Andy Brunning

@andy.compoundchem.com

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🧪 Chemistry & Geology Subject Advisor ⚗️ #SciComm & infographics wizard at @compoundchem.com 👨‍👦‍👦 Dad to two boys, owner of two cats 💬 Part of the #ChatChemistry team 🎨 Occasional artist

Photo of five beer bottles with a label reading “Hydration Break” and featuring an image of the World Cup on each bottle
Photo of a number of brown beer bottles on a kitchen counter
Photo of a number of bottled beers with the name “United by Mosaic” (a play on Eurovision’s “United by Music” slogan)
Photo of me next to a large 35 L kettle boiler on a garden patio.
Photo of the giant eel of the fens rampaging through the streets of Ely and leaving wanton destruction in its wake
Photo of me holding a fermenting bucket of beer in my kitchen
Photo of brewing prep: two large bags of grain, a packet of mosaic hops, yeast, and a large stainless steel stock pot.
Photo of a page of sushi stamp prints (a mix of maki and nigiri)
Promotional image with the caption "Come along to our free teacher network"
Photo of six copies of the print in the previous video.
Video of me pulling the paper up off a linocut print of two tufted ducks. The layer being printed is the final black layer filling in the ducks.
Photo of six two-layer linocut reduction prints of a pair of tufted ducks. The first layer is light blue and the second is a darker blue.
Photo of a number of light blue prints of a pair of ducks on water, placed on a table. The Lino block used to make the prints is also visible.
Drawing of the Pokémon Articuno wearing a party hat, next to a birthday cake. Titled “Partycuno”.
Promo image with the subtitle: Curriculum and Assessment Review 2025: Sign up to our webinars for expert advice and support
Photo of a linocut print of a snowdrop. The print is on white paper and has a slight gradient from light green at the top to dark green at the bottom.
Photo of a pink-coloured night sky with a bank of cloud on the horizon and the silhouetted houses and trees
Photo of two prints of a dahlia made using linocut. One print is two colours (light cream and red) on white paper, the other is a gradient of white, yellow and orange on black paper
Photo of a drawing of a range of snowdrops. The flower of each is shown along with its name. Cultivars featured: Common Crimean Elwesii Flore Pleno Moses Basket Anglesey Abbey Anglesey Candlelight Richard Ayres Blonde Inge Wendy's Gold Midas Lady Elphinstone Merlin Morgana Wasp
Photo of Amy, Mike and me at the Cambridge OCR stand
Photo looking across a snow-covered field with the sky a blend of blue, orange and yellow as the sun rises
Photo of my laptop on a pub table with an open document visible on screen. “Insert book proposal here” is written if you look closely, which is definitely a joke to conceal the actual content which I’ve absolutely written copious quantities of
Photo of me in front of Bath Abbey, which is lit up for Christmas with a Christmas tree in front of it
Photo of the house at Blickling Estate. Snow is on the ground and three dumpy snowmen are visible in the foreground
Photo of an espresso martini with blurred Christmas lights in the background
Photo of a kids’ fairground ride that’s a blue tank engine like Thomas but which has a haggard face with a rictus smile and dead eyes
Photo of a grey tabby British shorthair cat with yellow eyes, sat on a kitchen floor and rearing up towards the camera with one paw on a drawer handle
Photo of a selection of beer cans in a fridge
Photo of four pokemon Christmas baubles. From left to right: Bulbasaur festooned with Christmas lights, Squirtle in a Christmas hat, Snorlax in a Christmas hat, and Pikachu in a Christmas cloak with antlers.
Photo of a lump of wax being heated in a metal holder over a tea light
Photo of a set of drinks coasters. Each is made from a beer can label which has been cut out and stuck to a wooden coaster.
Photo of me with yellow staining around my eyes and streaming down my cheeks
Photo of me at Cambridge winter beer festival
Photo of a three-panelled window decorated with snow spray art. The leftmost panel features snowy pine trees, the middle panel has two candy canes and the right hand panel has a large snowman.
Collage of two photos, one showing me standing in front of a Christmas tree, the other showing the Salters Annual Awards Ceremony 2025 programme.
Photo of a range of Pokemon cards set out on a table
Photo of a large observation wheel in front of Ely Cathedral
Three photos of mushrooms. The top-left mushrooms are field blewits, with chestnut caps and purple-veined white stems. The right-hand photo is of an inkcap mushroom. The bottom-left photo is of a cluster of light brown mushrooms, possibly mica caps.
Photo of a number of field blewit mushrooms on a chopping board.
Photo of three glowing carved pumpkins. One is of Gastly, Haunter and Gengar, oneis of Pikachu, and the third is a kid’s carving of Bulbasaur
Photo of a grey British shorthair cat sitting in a bowl-like portion of a cat tower
Photo of the sun rising across a flat field. The sky is orange and a hay bale tower is visible on the left of the photo. Lens flare is visible around the sun in the centre of the photo.
Three photos of three fly agaric mushrooms. The first two have closed caps while the third is flat and curved slightly upwards
Photo of four jars of future sloe gin sitting on a kitchen counter
Photo of the canal in Bath looking towards the church in Widcombe with canal boats and Bath stone buildings visible
Photo of me presenting in a lecture theatre in front of a slide titled “making sense of molecules” showing two depictions of the molecule caffeine.
Photo of me standing in front of my IYPT2019 periodic table posters in the Bath Chemistry building
National chemistry landmark sign which reads: National Chemical Landmark Chemistry Department University College London During the period 1930-1970 Professor Sir Christopher Ingold pioneered our understanding of the electronic basis of structure, mechanism and reactivity in organic chemistry, which is fundamental to modern-day chemistry. 28 November 2008
Photo of a cafe in London named “eggslut”
Photo of a glass jar with a dark brown liquid in it on a kitchen counter
Photo of a small number of mushrooms in a jam jar
Promo image showing two teachers looking at a screen with the subtitle "Join us for our subject briefings"
Photo of a double rainbow in a grey clouded sky. Several houses, illuminated by sunlight, are visible in the foreground.
Photo of a gold, red and green firework exploding in the sky above Budapest’s castle at night
Screenshot of the “how long since Tottenham last won a trophy” website, showing it’s been a whopping 16 minutes and 56 seconds
Photo of a practically full moon with an orange hue rising in a dark blue sky behind shadowy rooftops
Photo of the rotunda building at Ickworth National Trust on a sunny day. In front of it, a giant inflatable model of the sun is mounted on scaffolding. A small model of the Earth is visible in the foreground.
A photo of a large board on which a colourful table plan in the style of the periodic table is shown
Photo of a lawn with three signs planted into the grass which look a little like grave markers
Photo of a squirrel perching on a fence in the background with a cat perched on a closer fence in the foreground, the squirrel staring at the cat