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Nicola

@gardennicola.bsky.social

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Posts about gardening,🌱 history, food & art. Occasional rants about the state of the world. LGBT+ 🏳️‍⚧️ ally 🏳️‍🌈 She/her No DMs. Will instantly block. Leicester, UK.

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 12h

Alright period drama lovers 📺

I'm coming up to an extended period of recuperation stuck in bed, probably without *too* much brain power at my disposal. I've previously enjoyed The Great, Outlander, Wolf Hall, Bridgerton, War & Peace, The Crown.

What do I need on my list?

a woman sitting on a couch with the words we are going to have so much fun on the bottom

ALT: a woman sitting on a couch with the words we are going to have so much fun on the bottom

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you I’m very chuffed!

Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 16h

It was that song! I could scarcely believe it.

Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 17h

I'd heard the Range might have cheap plant pots! There were very few and none big enough unfortunately. Had to shell out a tenner at B&Q!

Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 17h

I did. Asked a few of them how they were coping.

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 18h

Retail hell. It dances and sings, very badly but I've saved you from witnessing that.

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 21h

Morning all. Fresh bed linen was yesterday! Off out in search of a pot for this beauty. A Chusan palm given to me by a dear friend.

A palm type tree aka trachycarpus fortunei in a large bag.

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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 2d

Ivy flowering next to the River Soar, Leicester, this morning, before the fog cleared. #WildflowerHour

Lower half of the photo, foreground, shows ivy flowers growing on the bank of the River Soar, Leicester. In the background the river and a former textile factory are shrouded in fog.

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful!

Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 2d

Oh dear, so sorry.

Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 2d

True

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Madeleine @maudiemanding.bsky.social · 3d

open.substack.com/pub/bigthink...

I went to space and discovered an enormous lie

What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him.

open.substack.com

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 2d

Watching #RiotWomen. Joanna Scanlon is one of the best actors ever. Great cast in general. No questions. 😂

Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 4d

View

Several bright blue flowers of Morning Glory trailing above a garden shelter

Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 4d

www.map.org.uk/news/archive

As Gaza ceasefire deal is reached, MAP calls for aid, access and accountability. - Latest News & Developments - Medical Aid for Palestinians

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) welcomes the announcement of the first phase of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas as a vital and long-overdue step that will bring hope and relief to th...

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 5d

My pleasure.

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Regina @ranyc.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/qKE7yrm0EP4?...

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte – Ouvertüre ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Tarmo Peltokoski

YouTube video by hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 5d

👀 this is amazing I love it!

Felicity Keefe @felicitykeefe.bsky.social · 5d

Another large painting from the studio this week - wild winter lakes and misty hillsides.

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations!

Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 7d

Enjoy a story about the end of a tyrant!

James Coverley @jamescoverley.com · 7d

#ancientbluesky #history #skystorians #archaeology #domitian

Here, in all its finger-shredding, eye-gouging, blood-soaked, assassin-screaming, enraged-emperor glory, is the final day of the emperor Domitian!

No terrified slave boys were terrified in the making of this terror

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The Death of Domitian

The thing about tyrants, autocrats, power-mad demagogues and political bullies is that, in the end, someone will always come for you.

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 7d

Ouch! Hope it heals quickly Guy.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7d

The green-lane-as-tunnel type of interdimensional portal is one of my favourites.

A beautiful tunnelled footpath in mid-Cornwall in high summer.

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 7d

Covid vaccination today. Already had the RSV one last week. Extremely grateful. ❤️NHS

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 7d

I see from this morning’s Politico Playbook that Robert Jenrick’s wife reads out comments about him to motivate him. So now I’m tempted to post that he seems like the kind of man whose wife would perpetually be wondering if she could have married better.

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