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Gareth Bellamy

@thebellow.bsky.social
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Working as a waitress in a cocktail bar. Maximising shareholder value. Here if you need anything, let me know.

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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you're in need of any kind of confidence boost this Monday (and I think you're doing a fantastic job already) how about this ancient pot from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge which is meant to represent a hedgehog, allegedly.
An ancient ceramic pot which is a mid brown in colour, it has an oddly humanoid face depicted in clay on one end. It is apparently meant to be a hedgehog. From the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You must choose the form of your destructor..............
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hanging out with Percy.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Been out for an evening yomp, saw this on a fence in some remote woodland. Not one to kink shame but think it's 50/50 either an innocent dog lead or else dogging related bondage gear someone left behind on a dark night. #burnhamsbritain
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Last night... this morning.
The sun shining through a tree at sunset on a path between two fields on the Bucks/Herts borders. The sky is bright blue and there are a few wispy clouds in the sky.A grey cloudy view of a bit of the ruined Berkhamsted castle from a passing train window. A very dull and grey photo.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hope you stuck to the path...
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But has Phobos got an utterly insane 'magic' roundabout like Hemel Hempstead? I very much doubt it.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Went to see Michael Mann's 'Manhunter: The Final Cut' in the cinema last night. First time seeing it on the big screen. Loved it. Jazzed up print & soundtrack Such an archetypal '80s' looking film, which, really, as it was originally released in 1986, it should be, right? (£6 a ticket too!)
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cool. I guess the key thing is whether other people get tired of you telling them?
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's lunchtime walk, spores, moulds and fungus.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An audit yesterday has revealed it's possible I can read all the unread books I own if a) I make it my full time job from tomorrow b) live until I'm in my late 90s and c) stop buying more books. And yet, more books keep arriving. It's like the bloody magic porridge pot here but with books
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What about this as an alternative...
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Guys, let me reassure you. I'm going nowhere.
A screenshot of an FT story saying 'Peter Hargreaves: Britain cannot afford to lose more 'big taxpayers'
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I like the fact someone took this photo of the Chancellor which makes him look like he was singing 'Move Closer' by Phyllis Nelson.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh.... piss off.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I call this one, 'All trains are currently cancelled'
A black and white photo of commuters on a rainy platform waiting for trains that don't come
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Working on an article about drug smuggling using commercial shipping, photo library suggested this, which, whilst stylish, is perhaps lacking an element of realism.
A very poor illustration of container shop
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My niece's cat, Dolly, staring mournfully over the top of a wine glass, is really summing up my 'back to work in the morning ' vibe. @regretteruane.bsky.social
Dolly, a rather fluffy grey cat, looking rather mournfully over the top of a wine glass.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Same.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Morning from Hobbes...
A large ginger cat on a fence.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bloody love @vizcomic.bsky.social
Cover of issue 359 of Viz comic proclaiming there's a free actual size Bayeux Tapestry for every reader.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My sister reports this sign going up in her village, and I think we should adopt these as a new national campaign.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
File under Prefab Sprout also rans... @nigetassell.bsky.social
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
To be fair, we've all done this.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Made an apple pie.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Some lovely back to school/end of summer vibes from Charlie Brown. Never suffered that badly with back to school 'fear' but it does incur a certain sombre wistfulness for me which I attempt to ablate with tea and biscuits.
A cover photo of the 1970 book It Was a Short Summer Charlie Brown showing a sad looking Charlie Brown with Snoopy in a kayak on the edge of a lake.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Been out for a lovely and refreshingly damp autumnal stroll and found a massive puffball. So yeah, it's time for #shrooms.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So this is how I find out The Dude Lebowski is dead.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I mean, we can add these to the list, but you shouldn't have to request this stuff.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Is that an order?
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Face in the office floor, with an Evil Dead 'book of the dead:/Tim Burton vibe. @frazerlee.bsky.social
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I made a flying visit to Swanage/Corfe etc at the weekend, basically Nuts in May territory, and felt compelled to do my best 'Keith Pratt losing it' pose while down there. Lacking the mania I feel.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Looking like a bumper dust harvest the farmers are bringing in this year.
A farmer doing some kind of farming activity in a tractor in a lovely bone dry field in Hertfordshire.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Continuing to dominate the intellectual high ground I see...
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Who remembers central heating??
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm ready for the eclipse.
Chris Lowe from Pet Shop Boys wearing sunglasses.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It used to be when you opened up Photoshop you'd get some cool, stylish image that was meant to inspire you. Currently you get technicolour hybrid man/bird/beast, a beaked toucan of despair, and I just want to kick the screen in every time I see it. #beakedravensofdespair
Photoshop splash screen image of a horrible bird man thing.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"and we'll have more from Hexagonal Pret a Manger later..."
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If I'm out and see a massive stack of hay bales like this, the first thing to come into my mind is they'll be a massive house hidden behind it built without planning permission by a rich twat.
A massive stack of hay bales in a sunbaked field in sunny Hertfordshire.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The sign you're watching a great film...
A screen grab from the intro to To Live and Die in LA saying 'Music composed and performed by Wang Chung'
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I can't wait not to watch Ricky Gervaise's cartoon cat
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Hertfordshire. Has a 'waiting for the Amish to appear and start putting up a barn' vibe.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Have literally, not figuratively, done this today as a whole load of stormy looking clouds swept past with ne'er a drop of rain. Come back you cowards!!!!
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What, nowhere outside of this building? At all? Seems a tad unfair.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Enjoying a traditional, British seaside visit... Appear to have grown an extra testicle while having a quick dip in the sea. All part of the charm here I'm told.
Sizewell nuclear power station.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Just sharing a photo of my niece's cat wearing a ruff and absolutely loving it in case this kind of thing helps you through the day.
A photo of an odd-cat wearing a ruff.
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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Another heatwave is it? Picked the wrong week to test out my new outfit...
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