Nick Pearson

@SteveCaple4 Yep thats how I’d say it but apparently the owners pronounce it as ‘Althrop.’ I’ve never heard any other local say it that way mind you.

@nwpearson Althorp 😍

The glorious, Althorp House, on a summers day, a few years ago.

@SteveCaple4 My great grandfather was a butler at Holdenby House - I have several items given to him by Lord Annaly on his retirement.

Interesting Snippet, (courtesy of Holdenby House fb page) from 1944.

@RobGurneyOnAir No club has ever deserved it more than Cov #PUSB

We Are The Champions!!! #PUSB 🩵🥳

@SteveCaple4 I went in “The Star’ a good few times c45 years ago on our epic Northants wide pub crawls - it used to serve Hook Norton beers straight from the barrel I seem to remember.

Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of the Washington family, looking fabulous with the most perfect of blue skies as a background.🥰🥰

@SteveCaple4 I thought so.

@nwpearson Yes, that's the one.

From Braunston to lunch at The New Inn on the A5, on a friends narrow-boat a few years ago🥰

In the WW1 the Supreme Allied Commander, Foch, was French. In WW2, it was Eisenhower so nothing new in the British forces ultimately being under the command of someone who is not a British Citizen.

@SteveCaple4 Wobbled my way home in East Haddon from there on my bike on a few occasions.

The ancient, Saracens Head, Little Brington, Northamptonshire, my local for many years...🥰

@PaulOzNo1 Yep, 9 years in Sept.

@nwpearson 9 yrs, Is it really that long?

Strange feeling when opening an email from indeed and the first job listed is your own ! Well at least I knew about it, some don’t get that luxury.Typical Dorothy Huntingdon Smyth (whoever she may be).

@PaulOzNo1 Well I’ve been in the yesterdays man club for 9 years & never been happier so enjoy the future. There is more to life than debt advice.

@nwpearson I’m joining the yesterday’s man club. Retiring, but still doing a bit if you know what I mean. Typical CAB departure you could say, total disrespect -;)

@PaulOzNo1 Anyway, are you packing it in then m’owd? Retiring? I’m just about to start a new 2.5 day a week job as it happens as an Environmental Maintenance Executive! Basically strimming, chainsawing, mowing & hedge cutting in the bog wildlife walk area in the nearest village to our farm.

@nwpearson Yes, I’ve heard things like that. We all end up surplus to requirements in the end or as that chap shouted in the Michael Douglas film - Falling Down. A not economically viable person. I was once told by the jobcentre if you sign this you won’t have to worry coz you won’t exist.

@PaulOzNo1 @Debtmastersize5 8c here in Lovely Leitrim!

@Debtmastersize5 @nwpearson Snowfall in Derbyshire this morning Mister. It even reached this outpost but quickly turning to rain & slush here now. Tricky & dangerous driving conditions for some though.

Patchy ice on the kerb this morning nearly had me on my arxx again. Scary stuff for a yesterdays man @nwpearson

@Debtmastersize5 Good points - I was a bit of a sceptic about it at the time but in the pilots, the loans were popular with customers, esp those who never repaid them!

@nwpearson Except that are actually very expensive. Not Provi or Greenwood’s rates but expensive nonetheless. Plus, there is the elephant in the room of child benefit loans.

So this idea has resurfaced - I was on a HM Treasury Taskforce that recommended this 20 years ago theguardian.com/money/2026/jan…

Maeve does a vertical takeoff to get at my pals treat bag - at the beach in Sligo today.

“In the context of the particular game, I have never seen a better test match innings.” ~ Richie Benaud In 1991, Graham Gooch scored 154* that inspired England to their first home Test win against West Indies for 22 years. He scored 61% of England's 252 runs in 2nd innings (an English record) - 8 batsmen failed to make it out of single figures.

@SteveCaple4 I remember it well. My maternal Grandad got a job there in 1947 after being demobbed. Did 30+ years there.

1970’s Timken Show, Duston Village, the highlight of the year for us local kids. The site is now a huge housing estate.🥹

@PaulOzNo1 I know that feeling. Went over on my arse carrying a bale of hay up to my sheep this morning.

Nearly went right over on the ice yesterday. Lucky I didn’t, cos I don’t fall as well as I used to do !