Nigel Pepper

@fredbat.bsky.social

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

A piece of white paper with the single sentence "this page left intentionally left blank" on it.
Inside a 1939 YHA membership card showing the hostels visited. Listed here are several French hostels with visit dates in the second half of August 1939.
a series of YHA membership cards from 1932 to 1961 in the name of F M Phillips.
a mobile tea bar on the beach at Blackpool. The whole thing is shaped like a tea pot with a spout on the front (above the tow bar) and a handle on the rear
rear view of cricket Joe Root showing his name and squad number "66" - from his nickname Root 66.
Written review of The Tudors (2007-10) Verily, my liege, this idiot Canadian-Irish co-production does dance a merry jig upon the very concept of historical accuracy, with its Irish Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), its ripped courtiers and Joss Stone as Anne of Cleves. There is the occasional grudging nod to Actual Historical Stuff (the Reformation, wives etc). But it's mostly just Henry banging his way around Tudor England, his bum cheeks jack-hammering with such ferocity that they are little more than a meaty blur, like a deli counter viewed from the top deck of a speeding bus in the rain.
A Bitstick - early pointing device - for the BBC Micro.
Cartoon. On the wall is a sign saying Lancaster bomber crew annual dinner. Several men are sitting around the table. All are facing the table except one, who has his chair turned and he is looking out of the window. One of the other men is explaining to his neighbour "That's Henderson, our rear gunner".
newspaper headline reading "Bradford man unleashed revenge attack on garden gnome with shovel"