Author of It's on the Meter:One Taxi, Three Mates and 43,000 Miles of Misadventures around the World | Walking the Wharfe: An Ode to Yorkshire River
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I wrote a book and it's finally out today!
I grew up on the River Wharfe in Boston Spa and so decided to walk the entire length, retracing the footsteps of a Victorian author
amazon.co.uk/Walking-Wharfe-…
(Photo by Colin Petch)
Disaster ride
* Accidentally went off road on the muddiest bridlepath in Yorkshire
* Got a puncture
* Tyre levers snap (any chance of a replacement, @Topeak_Intl ?)
* Fix puncture, continue
* Second puncture
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Fix puncture, continue
* Second puncture
* @muc_off Puncture Patches absolutely useless
* Backup tube of rubber cement completely dried up
* Have to call my wife for rescue.
* Luckily broke down next to pub...
* ...pub is closed
Saw some nice trees though.
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Someone made the observation earlier that that Charlie xCx and Billy Eilish song is basically a Right Said Fred for Gen Z.
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We were buying a metro ticket in Bangkok when a young schoolboy came up and offered to help us.
It says something about a country when a child feels able to go and talk to two adults strangers in a subway station (in a foreign language too!) 😊
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Was on a flight recently and we all had to fill in Customs Arrival forms.
For the Emergency Contact section the girl next to us scrolled through her phone and then wrote down the number for, "Mr Right 2"
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Kookaburra landed right next to us!
Taken on my phone from less than a metre away.
#myfirstbirdoftheday
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I met a backpacker in Europe, years ago, who was sick of looking at old churches and told me, "ABC - another bloody Church".
Since then I've had ABM (Iran), ABW (Iceland), ABT (Thailand), ABP (Myanmar) andABM (Nepal).
In the Blue Mountains it's ABL
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The compere tried to get the crowd hyped by asking who had the new album and if we liked it.
The new album isn't out for another four weeks.
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Every so often someone would climb on someone's shoulders and 3 or 4 security guards would dazzle them with high powered lasers until they got down. Eventually the crowd got wise and started blocking the lasers with their hands
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Also, first time I've seen a drone used at a(n indoor) gig. In the UK that would be downed by flying beer cups instantly. Alas, there wasn't a bar...but there was a popcorn stall.
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Just saw Sum 41 in Kuala Lumpur. It started as a bit of a strange experience.
No support bands! What a shame. That would be a dream gig for some local bands.
And then the gig started with what was a basically a PR statement from the promotor, telling us which hashtags to use.
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I just posted a job on Upwork trying to hire someone and it said,
"Hey Johno! Check out these freelancers who are perfect for your job:" then it recommended me!
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I've been working as a designer for almost fifteen years but I still get The Absolute Fear that when sending concepts to new clients, that they're going to be like, "What the heck is this trash? Do you honestly think this is the standard we paid for?!"
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Seeing your book in shops is always great but finding it in a completely different language, halfway around the world is brilliant!
@eslite
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