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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 · 3h
My thoughts yesterday evening was they could do with a proper drinks buyer.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 3h
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 · 19h
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 · 20h
Always the pre-show dining experience at @nathbrudenell.bsky.social !
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 20h
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 · 1d
Wednesday early morning amble: within the setting of the tallest listed building…Emley transmission tower.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 5d
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 · 7d
Or the Morris Ital?
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 10d
Morning walk, view towards Barnsley 7.35am. Autumnal chill in the air.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 11d
Caol Iia…lovely!
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 11d
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 · 11d
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 · 11d
Mrs.N’s black bread in the making. Guinness is involved…
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 11d
Excellent! I emailed @whiskas9.bsky.social once and got the response “Gone fishing”
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 11d
Luncheon: smoked salmon with Mrs.N’s home made black bread, buttered, and her pickled fennel (with lemon).
Lovely!
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 13d
So, after a busy (and fun) day and a very, very occasional incursion to the Linked-In (about whisky), I fancied something different…a bottle I’ve not touched for probably 5 years. A Four Roses bourbon - on ice (as you do…)
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 13d
And such is life…
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 15d
Luncheon: roast tomato soup with pearl barley, split peas, lentils, paprika cream and crispy Parma ham.
Lovely (don’t seem to have had soup for a while)!
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 18d
Luncheon: Mrs.N’s been busy…homemade sourdough (toasted); homemade smoked mackerel pâté; and home pickled kohlrabi.
I’m being spoilt!
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 19d
McMillan coffee morning at the village pub. We didn’t get the message that we were supposed to bring an owl.
Two ladies sitting on a bench, each holding a live owl.
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 19d
Luncheon: a mackerel and avocado salad. And Mrs.N’s freshly baked and buttered, milk bread loaves…
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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19d
British Sausages
Cartoon, title British Sausages, showing eight varieties of sausages, namely The Whitstable Conundrum Kentish Bobbles The Stafford lnch The Basildon Naughty Boy The Lambton Worm The Lindisfarne Honker The Oxford Unit The Tired Parson
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 20d
And good to see another Independent Town Planning Consultant on #bsky @planningpaul.bsky.social
(And he’s responsible for a brilliant lunch!)
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Alyn Nicholls @alyn.bsky.social · 20d
The magnificent chip butty. Mrs.N’s homemade chips between two crusts of her homemade bread.
With salad cream…
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