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Andy Pearson

@alfdevaste.bsky.social
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Retired layabout.

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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wonder if the men arrested near Fairford so early in the morning were just going to a car boot sale.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Make a bend edible God Speed You Black pudding
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
10 acts I've seen as support acts: John Cooper Clarke (The Drones) Peter Hammill (Marillion) John Otway (Alan Davies) Cornershop (Alabama 3) Trembling Bells (The Unthanks) Girlschool (Motorhead) Van Halen (AC/DC) Chas & Dave (Led Zep) Max Wall (Ian Dury) Viv Stanshall (Viv Stanshall)
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Michael Sheen goes on a river cruise where he meets some eccentric and oddball caharacters.
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Heliotrope Bejams
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hey sonofhicks.bsky.social Some jazz for you.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Divide-and-rule - the strategy of spreading fear, anger, hatred against immigrants, people of a different colour, religion, accent, gender, age has been used by millionaires to retain their obscene wealth and corrupt power for centuries meme via The UK Against Hate
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful mouse And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful knife
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
After talking to the family David will do the decent thing and tell Harrison he wants Monty spared. Meanwhile Monty will have died in custody. #TheArchers #AmbridgeNostradamus
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Another #TheArchers post?
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Next week Linda & Kahlil spring Monty in an audacious raid on the police kennels. Clarrie runs up a beaver costume and he's sent into hiding at the rewilding. #TheArchers
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Absolutely brillianr.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I see a way for Harrison to redeem himself. If Chris murders Bert and Harrison helps him cover it up then he will have my undying respect. #TheArchers
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word: The Great Big Gatsby
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#TheArchers
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Whether Burnham succeeds or fails or will be better or worse than Starmer, he will never be as bad as those awful regressive Tories who pillaged this country and said ‘fuck you’ to the most vulnerable people in our society over a 14 year period.
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Kirsty should help Tom to get over this and I have some tips & tools that I'd be happy to pass on. The tools are a baseball bat and a knuckle duster. The tips are strike him repeatedly on his hard bits and grab & twist his soft bits. #TheArchers
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Jazzer's just been on the wireless singing a song about sheep. I'd have thought one about pigs would be more appropriate. #TheArchers
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Is Bert following the usual arc of starting nasty then softening? Maybe Linda's gonna be the one to shape him. #TheArchers
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Suggested names for Kirsty's baby- Tate, or Tatum if they are unlucky and have a girl (by George) Jocasta or Tristam (by the Gordons) Joseph or Josephine (by the Grundys) Kate (by Kate) Stirling Gold (by Helen) #TheArchers
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Nice one @libdems.org.uk 👍
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Arms of Onion
Prince - Purple Batman logo.
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Two Sevens Clash by Culture. A cheery, upbeat ditty about the coming apocalypse.
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
David will kill again. #TheArchers
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It's only a genuine #Illuminati if it originated in Bavaria. Otherwise it's just a sparkling secret society.
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Name 10 MOVIES you've seen on the big screen (original or re-release): Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150AD (first) The Exorcist (too young) Life of Brian Apocalypse Now Taxi Driver Alien Lord of the Rings Trilogy Poltergeist Dead Man's Shoes Sinners
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Keep shagging them flags.
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Absolute genius.
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Half Ma’am Half Brisket
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Tricia Ayrton @triciaayr.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Wuthering Hillocks
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Slightly diminish a book Duke of the Rings
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Tony could use some of his profits to buy a couple of Anguses to keep as pets. He could name them Tom and Helen. #TheArchers
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hey sonofhicks.bluesky.social This kind of thing gonna bring me round to your way of thinking.
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hey sonofhicks.bluesky.com This kind of thing gonna bring me round to your way of thinknig.
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hey There Delilah by Plain White Ts. If they used that on me in room 101 I'd be begging them to do it to Julia before it got to the first chorus.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes? From Treasure magazine, 1965 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I'm not saying that @mrsnodes.bsky.social is definitely an emisarry of the Elder Gods preparing the way for the rise of Cthulhu, I'm just suggesting that it might be a possibility. #EldritchAmbridge
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Vvv vvvv’s Vvvv. Vvvv Vvvv. - Sweep as James Bond.
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Thinking of sending #TheArchers publicists a dictionary so they can look up the meaning of rampage.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Away in a manger, the French for 'to eat', a oisseau's a birdy, and pieds is your feet.
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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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Andy Pearson @alfdevaste.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
They're staying at the Traitors castle aren't they? Mark Bonnar's been hiding since Celebrity Traitors ended and now he's pretending to be a local. Is Helen going to be murdered in the night? (fingers crossed). #TheArchers
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
sometimes you look at a duck and you just know he's thinking "might do a quack in a minute"
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
While it may seem redundant to say “pump it up” after encouraging the listener to “pump up the jam,” the author is underscoring the urgency of pumping up said jam; leaving us to ponder the bleakness of living in a world devoid of it.
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Boatman Cryptics @boatmancryptics.co.uk · 14/11/2025
It's the Seasonal Reposting Competition! Repost this over the weekend, and on Sunday one lucky person will win a signed copy of one of my books. For you or the #crossword addict in your life: 50 fiendish @theguardian.com #puzzles and all the stories behind them: boatmancryptics.co.uk/crossword-bo...
Boatman - the first 50 reportedly makes a great present or holiday read, exemplified by this image of the book opened to show the story behind the Shipping Forecast puzzle, on display on Brighton beach.

Reviewing Boatman - the first 50, Alan Connor (The Guardian's crossword editor and the brains behind many of BBC2’s quiz programs) says: "This is one to savour. Boatman's puzzles are witty and ingenious. It is an extraordinary pleasure to read how his unique mind works. The first 50 is a book I never knew I needed in my life. Gift it to yourself and to the word-lovers in yours".

Hugh Stephenson (Alan’s predecessor at The Guardian) says: "This is a unique book of crosswords" and Henry Morris: "a Boatman crossword is like a theme park. Each daunting line is a rollercoaster ... He scares you witless. But you can't wait to do it all over again".Boatman - the second 50 contains another 50 puzzles from The Guardian, with five bonus puzzles previously only available online and including puzzles, solutions and the ideas and stories behind them, exemplified by this image of the book opened to show one of the stories, which is accompanied by a picture of a large cow.

Reviewing Boatman - the second 50, Gyles Brandreth says: "If you want a fiendish crossword, you want the best - which means you want Boatman, because he is the best" and Brian Bilston: "Cracking crosswords - each puzzle a delightful daily workout for the brain and a welcome tonic for the soul".
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of scarecrows I have stumbled across during walks in the British countryside over the last fifteen years.
A scarecrow who has just watched Monty Python's The Holy Grail for the first timeA scarecrow who is feeling pleased with himself after forming a 1950s sci-fi themed surf rock band, of which he is the sole memberA scarecrow who is dolled up and ready for a night out in the fanciest part of NewcastleA very pleasant and well-meaning scarecrow who will paint your house for a competitive rate while rhapsodising about the beauty of the land
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