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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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🎯 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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🎈From Friday evening #BristolBalloonFiesta
August 10, 2026 at 9:48 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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Guten Morgen aus Hannover, nächster Halt Berlin Gesundbrunnen
The inside of a sleeper carriage. My feet under a blanket and a small gap in the curtain showing a slither of light
July 16, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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Leaving the eurostar for the end of the second leg, all is going to plan
A picture of the eurostar in Brussels Midi
July 15, 2026 at 4:22 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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The completed map. Also every single one has at least one dartboard 🎯
A map of bristol showing the 4 pubs greyed out as they are complete
July 11, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Last stop the black horse. Tougher day out than expected in the heat but well worth the trip 🍻
The black horse sign with a beautiful blue sky
July 11, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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Third stop failed to post, too desperate to get a shandy down
Third stop the John Harvey arms with a perfect blue sky in the background
July 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Second stop Avonmouth Tavern. Shandies all round
A dartboard saying come on the tav above and boom below
July 11, 2026 at 2:28 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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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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A week too late, sugar loaf in Easton
A drunken lad sat at an iron table with two pints on it
June 6, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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@actualnames.bsky.social

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A screen shot of the summary table for the Pick operating system on wikipedia, with Developers Don Nelson, Dick Pick and TRW, and written in assembly language
April 16, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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Do the roads across Cumberland Basin float your boat? I came across them from this Pedestrian Diversions video www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqDX...

Got enamoured enough to order a couple of high-res images from the @themerl.bsky.social to print for my walls
An architectural style drawing of Cumberland Basin in Bristol, black and white, showing the road layouts crossing the avon and the basin
April 15, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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Written up the Sandringham's dartboard(s) to celebrate National Bass Day 🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺

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A picture of a dartboard in the Sandringham, unbranded with a black foam surround
April 8, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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Two dartboard reviews:

Bar Desorden in Spain fredcook.co.uk/2026/04/02/B...

And Industry bar and kitchen on Gloucester road: fredcook.co.uk/2026/04/01/I...
A picture of me holding a beer sat underneath a horrible mural of a caricature of Mr bean with pool balls
April 2, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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🎯 New dartboard review 🎯

The seven stars in Redcliffe: fredcook.co.uk/2026/03/19/T...

I've also added a handy map of all dartboard reviews so far
A map of central Bristol with little dartboard icons showing locations of pub dartboards I've reciewed
March 26, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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I visited the Dame in bedminster last weekend, here's my dartboard report: fredcook.co.uk/2026/03/07/T...
A wide angle shot of the same interior, a dimly lit pub with a dartboard, pool table, and the bar is covered in graffiti
March 12, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Couldn't get the idea of adibass out of my head 🔺🔺🔺
Three logos in a row, on the left the Adidas logo, on the right the Bass beer logo, in the middle my amalgamation. It has the red triangle of bass chopped into 3 sections like the Adidas logo, slightly offset. The text underneath says adibass, in the curly cursive handwriting of the bass logo
March 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Latest pub dartboard review: Left Handed Giant fredcook.co.uk/2026/02/23/L... 👈
Two dartboards in left handed giant brew pub. They are mounted on a rough brick wall with some greenery dangling around them
March 4, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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Stickers of the humanoid character orange lad in a plastic bag. Orange lad is a computer generated character with skin dimpled like an orange, creepy arms and legs with 3 toes/fingers and a blank gawping face
March 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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Paid a visit to the White Horse in Westbury on Trym in the week, report below:

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The dartboard in the white horse pub. Looks a little worse for wear, and surrounded by people's tags
February 15, 2026 at 10:16 AM