Meant to be taking the girl to look around Liverpool Uni… More train woes :(
Vanessa Pearce
@nesky999.bsky.social
BBC Midlands Today producer by day, Online features writer by night... MoC of WM News Online NUJ chapel. Coffee, cats and Coventry mainly, with a few gigs thrown in. https://muckrack.com/vanessa-pearce
Fargo the market cat checking his own merch.. Glad to hear he’s indoors now & no longer living under the bins
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...
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.
bbc.co.uk
Caught up with this earlier.. such a lovely listen - and a great book
George Bass@georgebas5.bsky.social · 2w agoFor anyone who likes their interviews broadcast old-school style: I’m on BBC Radio 4 tonight at 8pm talking to @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social about violent jobs, secret codes and how I’d chuck Michael out of a nightclub. No national treasures were harmed in the making of this programme.
'Indie and punk music made me feel I was betraying my race'
'Indie and punk music made me feel I was betraying my race'
Big Joanie's Stephanie Phillips sets out the history of black people and alternative music.
bbc.co.uk
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 🤞
A trickle of cases is now 40+ - each one horrendous - but Becky’s story is particularly shocking… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I had 11 years of chemotherapy for a cancer I didn't have
Becky Jones is among more than 40 people taking legal action against a hospital trust.
bbc.co.uk
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
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
Stewarding day one ✅. One found wallet, one drunk bloke and Madra Sallach’s accoustic set
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
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
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 😹
Here you go @justdroppedin.bsky.social @brimfulofnasha.bsky.social @harrisonanddunkley.bsky.social - apols for the cat puns - an overenthusiastic sub - but thanks for the top quotes and pic: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How stray cats in Coventry made rave nights and pubs their home
Fargo and Murphy are pulling in punters and even have their own range of merchandise.
bbc.co.uk
She seems to be doing a very half-arsed job as cat consultant for this piece
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.”
The Post@liverpoolpost.bsky.social · 2mo agoYour Monday edition is en route. In the meantime, why not check out our second of two great weekend reads? This one's a brilliant personal essay by David Lloyd, recounting his time in the mighty Half Man Half Biscuit. www.livpost.co.uk/i-was-nt-a-t...
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
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)
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
Off for fun in Germany with the girl.. obvs - given my rail record - already running 90 mins late…looking up Interrail delay repay
