Jack Thurston
@jackthurston
Mechanised tramp. Writer, snapper, occasionally TV & radio. #LostLanes books, Slow Cycling films on GCN+, The Bike Show podcast. Words & pictures in The Guardian, FT, Sunday Times & more Insta: _lostlanes
Idly exploring gravel trails in Liguria on Google maps, and come face to face with these menacing bunkers, which immediately make me think of @tomisitt.bsky.social
The enshittification specialists who bought (already somewhat enshittified) cycling navigation app Komoot and sacked most of the staff.
Topping up the bike lights I’ll need tomorrow night from today’s sun
Weird #motonormatity capital gains tax loophole, but realistically, who has ever sold their car and made a profit? They’re depreciating money pits. @ianwalker.bsky.social
End of the article suggests is right-hand bias in the population. Makes sense. And confirms my view that driving on the left is the natural way to drive, and that countries that drive on the right have got it badly wrong.
Maybe you have a lane named after you too? But is it as beautiful as mine? Find out lanes.lostlanes.co.uk
Couple of additions to the Scotch shelf during my recent trip north. High quality blends are where it’s at in my opinion. (The soda syphons are purely decorative, I’m not a complete heathen.)
Happy World Bicycle Day! *not my bike, but spotted in town the other week. Fetching fuel for the lawnmower apparently
Lost Lanes Scotland now back in stock at ye olde web shop. What’s more, there’s the art print of the cover illustration, signed by the great Andrew Pavitt. lostlanes.co.uk/shop/
Saw this sign in Scotland today. And wondered which was more hazardous, unsure sheep or sheep with strong convictions.
It's Grace Jones's 78th Birthday! I saw her once, at the Tunnel club in NYC in April 1995. Junior Vasquez on the decks. My life has been downhill all the way, hipness-wise.
New in the Lost Lanes shop, sets of 5 greetings cards by Andrew Pavitt. Love these, obviously, and have sent and received a few myself over the years. £13.50 + P&P lostlanes.co.uk/product/andr...
Did I show you the ace illustration that my friend Adam Hayes has created to mark the publication of Lost Lanes Scotland? You can see more of his stuff over here 👉 mrahayes.com
The Midlands is still a wonderful part of Britain to explore by bike, though there must be many more cars on the roads than in Sir David’s youth. Anyway, Happy 100th birthday. What a life.
Genuine excitement. After a bit of a delay the books are finally here. If you pre-ordered a copy it’ll be winging its way to you soon, or maybe right now.
I’d always imagined the pickup truck John Steinbeck drove in Travels With Charley as altogether more rugged and minimalist. This is basically a caravan. Vanlife always disappoints.
Tomato plants on the windowsill. I’m early this year which is dangerous as I need to wait until it’s reliably 10 degrees overnight in the greenhouse. Usually get the first crop in time for the opening weekend of the Tour de France. They’ll keep producing until mid October.
Daily handful of purple sprouting broccoli I’ve been picking for week from five plants in a 3x1m patch in the garden. Dead easy to grow, very difficult to buy at this quality & freshness.
Tiny lettuce plants germinating on my windowsill. Once grown and harvested using the Charles Dowding method (find it on Youtube) they'll produce around 100 large bowls of salad leaves. Lettuce has the best cost-effort-space ratio of all the things I grow. I'd also recommend...