He's a very good driver. Let's just hope we don't encounter any hares.

#IdąPsięta #RuralRoads

This free range cow probably decided it's time to get milked and didn't wait for its owner to take it home.

#RuralRoads #Polesia

Not many of those left – a cobblestone road in rural Eastern Poland.

#Polesia #RuralRoads

Sometimes when the 2023 photograph you take turns out to be blurry you can boost colours a bit and tell people it's an 1883 oil painting. But only if the subject is plausible.

#Polesia #RuralRoads

If no one drives over this for a few million years it might turn into a nice fossil.

#RuralRoads

Guess I have to tell my assistant to clean his paws.

#IdaPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #RuralRoads

Driving back home from a day of #RuralBroadband installations. Quite early, but it's a Saturday and I need some rest. I'm now less than a kilometre from home. #RuralRoads are beautiful, but our cars hate them and make weird sounds when forced to take them.

We finally had some rain in the night. Getting to work is more exciting now.

#RuralRoads #wetlands #Polesia

A system failure I predicted some two years ago finally occurred.

A couple of years ago we got our official house number from the local government. It was not what I expected. Our house is near number 1. I expected to get 1A. I asked for more – I wanted 0, but I knew that would fuck up the whole government geographical software system. 1A would have been fine, though not as sexy.

What we got was 3. It was recycled. Before we built our house there was a ruin, hidden under vegetation, that had number 3. It's 700 metres away from us. If I hadn't looked on the geodesic maps, I wouldn't have known about it.

So a few days ago something we expected didn't get delivered. No such place.

We're not monsters – we don't want our delivery people to drive 6 kilometres over a ruined dirt road . They know they can drop off our stuff in the small store in a nearby village. A few years ago I had a fight about this with one of our neighbours. He was mad at me for not forcing delivery people to drive to our house. He said we were spoiling them. Fuck the spoiled bastard.

But this time it was a temp doing the delivery, and they tried their best. Which means using Google Maps. Which totally suck in our area (yes we put in a ticket today, no idea how soon Google will fix this). But they didn't call us.

OSM has two entries for number 3 in our village. One is nine years old and wrong. The other is one year old and correct.. Fortunately no one here, except for me, uses OSM. I tried editing OSM years ago and got burned – despite my best efforts (than included buying a stand-alone GPS) my edit was rejected.

We will have to wait a couple of days now for whatever was coming to us. Today the regular delivery person dropped off something else at the village store. The system is working again. But now I think that any government, local or not, that carelessly reuses unique identifiers, should be defenestrated ASAP.

#RuralRoads

Why walk the road when you can swim it?

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #RuralRoads

The road was dry for a couple of days but now it's back to the way #IdąPsięta like it the most.

#Wetlands #Polesia #RuralRoads

Thou shall not pass.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #RuralRoads

#Polesia, the green lungs of Poland. Mind you, if you suddenly get lung cancer here you won't be able to drive to a hospital in time to be saved.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #RuralRoads

When driving on #RuralRoads it is good to have an experienced pilot who will risk their life to lean out the window and guide you between the potholes when your windshield is covered with #mud.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #wetlands

When driving on #RuralRoads it is good to have an experienced pilot who will guide you between the potholes when your windshield is covered with #mud.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #wetlands

#tree #ruralroads #dirtroads

After almost a week without driving from my house I finally went to the nearest village store to buy some food. I think I shouldn't repeat another expedition like that before spring. #Polesia #Wetlands #RuralRoads

Low cost and potentially high benefit measure to reduce speeds on rural roads with no verges. Signage is another options. Anyone got ideas of other good interventions in this space? #RuralRoads #Roadsafety
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RT @bricycle
A bit of tactical ruralism here to make car drivers aware that people might be walking, wheeling, or cycling in the carriageway. Do we know of any other similar approaches?
https://twitter.com/bricycle/status/1603876936698191874

There's a lot of lovely cycling in West Yorkshire... but occasionally I discover a gem on my own doorstep. Bank Gate in Marsden is only 200m long, but steep and mossy. "No Traffic": Cyclists: Welcome to Yorkshire. #cycling #NoTraffic #RuralRoads #CyclingUK #SMBMS #Marsden #Slaithwaite #Slawit

There's a lot of lovely cycling in West Yorkshire... but occasionally I discover a gem on my own doorstep. Bank Gate in Marsden is only 200m long, but steep and mossy. "No Traffic": Cyclists: Welcome to Yorkshire. #cycling #NoTraffic #RuralRoads #CyclingUK #SMBMS #Marsden #Slaithwaite #Slawit