Andrew Skudder

@skuds.bsky.social

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Mon-Fri: managing risk and Excel-whispering Sat-Sun: buying as many records as I can carry on a motorbike Everyday: drinking tea, reading books, counting the days until retirement

Multiple choice quiz question. "Who said 'the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about'?" The options are Lord Byron, Christopher Marlowe, Tony Blair and Oscar Wilde
A screenshot from a phone. The website I am trying to read is obscured by TWO pop-up ads that cannot be closed. There seems to be no way to actually read the article
Multiple choice question - at the 2012 Olympics, which athlete won gold in the 500m and 10000m? The options are Kenenisa Bekele, Haile Gebrselassie, Mo Farah, and Liam Neeson
Wilson Street in Glasgow. Closed to traffic and filled with people browsing the stalls of mostly craft products and specialist food.
A small decorative pavilion surrounded by grass and trees in teh arboretum
A bin with a notice on it saying "This is not a bin"
The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, outside the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow. The Duke has three cones on his head and the horse has a cone on its head.
The frontage of the legendary Barrowlands Ballroom in Glasgow.
Lots of fabulous people with rainbow flags turning from Gallowgate into Moir Street in Glasgow.
A blue Range Rover in Glasgow with a very short number plate reading 88 BS
Vinyl LPs by the Four Tops and Osibisa
A Scottie dog statue outside Kelvingrove. Brightly-painted with pictures of koi carp on it.
Statue of Charles Rennie Mackintosh sitting on one of his distinctive chairs, and with a traffic cone on his head.
Kelvingrove art gallery & museum from the back, in glorious sunshine and under a bright blue sky.
The re-release of People & Industry by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan with a second disc of extras.
Some new vinyl from Angine de Poitrine and Kraftwerk. The Kraftwerk is not an official release but rather a bootleg or at least bootleg-adjacent.
A metal bench outside Buchanan Street bus station, with about 20 pigeons sitting on it.
A giant steel structure, against the cloudy, blue, evening sky. Four large legs that lean in but do not quite meet, with a platform near the top, make it resemble a capital A - hence the name.
Sign outside my local Tesco, showing the opening hours of 0700 to 2300 except Sunday, which is 0800 to 2200
Four vinyl LPs by Bananarama, Jethro Tull, Brand X, and Elton John
Our spare room, with records along the bottom of one wall, shelve4s of books above and some more books on the end wall. Desk with computers opposite.
A Hawkwind LP in bubblewrap, in a cardboard mailer.
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One of those strange metal contraptions that is supposed to stop bikes, but also stops wheelchairs, pushchairs, etc. but there is an empty space next to it with no fence so you can just go round it.
A clearing with a circle of upright stones, and a fire pit in the middle
A fallen tree, across a gap leading to a clearing/field with even more trees
A 4-year-old dog. German Shepherd I think. Goes by the name of Cassie.
A path through a pine forest, with a steep drop on the right down to a stream
Main road going through the village of Auchinleck. All the lampposts have yellow and black chequered flags tied to them.
A sign for Beechwood Park, home ground of Auchinleck Talbot FC, above a wall covered with a football-related mural
22 cardboard boxes piled up in the corner of a room
A BlackBerry phone, A Sony e-reader, an old Lenovo Android tablet, an old Kindle, A nokia 3310 (I think) phone, an iRiver mp3 player and a cheap underwater digital camera.
Results for Broadfield in the county council elections. Labour elected with Reform PLC in second place by one vote. Both on 34% of the pitiful 37% turnout.
Three vinyl LPs by Adam & the Ants, Bob Dylan and Jean-Michel Jarre
Two toilets side-by-side, less than two feet apart with nothing between them.
Blond boy standing in front of a life-size T Rex
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A brick wall of a passageway between buildings. There is a board advertising a business, but under that are the words "music records" in faded white paint .
Waste pipe under a sink, with an uncapped spur which a dishwasher used before it was removed. It means that when you empty the kitchen sink water pours out.
Les Negresses Vertes on stage in Camden in front of a packed crowd
The view. Pub garden. Lots of green. Big sky.
Sign that says probably the best views in East Sussex
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Nine vinyl LPs by Robert Cray, Les Negresses Vertes, Rod Argent, Dave Brubeck, Amii Stewart, Status Quo, Elton John and two from Andrew Gold.
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The statue outside Glasgow's GOMA - with three cones in place
Product page on Amazon for a brand of Fitbit watch straps called "King Dong"
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Somewhere on the A70 in Scotland. The road is slushy and the surrounding fields are white with snow.
Vinyl LPs. One by Steve Hillage and two by Kansas
A long sea wall. Dunes on the left of it and a few parked cars and vans to the right.
Bust of Kier Hardie on top of a plinth, outside a municipal-looking building.
Huge sculptures of two horses heads
Fire engines, firemen, and jets of water being poured into a building
Sign showing the Scotland/England border on the A74M