"Stephen Pern drops the latch on his South Coast home and heads for the open hills, or rather for open hill shelters, the hundred or so bothies which are scattered across upland Britain. His mission is to supply each shelter with hanging points for wet clothes and gear, his supply of hooks and screws gradually diminishing over the course of his 3000 mile walk. Funny, perceptive and absolutely genuine, HOOKS might just persuade you that Britain is a great place to live."

With loads of folk making the move from Twitter to Mastodon, a similar-ish service which is free and open source, there is lots of talk of the fediverse; a set of federated services built by developers, and running on thousands of volunteer run servers.

Here's a list of some of the best fediverse services:

Diaspora The original Fediverse distributed social network.

Friendica lets anyone or any organisation literally create their own private "facebook" on the fediverse and make it accessible and federated with the rest of the World.

Hubzilla Friendica improved

Peertube Youtube competitor

JHOOM, go with the flow from Bike2reality on Vimeo.

An interesting fact about the first video shown is that Hans Zimmer makes a cameo as the keyboard player.

In what is rapidly becoming a short series on interesting data maps; here is a great site for viewing the current energy generation across the UK: EnergyDashboard
This is currently showing the high natural gas generation that is going on.

It seems that most of the gas destined for Europe is currently coming via ships to UK ports (few suitable ports are available for this in mainland Europe). It is then moved across the channel to mainland Europe. However, much more gas is being delivered to the UK than can be quickly moved to Europe. So it's backing up somewhat. Bloomberg: Glut of Gas In order to deal with this the UK seems to be burning it in gas generators and selling the excess electricity to Europe. As a result of this, despite the ongoing higher gas prices for UK consumers, the wholesale gas price is actually lower than it has been : Wholsale gas price chart UK

This is a pretty amazing tool. Run by Leolabs, this Low Earth orbit visualisation tool shows every satellite and detected piece of space debris in a 3D visualisation.

A 200Km gravel race in Kielder, Northumberland. I did it on a proper bike - my 29er hard tail.

A slow journey on Scotland's North Coast 500 with a hire bike from Inverness-based Ticket to Ride, staying in hostels, B&Bs and hotels along the route in Shieldaig, Ullapool, Invergordon and Inverness.

This is great...great story...great song.