Pete Bowler
@beardypete.bsky.social
Aficionado of Birmingham City FC, country music, reggae music, odd,quirky music, crime fiction, odd, quirky fiction, and odd, quirky people. Politically homeless socialist.
Christmas Song
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December 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Real talk.
Modern Toss.
Modern Toss.
December 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Real talk.
Modern Toss.
Modern Toss.
Been reading Sandwich by Catherine Newman. While I love it, what a writer, it has me thinking, my Mrs has been thinking about me this way for bloody decades. I’m sure of it.
December 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Been reading Sandwich by Catherine Newman. While I love it, what a writer, it has me thinking, my Mrs has been thinking about me this way for bloody decades. I’m sure of it.
I say first tot since summer. Obviously that doesn’t include some excellent sessions down the Blues with youngest. Drinking at the football doesn’t count.
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I say first tot since summer. Obviously that doesn’t include some excellent sessions down the Blues with youngest. Drinking at the football doesn’t count.
Not a fan of best ofs or greatest hit records. Not a big fan of this fella either, really. Huge fan of this record though. Especially at this time of year, with the first tot since summer
Dancing in All Saints Hospital social club to Hungry Heart with a Galway Girl. As a Beatle died
Dancing in All Saints Hospital social club to Hungry Heart with a Galway Girl. As a Beatle died
Greatest Hits
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December 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Not a fan of best ofs or greatest hit records. Not a big fan of this fella either, really. Huge fan of this record though. Especially at this time of year, with the first tot since summer
Dancing in All Saints Hospital social club to Hungry Heart with a Galway Girl. As a Beatle died
Dancing in All Saints Hospital social club to Hungry Heart with a Galway Girl. As a Beatle died
Janie Jones
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December 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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‘How the South Won the Civil War’ 💯🎯
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December 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
‘How the South Won the Civil War’ 💯🎯
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Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Typicall brilliant writing from this man
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
Joshua and Paul provide pitiful spectacle and the worst is there’s more to come | Donald McRae
The bout in Miami was a bleak and blood-flecked affair but both combatants will find more opponents willing to take the money
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December 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Typicall brilliant writing from this man
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
Once again weary of the low brow idiocy of the Today programme switched to Radio Paradise.
They’re playing Heart of Saturday Night.
And all is well.
They’re playing Heart of Saturday Night.
And all is well.
December 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Once again weary of the low brow idiocy of the Today programme switched to Radio Paradise.
They’re playing Heart of Saturday Night.
And all is well.
They’re playing Heart of Saturday Night.
And all is well.
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D@mn. RIP Joe Ely.
youtu.be/7EgcmJZNJ4I?...
youtu.be/7EgcmJZNJ4I?...
Joe Ely Grey Whistle Test May 1981 (3 songs)
YouTube video by livemusic55
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December 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
D@mn. RIP Joe Ely.
youtu.be/7EgcmJZNJ4I?...
youtu.be/7EgcmJZNJ4I?...
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
More beautiful writing from Donald McRae. Read it and weep
www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-int...
‘It’s not normal to walk into the tornado’: To fans, there was only one Ricky Hatton. Those who loved him knew many
Three months after Hatton’s death, his bereft former trainer Billy Graham, friend Jane Couch and his brother Matthew are all trying to find hope amid the grief
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
More beautiful writing from Donald McRae. Read it and weep
www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-int...
Chez le photographe du motel - Bande originale du film "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud"
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December 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The Ice Harvest should be on that list….it’s also a great film
A merry rundown of crime fiction set during the holiday season. crimereads.com/the-crime-no...
The Crime Novels of Christmas
Last festive season I took a short break from writing Crime and the City columns to write about the wonderful Christmas mysteries published (and now increasingly republished) back in the Golden Age…
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December 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The Ice Harvest should be on that list….it’s also a great film
This has turned out to be a lovely accompaniment to the cooking of a chicken forestier
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Map of a Blue City
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December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This has turned out to be a lovely accompaniment to the cooking of a chicken forestier
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open.spotify.com/album/67tn47...
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The World Inequality Report shows that 0.001% of the world’s population hold 3 times as much wealth as half of the world population.
The 1% in the UK have almost 5 times as much wealth as 50% of the population combined.
Inequality is a political choice. It's time to tax wealth.
The 1% in the UK have almost 5 times as much wealth as 50% of the population combined.
Inequality is a political choice. It's time to tax wealth.
December 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The World Inequality Report shows that 0.001% of the world’s population hold 3 times as much wealth as half of the world population.
The 1% in the UK have almost 5 times as much wealth as 50% of the population combined.
Inequality is a political choice. It's time to tax wealth.
The 1% in the UK have almost 5 times as much wealth as 50% of the population combined.
Inequality is a political choice. It's time to tax wealth.
The Nobel peace prize makes no sense to me. The current recipient supports war against Venezuela, strongly supports the genocide in Gaza and aligns her party with the extreme right in Israel.
Satire is not dead, after all.
Satire is not dead, after all.
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Nobel peace prize makes no sense to me. The current recipient supports war against Venezuela, strongly supports the genocide in Gaza and aligns her party with the extreme right in Israel.
Satire is not dead, after all.
Satire is not dead, after all.
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Reposted by Pete Bowler
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Just re-watched Lift to the Scaffold... 🖤
Just re-watched Lift to the Scaffold... 🖤
How the Paris of Lift to the Scaffold looks today
Sixty-five years after the release of the sultry Jeanne Moreau thriller Lift to the Scaffold, we went in search of the film’s Parisian locations.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Just re-watched Lift to the Scaffold... 🖤
Just re-watched Lift to the Scaffold... 🖤