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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.

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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!

An inspirational project to democratise energy generation.
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Down with capitalism and that sort of thing.

Careful now

🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

17.10.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

16.10.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not much makes me happier than generating a whole trug of delicious organic matter for free.

15.10.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I seem to have hatched a peanut.

12.10.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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?

08.10.2025 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just watched our kitchen tap caterpillar erupt as a chrysalis from its skin.

06.10.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

06.09.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Echinaceas are coping way better.

29.08.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Both. Certainly the established ones are a little better, but none very happy.

29.08.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My rudbeckia have hated this dry weather. There was I thinking they're hot loving prairie plants, but they've been looking so forlorn and droopy

29.08.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

29.08.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Greenbelt Festival is brilliant, and it's festival-goers are simply the best - look at how neat and organised the campsite rubbish and recycling isπŸ‘‡

Well done @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social πŸ’―πŸ‘

25.08.2025 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think you'll find you got more than two. Thirty eight so far. Make that thirty nine. Forty...

09.08.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yet still sexier than @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social

09.08.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When you clean for hours and then get reminded you have kids..

09.08.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1822    πŸ” 308    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 43
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Sunset in the garden. Bliss

08.08.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Friday evening everyone 😊

08.08.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

16.07.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#Wimbledon seems a little more lonely without the presence of the line judges.

10.07.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just look how much better the BBC Radio website is on a phone than the eternally stupid BBC Sounds app.

08.07.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Re-weeding" perhaps

03.07.2025 06:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
[Title panel, over an image of a tennis racquet in amongst junk in a cupboard]:

Let's Not Do This Again

Cut to a TENNIS RACQUET being held in the hand of a man called TERRY.

RACQUET:

Right.

OK.

RACQUET:
So l just sort of... *hit it with my face*.

TERRY:
Yes.

[Pull back to show TERRY - overweight, sweating, playimng tennis but surrounded by loads of balls on the ground which he’s missed].

RACQUET:
At the net.

TERRY:
Over the net.

RACQUET:
Over. Over the net, yes. Sorry.

RACQUET:
It's just, y know we haven't done this since last -

[A ball gently hits the handle of the racquet]
*POF*

RACQUET:
UUUURRGH

RACQUET:
UUURGH CHRIST
MY HANDLE

TERRY:
Ssh!

RACQUET:
IT HIT ME ON MY HANDLE TERRY

TERRY:
Stop it!

RACQUET:
No Terry! You stop it! You stop this... this... charade!

RACQUET:
I am a 1993 Head Radical in hot pink, who belongs in a cupboard. You are an unfit man who thinks he likes tennis, but in reality belongs on the sofa.

RACQUET:
Why do we do this every year, Terry?

RACQUET:
Why do we go on playing this silly - 

[Ball gently hits the side of the racquet]
*KLANG*

RACQUET:
UUURRGGH IT
HIT MY SIDE BIT...

[Title panel, over an image of a tennis racquet in amongst junk in a cupboard]: Let's Not Do This Again Cut to a TENNIS RACQUET being held in the hand of a man called TERRY. RACQUET: Right. OK. RACQUET: So l just sort of... *hit it with my face*. TERRY: Yes. [Pull back to show TERRY - overweight, sweating, playimng tennis but surrounded by loads of balls on the ground which he’s missed]. RACQUET: At the net. TERRY: Over the net. RACQUET: Over. Over the net, yes. Sorry. RACQUET: It's just, y know we haven't done this since last - [A ball gently hits the handle of the racquet] *POF* RACQUET: UUUURRGH RACQUET: UUURGH CHRIST MY HANDLE TERRY: Ssh! RACQUET: IT HIT ME ON MY HANDLE TERRY TERRY: Stop it! RACQUET: No Terry! You stop it! You stop this... this... charade! RACQUET: I am a 1993 Head Radical in hot pink, who belongs in a cupboard. You are an unfit man who thinks he likes tennis, but in reality belongs on the sofa. RACQUET: Why do we do this every year, Terry? RACQUET: Why do we go on playing this silly - [Ball gently hits the side of the racquet] *KLANG* RACQUET: UUURRGGH IT HIT MY SIDE BIT...

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

02.07.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mine has finally begun self seeding itself around the garden and I'm really pleased to see it where it wants to be

02.07.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My first zinna is about to erupt. You're definitely a week ahead of me here in east Anglia.

02.07.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Such a clear explanation. Well done and thank you. Wish you were my MP.

02.07.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

02.07.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2367    πŸ” 642    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 40

I'm also at this stage. Fingers firmly crossed for a good cucumber season this year.

01.07.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Working from home ftw - I wear nothing else.

01.07.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#r4today peddling the "migrants are evil" line again.

FFS stop it BBC News.

01.07.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

29.06.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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