Nick Rowe
@nkrowe.bsky.social
Author of "The Ophagy" (a Greek mythology comedy adventure written by accident; you could read it by accident too, I won't mind). Business Analytics Lead in my day job.
Cov exile in East Mids dreaming of France #pusb
Cov exile in East Mids dreaming of France #pusb
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Nick Rowe
@nkrowe.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Main reason for moving to BlueSky from Twitter is the same as when someone enters the room you're in and shits on the floor. We can be all disgusted & cross but seeing as it's not actually OUR room we can just go somewhere that doesn't have a turd on the carpet.
@ianmooreauthor.bsky.social this might be incredibly anal of me but perhaps I'm influenced by Richard Ainsworth's character. I've just started Death in le Jardin and it mentions Valerie's Alpine is a V12. But... they were well known for having a V6 engine. It's the same engine as in a DeLorean! ⏱️🚗🔥
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
@ianmooreauthor.bsky.social this might be incredibly anal of me but perhaps I'm influenced by Richard Ainsworth's character. I've just started Death in le Jardin and it mentions Valerie's Alpine is a V12. But... they were well known for having a V6 engine. It's the same engine as in a DeLorean! ⏱️🚗🔥
@robinince.bsky.social oh my word, I have just had the best laugh at something I have read in a very long time. Cried with laughter which meant I struggled to read it out to my wife. "I'm a Joke & So Are You", the Anxiety Chapter, the special milk dessert reference.
Brilliant stuff.
Brilliant stuff.
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
@robinince.bsky.social oh my word, I have just had the best laugh at something I have read in a very long time. Cried with laughter which meant I struggled to read it out to my wife. "I'm a Joke & So Are You", the Anxiety Chapter, the special milk dessert reference.
Brilliant stuff.
Brilliant stuff.
@tim-burgess.bsky.social I had an appointment in France today about getting my residency sorted out. They had a cool arts mag from 2022 in the waiting area with a rather glowing review of your solo album. I need to add this to my collection! Got all The Charlatans stuff, somehow missed this! 😁
October 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
@tim-burgess.bsky.social I had an appointment in France today about getting my residency sorted out. They had a cool arts mag from 2022 in the waiting area with a rather glowing review of your solo album. I need to add this to my collection! Got all The Charlatans stuff, somehow missed this! 😁
I was on a Teams meeting earlier, unaware until almost the end that I was sat underneath a painting. The person I was talking to said they didn't want to mention that I had a red squirrel on my head. 😆
October 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I was on a Teams meeting earlier, unaware until almost the end that I was sat underneath a painting. The person I was talking to said they didn't want to mention that I had a red squirrel on my head. 😆
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Winning entries from our 2025 poetry competition on the theme of Absence: fossewaywriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/2...
2025 Winning Poems: “Absence”
Winning entries of our 2025 poetry competition on the theme of Absence
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May 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Winning entries from our 2025 poetry competition on the theme of Absence: fossewaywriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/2...
A little bit of dystopian flash fiction for you... babbitman.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/t...
The Outsiders
A little bit of dystopian flash fiction
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May 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A little bit of dystopian flash fiction for you... babbitman.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/t...
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Poetry Competition Winners 2025
fossewaywriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/p...
fossewaywriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/p...
Poetry Competition Winners
Winners of our poetry competition on the theme of Absence
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May 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Poetry Competition Winners 2025
fossewaywriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/p...
fossewaywriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/p...
I guess this is a cardinal from Hull celebrating the Tigers avoiding the drop to League 1
May 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I guess this is a cardinal from Hull celebrating the Tigers avoiding the drop to League 1
@realbaddiel.bsky.social thoroughly enjoyed your cycle through France with Hugh, visiting so many of our past holiday destinations (finishing where my now wife & I went on our 1st hol together in 1987). My wife v much identifies with your approach to e-bikes & puddings. I'm more like 'Legs' Dennis.
April 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
@realbaddiel.bsky.social thoroughly enjoyed your cycle through France with Hugh, visiting so many of our past holiday destinations (finishing where my now wife & I went on our 1st hol together in 1987). My wife v much identifies with your approach to e-bikes & puddings. I'm more like 'Legs' Dennis.
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We have spent the last week moving house, for the first time in nearly 18 years. Looking forward to a nice quiet week back at work because I'm absolutely knackered. At least I've now found my slippers, shaver & clock radio (previously last seen on Wednesday morning).
March 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We have spent the last week moving house, for the first time in nearly 18 years. Looking forward to a nice quiet week back at work because I'm absolutely knackered. At least I've now found my slippers, shaver & clock radio (previously last seen on Wednesday morning).
Currently reading 'The Importance of Being Interested' by @robinince.bsky.social
Great quote early on:
"Books are pliers for the barbed wire with which a dictator wishes to encircle someone's mind"
Nice one Robin, that's a keeper 😊
(Comes just before a bit about David Icke who isn't any more).
Great quote early on:
"Books are pliers for the barbed wire with which a dictator wishes to encircle someone's mind"
Nice one Robin, that's a keeper 😊
(Comes just before a bit about David Icke who isn't any more).
February 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Currently reading 'The Importance of Being Interested' by @robinince.bsky.social
Great quote early on:
"Books are pliers for the barbed wire with which a dictator wishes to encircle someone's mind"
Nice one Robin, that's a keeper 😊
(Comes just before a bit about David Icke who isn't any more).
