@sarahfoxspeaker
Recovering lawyer helping others simplify their legals. Loves to speak, happy to MC, written 5 books. Created 500-word contracts to demonstrate what's possible. Wish I could cycle to events and solve climate change from the back of a tandem.
Cycling side-by-side isn’t bad behaviour—it’s human behaviour. It’s how parents talk to their kids. How friends catch up. How communities form.
If bicycle infrastructure is too narrow for people to ride and talk together, the problem isn’t the people. It’s the infrastructure.
Nørrebro, Copenhagen.
Backatcha.
Dandelions | Mabel Royds
1935, woodcut
FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city
One for @transitionwilmslow.bsky.social to follow @blueskyrepaircafe.bsky.social
At today's Repair Café for @transitionwilmslow.bsky.social I darned three jumpers, mended two pockets on a coat, shortened leggings, sewed a trouser button on, & visibly patched a hoodie.
This is why I write so much about pavement parking
Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.
A group of people standing around a big placard, smiling at the camera. In the front there is a woman in a wheelchair and a collie dog. The placard says “Let’s build a community heat network in Craigmillar and Portobello!”
A poster on a white background. At the top it says: “Remember this? Have your say on Local heating! Come to a public meeting”. There is a graphic of houses of different shapes and sizes, and three people standing on grass. Two are holding hands and one is waving. The poster has a QR code and a link at the bottom: https://bit.ly/heat-network-event
Three people stand in front of two posters on a yellow wall. A woman is pointing at part of the poster. They are all looking at the posters.
Sick of heating bills spiking up when there is conflict in other countries? 🚨
Would you support a local, not-for-profit, clean heating system that gives communities more control? 🙌
Come to our event on a community heat network at Craigmillar Library, 17 March! See comments / poster for details.👇
Bus on campus
Explanation of the stripes inside the bus.
This bus is electric!
Stripes made in Reading.
The new Reading 'warming stripes' double-decker electric bus came to campus today.
The bus is painted in the local warming stripes to start climate conversations throughout the town.
Painting of several people, including what appear to be several nuns, emerging from an archway riding bicycles. Text at the bottom: Hacia la torre (Towards the Tower), 1961 by Remedios Varo. Private Collection, Mexico City.
Hacia la torre (Towards the Tower)
1961
🎨Remedios Varo
We saw a lunar eclipse in Switzerland this summer. It was amazing. We can't see this one in the UK, but catch it if you can.
A few years ago, we learnt that crottin (poo) specifically means goat poo. So crottin de chevre is tautological. Doesn't spoil the enjoyment. If anything, it brings a knowing twinkle to the eye!
The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost
Good call... it's on my list!
Looks like chalk pastels. Serious question: do we then still call it a painting? Curious.
I can see this one too by searching your username.
Yes
IT'S WEDNESDAY!
It's #buyastrangerabook day!
The grooviest day of all.
I'll give out TWO books.
FOR FREE.
If you'd like one, let me know.
Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.
It's a thing! Look.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only.
I love @jonnelledge.bsky.social book (History of the World in 47 Borders).
Is riding an e bike cheating?
No, it's just like doing 20 reps at a low weight instead of 10 at a heavy weight in the gym. You get the exercise anyway. AND you might be more likely to get on the bike in the first place.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2586115...
W.H. Smith bookshop, Victoria station, Manchester, 1925.
Tactical voting groups say greens - not labour - will stop Reform in byelection.
On Thursday only Greens can beat Reform in Gorton and Denton. And we will beat their hate with a message of hope.
On Thursday help us make hope normal again.
The one you hate. "Eat that frog" as the book title says
Pumps painted brick red (made in Manchester UK) with googly eyes painted on. In the background are the brick pump house and chimney from the Cambridge Museum of Technology.
I love goggly eyes. At the Cambridge Museum of Technology (pumps and poo).
The Crossness Pumping Station in London
The Crossness Pumping Station in London, built in 1865, is a Victorian sewage facility famous for its ornate ironwork, cathedral-like interior, and role in revolutionizing urban sanitation infrastructure worldwide history.
A pastel showing a figure walking along a path with trees against a misty light. This was done on a vintage sheet of maroon-coloured Ingres paper.
One of my pastels from nearly 30 years ago showing a path across Jesus Green in Cambridge. I think this was late in the year with a few leaves hanging on to the trees with some autumn colour remaining. It was bought by a late friend and is now with his family.
#Cambridge #pastel #painting
Suffragette leader Christabel Pankhurst. c.1910, photo by Scottish photographer Christina Broom (1862-1939), UK's first female press photographer, who documented the women's suffrage movement.
Tread Softly, painting by Peak District artist Clare Allan. Kinder Scout from Mellor Road, New Mills.
Generally referred to as secessionist architecture in Hungary.
