Just ordered 450 gallons and 660 litres* of beer for Tynedale Beer Festival, and that's just my share of the brewery list. I hope somebody turns up to drink it.

* Cask in gallons, keg in litres, for 'reasons'. Total quantity about 595 gallons or 2705 litres 🍻

#beer #northumberland #tynedale #festival

A cold frosty morning in #Tynedale. I love this ferrous gate near Hexham Golf Club echoing (consciously?) the great Tyne Bridge downstream linking Newcastle & Gateshead. Or could it be older?

As I've moved to a new instance, it's time for another #introduction - and whereas writing the first one felt deeply uncomfortable, this time it seems a lot easier. That's the transition from Twitter-brain to Mastodon-brain.

Who I am is more or less this: I'm an #autistic #Welsh person who lives in beautiful #Tynedale, and I spend my working time fiddling about with emergency #healthcare #data to improve care quality in the #NHS. I have issues with #anxiety and #loneliness, and I'm an abuse survivor. Because of the past abuse, I keep myself anonymous all over the internet; however, I've been using the Rollo Treadway alias for so long that it feels like part of me, my alter ego. So feel free to call me Rollo.

And I'm okay with they/them pronouns (because I don't really feel I fit within any gender identity) and also he/him (because that's what everyone offline has always used for me). Or frankly, any other pronouns, it's all good.

I migrated to #Mastodon from #Twitter during 2022 (initially at the start of the year, but properly in the autumn) and am very happy here.

Politically, I'm a #HandwringingLeftyLiberal, and like my bio says, I really don't have any time for Tories. This includes any close equivalents to Tories in other countries.

I love #trees and #woodland, I like to go #walking when I feel physically/mentally able, I'm fascinated by #birds but am hopeless at identifying them. I am *very* serious about #tea, I am (obviously) devoted to #SilentCinema, I'm unhealthily focused on #cricket (mostly #FirstClassCricket, #TestCricket and #CountyCricket, the white ball stuff isn't really for me), and especially #Durham in the #CountyChampionship. And in #football, I support #Gateshead.

Finally, I promise this is the last time I will do such a long post, and the last time I will put hashtags in the middle of the post rather than all at the beginning or end. I think hashtags in the middle is permitted for an introduction, or I hope so anyhow.

HELLO!

Friday’s #imageoftheday. Cattle on the hillside above a wintry #Tynedale.

Misleading headline. #RishiSunak claims no expenses because he can afford not to. I doubt #GuyOpperman is a millionaire. He & I differ on many things, but I can testify that as our constituency member he works hard for the people of #Tynedale.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/hexham-mp-travel-expenses-tory-25622350

Another very foggy morning on the valley floor, and a sunny morning up here. Visibility must be inches down there.

#fog #sun #winter #weather #Tyne #Tyneside #Tynedale

Thursday in #Tynedale: #Chipchase Castle in high summer. It sits in the North Tyne Valley a few miles above its confluence with the South Tyne near Hexham. From this angle it looks wholly medieval, but in fact this fortified bastle tower is incorporated into a fine Jacobean mansion beyond. #Northumberland

I take a photo from my window every morning, glad that I have a bit of a view, watching the far side of the valley change with the seasons.

I don't usually share those pictures; everyone who isn't me would get bored awfully quickly.

But I thought I'd share this morning's, purely because I'm new here and I haven't previously shared a photo of the valley in dense fog whilst it's clear up here.

Looking down on the fog never fails to entrance me.

#fog #valley #weather #Tynedale

Went for a walk this morning. I haven't had nearly enough proper walks this year, for one reason or another. But the weather was good, and I had nothing else pressing to do, so I forced myself to put one foot in front of the other for six miles or so.

The #Tyne was looking beautiful, the #trees were settling down for a winter's sleep, and I befriended a gorgeous #oak .

#nature #woodland #walking #rambling #Northumberland #Tynedale #Tyneside

Oh also, if everyone's doing an #Introduction - I really hate talking about myself, my skin is crawling - this person here is #autistic, is #Welsh, is living in beautiful #Tynedale, and does quality improvement data stuff for the #NHS.

I think that's more hashtags than I've used in nine years on #twitter.

Also, that Rollo Treadway is a #handwringing #lefty #liberal who is obsessed with #trees and (obviously) #silent #cinema. And volunteers with the #Woodland Trust (but I haven't started yet).