Andrew Bowden 🐀

@andrewbowden.me.uk

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Found where the Metropolitan Elite gather. Mostly Mancunian, bit Londoner, pos British, definitely European. Brews own beer. Likes the radio. Swims too much. All views mine, and only mine. He/Him. #RatVerified.

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Marple's former Coral with the sign painted over in a very glossy black paint that someone probably found at the back of the cupboard
A Copilot generated football where each segment of the ball is a flag. The shapes of the football segments are not consistent sizing, the Multiple flags appears twice. The Union Flag is just weird. The Spanish flag has been merged with the Union Flag. And probably other errors too.
Screenshot of the classes timetable. Dates are down at the top but the class names and times are not shown correctly, and only a few letters of each are shown.
A Pint glass of beer with Purple Moose Brewery branding on it
A footpath sign surrounded by head height bracken. If you squint you can see someone in the bracken.
A piece of homemade cheese and onion pie
A green mug with a logo on it say it saying BBCi More power to your finger www.bbc.co.uk
Section of a Guardian article, viewed in it's Guardian Editions app, where words including the letter f are being completely mangled and made unreadable. The extract quote follows. Andrea Leadsom, a former Conservative minister and founder of the 1,001 Critical Days Foundation, said: “This landmark review is a wakeup call. The evidence increasingly suggests that screens offffffer limited benefifififits for babies and may carry signififificant risks during the fifififirst 1,001 days, the most important period of human development.”
Screenshot of the Capital Dance website from when Her Maj Queen Lizzy 2 died. There's a picture of presenter MistaJam with his mouth wide open. Beneath it says "Capital remembers Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II"
Screenshot from bottom of article saying the following: The tenth edition follows previous Pubcasts produced by the Chris Moyles Show team, with listeners able to download the latest episode through Radio X. The recording is described as the largest Chris Moyles Show Pubcast so far, bringing together presenters with different audiences and breakfast formats from across Global’s radio brands. Radio X has published its own article promoting the 2026 Pubcast, naming Chris Moyles, Dominic Byrne, Toby Tarrant, Nick Ferrari, Jordan North and Jenni Falconer. (Radio X) RadioToday UK has not yet published separate coverage of the 2026 edition in the search results checked. RadioToday previously reported on the eighth Pubcast in 2023, when the Radio X team recreated the format for Global’s Make Some Noise. (radiotoday.co.uk)
Shop front of a former branch of bookmakers Coral, where the Coral sign has been removed but because it's so old and worn, you can see the word 'Coral' spelled out very clearly
A bike inner tube with three puncture repairs all really close to each other
Working with the community The project team continues to work closely with local groups on a range of features, including: a new woodland path relocation of benches updates to the Jubilee garden the relocation of the much-loved community frog
A filled, toasted Lebanese flatbread with chips and salad
Microphones, musical instruments, all the stuff you expect to see before a gig.
Platforms 1 and 2 at Manchester Piccadilly
Information screens at Manchester Piccadilly's "lounge" for platforms 13 and 14. Eight trains are shown. Above all but one is a red sign saying "✋Wait"
A screengrab of Google Streetview for Ludworth Primary School in Marple from June 2019, with a banner saying "Our pupils are tomorrow's leaders"
Company logo for a supermarket chain called "Bowden's's", spelt out in big green text, with a subtitle of "For Everyday Value" because that's what Bowden's's does.
A small, green caterpillar crawls on my desk near my Wacom stylus and keyboard.
Television Themes LP by Matt Berry
Marple station sign
The waiting area at Kings Cross station
Screenshot of the web page for our Solar inverter. It shows that, at time of screenshot, 2.809kW was being generated by the panels, that our solar batter was 99% full and with 0.489kW being discharged. Also we were using 0.398kW from the grid, and we were using 3.696kW of electricity in the house. It also reckons we've "saved" 3.09 tons of coal being burned, this avoiding 3.67tons of CO₂ being emmited, which is the equivalent of planting 6 trees. Which is fine except I'm in the UK and we don't burn coal for our electric...
View of a roundabout and tower blocks from the 13th floor of a Birmingham hotel
A white mug with the logo of the London Museum of Water and Steam on it, sat on my mug shelf.
A web browser screen saying: Before we continue, Press & Hold to confirm you are a human (and not a bot) There is a button saying "Press and Hold" and red text underneath saying "Please try again"
A drawing of a woman, or possibly an eccentricly dressed man, in a hat holding what may be the world's smallest magnifying glass, on the platform of Marple railway station.
Bus stop with a bilingual message saying the council can't provide bus info due to COVID
Road sign for road called Beach Drive. Underneath the street name it says "No access to the beach"
The stage at New Mills Arts Theatre empty of people but with microphones, guitar cases, violins and more.
Penelope the chicken who, for reasons best known to herself, had decided to jump up and perch on my arm.
The Gruffalo sits on my desk, to the right of my monitor (and a Lego Yoda who appears to be doing pushups), and to the right of a Lego museum. The Gruffalo looks like a Gruffalo.
A fake, autogenerated opinion piece by Allister Heath of the Telegraph, entitled "The BBC's shameful cheerleading for the Bee Line Buzz Company is a national embarrassment."
Quote from a Guardian article: Winterburn, 42, said she felt McSweeney was a scapegoat and that the scandal was further evidence that “they don’t think the rules apply to them”. “It’s time for Reform,” she said. “We’ve tried all the others and they’ve all been crap.”
A star map of BlueSky users, with @andrewbowden.me.uk to the left of an entry marked "British Left Wing Community".
Bottles of Coop Dark Bothy Dark Mild on the shelf in, err, the Coop.
The rather boxy BBC Broadcast Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, known by some as 'The Pink Palace' due to its reddish, pinky coloured building.
A Wild West 'Saloon' themed static caravan
Certificate saying: P.P.Penguin ASA Learn to Swim Scheme This is to certify that Andrew Bowden has learned to swim the P.P.Penguin way and is able to swim.
Pizza dough in a bowl
A cartoon style jungle scene at Marple station
Torr Vale Tap Food and Drink Menu Coming Soon...
WE'RE SORRY Your DHL eCommerce UK driver has been unable to deliver your DHL Parcel parcel today as they were unable to access the address. As soon as it's out for delivery we'll let you know.
Lots of people hanging around Euston station concourse
MAJOR DISRUPTION between Rugby and Northampton/Milton Keynes Central expected until 18:00
An error screen saying "We are experiencing technical difficulties! For service status, please check status.inoreader.com"
Screenshot of Realtimetrains.com showing an Avanti West Coast service that's been cancelled. The reason for cancellation given is "This service was cancelled due to temporary speed restrictions as a result of heat (X4)." It's November.
Potatoes and onions in a plastic bowl
A diagram with a sort of pyramid in the middle (labelled "Our Academies") surrounded by a U-shaped box with different labels: - Governance, Finance and Risk Management - Policy and Compliance - Digital Infrastructures and Core Systems - Quality Improvement and Review - People Strategy, HR and Professional Learning and Improvement - Curriculum, Pedagogy and SEND support
The Guardian Editions app but without the main Observer newspaper in it
A printed book where the text is laid out like a Word document with big line breaks between paragraphs
An empty tram near Piccadilly
Tram being disentangled from overhead power cables in the dark
Metrolink tram with pantograph twisted and tangled with the overhead power cable
Northern Rail train called the Yorkshire Dales Explorer