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Mary Oz

@maryoz.bsky.social

Keen walker, especially of Slow Ways. https://beta.slowways.org/ Occasional volunteer guide for Visually Impaired adventurers. Please use Alt Text! Also interested in public transport, remnants of the past, beer, prog rock, astronomy and allsorts.

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Slow Ways@slowwaysuk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interested in long distance walking projects in the UK? Come and hear from epic Slow Wayers @maryoz.bsky.social who's fractionally doing LEJOG + John Scott who hilked all National Parks in one go. Be inspired! Join us on Zoom: www.tickettailor.com/events/sloww... #SlowWays

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Long Distance Walking Projects with Mary Austin & John Scott – Zoom, Thu 22 Oct 2026 - We at Slow Ways love a long-distance walking project! Join us for this special event with John Scott and Mary Aus...

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Campaign for Better Transport@bettertransport.bsky.social · 2w ago

In August this year, for 1 month, the Government made bus journeys free for children in England. Now, new figures show that the scheme enabled more than 14 million free child journeys. One bus service in the North East had 710% more child passengers than last summer. Our reaction 👇

Photo of Michael Solomon Williams with the quote, "As well as saving families money on millions of journeys, free child bus fares encouraged people to give the bus a try, inspiring a new generation of bus users. It's great to see this efficient, sustainable form of transport being given such a boost. But even with free fares, access to buses is not equal. One in seven people live in places without a decent bus service. The Government needs to do more to reconnect these transport deserts."
Paul O'Toole@endodoc.bsky.social · 3w ago

After a recent trip to #LincolnCathedral, I’m happy to report that the world’s oldest tennis ball is still lodged in the mouldings near the Galilee Porch. Got stuck there in 1914 when a boy called Gilbert Bell was playing catch with his brother. See alt text for full story.

Close-up of a tennis ball, blackened by time, lodged in the arch mouldings of Lincoln Cathedral. I have indicated the ball with a yellow arrow. The story of the stuck ball became a family legend and whenever they visited Lincoln, Gilbert’s relatives would check to see it was still there. In 2005, the story surfaced when his nephew, David, wrote to the cathedral asking (jokingly) if they could please have the ball back. It predates the tennis ball in the museum at Wimbledon (dated 1916) and is thought to be the oldest in the world.