Cheers for the comments, yeah it was a naturally bent section of wood.
The darker knot section in the bowl was the pruning wound from where I reshaped the branch on the tree last year, I quite like that bit of history.
Been maintaing the tree for a few years now gradually reducing and reshaping, it provides loads of apples great for pies and not bad as eaters.
Im getting a festive belly early this year with all the baking going on