Nigel Pepper

Nigel Pepper

@fredbat.bsky.social

Runner's roadie and photographer. Also rugby league fan and statto. Originally from Stoke but 40+ years in Yorkshire

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Nigel Pepper
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I take it Zia Yusuf will be as strident into calling for police investigation of those seeking to ruin the lives of #RNLI staff and volunteers

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very sad as the whole incident at Yorkshire Wildlife Park is, I can't help wondering how the BBC website algorithm equates being a temporary postie with the incident

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Any other ground with a pitch this bad would not get any future matches but as its Lord's an exception gets made. Meanwhile the ground where England have the best record recently doesn't get a game next season. Time to move the second Ashes test to Headingley. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

theguardian.comMisbehaving Lord’s pitch is a return to unpredictable era of unplayable chaosThe wicket was not as bad as the one in June but presented enough challenges for the MCC to call in specialists
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Sky disrespecting the Women's T20 here. As soon as stumps was called at Trent Bridge they just have said coverage on main event over, catch us on the cricket channel.

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I can only assume Sainsbury's are selling GM vegetables as young Charlotte is scanning bare broccoli, potatoes and carrots. Do they now have a barcode?

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I look up a book (yes a BOOK) on Amazon and it reckons these are other products it should recommend to me (moth killer, hair wax & a tool for cleaning between bathroom tiles). I think the algorithm is having an LSD trip

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Very sad news that Ourea Events - organisers of the Dragon's Back Race among others - have ceased trading. The Northern Traverse was due in only two weeks time. #ultrarunning

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Been lucky enough to acquire this almost unbroken sequence of YHA membership cards. Miss Florence Madge Phillips, born in Crewe in 1912, joined YHA on 1st June 1932, just before her 20th birthday. Went on to become a teacher in Heanor, Derbyshire and then a youth worker in Wakefield & ... 1/3

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2/3 ... Leicestershire. I don't know what happened to her after that. The cards from 1939 onwards show she was reasonably active - even during the war years, but the hostel stamps end in 1953, despite her continued membership until the 1960s. The one that stands out for me is 1939 where ...

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3/3 ... after her trip to Wood Cottage, Holmfirth, the rest of the stays are for hostels in France, mostly along the eastern border, just a couple of weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War. I wonder what the atmosphere was like?

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Why is everyone saying Farage was "tricked"? No he wasn't, he'll do anything for the money and showed his stupidity by faiing to check what he was saying before he said it.