TenInchWheels

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Dad, husband, Yorkshireman. Cumbrian. Ex-national newspaper art director delighted to find himself living halfway up a Lakeland fell after 30 years in London Beer, Vespa, history, hill, life, lake, bike Libraries gave us power

Bottle of Timothy Taylor's Landord
Tin of Proper Job IPA beer
View over Keswick and Derwent Water from Walla Crag
All Saint's church in Orton, Cumbria, with its distinctive whitewashed tower, seen from the churchyard.
Colourful, well designed record sleeve called At Large/The Kingston trio, featuring Victorian woodblock prints and block colour with a blue 'manicule' in a Penrith, Cumbria shop
A carburettor in the engine of a very old vespa motorscooter
Bottle of marks and Spencer German lager brewed by kaufbeuren
Label on a bottle of Adnam's Ghost Ship beer saying the official beer of fish and chips
Loads of dead and dying plants in a DIY superstore
One of very many buttercups in an unmown section of lawn
Tins of cruzcampo orange flavoured lager on a supermarket shelf
An AI generated image of the 'catbell tsrail' that looks nothing like the fell near keswick
Sunset at Long Meg and her daughters stone circle, with stones framed by a great old oak tree
Bee on a taxarcum dandelion on a living Cumbrian lawn
Bollocks To Brexit sticker on an oyster card wallet
Fucking yellow IKEA fucking bags in fucking IKEA
A packet of 'fat controller grill and oven pads' on a supermarket shelf
Pair of muddy trail running shoes after the Pooley Bridge 10k trail race
David Hockney lithograph called Fish And Chip Shop, showing a young Hockney leaning on the counter and two shop staff
Transparent type size ruler with the letter E repeated many times in a desktop with a Macintosh keyboard
Street in the Victorian mill village of Saltaire, Yorkshire, with an invasion of hideous wheelie bins
Two immaculate pints of Timothy Taylor landlord at the boltmakers arms, Keighley
Two pints of Taylor's Blonde settling on a table in a pub in Keighley, Yorkshire
A 'pump track' built near Ilkley, Yorkshire
Interior of the Crowbar in North Devon. A busy scene, in a space converted from a barn with exposed beams and recycled wood panels on the walls
Crabs in a bucket, caught with a drop net from the quay at Appledore, Devon
Flames in a log burning fireplace at the Dockray Hall pub in Penrith
A very fat, almost spherical sheep in Cumbria
The 'you made me miss' scene from American Werewolf In London
Pair of legs terminating in gaudy Saucony peregrine 16 trail running shoes, and ashness bridge in Cumbria.
Tin of Rheinbacher Pilsner
Looking towards Frostwick, Ill Bell and Yoke - with Morecambe Bay and the Irish Sea in the distance - from Thornthwaite Crag.
Looking down Riggindale with Kidsty Pike and Haweswatter in the distance. Cumbria, UK
Spoof Viz comic advert featuring a John Betjeman tribute act
Page 1 of the Keighley News with a headline saying 'restaurant plan to create 60 jobs' showing a MacDonalds branch in a vast car park
Pint of stout at the Kirkstone Pass Inn, Cumbria
A recycling centre in Cumbria, with stormy skies
Sign on an old chair saying 'I am old and fragile please do not sit on me'
A fuel pump showing a price of £56.40 for 30 litres of diesel
Book cover with a badly-spaced title saying 'everyone should learn to design' by James Lopez and Sanchez
Pair of saucony running shoes in lurid bright blue, orange and green
The menu in the window of the New Piccadilly restaurant, early 2000s. Sausage and mash is £4.50. chicken curry is £6.50.
Two servings of peaches and ice cream on a patterned 1950s table in the New Piccadilly restaurant in London
Portrait of Lorenzo Marioni, leaning on an ice cream pink coffee machine in his time warp 1950s cafe. Uniformed waiters are in the background.
A rabbit in front of loads of daffodils, Keswick, Cumbria
The tower of St Andrew's church, Penrith, in evening sunshine against a blue sky
Tin of alcohol free Karlskrone Lager from Aldi, in a blue and green design
'scones' - oval, battered potato and fish in a heating cabinet in a fish and chips shop
Box full of eggs 'laid by hens in Yorkshire'
Illuminated Sign saying 'fish and chips' in Angel Lane, Penrith
Dr Manhattan from The Watchmen sat on a rock on mars
Diary entry saying Dreamt of being rung up by a girl who was on the banks of the river Danube. She wouldn't tell me her name
Instagram post from Kirkby Lonsdale brewery informing that they will be reopening the long-closed Kirkstone Pass Inn between Ambleside and Patterdale
Snow covered Blencathra and fields from the Matterdale-Troutbeck road in the English Lake District