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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

Clip from the BBC website listing other news sites reporting the incident at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. From other local news sites

Yorkshire Wildlife Park tiger attack latest - everything we know so far as police issue 'do not share' warning
Yorkshire Post

‘Shots fired’ after tiger 'attacks man' at Yorkshire Wildlife Park - zoo evacuated
Yorkshire Evening Post

Yorkshire Wildlife Park issue statement after tiger attack
External
Rotherham Advertiser

Man seriously injured in wildlife park tiger attack, police confirm
External
Rotherham Advertiser

Man 'seriously injured' after entering tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Yorkshire Post

The Royal Mail Christmas jobs you can already apply for near Leeds
Yorkshire Evening Post

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

reminds me of the episode of Yes Prime Minister where they're looking to smear Hacker's predecessor "The PM's recollection is at variance with his predecessor's." ""Passage of time and separation from official records have perhaps clouded his memory"

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I think the BBC website is suffering from the heat. Burnsall is a fair way from Cumbria, isn't it ?@bbclooknorth.bsky.social

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I hope he has one lined up for the rest of the week

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Prosecco for one - the ultimate sadness?

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only:

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Good luck trying to find a plumber on Easter Sunday

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

If you see this drop a hero with a sword

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Windchill - the full formula is horrendously complicated but a good approximation is subtract 2°C for every 10 mph (16 km/h) windspeed

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

what won't he say for money?

A piece of white paper with the single sentence "this page left intentionally left blank" on it.

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Couldn't have been more timely.

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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?

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 three storied stone house that formed the youth hostel at Holmfirth

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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

a series of YHA membership cards from 1932 to 1961 in the name of F M Phillips.

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Might be true, according to this extract from the Grauniad

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Coffee on the keyboard at this

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Leeds - The Light. Saturday 31st. No takers yet

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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.

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Casablanca premiered this day in 1942. I wonder if the friendship is still going?

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

One of our aircraft is missing

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Well done Skipton Building Society for this Remembrance Day presentation. 1/2

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Strangely enough I saw this memorial to the Barnoldswick men who died only the other day

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

This afternoon I will be listening to Ladies of Letters in memory of Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge.

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Sorry but the redesign is a complete dog's dinner. Currently I get all this information on one screen (the next 18 hours). The beta requires me to scroll down 4 times to get the same detail (as well as selecting the detailed forecast tab) and click right to get only another 6 hours.

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

So now I get all this information on one screen (the next 82 hours). The beta requires me to scroll down 4 times to get the same detail (as well as selecting the detailed forecast tab) and click right to get another 6 hours and then again for the following 6.

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I don't know if it was unique but this mobile tea/coffee bar in the shape of a teapot was on Blackpool beach. Not sure of the date, late 40s/50s?

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

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

sad news, but good excuse to dig out this Far Side cartoon

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

well scum does tend to float to the surface

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Thank you @universityofleeds.bsky.social for putting the Art Trail together. A very enjoyable morning wandering round campus. Also pleasing to know that Red Route still sqeaks.

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

“If you see this, post a Castle”

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Hats (or is it pants) off to Sarah Dempster of @theguardian.com for this review of the historical accuracy of The Tudors.

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.

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The hours (days/weeks/months) I spent playing Elite when I should have been doing proper work (code rewriting and checking) on the BBC Micro. Luckily we had a Bitstick which made control so much easier and "realistic"

A Bitstick - early pointing device - for the BBC Micro.

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Nigel Pepper @fredbat.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

very soon he'll get to go straight on, while the sprinters around him have their little side excursion up the Cheviot.

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