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Fred Cook

@fredcook.co.uk

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Bristol based 🧑‍💻programming 📽️cinema https://letterboxd.com/fuverdred/ ✒️cryptic crosswords 🚴‍♀️cycling 🧗‍♀️climbing 🍻pubbing

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Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 14d

Final stop at the crown tavern 🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺

Two absolute lads supping bass

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 14d

Two fresh bass at the bank 26-8 to the roses 🌹🌹🌹🌹🔺🔺🔺🔺

Two pints of bass at the bank tavern

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 14d

Disappointment strikes again, 2 butcombes as replacement 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻

Bass not on in sportsmans

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 14d

Gravity pour from the Myrtle tree 🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺

Bristol City on the telly #ComeOnYouReds

#GreatStuffThisBass

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 14d

Back on it at the Rose of Denmark🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺

Two pints of bass at the rose of Denmark

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 14d

Disaster strikes early, no Bass at the Nova Scotia. Two pints of tribute instead 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻

Bass not on

Two pints of tribute

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 14d

🔺🔺🔺We're off 🔺🔺🔺

Two pints of bass on the bar in the Avon packet

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 14d

Off on the Bristol tour de Bass today, first stop Avon packet 🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺

A screenshot of central Bristol with 7 pubs that serve bass highlighted, the Avon packet, nova Scotia, rose of Denmark, Myrtle tree, sportsmans, bank tavern and crown tavern. Little orange lads are dotted along the route in various poses, drinking beer, waving, looking drunk

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 14d

Code that made it can be found here:

github.com/fred-cook/Ba...

GitHub - fred-cook/Bass-map: A small script that reads from the [National Bass Directory](https://nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com/), uses Google maps' API to find the pubs coordinates and outputs ...

A small script that reads from the [National Bass Directory](https://nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com/), uses Google maps' API to find the pubs coordinates and outputs a CSV that can be uplo...

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 16d

Ooh a sighting not in the National Bass Directory! You can let them know with a comment here: nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/n...

Or I can pass this on, do you happen to know if it's guest or permanent?

National Bass Directory September 2025

Hello Bassketeers! AB’s push on Bass is really starting to yield results with a mildly astonishing 53 new entries in this month’s Directory, bringing the grand total to 964! Let’s…

nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · 16d

I've written a little script converting the great work done by the national Bass directory (nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com) onto google maps:

www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...
🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺
#Bass #GreatStuffThisBass

Bass - Google My Maps

Taken from the national bass directory https://nationalbassdirectory.wordpress.com/

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Jul 22

Have you seen Certified Copy? Really reminded me of the unconsoled but apparently unrelated

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Feb 12

Reminded me of this photo of captured U-boats in the Frome before it was culverted

A screenshot from twitter showing two captured German u-boats from 1918 in the Frome outside the hippodrome before it was culverted

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Feb 3

G.B.H, although I gave it 1.5⭐

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Jan 27

a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and saying yes yes yes yes yes .

Alt: Jack Nicholson is smiling and saying yes yes yes yes yes .

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Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Jan 27

Nice one! Looks like you're already following all of the big Bristol film resources, worth signing up to South West silent's mailing list if you haven't already www.southwestsilents.com

Home | South West Silents

Celebrating silent film throughout the south west of England and beyond.

www.southwestsilents.com

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Jan 9

Are their green credentials purely devil's lettuce based, or are they using any pulverised surplus hedgehog in manufacture like the old kit? Would be a shame for the club to sell out what with what's going on in Los Angeles...

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Dec 19

Luckily the word Schienenbierenttäuschungstrauer already exists in German.

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Nov 18

open.spotify.com/track/7gX6Y2...

Pretty sure this is about Romain Bardet

On a Ragga Tip '97 - Original Mix

SL2 · On a Ragga Tip '97 · Song · 1996

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Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Nov 8

If my analysis of my #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched is correct, going to be a good weekend for films. I'm planning to watch Casino Royale and Anora so could well be accurate

A quadratic graph of my most recent 4 film ratings on letterboxd (The Florida project, Heretic, The Room Next Door and Magic Mike)

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Oct 10

Snap!

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Sep 27

Better run than me this week! Petite maman all time favourite #lastfourwatched #filmsky

Last 4 films watched: alphaville, the last duel, goodbye Mr chips and after yang

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Sep 13

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky

Posters of my 4 most recent watches: strangers on a train, starve acre, get carter and one false move

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · Jul 5

I went and had a couple after seeing your post, my first bass in Bristol despite having lived here for more than 10 years. Also my first time in the swan with two necks, I'll be back!

Fred Cook @fredcook.co.uk · May 17

Dillinja back on form! Also for that aesthetic aphex twin's Syro