Lord Beestonia

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.

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

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.

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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!

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"

DHL Lawrence never delivered a book on time

One of my students!

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

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

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

That would be a beautiful thing

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

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

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

Edgelord Beestonia, apparently.

I blame Meghan.

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.

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

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

I really should write this down sometime

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...

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

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

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...

I've had many, many jobs in my life but I still have recurring nightmares at least twice a week that I still work at Stapleford Co-Op replenishing and facing up Pet Foods, and am late for my shift. I stopped working there in 1993.

Beestonians! Assemble! Sunday!

Adore him. I was doing some work last year for one of his best friends and was assured he was just as human, just as deeply souled as his stories.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Broxtowe towns Beeston and Kimberley bidding for UK Town of Culture 2028 Two parts of Nottinghamshire think they have what it takes to become the first UK Town of Culture.

I'll be on BBC Radio Nottingham at about 8.05am to bang on about why Beeston IS the 2028 Town of Culture and we just need to get the Government and Phil Redmond to confirm.
Also: BBC News:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...