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Nick Bailey
@shankedoff.bsky.social
I'm DrNickBailey from Twitter, but can't be supporting Must and Trump any longer. Going to mostly try and stay positive here with gardening and wildlife.
@helenczerski.bsky.social did you know this about bubbles?!

(Sorry it's a tiktok video)

vm.tiktok.com/ZNRMcyxSU/
January 5, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Just found this gem in my mum's freezer from the turn of the millennium.

Anyone interested in UPF might be interested to see how many fewer ingredients there were back then.
December 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
How is it that Picasa - that decade old photo management software is STILL SOOOO GOOD?
December 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
An inspirational project to democratise energy generation.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/mWNJOxAW

Down with capitalism and that sort of thing.

Careful now

🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
Power Station: Every Street Can Do This
One street. 20 solar roofs. 30% savings. Help us show 100 communities how to copy this across Britain. Every street a POWER STATION!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Gah! WhatsApp on Mac is such a poor experience - forced to update every few days, and it's such a palaver to perform. Mac was so much better before the crappy App Store.
October 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Not much makes me happier than generating a whole trug of delicious organic matter for free.
October 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I seem to have hatched a peanut.
October 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Amazon have a Prime sale on it seems, which would explain why my basket filled with historical non-purchases all seemed to jump up in price last week.

Does Trading Standards not have to regulate sales on Amazon?
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Just watched our kitchen tap caterpillar erupt as a chrysalis from its skin.
October 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Are we still doing #shoutyhalfhour? That Dutch lady's garden was absolutely magical and gave me so much encouragement to keep gardening as I garden.

#gardenersworld
September 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This new Gmail redesign is beyond shit. What's the point of this crap waste of space for a reply/forward button? Who needs that?

Give me back the view of my actual email you feking idiot UI designers.
August 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Greenbelt Festival is brilliant, and it's festival-goers are simply the best - look at how neat and organised the campsite rubbish and recycling is👇

Well done @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social 💯👍
August 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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When you clean for hours and then get reminded you have kids..
August 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sunset in the garden. Bliss
August 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Happy Friday evening everyone 😊
August 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I took the top triangle of glass out of my greenhouse end and it seems to have helped stop so many insects getting stuck. They'd always cluster at that end, I guess it's towards the light as that's the top south most point.
July 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
#Wimbledon seems a little more lonely without the presence of the line judges.
July 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Just look how much better the BBC Radio website is on a phone than the eternally stupid BBC Sounds app.
July 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Reposted by Nick Bailey
one from 2015, I think.
This started as being about 'unfit people suddenly getting back into tennis because Wimbledon's on', but as I was writing turned into a thing vaguely about, being an imposter in your own job, or even your body? Which was much more interesting. it's fun when that happens
July 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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I just voted against proscribing Palestine Action, a civil disobedience group, as a terrorist organisation. But I'm furious that in doing so, the government forced me and others to vote against proscribing two other clearly terrorist groups. Cynical and dangerous from govt.
July 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
#r4today peddling the "migrants are evil" line again.

FFS stop it BBC News.
July 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I was today years old when I learnt Martha's Vineyard is an island off the coats near Boston. Does it even have vineyards?
#jaws
June 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Strictly Daylillies
June 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Despite 30°C outside and a front door left wide open my local Tesco is so cold inside that the oil is solidifying.

Turn the aircon down a bit, it doesn't need to be that cold.
#climateEmergency
June 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
My pond is flowering 😍
June 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM