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Retired geography teacher and Programme Manager at the Geographical Association. The host of the GeogPod podcast. Chartered Geographer and Fellow of the RGS with IBG. Cycles with CLO in the Peak District and Hastings and St Leonard’s CC in East Sussex.

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Beautiful… well, I’ll try my best. 😊

04.01.2026 12:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man is jumping out of a boat while a woman sits in a kayak . ALT: a man is jumping out of a boat while a woman sits in a kayak .

😬😬 if you go in the wrong direction on a ship don’t you just fall off? 😱 ‘woman overboard!’

23.12.2025 13:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why does Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire have plug holes? Two fisherman sailed dangerously close to a shaft overflow. But why does the reservoir have them?

Someone posted this on X www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

22.12.2025 11:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a man with an umbrella is walking through a puddle ALT: a man with an umbrella is walking through a puddle

Oh no. 😬 Hey ho, never mind …’I'm laughing at clouds… ’

22.12.2025 10:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This was Howden reservoir in late September. No swimming… as if 🤭

18.12.2025 18:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ladybower was half empty a few weeks ago. It’s amazing how quickly it has filled up again.

18.12.2025 17:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Looks like something off the set of Blake’s 7. 🤭

01.11.2025 21:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ooh nice. I never had one of these. I had a Sinclair spectrum.

01.11.2025 15:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🤭

26.10.2025 17:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Too right! I’m tempted to buy them myself. That’s a bargain price. Are they made out of cardboard or something?

26.10.2025 17:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I see what you mean. That would have taken me at least a couple of hours of research tomorrow. That’s time I would never have got back 🤭

24.10.2025 19:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤣

24.10.2025 19:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ooh, I didn’t look at that. What was the final thought?

24.10.2025 19:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ll do a bit more research but I think it’s pre 1950’s at least. Indo China was a French colony until 1954, when the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu fell after a siege led by Ho Chi Minh’s forces. After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, the French pulled out of the region, so that might be a clue

24.10.2025 19:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

😁

16.10.2025 21:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ha! Flattery gets you everywhere.

16.10.2025 21:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Ha! This wasn’t a bad migration though. Plotting my movement south … in search of tapas and wine. 😁

16.10.2025 21:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wow, this is very impressive!

16.10.2025 21:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Result! 👍

13.10.2025 21:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😂 You’re on 👍

13.10.2025 20:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just you wait, without being aware of it, you’ll be entrapped by my mysterious power to fascinate. Now if I was packing Époisses de Bourgogne it might be a different story. 😬

13.10.2025 20:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m never without a Stinking Bishop in my pocket, on the off chance I need to fascinate a lady.

13.10.2025 20:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Works for me every time.

13.10.2025 20:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
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12.10.2025 08:08 👍 7286 🔁 2071 💬 307 📌 205
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Far too often 🤭

11.10.2025 13:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ha ha! They appear to have missed out ‘Dazed and Confused’, which is increasingly where I am 😬

08.10.2025 17:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😂

05.10.2025 20:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How did you know that’s what I was on? 🤭

05.10.2025 20:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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We went to a puppet show in Palermo. Brilliant … but X rated for violence 🤭

05.10.2025 17:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nah, he’s got far more hair than me. 😂

05.10.2025 17:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0