Alistair

You know it's a Yorkshire CAMRA magazine when it has a detailed discussion of the value for money of Guinness, featuring B&M Bargains

Just missing the giant Gloria Gaynor digital advertising on Bradford Live

Big N64 Energy

However, some of the new urban realm in Bradford is lovely

I think my hotel & environs are going for a 'most 1990s regen possible' award

For people that nod sagely when someone references the Lincolnshire Poacher and Swedish Rhapsody.

The ‘number station’ sending mystery messages to Iran Radio station is broadcasting what appears to be coded orders in Farsi, echoing the cold war

Among all the other news, I had missed that there's a new Number Station. This will make a very specific part of the internet happy as they get to sleuth.

The ‘number station’ sending mystery messages to Iran - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

I'll take any excuse to repost Chris Killip. This is what the area looked like a year later.

Of all the hotels I stay in in and around Leeds, this is winning the award for 'best view of a nearby car park and road junction'

It's a big day for everyone, by which I mean the Dutch fish doorbell is back
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Bluesky will not have the juice until it starts recommending me UK traffic light fan accounts.

How far was that in metres?

This also works for certain people's blogposts

Endorsement of @acjsissons.bsky.social Big February from this sunny morning in Leeds

My local paper appears to believe 70 miles away now counts as nearby

I enjoyed staying in Holešovice when I went. I even ended up going to a consultation on the Prague local plan hosted in a shipping container.

(I never actually read that one, only Simulacra and Simulation, so no idea if that even works)

The Singular Objects of Architecture?
Not with my building skills in Second Life!!!

Is 1974 recent?

Or Tennents

But I obviously endorse anyone with live bus times in their pub

I'm not sure I endorse a pub with more than half their beers over 10%

I'm hoping for points from the fact my parents had their wedding reception at the Beaconsfield

The Leeds office area does also have a Pret and a Caffe Nero, but we aren't yet at the Leon stage.

What about 'Your favourite pub on the Fell is a class signifier' discourse? A topic I have just invented.

And something called Loose Box, which can only survive due to a continued stream of leaving drinks.

I'm not sure of the class signifiers of a Greggs below a civil service hub, I'm sure someone can let me know.

We were a bit lacking in choice otherwise tbh

The new Government Hub in Newcastle has received the most important local retail addition.

Bored another set of colleagues today with Harold Wilson's 1974 'Little things that mean a lot'. The poor Open University being alone in not getting a tick.