James Fowkes

@fowkc.bsky.social

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Glider pilot. Embedded software puncher and PCB wrestler. Remains overweight. 40 ± 2.

Screenshot from real time trains of a cross country service that is 8 minutes late at Nuneaton and will probably get later.
A view of Corby, UK taken from the air. A dual carriageway crosses the foreground with the housing estates.of the two taking up the middle of the picture. Fields stretch to the horizon on the other side of the town. The sky is hazy with a few cumulus clouds and some high cloud cover in the distance.
Spock in Star Trek 2 saying "his pattern indicates two dimensional thinking".
A blue plaque on an OLE mast at Peterborough station marking the first mast to be installed as part of the electrification of the East Coast Mainline. Placed on Thursday 7th February 1985.
A street view image of a road junction. The junction has wide turnouts to aid traffic flow. A shared use path crosses the junction with a crossing set back from the road and dropped kerbs.
Title card of the "Holy" episode of Bottom on a television
A children's book called "Trains and Rail Transport". The cover has lots of pictures of trains and locomotives.
A screenshot from realtime trains. The train is between 6 and 4 minutes late, but slowly gaining time.
A pop-up advert for Etsy festive gifts. Most pictures of ladies in swimwear or lingerie, but also for some reason the Jacob Rees-Mogg 2026 calendar.
Some heavy rail OLE catenary. There are two catenary and two contact wires rather than the usual one.
A single mince pie in a plastic box originally containing four of them. The box has a yellow reduced sticker with a price of 30p. The box has been left on a wooden bench.
A pedestrian crossing across a road with separate crossings for each carriageway. A small island between the carriageways provides a dogleg between each crossing.
A walkway made with paving slabs. A small area of it is paved with smaller, darker triangular sections. On the right, a large portrait LCD screen is lit up, too bright to read. A covered bike rack is to one side of the pavement.
An information board for the future Winslow station. The text above reads "land acquired by Buckinghamshire county council for Winslow station". On the right there is a map of the future east west rail network with Winslow highlighted. On the left there is an artist impression of the future Winslow station. It is a yellow fronted building with one side shown in glass. Two columns support an overhanging roof. In the background there is another similar building.
The station throat of London Euston, taken from a departing train. On the left, a London Overground Watford service is departing. On the right, the Caledonian Sleeper is waiting attached to a GBRF class 92. It is sunset, the sky has some cloud cover. The BT tower is in the background.
A bus stop sign on a wooden pole. It reads "Fen Drayton Lakes towards Cambridge".
A medium size brown and white fluffy cat lounging on a chair, looking into camera. He looks very comfortable.
A screenshot of openstreetmap. Belleek Primary School building and grounds are on the right-hand half. A minor road cuts through the image top to bottom. On the left-hand side of the road opposite the school, there is a bus stop marker reading "Corry School".
A summary of an email from gumtree reading "list your pre-loved baby...".
A three car sprinter train between St Erth and Carbis Bay on the St. Ives branch line in Cornwall. The train is on an embankment, photographed from slightly below so it has blue sky behind it. In the foreground between the train and the camera is sand dunes covered in low, thick bushes. The sun is out of shot, low to the left of the camera, providing a golden quality to the photo.
A still from the Stargate SG1 episode "Between Two Fires", showing the character Narim facing slightly off-camera and talking. The subtitles say "For the highest members of our government to deceive the people... is an even more heinous crime than murder."
Me in overalls, a hoodie and a respirator mask.
Screenshot of text that reads "There are 5 categories (B, 1, 2, 3, and 4)."
The Dundas aqueduct taking the Kennet and Avon canal over the River Avon, taken from the riverbank. The aqueduct is built in stone. There is a single arch over the river with a smaller arch on the far bank of the river. The bridge transitions into a curved retaining wall for the canal embankment.
A screenshot of text on the BBC news website reading "Trump's comments about not knowing much about the coin back up my opinion that he is making a mockery of the industry. It's a stunt," says Danny Scott, CEO of CoinCorner.
A paragraph from Gareth Dennis' book that reads "Integration also means ensuring that services are high enough frequency to be useful for the people or goods that might be conveyed by them. More than any other factor, frequency is freedom. Coordinating connections is less complex if all services involved run at high frequencies."
A Google search result for "five letter fish". The AI overview suggests "Nemo, pike, fin, nets and fins"