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Gordon Cowan

@frankavacado.bsky.social
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Partly retired community worker, now P/T development worker for a local community allotment. Do a bit of phone & Drone photography. A tandem pilot for North Ayrshire Tandem Cycling, cycling for the vision impaired. I do other stuff as well!

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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@gwillow.me
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 26/08/2026
Would really appreciate Reposts!
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Completed the Round Strathaven 50 on Sunday which was nice!
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Fire, check. Next bucket of steam
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Flowers on the Allotment
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I’m building a team
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Look Harry, don’t sweat it man, Trumps a suppurating baw bag, and a shite stain on the under clangers of humanity. You’re a creative and he’s……………well a suppurating baw bag, and a shite stain on the under clangers of humanity. Happy birthday young man.
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My favourite 2000AD cover ever.
2000AD comic book characters painted on a house wall in the town of Ardrossan, Scotland. Halo Jones, Nemesis the Warlock & Judge Dress. Wall painted by street artists Tragic O Hara, a tribute to 1970’s early 1980’s 200OAD. Artist Tragic O Hara with his 2000AD tribute mural, Ardrossan Scotland
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Left to right Walter Sobchak, The Dude & Donny
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Snails Pace!
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Shewlton Railway
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
From a wee trip to Millport, Isle of Cumbrae
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Four bawbags of the apocalypse
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Trolling by elites! This is!
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Go Toads!
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The Bridges of Ayr
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Cheap eggs? You must be quakers!
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The Train youtu.be/guShTdbHjL8?...
youtu.be
The Train (1964) Trailer | Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau Movie
YouTube video by Movie Trailers
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Shop and Art for Sale at my website are open again. These original drawings, prints, and many others are available now. www.tomgauld.com
Panel One.
Two figures walk up a hill in a park. One walks in front and the other is walking a dog 

Front "My new year's resolution is to stop lending books"

Dog-walker "Really?"

Panel Two.
Front, becoming agitated
"It's just not worth the risk: cracked spines! Bent corners! Torn pages! Grubby fingers! Crumbs! Baths! Burglars! Rats! Children!! I can't allow such precious artefacts to fall into the careless hands of clumsy philistines!"

Panel Three.
Dog-walker "And how do the other librarians feel about this?"

Front "Less supportive Than I'd hoped."Panel 1. image of a huge nuclear plant. 
“Reactor Overheating”

2. A worker in a hazmat suit works at a computer. The screen reads:
“Press cancel to avoid critical overload”

3 - 9. The worker continues to type at the computer. The screen changes in each panel and reads: 
“Enter password to confirm”
“Incorrect password”
“Incorrect password”
“Do you want to reset your password?”
“Reset link has been sent to your email”
“Please choose a new password”
“New password can't be the same as old password”
The colour gets hotter in each panel. Starting blue in 1 and ending in red in 9.

Panel 10. Wide view. The entire earth is blown up.Night. The Department of Astrobiology building. One upper floor window is lit and a figure in it looks out and says "Dammit! Professor Monroe has all the luck!". In the car park outside, a second figure rises within a beam of light towards a flying saucer.Title: How to focus on writing your book 

There follow eleven tiny images telling a story. The captions read:

Turn your devices off (a writer with a phone and laptop. The screens are dark).
Put them in a drawer. 
Lock the drawer.
Throw away the key. 
Leave the house. 
Do not look back.
Keep to backroads and hedgerows. 
Feel your old life slip away. (the writer has shed his clothes)
Sleep by day. 
Forage in the evening. 
Write by the light of the moon 
When you have a passable first draft, commit a minor crime and use your phone call to contact your agent. (the naked writer is in a prison holding a phone while an unamused police officer looks on).
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Sleaford Mods @sleafordmods.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The Demise Of Planet X is out now.💥 Buy it. Stream it. Download it. 👉 sleafordmods.ffm.to/demise
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year, to those that celebrate it. To those that don’t continue to keep it real!!
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I occasionally like to share these "Mercator vs Real Country Size" animations to encourage you to buy a globe. Nothing fancy - just a basic globe. It does wonders in helping you (and your kids) to understand the world. Source: buff.ly/EGdKGR3
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/12/2025
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
where Nobby went wrong was in thinking small. He sidled into places and pinched things that weren’t worth much. If only he’d sidled into continents and stolen entire cities, slaughtering many of the inhabitants in the process, he’d have been a pillar of the community.
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Bob from Ops, A Conventional Boy by Charles Stross. Which is not a to shabby person to be.
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Saltcoats & Arran
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
“Easy duck easy, I got this”
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Literally The Road to Hell Part 2
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books. p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Panel One:
 A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room.
 A voice offstage says
"You can't survive on books alone"
The woman replies
"Maybe I can!"

