advice, in full bright sunlight (making us squint quite a bit), in front of a gazebo with a YCE banner.
A wraparound poster (as it happens, in the toilet of a Crosscountry train) showing an aerial photo of York's historic core with the caption. "Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate. The shortest street in York, also has the longest name."
A group of people wearing 'Bargestra' t-shirts standing outside in a paved courtyard around a person in a duck mascot costume. One is holding a trumpet, another a colourful umbrella. The duck is holding a trombone.
Two horses by a gate standing in a slightly guilty poise over a toppled bicycle.
Fella standing in a very sunny field wearing dark glasses, a "Big Solar Co-op" T-shirt (barely legible cos the phone is on a stupid default setting to mirror the selfie camera) and holding a lumphammer in his left hand, which is resting on a stake he has just hammered in to the ground.
A selfie of a het couple amid a sea of flags and thronging crowds in York City centre.
Christopher Walken meme from the Saturday Night Live "Moar Cowbell" sketch, with text "I got a fever and the only prescription is more markets"
Windows 10 setting "Get fun facts, tips and more from Windows and Cortana on your lock screen"
Otis Redding headshot photo with caption "Watching Oscar Wilde comin in and goin out again"
A headshot of Otis Redding with the caption "Watching Oscar Wilde comin in and goin out again" (a reference to Vic and Bob's Otis Redding character and the Ballad of Reading Gaol)
A bluebell bank in a woodland with stitchwort and ferns.
A group of 22 people (one wearing Mayoral chains) standing around a banner reading "Your chance to invest in community-owned solar" outside the Interfloor factory in Haslingden, Lancashire.
Screenshot of Duolingo where I've renamed myself to 'Duo "AI first? nothanks'.
Weather forecast showing fine spring temperatures of between 17 and 27 degrees being sniped expertly down to 12 and 13 by the presence of the bank holiday weekend.
The 'increase decimal places' and 'decrease decimal places' buttons in Excel or Google Sheets. Or maybe they're the other way round, who can say??
Screenshot of a Google search for 'Rochdale' which leads with three embedded posts sourced from Twitter/X, two of which are from a far right conservative 'news' website called Vox Populi Media.
A grey bra with cups seemingly on fire, taken from the actual product advert.
Steven Toast saying "Who??"
A woman adjusting a fan hanging in an open window frame. The rest of the window is covered with a plasticised sheet. It looks complicated.
Apparently I'm one of "a few experts invited to answer: Your geothermal project hits unexpected technical setbacks. How do you keep stakeholders in the loop?"
Meme of woman with subtitle: "They're the same picture"
A screenshot of a Microsoft 365 interface showing a dropdown menu with a "NEW" label next to the option to delete a file.
A tribble (small furry alien from the original Star Trek series) on a shiny, slightly holographic looking table)