Great quote early on:
"Books are pliers for the barbed wire with which a dictator wishes to encircle someone's mind"
Nice one Robin, that's a keeper 😊
(Comes just before a bit about David Icke who isn't any more).
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Launch of our 2025 Poetry Competition on the theme of Absence.
2025 Poetry Competition
Launch of our 2025 Poetry Competition on the theme of Absence.
fossewaywriters.wordpress.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Launch of our 2025 Poetry Competition on the theme of Absence.
I'm looking for info on this rare print of Samuel Cody's historic first British flight in October 1908. Painted by a French(?) artist in 1978 but I can't decipher the signature. If you have any ideas please get in touch!
#aviation #art #aviationart #samuelcody #BritishArmyAeroplaneNo1 #aircraft
#aviation #art #aviationart #samuelcody #BritishArmyAeroplaneNo1 #aircraft
January 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I'm looking for info on this rare print of Samuel Cody's historic first British flight in October 1908. Painted by a French(?) artist in 1978 but I can't decipher the signature. If you have any ideas please get in touch!
#aviation #art #aviationart #samuelcody #BritishArmyAeroplaneNo1 #aircraft
#aviation #art #aviationart #samuelcody #BritishArmyAeroplaneNo1 #aircraft
Could this be an indicator that 2025 is going to be my year? I've just peeled open a pack of bacon USING THE TAB. More likely it's all downhill from here...
Happy New Year anyway, everyone.
Apologies to any veggies etc.
Happy New Year anyway, everyone.
Apologies to any veggies etc.
January 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Could this be an indicator that 2025 is going to be my year? I've just peeled open a pack of bacon USING THE TAB. More likely it's all downhill from here...
Happy New Year anyway, everyone.
Apologies to any veggies etc.
Happy New Year anyway, everyone.
Apologies to any veggies etc.
Happy Christmas Matt @mattgreencomedy.com - love the TV advertising ad. Nice one, sir.
Always good to see your face on the telly.
Always good to see your face on the telly.
December 28, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Happy Christmas Matt @mattgreencomedy.com - love the TV advertising ad. Nice one, sir.
Always good to see your face on the telly.
Always good to see your face on the telly.
I've got some lovely reading material for Christmas plus a bit of music. The old hometown features in the guise of 2-Tone, The Primitives & Mark Robins #pusb but also looking forward to digging into books by non-Cov kids @ottoenglish.bsky.social & @robinince.bsky.social plus some fab SF etc.
December 27, 2024 at 5:52 PM
I've got some lovely reading material for Christmas plus a bit of music. The old hometown features in the guise of 2-Tone, The Primitives & Mark Robins #pusb but also looking forward to digging into books by non-Cov kids @ottoenglish.bsky.social & @robinince.bsky.social plus some fab SF etc.
I have completed the traditional Christmas Eve task of re-roofing the shed before night falls. Biggest bit of wrapping I've done this Christmas. Anyone else done anything a bit unusual today?
December 24, 2024 at 6:12 PM
I have completed the traditional Christmas Eve task of re-roofing the shed before night falls. Biggest bit of wrapping I've done this Christmas. Anyone else done anything a bit unusual today?
I am the very model of a modern theatre manager,
I let you know of content that might trigger & damage ya...
I let you know of content that might trigger & damage ya...
December 8, 2024 at 8:07 PM
I am the very model of a modern theatre manager,
I let you know of content that might trigger & damage ya...
I let you know of content that might trigger & damage ya...
I think Brennig is either psychic or a time traveller...
Stone me, South Korea! It's like nobody saw this coming. Here's Hurricane, a novel about North Korea attempting to take over South Korea through riots, martial law, and insurrection
December 3, 2024 at 9:08 PM
I think Brennig is either psychic or a time traveller...
@brennigjones.com
Errrrm...
Did you have anything to do with all this coup shenanigans?
Feels like someone in Seoul read the first half of Hurricane, had an idea, acted on it, finished the book & had an instant change of heart.
#lifeimitatingart
Errrrm...
Did you have anything to do with all this coup shenanigans?
Feels like someone in Seoul read the first half of Hurricane, had an idea, acted on it, finished the book & had an instant change of heart.
#lifeimitatingart
December 3, 2024 at 9:07 PM
@brennigjones.com
Errrrm...
Did you have anything to do with all this coup shenanigans?
Feels like someone in Seoul read the first half of Hurricane, had an idea, acted on it, finished the book & had an instant change of heart.
#lifeimitatingart
Errrrm...
Did you have anything to do with all this coup shenanigans?
Feels like someone in Seoul read the first half of Hurricane, had an idea, acted on it, finished the book & had an instant change of heart.
#lifeimitatingart
This is astonishing. Best use of fireworks I've ever seen!
The Moscow puppet government in Georgia decided to attack pro-democracy protestors with water cannons, pepper spray, tear gas, and rubber bullets, the protestors responded with the equivalent of a fireworks mini gun. #georgiaprotests
November 30, 2024 at 10:52 PM
This is astonishing. Best use of fireworks I've ever seen!
Well. Frank Lampard it is. I am somewhat underwhelmed by such expensive mediocrity (at best).
Still, maybe his backroom staff know what they're doing. 🤞
#pusb
Still, maybe his backroom staff know what they're doing. 🤞
#pusb
November 28, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Well. Frank Lampard it is. I am somewhat underwhelmed by such expensive mediocrity (at best).
Still, maybe his backroom staff know what they're doing. 🤞
#pusb
Still, maybe his backroom staff know what they're doing. 🤞
#pusb