SmileyAli

@smileyali68

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!

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SmileyAli@smileyali68· 23d

What did you do with your summer? #yarnbomb 🧶

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.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· 29d

I want you to know what I did with the £1.17 saddle from eBay

Blue, yellow, orange bright crochet wrapped around a bicycle saddle sitting on scraped wooden floorboards.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Jul 9

Bonus how we roll on hot days when the kitchen floor tiles are the coolest place in the house photo.

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.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Jun 21

Update.

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.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Mar 28

I have started

Small rectangle of crochet. Rib pattern, thick mid blue ball of yarn with flecks on a wood effect floor.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Mar 17

Crying with laughter

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

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Mar 15

The bringer of joy.

Background grassy green hill, cloudy sky, black dog in foreground looking at the hill

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Mar 15

Spirit level, drill, happy days.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Mar 15

Over twenty years ago my terminally ill husband taught me how to recognise a masonry bit this is his tin. I am doing DIY.

Tin with drill bits the lid has a scruffy worn label with DRILLS written on it.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Feb 23

When you move in with someone in 2014 and they bring three twisted fig plants which have been neglected to the point of six leaves each.

Leafy green houseplants, an orange framed window, wood floor, prayer flags and general clutter.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Feb 21

When your vehicle is 17 years old MOTs might be a little scary.

List of car parts, oil filters, alternator pullies, brake things, ball joints, belts

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Feb 18

One year old and can confirm rebellious phase ongoing

German wirehaired pointer, black and white with green squash toy

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Feb 8

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

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Jan 31

This is who runs this accountB

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.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Jan 11

This is what I started this weekend. 🧶

Murky green strip of crochet, red stitch holder, pink crochet hook. Looks maybe 3cm wide. It is dull and uninteresting but watch this space.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Jan 1

Deeply distressing.

Merriam Webster dictionary 2026 gif Your 2026 Word "brain rot"

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Nov 9

I have a glorious book which got me through A level biology in 1986. Not sure what to do with it now.

Diagrams and text showing germination of an onion. Text looks like handwriting and diagrams hand drawn. It is a meticulous thing of beauty.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Nov 8

I'll suggest the foodbank volunteers risk assessment is reviewed

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Oct 29

This seems to be the only project I have time for right now!

Very handsome black and tick German Wirehaired Pointer sitting on a grass field.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Aug 26

In case anyone needs a photo of a seven month old German Wirehaired Pointer

Black and tick puppy doing odd yoga twist lying on his back innthe shade on cobbles

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Aug 13

I will harvest the unripe lowest hanging fruit.

Black and tick wirehaired pointer with mouth open attacking a small green apple.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Aug 12

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Jul 9

ffs bicycle fell over. it's now this way round

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Jul 9

if AI designed cycle storage on trains it would look like this.

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.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Jun 16

He's very chilled when he gets home

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

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Jun 2

Busy morning. Bloke has dropped off a lot of planks of wood. Dog has had his assessment at Doggo Day Care, and in honesty, has now been out of his crate nearly three hours. Currently sleeping.

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.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· May 9

It's a curious reflection when the leader of an organisation is insistent that Home Working is A Bad Thing yet the HR department don't get the message.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· May 7

There was art work on my cycle commute.

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.

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Apr 11

How we roll on a trip to the vet's. He'll be too big for this next visit.

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

SmileyAli@smileyali68· Apr 9

Mostly playing games of psycho rabbit and kill the llama on my week off.