Lord Beestonia

Lord Beestonia

@beestonia.bsky.social

Faux Lord. Hyper. Local. Writer, Journalism course leader, sometime author and ghost. Founder, @TheBeestonian Occasionally known as mere Matt Turpin. lordmattbeestonia@gmail.com

1,086 Followers 539 Following 1,669 Posts Joined Oct 2023
5 days ago

It's a word seeded by AI-philes as 'utterly madly wrong' tarnishes the brand somewhat.

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6 days ago
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Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:

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6 days ago

Started out the working day with a pile of marking, finished the working day having a chat with the Secretary of State for Education in our TV studio.

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6 days ago

I lived above a bar run by one of Holland's top drag artists and Bonnie Tyler was my landlady

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1 week ago

Is that from the archives? Or HMRC?

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1 week ago
Nottingham Castle in spring sun

It's a week of marking for me, so I've found a spot in the college where I can gaze out at the Castle (and the rather more unlovely Arndale carpark) while I plow through 52 portfolios. Never the fanciest castle - or a true castle at all, yet still looks lovely in the spring sun.

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1 week ago

Has to be Ange Postecoglou. He's ready with a team in the wings.

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1 week ago
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Manchester United fans unveiled a pro-immigration banner during Sunday’s fixture against Crystal Palace in response to comments from minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

More from @lauriewhitwell.bsky.social

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1 week ago
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Delighted to have this in the new issue of @leftlion.bsky.social : a love letter to Beeston, starring Sir Paul Smith, Gandhi, apparitions of bananas and why we should be the UK's first Town of Culture in 2028.

Available everywhere in Notts now!

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1 week ago

I still remember with far too much clarity a Radio 4 sketch in the late eighties, possibly featuring Steve Punt, which had the punchline 'Ayatollah Puddings"

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1 week ago

DHL Lawrence never delivered a book on time

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1 week ago

One of my students!

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1 week ago

Starmer to step down and let Ange Postecoglou have a crack at it

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2 weeks ago
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Spent 2-7 in a parent's evening tonight so I recorded my view of Nottingham hitting dusk

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2 weeks ago

There's a similar one in Nottingham - actually in a room where I once had an office. I'll take you sometime...

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2 weeks ago

That would be a beautiful thing

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2 weeks ago

What are the odds of Forest winning the Championship AND the Champions League next season? Both in the realms of possibility...

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2 weeks ago
The 'sir a second airplane' meme but it's warning King Harold a second army has landed in England. The account it's from is medieval memories

Sorry I saw this on insta and I had to share it

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2 weeks ago

I'm 52, and one of my earliest memories was routinely having my nostrils vacuumed at a clinic , then forgetting about it for years, then realising I should do something about it

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2 weeks ago

Edgelord Beestonia, apparently.

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2 weeks ago

I blame Meghan.

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3 weeks ago

Had a camera up my nostrils today. Apparently my septum isn't very good and the whole air is supposed to go into isn't there.on one side, which might explain why every trip to the dentist feels like a near death experience.

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3 weeks ago
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Kids are on the train to Lincoln with me. I've given them a pad and pens, and here's Masterpiece 1: "Angry Potato"

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3 weeks ago

The Ireton link is crazy, not just in relation to Cromwell but loads of other weird stuff

I really should write this down sometime

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3 weeks ago
Two children with binoculars in a wet nature reserve A beautiful display of crocuses outside the former residence of a regicide A rainbow over Attenborough Church/ Nature Reserve Turpins outside nature centre

Took kids on a Signs of Spring walk. Chucked it down throughout, and the paths in the nature reserve were flooded, but a brilliant spread of crocuses outside the former home of regicide Henry Ireton, then a rainbow.
Not quite spring, but it's coming...

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1 month ago

All four self checkout machines in the Tesco Express outside Nottingham Station all just completed their transactions within a half second of each other, resulting in a magically harmonic "Thank you for shopping at Tesco". It was like a barbershop quartet, or a retail Beachboys

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1 month ago
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Last night's meeting to make Beeston the first Town of Culture was ace: well over 100 attendees made it through the howling rain to take part. Gathered loads of good ideas, and the enthusiasm was off the scale. Here's the organizing team looking... somewhere

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1 month ago
Preview
Towns bid for £3m prize to boost local pride and happiness Bidders in one town said 'it's punching above its weight'

Me, wanging on again about why Beeston is the best town in The world (on certain metrics)
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

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