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Alyn Nicholls
@alyn.bsky.social
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Chartered Town Planner. Making geography and trying not to leave a mess. Food, music, older motor cars, model making and other stuff. RTPI Independent Consultants Network. Views my own.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 57m
We've all been there where novice bands use a gig as a rehersal session.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 1h
Joyous might be the work you're looking for? I do enjoy a steel drum.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 2h
Are you sure they were not jazz steel drummers?
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 2h
Luncheon: a marvellously blokey event talking tanks, old motors, school dinners and Airfix.
Sustenance: Yorkshire pud and oxtail, followed by liver, bacon & mash. Accompanied by a Barnsley Bitter.
A Yorkshire pudding in a rich oxtail gravy with unnecessary green stuff, on a white plate flanked by eating irons on pristine white table linen. Calf’s liver on a bed of mashed potatoes and topped with rashers of bacon, all swimming in rich onion gravy. On the background is a pint of Barnsley Bitter. This plate of food cannot be improved upon!
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 11h
Oh, looks like my first Spitfire...Conifer Green and a hard top (just for winter)...
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Morris_Oxford @podders.bsky.social · 20h
The car chase:

youtu.be/LHgQgd95Hrg?...
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 21h
Inside No.9 Stage Fright (again)
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 23h
My view of the stage this evening…
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 1d
Like the Woolworths of my youth…without the loose biscuits in tins by the door.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 1d
It’s the 14th October, I’ve heard a Christmas tune in a posh shop at Cheshire Oaks (They we’re apologetic…I was on a site visit); @plplanning.bsky.social ‘s had a mince pie…but we’ve done Waitrose and have full provisions for Mrs.N’s Christmas cakes and panettone…
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 5d
Mrs.N’s been on fire this morning: every arrow within the 10 ring!
(I was less accurate).
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 6d
Like a trainset outside my Manchester hotel window…
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 7d
My thoughts yesterday evening was they could do with a proper drinks buyer.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 7d
At the @rtpiplanners.bsky.social National Town Planning Conference in Manchester. Lovely to bump into fellow Independent Consultants and those interested in the Independent Consultants Network
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 8d
Kate and Sidney with the Motherlode…
Beef and kidney pie with mushy peas, mash, gravy and crispy onions.
Marvellous - but not quite as charismatic as at @nathbrudenell.bsky.social
Accompanied by a glass of the mighty Merlot.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 8d
Always the pre-show dining experience at @nathbrudenell.bsky.social !
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 8d
So, I’m in Manchester for the @rtpiplanners.bsky.social National Planning Conference. It kicks off tonight, so I figured I need ballast. It’s a trip to PieMinister!
(Photos will follow)
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 8d
Wednesday early morning amble: within the setting of the tallest listed building…Emley transmission tower.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 13d
Luncheon: Mrs.N’s parsnip, apple and ginger soup, with home grown apples, cracked black pepper, and swirls of crème fraiche.
Deliciously warming!
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 15d
Or the Morris Ital?
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 16d
Luncheon: Mrs.N’s mushroom and tarragon soup with lashings of cracked black pepper and swirls of cremé fraiche.
That pepper makes it tingly on the tongue!
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 17d
Morning walk, view towards Barnsley 7.35am. Autumnal chill in the air.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 18d
Caol Iia…lovely!
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 19d
Ah, but I know he doesn’t possess a fishing rod.
The honest approach would be to say, I’m away, I don’t really want to be bothered with work…but if you’re important…

(Of course all my clients are important!)
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 19d
How spoilt am I today! I’ve got the crusts of Mrs.N’s home made Madeira cake.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 19d
Mrs.N’s black bread in the making. Guinness is involved…
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