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davidabowden.bsky.social
Chartered Building Surveyor, Arbitrator, Mediator, Expert Witness on boundaries, party walls, and easements London and Lisbon
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This is a dream come true, a once in a lifetime honour. I am so utterly thrilled to have won the 2025 @womensprize.bsky.social for Non-Fiction. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who gave me such generous support in writing The Story of a Heart, especially Max & Keira’s incredible, wonderful families 🩷🫁🫀

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

It is 22 years ago today that my best friend, Nick Everton, died. He was 17 years old. Not much time to leave a mark on the world you would think. But those of us who knew him came away irreversibly altered by even the short time we shared together.... 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

A reminder that Covid is a leading cause of death in children, infections are not mild. Around 200 children died from covid in the UK and even seemingly mild or asymptomatic infections carry long covid health risks for years and this isn’t being explained. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

EXCLUSIVE: Neil Kinnock slams Labour’s strategy on Reform as “100% wrong” and “mortally stupid” in a new Prospect interview with @arusbridger.bsky.social. “Appeasers get eaten,” he says. www.prospectmagazine...

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

Amazing. Respect the lede.

submitted 15 days ago • 321 comments

As NB.1.8.1 spreads, there’s only one thing spreading faster: misinformation. Here, I run down 5 of the most common errors I see circulating about COVID and encourage people to integrate airborne disease mitigation into their lives holistically. www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...

submitted 16 days ago • 25 comments

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk This is a very serious issue. Millions of children have suffered harm.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Mayor Ras Baraka has filed a lawsuit for unspecified damages against Alina Habba and Ricky Patel for FALSE ARREST and MALICIOUS PROSECUTION www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 18 days ago • 65 comments

Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few seconds and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno

submitted 21 days ago • 597 comments

Ingenious 😂 FFS

submitted 23 days ago • 277 comments

🔥 Sangita speaks out. Make sure you read this - and are following her here: @sangitamyska.bsky.social Read + share: www.thenational.scot/news/2519671...

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

I’m convinced. Mandatory daily prostate exams for all presidents until at least 2028.

submitted 33 days ago • 836 comments

The Lib Dems have 14 times as many MPs at Westminster (72) as Reform but nowhere near as much broadcast media coverage. Meanwhile the Greens have 4 compared to 5 Reform MPs in the HofC and don’t get a fraction of the coverage Reform get. Sign the petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

submitted 35 days ago • 16 comments