John Wards
@johnwards.bsky.social
Husband, Dad to 3 boys. Mostly watching F1, Rugby, Football and a bit of NFL. Likes cars.
Bit of a geek, CTO of Colateral.
Borrowing a TR7 from Borrow a Classic.
https://borrowaclassic.co.uk/
Bit of a geek, CTO of Colateral.
Borrowing a TR7 from Borrow a Classic.
https://borrowaclassic.co.uk/
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Post something random or you'll have an awful December
(I need all my luck this December so I'm playing this chain letter game, please don't send me a friendship cake one like my mum got in the 90s)
(I need all my luck this December so I'm playing this chain letter game, please don't send me a friendship cake one like my mum got in the 90s)
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Post something random or you'll have an awful December
(I need all my luck this December so I'm playing this chain letter game, please don't send me a friendship cake one like my mum got in the 90s)
(I need all my luck this December so I'm playing this chain letter game, please don't send me a friendship cake one like my mum got in the 90s)
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The telephone exchange in Deddington, north Oxfordshire, has been switched off in the very first of 4,600 shutdowns planned by [BT] Openreach. Phone lines in the village have all been upgraded to digital full fibre served by the Banbury exchange, with the copper wire network turned off.
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The telephone exchange in Deddington, north Oxfordshire, has been switched off in the very first of 4,600 shutdowns planned by [BT] Openreach. Phone lines in the village have all been upgraded to digital full fibre served by the Banbury exchange, with the copper wire network turned off.
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
Set in the fields and hills where grew up. My house was about 5 miles from the authors village.
Never watched it, nor read the book. Likely never will 😆
Set in the fields and hills where grew up. My house was about 5 miles from the authors village.
Never watched it, nor read the book. Likely never will 😆
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A movie that takes place where you’re from.
Set in the fields and hills where grew up. My house was about 5 miles from the authors village.
Never watched it, nor read the book. Likely never will 😆
Set in the fields and hills where grew up. My house was about 5 miles from the authors village.
Never watched it, nor read the book. Likely never will 😆
Video borrowed from Facebook...
The TR7 V8 has been bringing the noise all weekend at the RAC Rally.
Life goals is to have one of these...
The TR7 V8 has been bringing the noise all weekend at the RAC Rally.
Life goals is to have one of these...
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Video borrowed from Facebook...
The TR7 V8 has been bringing the noise all weekend at the RAC Rally.
Life goals is to have one of these...
The TR7 V8 has been bringing the noise all weekend at the RAC Rally.
Life goals is to have one of these...
Excellent day tinkering on the TR7 with my TR Register mentor Allan.
Mostly I was passing the tools while Allan and my middle kid did the work.
#WeirdCarBS
Mostly I was passing the tools while Allan and my middle kid did the work.
#WeirdCarBS
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Excellent day tinkering on the TR7 with my TR Register mentor Allan.
Mostly I was passing the tools while Allan and my middle kid did the work.
#WeirdCarBS
Mostly I was passing the tools while Allan and my middle kid did the work.
#WeirdCarBS
YT just recommended that I should watch this again.
OKAY WHY NOT
OKAY WHY NOT
Yeah, okay, I'll watch the highlights one more time before getting on with some work.
SCOTLAND 4-2 DENMARK | Scotland Qualify for 2026 World Cup! | World Cup Qualifier Highlights
YouTube video by Scotland National Team
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
YT just recommended that I should watch this again.
OKAY WHY NOT
OKAY WHY NOT
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Yeah, okay, I'll watch the highlights one more time before getting on with some work.
SCOTLAND 4-2 DENMARK | Scotland Qualify for 2026 World Cup! | World Cup Qualifier Highlights
YouTube video by Scotland National Team
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Yeah, okay, I'll watch the highlights one more time before getting on with some work.
