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Philip Lowden
@philiplowden.bsky.social
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Unsuccessful scientist. I like cycling, nature, walking around looking at things. Living in Surrey via London, Exeter, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Dundee.
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“Where’s your fucking poppy?”
The Annunciation by Philippe de Champaigne. An angel addresses the Virgin Mary with a couple of cherubs looking on.
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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G for GNOME
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I got a bit lucky with this. I visited 30 years ago, but I didn’t really recognise it. There must have been a residual memory of some of the buildings.

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October 31, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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I really enjoyed this sequel to Bravo Two Charlies. Thank you @stevedoherty.bsky.social , @mattleys.bsky.social , @trenamanmartin.bsky.social and everyone else in the cast.

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The Abergele Files - Gong - BBC Sounds
The world's worst detective agency has come to north Wales. Relax, criminals.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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I love how Marianne Faithfull can make so many other people's songs her own. Here are a couple from Easy Come, Easy Go, an album of covers:
Dolly Parton's Down From Dover:
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October 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I love some of Maria McKee's cover versions:
Wichita Lineman
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October 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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So many, I can't choose one, so here are a few. For starters, I like this so much more than the Beatles original (sorry Ringo).
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October 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
Two middle age men (Dave and Ramesh) in a shop, they’re the shopkeepers, tempting us with a selection of chocolate bars. Ramesh owns the shop, in the Scottish town of Lenzie, and in the background are his sons Alok and Sanjay.
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I love to see these sport themed meals. It is the figure skating Grand Prix de France in Angers this weekend , so we are having braised duck legs with puy lentils, and some Loire red wine.
An oak dining table laid out for two. The plates are blue glazed (a bargain from Asda). There is decanter of red wine from the Loire valley and fancy Riedel wine glasses.
October 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Listening to the @screenshotpod.bsky.social about Scotland, and delighted to hear so much discussion about Bill Forsyth. Just a little note to say I made a series of podcasts about Forsyth’s films a little while back. open.spotify.com/episode/6hit...
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October 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Two images based on the Buggs Bunny and Daffy Duck "Duck Season", "Rabbit Season" meme. Buggs on the left, Daffy on the right, pulling away alternate signs posted on a tree. In this version, Buggs is pulling away a sign saying "You're Prime Minister!", then Daffy is pulling away a sign saying "I Resign!".
October 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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I asked AI to plan my dream summer holiday. Here’s how it turned out. A red London bus being driven off a cliff, from tv programme The Young Ones.
October 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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I got this as a souvenir from Lübeck on my holiday this summer. It’s local celebrity Thomas Mann, with his Nobel Prize winning novel Buddenbrooks.
A Playmobil figure of an elderly German writer with grey hair and moustache. He is wearing a beige suit and hat. He is holding a walking stick in his left hand and an open book in his left hand. In the background is a model of The Liberator spaceship from Blake’s 7, a pop-up paper model of a Swiss Army knife, and a broken mug with a @gailmyerscough.co.uk design based on the old Welbeck Street car park in London.
October 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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This reminds me of when I visited the Gulbenkian modern art gallery in Lisbon and one of the highlights was seeing a firecrest in the gardens.
mattleys.bsky.social Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · Sep 30
@levparikian I'm standing in one of the world's greatest art galleries and somehow looking at this?
September 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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I’m quite pleased with that. I didn’t exactly recognise it, but I was thinking it had a [Mystery City]-y feel to it.
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September 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Voice of Harold. I sometimes worry it comes across as trying too hard to pick something obscure. But Michael’s performance of found lyrics is astonishing, always brings tears to my eyes.

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September 2, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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A black and white photo of fictional DJ Martin Brown, played by Michael Fenton Stevens, from the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Radio Active.
August 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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The radioactive form of carbon (carbon-14), used in archaeological dating, was created artificially before it was discovered to occur naturally.
mrose.ink Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · Aug 19
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
August 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I thoroughly recommend both of these books, if you have any interest in geography. A History of the World in 47 Borders by Jonn Elledge, and Borderlines by Lewis Baston.
August 4, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Hi @jonnelledge.bsky.social and @lewisbaston.bsky.social . Guess where I am.
A short middle aged Scottish man standing with one foot on one side of a painted border line, and the other foot on the other side. He is holding a book in each hand. Borderlines by Lewis Baston and A History of the World in 47 Borders by Jonn Elledge.
August 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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That's it, Memrise has taught me all I need to know...

#Memrise #French #PardonMyFrench
Memrise vocabulary list of French / English translations of swear words and expressions of annoyance.
July 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I am listening to The Invasion part 2, and I can confirm that 1960s Dragon’s Den is indeed the best bit.
July 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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This reminds me that the hides in some wildlife reserves have signs saying “Quiet birds have ears”.
jlukeroberts.bsky.social John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · Jul 2
I miss when Jamie Oliver had a restaurant called Jamie's Italian and Andrew Lloyd Webber had a musical called Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella. I miss walking past the signs for Jamie's Italian and the adverts for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderalla and saying "no he isn't."
July 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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We just saw a badger again, right up close, while we were having dinner on the patio. It took a while for it to notice us, then it got startled and shuffled away.
June 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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We’ve just seen a badger in our garden! It came right up to the back door.
June 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM