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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 12h

Lovely chatting to Elizabeth for this - she has a whole other story too… She’s donated the images to the city archive: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Teen's lost Coventry archive found after six decades in attic

Photographer Elizabeth Tyler rediscovered the images, on display until 2 October, in her attic.

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Caught up with this earlier.. such a lovely listen - and a great book

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Daughter’s driving test app tests on roads leading up to the Green Man festival site… She’s off on DofE expedition tomorrow that also ends there .. and I just got to chat to Steph Phillips from @bigjoanieband.bsky.social after seeing her talk there … It’s all adding up to me getting tickets on Sat 🤞

The Bridge Inn at Crickhowell from the DVLA’s driving test app

An OS Explorer map of the Brecon Beacons National Park

Stephanie Phillips, singer and guitarist from Big Joanie

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Last shift completed, unfortunately it was the “sorry you can’t cut through here any more” fortunately had read @georgebas5.bsky.social ‘s excellent bible on dealing with hungover grumps :) Absolutely cracking year

A last look at the beautiful Green Man Festival site on the Glanusk Estate

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Second stewarding shift - the holy grail apparently - 6-2am on the Mountain stage: Cate Le Bon, Nation of Language, Beta Band and Four Tet- one lost phone and a load of post-Four Tet huggers - peak Green Man

The Beta Band on the beautiful Mountain Stage at Green Man Festival

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Stewarding day one ✅. One found wallet, one drunk bloke and Madra Sallach’s accoustic set

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I know we’ve all been praying for rain but it didn’t have to be the *exact* moment I was putting up my tent… Still the best day of the year though :) @greenmanfest.bsky.social

The Green Man Festival site resplendent in the sunshine (just before a massive shower)

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just happened to be passing and learned exactly how you shift a listed lump of William Mitchell concrete cc @aaronjlaw.bsky.social @grindrod.bsky.social

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

These aren’t going to cut it are they!

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Honestly, these cats have brought so much joy today, topped off with seeing them on the Front Page alongside Infantino and Perez Hilton - all the 😹

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Anyone else been having pesky fly trouble… this is so good 🪰

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

She seems to be doing a very half-arsed job as cat consultant for this piece

A sleepy tortoiseshell cat lounges in front of a screen where I’m writing a story about cats

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

So many brilliant lines in this… “Nigel.. would hurl himself into the crowd and tuck himself into the foetal position, screaming ‘I hate Nerys Hughes’ to the sweaty young fans in Utrecht or The Hague who, it’s fair to assume, had never seen an episode of District Nurse, let alone The Liver Birds.”

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Top reporting assignment today - on the trail of Cov’s most popular cats… Both got the memo and turned up for their interviews - Fargo the cat @justdroppedin.bsky.social and Murphy at The Windmill.. @peterdunkley.bsky.social .. Weekend reading incoming

Fargo the black and white cat sits on the desk at Just Dropped In record store

Murphy the black and white cat is asleep on a chair at The Old Windmills pub

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

After a week of an absolutely buggered German rail timetable (part of the holiday experience -ish) you can’t beat Euston to Cov in 54 mins (when it works)

The scene from a train window as we speed from Euston to Coventry in 54 minutes

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Took refuge from the 37c heat in Berlin’s computer games museum… Managed to get on the top ten score on Asteroids :) All those 10ps on a misspent youth were were it

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Off for fun in Germany with the girl.. obvs - given my rail record - already running 90 mins late…looking up Interrail delay repay

The glass roof of Kings Cross St Pancras station

Blue and yellow livery of a Eurostar train

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Goodies - 1980 titles

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Julianne Regan @julianneregan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Libraries gave us power. www.coventrytelegraph.net/incoming/gal...

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Libraries in Coventry through the years

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Working the late shift so daughters said she’d make a “surprise” tea… 😬

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/07/2026

NEWS: A Florida judge has ordered Donald Trump to turn over financial records sought by the BBC in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit. The judge granted the BBC's motion to compel records from Trump's revocable trust, handing the broadcaster a MAJOR early win in discovery.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

R.I.P. Kevin Keegan.

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Been doing some video editing this week… getting to grips with the new subtitling tool The Conformatron.. and the old faithful Project-O-Matic

A scary looking robot next to the subtitling software name The Conformatron.. underneath is the name Project-o-Matic

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Daughter just asked if she was allowed to go to a gig in London on a Sunday night… offering to get the overnight train back to Cov in time for school … proud parent moment :)

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Rail lines buggered north of Cov… two-hour trip from Lancaster currently on course to take seven… channelled my inner Count Binface and told the youths to stop playing annoying music on their phone speakers #winning

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Honestly just been sent a portrait of Jude Bellingham made from chicken nuggets… how’s your day going?

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Bees absolutely loving the gardens at Cov’s Charterhouse… Lovely lunch spot 🐝 🐝

A bee on an echinacea plant - it has pinkish petals around an orange centre

Bees on a people flowering artichoke-type thing

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I just can't imagine what the future will be.

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Like my job most days but getting to write about Terry makes it a special day… oh and a very old bird… Weekend reading incoming

A black and white image of lovely Terry Hall. He’s smiling and holding a microphone. Getty Images.

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NUJ London Freelance @nujlfb.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"These cuts will irreparably damage coverage. Leadership should reconsider this rash decision and the government should urgently intervene to maintain jobs and the BBC’s global reputation," said the NUJ's Laura Davison. #BackOurBBC buff.ly/wHZ38Ry

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Cutting foreign correspondents risks BBC’s global reputation, says NUJ

The NUJ is calling on the BBC to reconsider its decision to cut dedicated foreign stringers (correspondents).

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Just went to interview a bloke who said “you’ll recognise me as I’m dressed as Sinbad the Sailor” .. novel…lovely story though about Coventry’s forgotten impressionist - Sydney Bunney - look at these beauts

A 1913 watercolor showing the building of Coventry’s Council House by Sydney Bunney held at the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery

A Sydney Bunney watercolour with a view of the Victorian Coventry skyline over Spencer Park

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Al Ryan @alryanradio.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The end of an era - After almost a century we said goodbye this morning to our great companion of the airwaves Radio 4 198 LW. I shall miss her warmth and crackle. Here’s the final sign off at the end of #theshippingforecast before she fell silent… ❤️

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In other news it’s catch the cat day … she knows 🐱

A tortoiseshell cat just before a battle to catch her

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Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

There’s a meet tonight - and every month @justdroppedin.bsky.social - also a special zine making night on 17 July @hvymetaltherapycov.bsky.social @heavymetalofficial.bsky.social

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