Oh god, I've just been interviewed by The Guardian about the Scotland match
Hopefully it isn't like the time when I was VoxPopped by BBC Watchdog about the fact Aberdeen wasn't getting 50/50 tickets for the 99/00 cup final
I was very sweary, so all that made it in was "It's brilliant I canne wait"
Hopefully it isn't like the time when I was VoxPopped by BBC Watchdog about the fact Aberdeen wasn't getting 50/50 tickets for the 99/00 cup final
I was very sweary, so all that made it in was "It's brilliant I canne wait"
November 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Oh god, I've just been interviewed by The Guardian about the Scotland match
Hopefully it isn't like the time when I was VoxPopped by BBC Watchdog about the fact Aberdeen wasn't getting 50/50 tickets for the 99/00 cup final
I was very sweary, so all that made it in was "It's brilliant I canne wait"
Hopefully it isn't like the time when I was VoxPopped by BBC Watchdog about the fact Aberdeen wasn't getting 50/50 tickets for the 99/00 cup final
I was very sweary, so all that made it in was "It's brilliant I canne wait"
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Today's front page 🏴
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Today's front page 🏴
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July 19th, and a confused Trump asks Infantino what ‘get yersel tae fuck’ means as Grant Hanley barges him out of the trophy presentation
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
July 19th, and a confused Trump asks Infantino what ‘get yersel tae fuck’ means as Grant Hanley barges him out of the trophy presentation
SCOTLAND ARE GOING TO THE WORLD CUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
SCOTLAND ARE GOING TO THE WORLD CUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT WAS THAT. OMG
SORRY NEIGHBOURS FOR THE ROARING. 🏴
SORRY NEIGHBOURS FOR THE ROARING. 🏴
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
WHAT WAS THAT. OMG
SORRY NEIGHBOURS FOR THE ROARING. 🏴
SORRY NEIGHBOURS FOR THE ROARING. 🏴
What's that I can smell? Sense?
HOPE? 🏴
Oh bugger.
We're doomed. DOOMED.
(This is a football post about Scotland's winner takes World Cup Qualifying match tonight)
HOPE? 🏴
Oh bugger.
We're doomed. DOOMED.
(This is a football post about Scotland's winner takes World Cup Qualifying match tonight)
a man wearing a helmet and a trench coat is saying `` we 're doomed '' in a dark room .
ALT: a man wearing a helmet and a trench coat is saying `` we 're doomed '' in a dark room .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
What's that I can smell? Sense?
HOPE? 🏴
Oh bugger.
We're doomed. DOOMED.
(This is a football post about Scotland's winner takes World Cup Qualifying match tonight)
HOPE? 🏴
Oh bugger.
We're doomed. DOOMED.
(This is a football post about Scotland's winner takes World Cup Qualifying match tonight)
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Had to check, that car is looking a bit tidier these days
November 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Had to check, that car is looking a bit tidier these days
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Morning all.
Photographer Peter Mitchell. Kingston Racing Motors.
Leeds, 1975.
Photographer Peter Mitchell. Kingston Racing Motors.
Leeds, 1975.
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Morning all.
Photographer Peter Mitchell. Kingston Racing Motors.
Leeds, 1975.
Photographer Peter Mitchell. Kingston Racing Motors.
Leeds, 1975.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
Happy Phantasmal Flames release day to all who celebrate. (Pokemon cards)
My middle kid had me down at the village Co-op at for the 7am opening to get a few packs this morning.
Sadly, an adult was ahead of us in the queue and bought the entire stock.
Cheers dude 🙄
My middle kid had me down at the village Co-op at for the 7am opening to get a few packs this morning.
Sadly, an adult was ahead of us in the queue and bought the entire stock.
Cheers dude 🙄
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Happy Phantasmal Flames release day to all who celebrate. (Pokemon cards)
My middle kid had me down at the village Co-op at for the 7am opening to get a few packs this morning.
Sadly, an adult was ahead of us in the queue and bought the entire stock.
Cheers dude 🙄
My middle kid had me down at the village Co-op at for the 7am opening to get a few packs this morning.
Sadly, an adult was ahead of us in the queue and bought the entire stock.
Cheers dude 🙄
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Scenes from the Aviva
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Scenes from the Aviva
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My wife's weird, last week she said she wouldn't mind if I had a tattoo, today she's complaining about all the bagpipers in the garden.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My wife's weird, last week she said she wouldn't mind if I had a tattoo, today she's complaining about all the bagpipers in the garden.
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Won't someone please think of the people paying £600 per night for a suite?
They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2)
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...
They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2)
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...
Hotel guests ask for congestion charge 'refund'
Guests staying at a luxury hotel in Oxford city centre have been asking for the congestion charge to be refunded from their bills
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Won't someone please think of the people paying £600 per night for a suite?
They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2)
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...
They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2)
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...
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Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
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Oxfordshire County Council has clarified that the Ghostbusters hearse would not be exempt from the city’s Congestion Charge. A spokesperson told us “It’s not as simple as buying a hearse. In order to qualify for a permit, you must also be a funeral care business.”
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Oxfordshire County Council has clarified that the Ghostbusters hearse would not be exempt from the city’s Congestion Charge. A spokesperson told us “It’s not as simple as buying a hearse. In order to qualify for a permit, you must also be a funeral care business.”