SmileyAli

@smileyali68.bsky.social

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I mostly cycle, run, walk and crochet in the High Peak, with added multiple sclerosis content. Some say I should have a link to something here, but I've come up with nothing!

Multi coloured crocket covers a cycle rack. Appliquéd on is a pale blue crochet chain ring. At the top is a multi coloured saddle decorated with two granny chairs. In the background is a striped crochet track pump, pink, purple, blue, with clumsily embroidered ROCK MILL running top to bottom. The track pump handle is pale blue on a cream, purple and blue striped upright.
Blue, yellow, orange bright crochet wrapped around a bicycle saddle sitting on scraped wooden floorboards.
I don't know where to start. Speckled black floor tiles with somewhat filthy grouting. On the left is some kind of fabric with hideous navy background with pink flowers and leaves and something or other in pale blue which might be a flower. There's a leg, and the heel of a sandal. Leaning on what turns out to be a thigh in a summer dress is the head of a very sweet little dog. He has a soft black nose, a white flash on his black head and his eyes are closed. You can see some "furnishings" - eyebrows and beard. You get a glimpse of a black and tick body with legs akimbo lying on the floor tiles.
Foreground some gauzy white material. On top of that a purple-pink crochet hook in a small piece of crochet in pastel pink. In the background a black and tick recumbent dog on a grey raised bed.
Small rectangle of crochet. Rib pattern, thick mid blue ball of yarn with flecks on a wood effect floor.
1. You are the “catch‑basin” for work that doesn’t yet have an owner Pattern Actions are frequently phrased as “the team”, “we should”, “this needs thinking about” No one explicitly assigns ownership — and it defaults to you because: You notice the people/process risk You’re trusted to hold ambiguity
Background grassy green hill, cloudy sky, black dog in foreground looking at the hill
Tin with drill bits the lid has a scruffy worn label with DRILLS written on it.
Leafy green houseplants, an orange framed window, wood floor, prayer flags and general clutter.
List of car parts, oil filters, alternator pullies, brake things, ball joints, belts
German wirehaired pointer, black and white with green squash toy
Rotary clothes line in the midst of an expanse of mud with occasional tuft of grass. Red door, wooden fence and red trug in the background
Black and white photo of pouty blonde pudgy female toddler holding the handle of a wooden tricycle. She is wearing a cardigan with the lower buttons undone, some kind of odd collar and a short shapeless skirt. She is wearing white socks and some very 1970s shoe / sandals. Her fringe is horrendous.
Murky green strip of crochet, red stitch holder, pink crochet hook. Looks maybe 3cm wide. It is dull and uninteresting but watch this space.
Merriam Webster dictionary 2026 gif Your 2026 Word "brain rot"
Diagrams and text showing germination of an onion. Text looks like handwriting and diagrams hand drawn. It is a meticulous thing of beauty.
Very handsome black and tick German Wirehaired Pointer sitting on a grass field.
Black and tick puppy doing odd yoga twist lying on his back innthe shade on cobbles
Black and tick wirehaired pointer with mouth open attacking a small green apple.
Colourful crochet spider
Deep red steel framed gravel bicycle on a train. The bicycle is at an angle as there's no space to go straight. The walls are blank with no signage and the bicycle leans on three folded seats.
Black and grey dog lying on grass next to a pair of human legs in black trousers and trainers. Stonewall, window and general stuff in background
Small black and grey wirehaired pointer puppy asleep on fleecy light grey mat. Surrounded by debris such as rabbis ears and a bright blue and orange puffy circular thing (that he has no interest in). Background includes wooden door, grubby radiator and black floor tiles.
Screen shot of job advert. Top left is Reform UK logo. Job title is Regional Campaign and Training Manager - East Midlands. Location of job is Home working with occasional travel within the regions and meetings in London.
Half on a tarmac track and half into a copse of trees is a small crashed hatch back car. The bonnet is open, the tyres are flat, windows are gone, door is open and the image of a large pale pink cat has been dawbed on it over the rear wheel. The car has none of its original paintwork, being shades of mat grey and orange.
Woman with purple jacket and jeans crossing bridge over river, hands out to the side, large rectangular grey and black carrier on her back. In the distance is a footpath sign, green fields, trees and on the horizon a row of houses
Face to camera black and white puppy on grass. German Wirehaired Pointer. He has whiskers.
Drop handlebar bicycle awkwardly leaning on blue folded seats in a too small compartment on a train
Crochet things on a dark grey tiled floor. On the right is a dragon's head. It is orange with purple and yellow flowers in hexagons (think patchwork style but crochet). In the middle is something beige and orange. It has a big blob, a smaller blob and attached to the small blob are things that might be fangs. On the left is a much bigger two blob crochet thing with patchwork style shapes, and many many colours. It looks a bit floppy
Beautifully proportioned purple steel on one cross bike on a train. Across three folded seats but diagonal so the front wheel protruded into the aisle.
Screen shot of thetrainline app showing the 08:47 arriving at 09:05 at a cost of £7.20
Screen shot from the trainline app showing two trains which arrive in Manchester Piccadilly at 09:16. One departs New Mills Newtown at 08:40 and costs £2.75. One departs New Mills Central at 08:47 and costs £5.35
Two stone built arches bridge over a river under the right hand side arch and the left over a footpath. Grass and some trees in leaf.
Canal, cobbled towpath, tunnel, colourful graffiti surfaces on every wall and roof, some kind of scaffolding or obstruction at the end around what's probably lock gates and a small hump that looks like a discarded or homeless sleeper duvet. Lighting is low.
List of fares £5.20 few tickets left buy now, £5.40 if I buy tomorrow, £5.70 if I buy on 5 January
Wooden shelter at the left of the frame storing stovkplanks. Canal and curvy Bridge on the right
Orange and blue-grey crochet square on a book with a photo of a purple, green and lilac square using the same pattern. Crochet directions and pattern on the book page
Two ferris wheel crochet squares multicoloured yarn in beige, orange and blue
Pink and orange streaked horizon, many straggling phone wires, two silhouetted trees
An orange crochet leg with white puff stitch toes. On a brown leather base and in front of a glasses case. The leg is only a little taller than the lying down specs case
Flower pot on a window ledge. Plant with a solitary wide mature leaf and one tiny pale green shoot at the base
Grey, blue and purple striped sock monkey sitting on a rainbow fleece. The monkey has button eyes and smartwool across it's forehead
Mary Oliver Poem "The Uses of Sorrow" (in my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.
Dark grey background with scattered objects. Large orange handled scissors, a one foot wooden ruler, a round pot of pins, one empty cotton reel, another reel with purple thread, a broken piece of tailor's chalk a long thin stripey rectangle (grey, blue, purple) and an inside out foot of a grey sock
Purple and pink striped merino with s small irregular pinkish darn / woven patch
Red and white felt heart with a gingerbread house, two green trees, edges finished with brown blanket stitch (lower half), purple (top half), a circular moon with pink stitching and random double seed stitch in pastel colours on the red background.
Felt heart. Red background, white base, brown House, two green trees, cream moon. All held together with pins and nothing is straight
Vertical alternate double strands of pink and purple threads on a black background (sock) horizontal grey thread weaving between the colours. About half way done. Many threads ends at the bottom.
Small houseplant with three leaves
ee cummings poem i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it(anywhere i go you go my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant an whatever a sun will always sing is you
Spiky plant on window ledge, flanked by rounded grey ceramics. In the background is a plant outside the window with sprays of yellow flowers
Dark blue trousers hanging on a heated towel rail