Senior editor (print) Cycling Weekly Curricular and extracurricular work here: dbfreelance.co.uk Unruly eyes: tinyurl.com/BitBlind 📍Lewes, UK | 🇵🇸 🏳️‍🌈https://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.ukhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mwsioejj2s2uThis was a real joy to edit. Excellent work by Felix Lowe – and thanks to @nedboulting.bsky.social for being such a good sport and, as ever, speaking from the heart https://www.cyclingweekly.com/cycling-weekly/ned-boulting-qanda01 Oct 2026 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsioejj2s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mwsioejj2s2uThis was a real joy to edit. Excellent work by Felix Lowe – and thanks to @nedboulting.bsky.social for being such a good sport and, as ever, speaking from the heart https://www.cyclingweekly.com/cycling-weekly/ned-boulting-qanda01 Oct 2026 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwsioejj2s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mwatspw3vc23Earlier this year, I got an email from Bob Munro, who I'd not heard from in 10 years. He had big news... https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/not-dead-yet-the-66-year-old-cancer-survivor-who-rode-the-entire-route-of-the-tour-de-france24 Sep 2026 08:32 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwatspw3vc23https://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mwatspw3vc23Earlier this year, I got an email from Bob Munro, who I'd not heard from in 10 years. He had big news... https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/not-dead-yet-the-66-year-old-cancer-survivor-who-rode-the-entire-route-of-the-tour-de-france24 Sep 2026 08:32 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwatspw3vc23https://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mw227sxzp224Hector from Alan Bennett's The History Boys finally has his answer! Hector: What has always concerned me is where do they eat their sandwiches? Drink their coke?... Do they take pictures of each other there? Are they smiling? Do they hold hands? Nothing is appropriate. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Sep 2026 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw227sxzp224https://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mvu3yjf6wk2i"If I've done my job, she said in the last class, you won't be happy with anything you write for the next 10 years" Wonderful piece by @alexanderchee.bsky.social on being taught by Annie Dillard ✨ https://themorningnews.org/annie-dillard-and-the-writing-life/19 Sep 2026 06:54 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvu3yjf6wk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mvpghmdlkk2tCycling Weekly is looking for a social media editor wrkbl.ink/5AnBzye https://wrkbl.ink/5AnBzye17 Sep 2026 10:18 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpghmdlkk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mvp2nul2j22xAs a native Lewesian who supports Palestine & the Greens, and has never spat 'London', I must call bollocks, @alexlarman.bsky.social "those who were born and bred in Lewes, who spit the word ‘London’... are not the ones going on anti-Israel marches or putting up Green placards"17 Sep 2026 06:47 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvp2nul2j22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mvnnhsf3vs2iSo sad to hear Annie Dillard has died. Her essays are a class apart 💔 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/16/annie-dillard-author-pulitzer-prize-dies?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other16 Sep 2026 17:18 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvnnhsf3vs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mviwaru3gc22Amazing piece by Rivka Galchen about godwits and how they fly 7,000 miles non-stop - defying all the known rules of biology 😯 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/the-incredible-journey-of-a-migratory-shorebird14 Sep 2026 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mviwaru3gc22https://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mviwaru3gc22Amazing piece by Rivka Galchen about godwits and how they fly 7,000 miles non-stop - defying all the known rules of biology 😯 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/the-incredible-journey-of-a-migratory-shorebird14 Sep 2026 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mviwaru3gc22https://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mvf3vrsfyc2nV entertaining interview with Mr T, trashing the Netflix film he's meant to be promoting 😂 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/03/i-dont-chase-the-dollar-i-never-did-the-astonishing-hidden-life-of-mr-t?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other13 Sep 2026 07:43 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvf3vrsfyc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mvaynhsabs2iApropos ageing mother: GPs seem to say "don't come here, go to A&E" for anything remotely ominous these days. Which is logistically tricky and almost always involves >6hr waiting. Does it have to be like this!?11 Sep 2026 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvaynhsabs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mumssjubpc23This is brilliant. If you find yourself in the path of a wildfire, can't imagine anyone in the world better to be with to tell you - in no uncertain terms - when to get the hell out of there than Ann Enright. You would not argue! https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n16/anne-enright/diary03 Sep 2026 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumssjubpc23https://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mu7iplydqs2hICYMI: I have a new essay in Little Toller’s The Clearing. CALLING TIME began with an absence – the cuckoo's – and became a reflection on sight loss, ecological decline, my late father... and some very strange coincidences. #NatureWriting #Birds https://www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/calling-time-by-david-hinchliffe-bradford/29 Aug 2026 08:51 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7iplydqs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mua6xbqe2s25Reading Waterland and finding it rather hard to stomach the section where the daughter courteously assents to being impregnated by her father 🤨29 Aug 2026 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mua6xbqe2s25https://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mu7iplydqs2hICYMI: I have a new essay in Little Toller’s The Clearing. CALLING TIME began with an absence – the cuckoo's – and became a reflection on sight loss, ecological decline, my late father... and some very strange coincidences. #NatureWriting #Birds https://www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/calling-time-by-david-hinchliffe-bradford/29 Aug 2026 08:51 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7iplydqs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mu5txfnrk22uEarlier this year, it occurred to me I'd not heard a cuckoo through the whole of 2025... which ultimately led to my writing this essay, CALLING TIME. https://www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/calling-time-by-david-hinchliffe-bradfor Many thanks to @jonwoolcott.bsky.social for publishing on The Clearing, the online journal of Little Toller https://www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing..28 Aug 2026 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5txfnrk22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mu5akqtbb22h"Off the table" was a silly blunder by Burnham. He should have had the sense to stick to the GFA: a referendum will be called by the Secretary of State for NI if it appears likely that a majority of voters in NI would choose to leave the UK28 Aug 2026 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5akqtbb22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mu3kgzlbgs27This is cheering – we enjoyed bantering with some choughs in Anglesey last week @antonjtmcc.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 19:11 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3kgzlbgs27https://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mtyiig7s3k2dNot sure why, but for years I assumed Jolene was an ironic song, with the subtext being the protagonist is actually not fussed about losing her man – i.e. pretending to be as a joke at Jolene's expense. Apparently this is a *very* wrong reading, but I'm still quite attached to it 🤷26 Aug 2026 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyiig7s3k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mtqannfd6k23Red squirrel! 📍 Anglesey 🎥 @antonjtmcc.bsky.social23 Aug 2026 07:16 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqannfd6k23https://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mtcioa4vbk2vImportant piece by my brilliant friend @annalisadinn.bsky.social about the underhand slashing of Access to Work - a scheme that had allowed disabled people to keep being productive and creative https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/17/disabled-creatives-careers-access-to-work-scheme?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other17 Aug 2026 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtcioa4vbk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mtbkxvlbxc2fEnjoyed this, but some rather queasy skirting around the question of what a dickhead Morrissey has become https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-video/michael-bracewell-and-leo-robson-the-smiths17 Aug 2026 11:11 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbkxvlbxc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mt42pwx7p22zImportant points made here on smart-glasses, but also it's annoying that Meta haven't developed a night vision feature for ppl with retinal issues - surely within their technical ability https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/14/smart-glasses-controversy-sidelines-the-benefits-for-disabled-people?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other15 Aug 2026 06:37 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt42pwx7p22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbfreelance.co.uk/post/3mt2ps5lhbc26Awful news from Portugal. Thoughts with the family and loved ones of Fin Tarling https://share.google/sm3yZbTSBLwW7GfiH14 Aug 2026 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:f3qudeat7eplvd44ay4wgjbf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2ps5lhbc26