Lord Beestonia
@beestonia.bsky.social
Faux Lord.
Hyper. Local. Writer, Journalism course leader, sometime author and ghost. Founder, @TheBeestonian Occasionally known as mere Matt Turpin. lordmattbeestonia@gmail.com
Hyper. Local. Writer, Journalism course leader, sometime author and ghost. Founder, @TheBeestonian Occasionally known as mere Matt Turpin. lordmattbeestonia@gmail.com
Love this British version of the Van Halen M&M story (which I do a lecture on every year)
November 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Love this British version of the Van Halen M&M story (which I do a lecture on every year)
Best £3.25+pp ever spent
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Best £3.25+pp ever spent
Teaching Reviews, and remembering the best line a student ever wrote, while considering a Jurassic Park movie.
November 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Teaching Reviews, and remembering the best line a student ever wrote, while considering a Jurassic Park movie.
I can arrange some minted mushy peas and a Cock On a Stick?
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I can arrange some minted mushy peas and a Cock On a Stick?
Monday tomorrow.
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Monday tomorrow.
One of the best things about running a magazine is the sheer weirdness of who it reaches. I've had messages from all over the world after people have stumbled on a copy, despite it being about a small yet very strange town. This week: a message from Hamelin, Germany, from the Pied Piper himself ..
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
One of the best things about running a magazine is the sheer weirdness of who it reaches. I've had messages from all over the world after people have stumbled on a copy, despite it being about a small yet very strange town. This week: a message from Hamelin, Germany, from the Pied Piper himself ..
This, in the new @privateeyenews.bsky.social , is pretty much my lived reality right now
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This, in the new @privateeyenews.bsky.social , is pretty much my lived reality right now
Film premiere time...
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Film premiere time...
Up to 9 points in his ninth birthday.His special day is as saved as a shot at Sels.
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Up to 9 points in his ninth birthday.His special day is as saved as a shot at Sels.
We also re-enacted the scene where Westley bests Fezzik but it was nearly too successful...
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
We also re-enacted the scene where Westley bests Fezzik but it was nearly too successful...
Went to Castleton the other day and got the kids to re-enact what has become their favourite movie in the spot it was filmed...
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Went to Castleton the other day and got the kids to re-enact what has become their favourite movie in the spot it was filmed...
To keep off topic, the town of Beeston, just down the road from Lawrence's Eastwood, has a bit of street art dedicated to Ken Boon (this pub was his local. And used in Auf Wiedersehen Pet 2 as their local too).
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
To keep off topic, the town of Beeston, just down the road from Lawrence's Eastwood, has a bit of street art dedicated to Ken Boon (this pub was his local. And used in Auf Wiedersehen Pet 2 as their local too).
Am bizarrely tempted to buy these
November 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Am bizarrely tempted to buy these
Glad to see his business is thriving since he left the railways
November 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Glad to see his business is thriving since he left the railways
Since it's nearly Halloween, an accidentally weird pic of my son in Beeston Rylands, and another of him with his sister in Matlock Bath on the same day, two years ago.
October 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Since it's nearly Halloween, an accidentally weird pic of my son in Beeston Rylands, and another of him with his sister in Matlock Bath on the same day, two years ago.
Another trip to Matlock, via Cromford...
October 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Another trip to Matlock, via Cromford...
Well, that was good. More international football in the East Midlands please.
October 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Well, that was good. More international football in the East Midlands please.
Scarthin Books in Cromford has a weird effect on me to the point I can't help but buy a 97 year old book on Derbyshire quarrying and telling the kids they can have ANYTHING (oldest has now discovered Asterix). What a place.
October 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Scarthin Books in Cromford has a weird effect on me to the point I can't help but buy a 97 year old book on Derbyshire quarrying and telling the kids they can have ANYTHING (oldest has now discovered Asterix). What a place.
Another lovely few days in Castleton, another failed attempt to get its tourist board slogan to 'CASTLETON: BEYOND HOPE'
#nichepeakdistrictcrapjoke
#nichepeakdistrictcrapjoke
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Another lovely few days in Castleton, another failed attempt to get its tourist board slogan to 'CASTLETON: BEYOND HOPE'
#nichepeakdistrictcrapjoke
#nichepeakdistrictcrapjoke
"I met a Memorial Hall called Frank Mills/ On September 12th last year/ "
October 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"I met a Memorial Hall called Frank Mills/ On September 12th last year/ "
View from bedrooom for next few nights. That'll do.
October 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
View from bedrooom for next few nights. That'll do.
Heading into the Peaks from Sheffield, and seeing future pseudonyms everywhere
October 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Heading into the Peaks from Sheffield, and seeing future pseudonyms everywhere