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Alistair Leadbetter

@indolentfop.bsky.social
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Fop, likes ideas, food, beer, books, and Sunderland AFC. Doesn't like fascists, bigots, bullies, or celery.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a good one. It's in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral. Not so much a portrait of his character, but wise words and a nice couplet at the end.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I bought this in the early 80s and it was unrelentingly great.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The magnificent Llangernyw Yew. This tree is possibly 4,000 - 5,000 years old. Maybe one of the oldest trees in the world. It's fractured, but that's at least partly down to an oil tank being placed in the middle of it. 🙄
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Vox pops really are the laziest and ridiculous form of reporting. Let's amplify the most uninformed and small minded opinions!
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
These small plastic pellets are called #nurdles. After a ship collided with a crane on the #Tyne, these are washing up in South Shields and have now been seen on the beaches of North #Tyneside. Keep your kids and animals away from them.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This week's Men's Pie Club recipe was from #Curaçao. Keshi Yena is supposed to be served in a hollowed out Dutch cheese, so I had to adapt it. Very good.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ground elder is a curse in the garden. But it was originally introduced as a leafy vegetable by the Romans. So I have made ravioli stuffed with ricotta, parmesan, and ground elder. Not bad at all. #food #cookery
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
To celebrate #CaboVerde's magnificent performances at the #WorldCup, we made a Cabo Verdean feijoada pie at this week's Mens Pie Club. Mmmm pies 😋
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Ducks in the parent and toddler parking area. Ducks do what they want.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Eh?
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
It's fair to say that about a third of Americans are as thick as mince, are nasty, and bigoted. Is this a standard global percentage that applies everywhere? I'd like to be smug but I do suspect that a third of the people here in the UK are as stupid and awful too.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Yeah, it's puerile but an accumulation of attacks on Reform is OK by me.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I don't think there's any beavers, but here's Randy Bell End, near Runswick Bay in North Yorkshire.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Pablo #Picasso never got called an asshole Not like you. Street art in #Málaga.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Went to the Whitley Bay v North Shields match last night (the third El Coastico of the season). Went to bed thinking Whitley Bay had won 2-0. Woke up this morning to find it had finished 2-1. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
A genealogy website I use has a lookalike feature. Yep, me and Johannes Kepler is its best guess.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This app turns everything into glorious LinkedIn speak. "I went to the supermarket"
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Trickle down economics. A cartoon by Tjeerd Royards
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Trebles all round for the disaster capitalists
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Saw David Byrne last night in Glasgow. It was a fantastic gig, truly euphoric and joyous. I'm so jealous of the people who are yet to see him on the rest of the tour. It's fabulous.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The UK's most laughable columnist (from a strong field) is rightly mocked. Create your own doom mongering headline here stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
My painting of a #trilobite* might not be very good and it looks like a poo (to be fair, the fossil looks like a poo), but at least I created it and it's not #AIslop. Make art ✊ *The best fossil class.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Age verification? In my first job, data was encoded onto punch tape. I was able to read it.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Whole roast spiced cauliflower on a herby, nutty rice, with a tahini dressing. I even managed to get some tahdig on the rice. ✊ Taken from Meera Sodha's wonderful book, Dinner.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Fifty odd pages in, really excellent and very readable 👍
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Grifters gonna grift
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Shot in one of my local pubs. A classic series.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Neither Stuart Maconie nor Mark Radcliffe will get their hands on these. Brets might be one of the best crisp brands.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Spent the morning at the wonderful Big River Bakery in Shieldfield learning how to make the north eastern classic stottie. Smells divine
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If you genuinely think that this is about security, then I have a fabulous bridge that you might like to buy. I'll chuck a lovely big metal tower in for free.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Your house? 🤔
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I was in my local pub the other day and I was thrilled to see this graffiti. Not because I liked the Butthole Surfers, but because at least one other person remembers them.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I know they were people who loved this, but honestly, what a dreadful mess of chaotic bollocks. I would have left if there hadn't been so people between me and the aisle.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Bloody Spotify. I was already going to take my business elsewhere, but this has really made my mind up.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The face of the 70s.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I will never forgive David Moyes for his catastrophic time as #SAFC manager, but he he slightly redeemed himself with his sage advice on Tunnocks. If you can find the toasted coconut ones or dark chocolate ones, even better.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
New bad gig photo: Phoebe Lunny from Lambrini Girls at The Boiler Shop in Newcastle last night. #LambriniGirls #BoilerShop
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Next one in a neverending sequence of bad gig photos. Wet Leg at the O2 in Glasgow last night. Fortunately they were way better than my photography might suggest. Plenty of availability in my photography contract calendar still. 🤣
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Eat the ultra rich, or they will eat us. #graffiti #Paris
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is the best I can get so far Ade
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Today's pie at Men's Pie Club was a cassoulet pie, with duck, sausage, and pork belly. Fancy I know, but I had a tin of confit duck in the cupboard. I mean, who hasn't? 🙄🤣 #food #recipes #cookery
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Eh?
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Paris metro from the rear. On Sunday
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Two of many bad concert photos I've taken. Patti Smith last night at l'Olympia in Paris. A fabulous gig made all the better for Parisians' reverence and adoration for Patti.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
#5debutalbums8084 I can't see this being high in the final rankings, but it's definitely one of my top five. Loved this album then and still play it now. The Three Johns - Atom Drum Bop
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I've remembered to decant my blackcurrant vodka. I've forgotten in previous years and I've ended up with a sloppy vodka jelly.
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Today's recipe is a beetroot and caramelised red onion tarte tatin. It really benefits from being served with goats cheese on the top. #food #cooking
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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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