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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 12h

Those festival long drops are getting a bit fancy.

Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 13h

He opened my junior school's refurbished library in the 90s. Reckon that was quietly dropped after he went to prison. Nobody really knew who he was anyway.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 16h

Albion Women at home against Tier 4 Notts County in the FA Cup First Round Proper. Should be a routine one for us. #WBA #WomensFACup

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Walnuts @mrwalnuts.bsky.social · 17h

The panel decided that nobody does it better

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Evening. A dominant 3-0 away win for Albion Women at Derby to go third in the league and 7 in a row in all competitions. #WBA #FAWNL

Ella Haughey breaks into the box for West Bromwich Albion in the FA Women's National League Northern Premier Division game against Derby County at Mickleover Sports Club.

Players from both teams queue up in the box for a Spot the Ball contest.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Grim. Everything is just so underresourced. Hope you're holding up okay.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

£3.50 for the house bitter in my local.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Social media has been rotting for over a decade yet it has enabled nearly all of my offline friendships. I've met all but two of my Facebook connections. Those I knew from the IRC days. It's fine making a show of deleting your accounts and demanding others do the same – some people rely on them.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Eight quid for a shitty Neck Oil in Scruffy's the other week.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It isn't punishing the fans and the fans won't be worse-off. They aren't entitled to watch a successful team any more than Leeds or Portsmouth's fans when they dropped down the divisions. Whatever punishment the club is given is the club's alone and the club is ultimately accountable to the fans.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The correct answer to Newport is a tactical nuke at the top of the Corpa but there's a lot of nice countryside as you get out of town on the Nash Road. You've got the sea wall at Goldcliff and the nearby Wetlands. The relief road either cuts them off or wipes them out.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Disappointed by Albion Facebook's lack of horse jokes on Neil Clement's birthday. It wasn't a day at the races to play against Clem. He wasn't one to lay down when it mattered. #WBA

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looks like causing serious injury by careless driving is the most they could get. Couldn't prove the drink/drugs so dangerous driving disappeared with it. Pleading guilty probably kept him out of prison.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I spent an inordinate amount of time creating my Regulatory Litigation spell so the least you can do is enjoy it. The incantation is engraved on the Star of Asterisk. Mansour, Book-cooking, One-fourteen charges proved. Mansour, Book-cooking, One-fourteen charges proved... #MCFC

The Star of Asterisk, an edited screengrab of the Star of Astoroth from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone who wants to reintroduce it here is a clear wrong 'un. Like, we had it before and used it to get rid of kids for nicking a loaf of bread. And even when you're absolutely sure the person's nailed on guilty, no you're bloody not.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These stories should include a photo of the bike involved to jog people's memories, or police should state the model so we can see if it was really a motorist.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Albion Women away to Norton & Stockton Ancients in the next round of the #FAWNL Cup. Looking like the end of a thereabouts 60-game run for me. Don't want to drive all that way for a cup game unless I can get something else into the journey. Watch us win 8-0 now. #WBA

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

LOL. Many cards were marked when mine passed. Belated happy birthday!

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Sleaford Gooner @sleafordgooner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Edit; sham audit! Is a perfect anagram of: Etihad Stadium

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can never be too harsh on Knighthead Town.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It just wasn't a thing in secondary school in the 90s. Even at juniors there were no consequences for sitting quietly. Feet wouldn't touch if they tried it on with any little one I was responsible for.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jim Dyson needs to hear those words more often.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Think your phone's ducking with you.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have you tried the local bachelor farms or a rescue centre?

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let this be your introduction to Blind Guardian.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why not share the load equally?

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Evening. A 2-0 win against Sporting Khalsa this afternoon gave Albion the points and first place in Group N of the #FAWNL Cup. Should have been a bigger score but Khalsa made it difficult to break them down and their keeper played a blinder, including a penalty save. #WBA

Katy-Jay Smith at full stretch to keep out Rhianne Oakley's penalty in the FAWNL Cup Group N game between West Bromwich Albion and Sporting Khalsa at Alexander Stadium, Perry Barr.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think our lad here just has a problem with women speaking.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Vivid memories of being 15, reffing one of my first games and this wretched of a woman marching onto the pitch to shout at me because she didn't like a decision. Coaches of course did sod all. I didn't have a clue what to do. Doesn't sound like much has changed in the last 25-30 years.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I realise Jim is the only person reading this and knowing what the fuck I'm talking about.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Had been looking at Quest Fest in dinglehampton in a fortnight and thinking £60 is a bit much when I only want to see Fortune Teller and Masterplan. Would have gone if they'd added Roses Of Thieves, who are supporting Myrath's tour. But they haven't so I'm not going.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No, you didn't want "the wife"'s opinion. Perhaps, and I know this might be difficult for you to grasp, maybe "the wife" – Erika – is entitled to her own voice.

xkcd.com

Listen to Yourself

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I just felt another hundred hairs turn grey.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But it's people like this knob who saw a bloke on a hired e-bike Slowing Them Down – their whining being picked up by Chin-Stroking Sensibles who think their dickhead mates Dave Hill and Jon Stewart are authoritative voices on local transport – that make roads more hostile.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some people want a little visual production to help them along. You don't have to agree. Bit mean to make an example of them.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Four. I've seen four of these. I'm not really a telly person. Not in the list, I liked The Dead Zone but I don't think Sky bothered to show the later series.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Currently on my third tea. On a normal day it would probably be my fifth or sixth. Eight cups a day is about my usual. I don't drink coffee.

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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Back when I wrote Lost Lanes North, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park was free to enter if you arrived by bike (or on foot or public transport). If you arrived by car, you had to pay a parking fee. Today, car parking is free, and all visitors pay the same entry fee.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cycling back from Heartlands earlier I had a very impatient driver behind me with enough grasp of physics not to be dangerous but entitled enough to lean on his horn because Must Get In Front. Dear reader, I turned around and I shushed him like a parent scolding a naughty child.

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Robert Downey Jr. Shushes

Alt: Shush.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The anaesthetists rawdogged one before the op to make sure it was safe to put me under. I Was Not Dignified.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Benign, not cancerous but abnormal and the doctor's requested a CT scan to find out more. I wheeze on. He stuck another bloody camera up my nose so my throat is funny from huffing numbing gel.

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Stephen Perrin @steperrin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nearly missed my appointment because my time management is appalling and turned up wheezing from trying to push hard on a Limebike, but it's ok because the doctor isn't even here.

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