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Fred Cook
@fredcook.co.uk
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Bristol based
🧑‍💻programming https://github.com/fred-cook
📽️cinema https://letterboxd.com/fuverdred/
✒️cryptic crosswords
🚴‍♀️cycling
🧗‍♀️climbing
📖reading
🍻pubbing https://bristol.pub/invite/ps1eav8silxuv9r7i773ui2v
🎯darts https://fredcook.co.uk/map
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Managed to find a proper dartboard in St-Malo:

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A wide angle photo of the view of St-Malo from the ferry on the way in. There are moody grey clouds to the right over St-Malo, with lighter blue patches and fluffy white clouds over the sea. A couple of small islands are visible, with a smooth grey sea bisected half in light and half in shade
October 1, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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boakandbailey.bsky.social
BLOG POST: With less than 24 hours in town we visited three beer gardens in Munich. One was too local. One was too touristy. But the third was just right.

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A trio of Munich beer gardens in one afternoon
We only had a short stopover in Munich but really wanted a proper session in a proper Münchner Biergarten. Goldilocks style, we ended up visiting three.
boakandbailey.com
September 16, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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akrennmair.bsky.social
What is Märzen? In 1950, the second brewmaster of Hofbräuhaus Munich was put on trial over that question.

#beerhistory

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What is Märzen? A 1950 Court Case in Munich - Daft Eejit Brewing
In which I briefly discuss a court case from 1950 around accusation of adulterated Märzenbier at Hofbräuhaus.
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September 10, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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🎯 The Forester's arms, with a brief mention of landlord fredcook.co.uk/2026/09/07/T...
A screenshot from Instagram showing the old and new Timmy Taylor's landlord badge with the text above "landlord maxing" and caption below "landlord lad been turkey for that hair transplant hookup, got his teeth done as well. Probs lives in Dubai now "
September 10, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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Latest dartboard review: The Pilot Boat Inn

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🛥️ Pub Dartboard Review - The Pilot Boat · Fred Cook
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August 29, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Latest darts review: Electric Bear in Bath fredcook.co.uk/2026/08/13/E...
🐻 Pub Dartboard Review - Electric Bear · Fred Cook
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August 22, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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This turned up in my Facebook Memories from 7 years ago:
A bottle of Flash Bathroom spray, with a price label strategically placed, meaning the slogan actually reads: REMOVES OAP CUM
August 11, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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🎈From Friday evening #BristolBalloonFiesta
August 10, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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Latest pub dartboard review, Catwheezles Castle in Bamberg from last month:

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🧙‍♂️ Pub Dartboard Review - Catwheezle's Castle · Fred Cook
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August 9, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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I got a free first-class ticket from GWR, so I went to a pub in Somerset & made this silly video
August 7, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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christinamartin.bsky.social
It's Friday. It's the shortest amount of time anyone has ever owned a trouser press.
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Bullseye - The cruel mistress that is the Prize Board
YouTube video by ChristinaLMartin
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November 15, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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Recently needed a triangular key to open a gas meter box, asked a friend to 3D print one and they have excelled themselves 🔺🔺🔺
A 3d printed key for opening gas meter boxes with the bass triangle and gas written in the curly bass beer font with the swoosh underneath
July 22, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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pelliclemag.com
Nostalgia in droves, and pints of Bass too. The Mumbles Mile was once a place of debauchery and a rite of passage for younger drinkers. But what is it like now? William Ham Bevan takes to the streets to find the pubs of his past.

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The End of the Mumbles Mile — Tracing the Footsteps of a Legendary Pub Crawl — Pellicle
Across the road from the White Rose, a pair of neatly dressed women hand us a phone. “Could we be cheeky and get a picture?” It strikes me as an unremarkable request: a quick souvenir of the first pub...
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July 22, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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News > UK > UK Politics Nigel Farage hits out
July 21, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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weirdbristol.bsky.social
In 1989, Aardman Animations was commissioned by Channel 4 to make a series of short films based on interviews with the general public.
“War Story” featured WWII veteran Bill Perry recounting his memories of Bristol in the Blitz. This touching, very funny film was the result

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Lip Synch: War Story - Aardman Animations (Short Film)
YouTube video by Aardman
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July 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Start of our summer holiday. We have possibly made a bad choice and gone to Bamberg with @johnzee7.bsky.social and @fredcook.co.uk

First stop is Spezial, one of my favourites.
Four partly drunk glasses of beer sat on a table in Spezial, Bamberg.
July 17, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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First leg of three trains to see @johnzee7.bsky.social @louisekrennmair.bsky.social and @akrennmair.bsky.social in Berlin. Fingers crossed for no delays 🤞
A green GWR train at bristol Temple Meads
July 15, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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Latest review, the Post Office Tavern: fredcook.co.uk/2026/07/09/T...
A picture of the pub at night, as I took the photo months ago in winter
July 12, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Taking in Bristols most extreme pubs today: The Compass Rose - BRISTOL.PUB share.google/z5VNqKLlB1K7...

First stop The Old Crow
A picture of the front of the old crow pub with a perfectly blue sky behind
July 11, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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johnzee7.bsky.social
BLOG POST: A response to @boakandbailey.bsky.social's "What does Helles taste like?" through the lens of a brewing scientist.

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July 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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This is a fun story from my colleague Carlos Mureithi - Kenya is going through a darts resurgence
Oche addicts: how Kenya fell back in love with darts
Darts development organisations and win for David Munyua at PDC World Darts Championship have turbocharged a resurgence in interest in the sport
www.theguardian.com
July 5, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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fwfilmfestival.bsky.social
Why oh why is the Master and Commander 70 mins documentary 'The Hundred Days' not featured on any of the Blu Ray or 4K releases?

It's one of the best special features/making of docs ever made... and it's only available on the 2-disc DVD?!

Pray tell, what is this madness?!
June 30, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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First dartboard review I've posted on here for a while, there's a backlog I haven't blueskyed if you like them. Unusually this one isn't in Bristol, but from a scrambling trip in North Wales

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A view down to a lake on a sunny day in snowdonia. In the foreground you can see three people scrambling down a grey rocky shadowed path. In the distance over a slight lip of rock you can see a sunlit lake surrounded by green in valley
June 30, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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akrennmair.bsky.social
Well, here's the exciting announcement: I just published my latest book, Bavarian White Beer. It's about the history of Bavarian white beer that may also know as Weissbier, Weizenbier or Hefeweizen, including its historic and modern brewing technologies.

#beerhistory

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June 19, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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June 17, 2026 at 9:04 PM