Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 18/09/2026Was just thinking of this garage/petrol station a few miles away where their price sign is so old that they put a piece of white tape to serve as a one. But looking at Google Streetview it looks like they've simply given up selling petrol fill stop. 001
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 17/09/2026It's 6music's t-shirt day but I'm a terrible music fan(!) and my band t-shirt collection is a bit limited. So instead I'm wearing this: 100
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 03/09/2026An abiding memory of childhood. From the ZX Spectrum game British Lowland. You had to run an ailing car company and quite often the union would go on strike... archive.org/details/zx_B... 110
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 16/08/2026Got home from holiday and let the chickens out as they've been "couped up" in their run for the last two weeks. Martha has decided the best place to use her new found freedom is the kitchen. 020
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 13/08/2026The French franc was withdrawn in 2002 so I confess some puzzlement on finding a 10 Centime coin in the wallet I use for holidays. 020
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 30/07/2026"If you don't vote, you can't whinge" says the MEN. I agree, but that won't stop people! 000
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 16/07/2026And yet there's nearly 19000 people viewing that page right now. 200
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 08/07/2026There's people in the comments suggesting the ball here is AI slop. I reckon it's slightly dodgy Photoshop, so I tried to get an AI flag covered football. And yeah, seriously, I stand by my belief. 100
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 07/07/2026Life Leisure, who run Stockport's leisure centres, have a new app from their new leisure centre management system provider. It's a masterpiece in usability. Take a look, for example, at the class booking timetable I see on my phone. 100
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 04/07/2026This was much deserved. Although my legs are still tingling from the nettle stings. 000
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 04/07/2026My other half takes me to ask all the best footpaths. 100
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 02/07/2026I don't know why I didn't think I would be able to make a cheese and onion pie in a loose bottom sponge tin, but it worked very well thank you very much. 000
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 02/07/2026YouTube is weirdly obsessed with things you played ten years ago. I regularly get this appearing, along with some music videos from ages ago too. Loaded it up just now and lo, it's there. 110
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 27/06/2026Come to think about it, I also have a BBCi mug from 2001 that I had my hot chocolate out of last night. 010
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 27/06/2026Guardian Editions app is this morning exploring new ways in being utterly crap. And no, I am not referring to references to Andrea Leadsom. 110
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 21/06/2026"So make sure the signage is removed so everyone knows we've closed this branch and no one thinks we are still here." 100
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 20/06/2026Repairing a puncture on one of my bike wheels and marvelling at the coincidence of three out of four repairs being really close to each other. 100
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 18/06/2026Big up the community frog. www.stockport.gov.uk/marple-commu... 100
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 05/06/2026There's probably a Lebanese name for what I have cooked. 110
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 25/05/2026I have been stood on platform two for too long now. Mystery delays for the win. 010
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 22/05/2026There's a primary school near us that had a big sign outside saying "OUR PUPIL'S ARE TOMORROW'S LEADERS". But to be fair, they've removed that from their sign now... 000
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 19/05/2026Had my new supermaket launch pencilled in for today anyway, but reading this, need to make a slight tweak. Anyway, happy to announce that Bowden's's is coming to the high street soon! 000
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 12/05/2026Rather unexpectedly, I have been joined on my desk by a caterpillar. 010
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 07/05/2026One of the greatest albums known to human kind. Who else would go from Blankety Blank to the early 1980s theme for Top of the Pops? 040
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 23/04/2026According to the Inverter, our Solar Panels have saved enough CO₂ that we no longer need to plant six trees! Or would have if we - as a country - had burned all that 3.09 tons of coal to get all our electric... 100
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 01/04/2026What fresh new hell is this? Taken me six goes to get past this screen. 000
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 26/03/2026Gives me chance to admire the station art. I think this is supposed to be Miss Marple but I am not entirely sure. 101
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 17/03/2026I am in Wales. As proof here is a photo of a bus stop where the local council is unable to provide bus timetables due to the Welsh government's ever changing COVID restrictions. I kid you not - this is NOT a one off. There are loads of bus stops where apparently there are no buses serving them. 100
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 07/03/2026I don't do phones during gigs, so here's a pre-show photo of the New Mills Arts Theatre before The Songs Of Martin Carthy, with Eliza Carthy and Friends. A great show but I do hope Eliza's chest infection clears up soon! 100
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 27/02/2026Also someone's appeared on my desk to watch me work... 000
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 10/02/2026It's Buggins's turn to prove they're crap. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 000
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 09/02/2026It put me to the left of the "British Left Wing Community." Which amuses me more than it should. 010
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 01/02/2026Popped into the Coop for some bits only to find they have suddenly started selling bottles of Dark Mild 100
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 27/01/2026When in Newcastle, pay homage to the Pink Palace. 021
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 18/01/2026Getting so all over the place with malfunctioning websites and availability issues for the summer holiday that I almost booked a Wild West saloon themed caravan by accident. 000
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 16/01/2026But were they signed by the Chief Recreation Officer?! Got to love the use of a letter stencil on there as well. 100
Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 16/01/2026Apparently so. The certificate isn't amazingly clear on what it was for, but I found that a blog post from Victoria Baths in Manchester who had found some promotional penguins! victoriabaths.org.uk/the-penguin-... 100