Panel Two:
"How?" asks the voice
"I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman

Panel Three:
Caption: However 
The book is filled with yet more books.
A skull sits on the chair. It says
"I regret nothing!"
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
“You’d look good in crocks” “……what?”
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
A wee but of rain in Saltcoats!
A row of parked cars in a street during a spell of heavy rain. The rain hitting the ground is making a fine spray
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Quantum Entanglement Goes Rogue
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Duck sake it’s warm we’re melting
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It's super cool that fossils of this finger-size Cambrian arthropod are ~506 million years old and preserve its gut, nervous system and circulatory system It's also neat that the species was named for Mothra, one of the very best kaiju But honestly, you had me at "butt-breathing" 🧪 #FossilFriday
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Butt-breathing sea predator that roamed the ocean 500 million years ago discovered
Researchers have discovered an ancient moth-like sea predator in a treasure trove of museum fossils in Canada. The half-a-billion-year-old creature, Mosura fentoni, reveals that Cambrian arthropods we...
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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
On Scotland’s self-proclaimed cycling island, one small shop is making a big impact. With help from Cycling UK’s Cycle Access Fund, Mapes of Millport is fuelling freedom, fitness & connection — one refurbished bike at a time. 🔗 cyclinguk.org/caf-mapes
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How Mapes of Millport is keeping Cumbrae moving with repairs and recycled rides
With support from Cycling UK’s Cycle Access Fund, Mapes of Millport is helping people on the Isle of Cumbrae stay active, independent and connected – one refurbished bike at a time
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
On the road to Inverness via Clonaig, Tarbert, Loch Gilphead, Oban & Fort William…….nice so far!!
A roll with bacon and a flat white coffee sitting in a wooden bench. This was my breakfast this morning. The ferry for Clonaig coming into Lochranza. People with bikes waiting to boardSun setting over the village of Lochranza on Arran. Lochranza Castle is in shadow to the right of the photograph
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Rob Jones ➡️ Thought Bubble, 2000ad Hall Table B28-29a, Nov 14-15 @robjoneswrites.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Hello there. As always, I am on the lookout for new lettering jobs. So, if you want a plucky Brit clad in facial hair and a dressing gown to letter your comics, I'm your guy, dudes. robjonesletteringblog.wordpress.com
The good old Bernie Sanders meme, of him, ruddy faced and coat clad, with the text "I am once again asking for you to share my lettering portfolio pretty please"
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
We’ll witness protection sucks.
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Saltcoats Harbour
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Officer, I think I’m being stalked!
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Here kitty, are you in there
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
reason NO FOXES at car wash
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Some times it’s nice!
A drone photograph high above the Scottish town of Ardrossan to the right is the Firth of Clyde and in the distance the towns of Saltcoats, Stevenston and Irvine. In the foreground is Castle Hill and its, lower right, monument dedicated to Dr Alexander MacFadzean  worthy of the town.
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gamerfestna.bsky.social @gamerfestna.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Don't miss gamerfest TOMMORROW! Learn about table top gaming and being secure in the cyber world, along with amazing gaming and related activities. Check the posters for details. FREE entry and all activities FREE too
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
youtu.be/h242eDB84zY?...
youtu.be
“Are We the Baddies?” — That Mitchell and Webb Look
YouTube video by 4K Remasters
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Part of the Great Bear Constellation, sometimes called the ‘Big Dipper’. #ursamajor #greatbear #bigdipper #stars #night #sky #ardrossan #saltcoats #northayrshire #scotland
Phone camera shot of the Big Dipper, part of the Ursa Major Constellation taken from Castle Hill Ardrossan Scotland
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
72 miles on the bike since Christmas Day 2024. Which is nice!
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Gordon Cowan @frankavacado.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The Grey Dippers. See ‘alt’ description. Oh and a Merry Christmas to those that celebrate it.
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