@peterwanless.bsky.social
Former CEO of NSPCC (2013-2024) now available for all sorts of bits and bobs. President of Somerset County Cricket Club, Ebbsfleet United fan and proud owner of a functioning iPod classic
The vote for the 2025 Festive 50 is officially OPEN!
Please send me your top 10 tracks from 2025 before the vote closes on 14th December.
Votes can be public by replying or @ ing me on a post (no hashtags) or in private by sending me a DM.
Please also spread the word cos we need more voters!!!
Job done. My #iPod playthrough is complete. All tracks listened to and rated. Thanks for being with me 😀
29.11.2025 13:25 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beatles in slot 6450 #myiPod playthrough is nearly complete
29.11.2025 12:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
So #myiPod playthrough is nearly complete - You Won’t Find Another Fool Like Me is posted here because it was the first single I ever bought (with a record token I won in a kids BBC competition for my music-related joke)
29.11.2025 12:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Here we go again - Crawley and Duckett unlikely to accumulate runs calmly for the next couple of hours ….
22.11.2025 02:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Two overs and no wickets - are we in for a less frenetic night’s cricket today? #ashes2025
22.11.2025 02:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What a night’s cricket. I will sleep well today #ashes2025
21.11.2025 09:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0England doing ok against county medium pacers Boland and Doggett
21.11.2025 03:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Test match progressing at a pace which suggests sleeping patterns won’t be disturbed for too long this weekend
21.11.2025 03:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Typical Crawley - 0-1 😡
21.11.2025 02:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ok let’s do this #ashes
21.11.2025 02:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I feel like I’ve earned it 😀 Helps when you don’t have to be working the next day
20.11.2025 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to watching the whole day’s play - if it’s interesting enough am confident I’ll be awake
20.11.2025 17:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Track 6400 from a free CD of David Bowie cover versions #myiPod
20.11.2025 14:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Should be more comfortable in less cramped, less orange surroundings when proceedings begin tonight
20.11.2025 13:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Likewise - time to adjust sleeping patterns for a few weeks
20.11.2025 08:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Through the 99% point of #myiPod playthrough with Local Natives from California and Neil Young from Canada
18.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Dears with track 6350 of 6456 on #myiPod playthrough
16.11.2025 15:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reached the 98% point of #myiPod playthrough with this Athlete track while weeding this morning
16.11.2025 10:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Early Bloc Party in slot 6300 of 6456 as we enter the home straight of #myiPod playthrough
11.11.2025 16:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dug up a few potatoes this morning
09.11.2025 10:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two absolute bangers as we pass the 97% point of #myiPod playthrough
07.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
38 years ago today I went to an entertaining football match in Manchester
07.11.2025 16:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vintage U2 in slot 6250 of #myiPod playthrough. Just 206 tracks to go 😢
07.11.2025 15:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And we have classic ELO in slot 6200 of 6456 on #myiPod playthrough
31.10.2025 12:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Manchester based electronic trance band Delphic have their debut single at the 96% point of #myiPod playthrough
31.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A slice of “afrobeat and rockabilly infused post punk from Leeds band The Wild Beasts as we track track 6150 on #myiPod playthrough
26.10.2025 11:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Only taken three and a half years but now 95% through #myiPod playthrough
23.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
