Jack
@chemistjack.bsky.social
Recovering chemist 🔥. HE professional 🎓. Sometime baker. Avid quizzer. Aspiring gym bod 💪. Master of all trades. Doctor of Philosophy. Data and spreadsheets 💙. Blue Peter badge holder ⛵️.
I'm a Midlander, bab.
I'm a Midlander, bab.
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Jack
@chemistjack.bsky.social
· Nov 15
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Jack
📍 West Midlands
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Jack
📍 West Midlands
🦁🇬🇧🌈
• Science 🧪
• Higher Education 🎓
• Baking 🧁
• Quizzing ❓️
• Mental Health 🧠
• Politics 🏛
Follow to see more!
Had a wander around a Scottish castle earlier today. Great tour, great gardens, and even got to play an 18th century piano (albeit badly) to an audience. Thank you @nationaltrust.org.uk Scotland!
August 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Had a wander around a Scottish castle earlier today. Great tour, great gardens, and even got to play an 18th century piano (albeit badly) to an audience. Thank you @nationaltrust.org.uk Scotland!
Can anyone, being really truthful with themselves, say that they honestly see any positives in having live music in pubs?
August 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Can anyone, being really truthful with themselves, say that they honestly see any positives in having live music in pubs?
Got papped by the event photographer at graduations last week. Not sure what my colleague or I are looking so concerned about... Anyone's guess! 🎓
July 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Got papped by the event photographer at graduations last week. Not sure what my colleague or I are looking so concerned about... Anyone's guess! 🎓
Never did I imagine working in #Birmingham City Centre that I would need to stop the car to give way to a gaggle of geese crossing the ring road.
But here we are.
But here we are.
July 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Never did I imagine working in #Birmingham City Centre that I would need to stop the car to give way to a gaggle of geese crossing the ring road.
But here we are.
But here we are.
July 27, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Walked over broken glass and hot coals atthe weekend. No biggie.
March 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Walked over broken glass and hot coals atthe weekend. No biggie.
Done some gym stuff.
February 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Done some gym stuff.
Is it a small act of rebellion to purposely remove those stupid attached bottle caps only to screw them back on before recycling them? Total nonsense idea and peak 'solution in need of a problem' territory.
January 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Is it a small act of rebellion to purposely remove those stupid attached bottle caps only to screw them back on before recycling them? Total nonsense idea and peak 'solution in need of a problem' territory.
So when I'm invited to be one of the #gladiators, I've decided my name will be "Typhoon"
January 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
So when I'm invited to be one of the #gladiators, I've decided my name will be "Typhoon"
I don't know why I'm looking so serious, thus jumper has had a lot of positive feedback in the office today.
January 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I don't know why I'm looking so serious, thus jumper has had a lot of positive feedback in the office today.
Me as a responsible adult being left in charge of power tools on a Sunday evening knowing that nothing could possibly go wrong.
January 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Me as a responsible adult being left in charge of power tools on a Sunday evening knowing that nothing could possibly go wrong.
A year in photographs #2024
January 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A year in photographs #2024
December 31, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Must be weird having to film these New Year shows having to pretend it's 31 December in the middle of October.
December 31, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Must be weird having to film these New Year shows having to pretend it's 31 December in the middle of October.
Ratings of Beeb Christmas telly:
Wallace and Gromit: 9/10
A triumph.
Gavin and Stacey: 8/10
Satisfying.
Call the Midwife: 7/10
Comfortable.
Doctor Who: 4/10
Predictably preachy.
Outnumbered: 2/10
Dreadful.
Wallace and Gromit: 9/10
A triumph.
Gavin and Stacey: 8/10
Satisfying.
Call the Midwife: 7/10
Comfortable.
Doctor Who: 4/10
Predictably preachy.
Outnumbered: 2/10
Dreadful.
December 26, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Ratings of Beeb Christmas telly:
Wallace and Gromit: 9/10
A triumph.
Gavin and Stacey: 8/10
Satisfying.
Call the Midwife: 7/10
Comfortable.
Doctor Who: 4/10
Predictably preachy.
Outnumbered: 2/10
Dreadful.
Wallace and Gromit: 9/10
A triumph.
Gavin and Stacey: 8/10
Satisfying.
Call the Midwife: 7/10
Comfortable.
Doctor Who: 4/10
Predictably preachy.
Outnumbered: 2/10
Dreadful.
Prawn cocktail. Roast dinner. Trifle.
Gaviscon looms.
Gaviscon looms.
December 25, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Prawn cocktail. Roast dinner. Trifle.
Gaviscon looms.
Gaviscon looms.
Nice ending, good performances, but writers please take note:
STOP THE POSTURING!!
It is becoming tiresome and is spoiling otherwise good episodes.
#doctorwho #joytotheworld
STOP THE POSTURING!!
It is becoming tiresome and is spoiling otherwise good episodes.
#doctorwho #joytotheworld
December 25, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Nice ending, good performances, but writers please take note:
STOP THE POSTURING!!
It is becoming tiresome and is spoiling otherwise good episodes.
#doctorwho #joytotheworld
STOP THE POSTURING!!
It is becoming tiresome and is spoiling otherwise good episodes.
#doctorwho #joytotheworld
In tribute to ar Gail, I am planning to have one drink for each of her marriages by lunchtime. Best get started - got some drinking to do!! 🍷🍻🥂
#corrie
#corrie
December 25, 2024 at 9:20 AM
In tribute to ar Gail, I am planning to have one drink for each of her marriages by lunchtime. Best get started - got some drinking to do!! 🍷🍻🥂
#corrie
#corrie
Christmas can be a tough time for all sorts of reasons.
No-one needs to be alone with their thoughts or feelings. There are people who will listen and listen. No rush. No judgement. No pressure.
#Samaritans are here no matter what has happened or is happening.
www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-h...
No-one needs to be alone with their thoughts or feelings. There are people who will listen and listen. No rush. No judgement. No pressure.
#Samaritans are here no matter what has happened or is happening.
www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-h...
Contact Us
Contact Us
www.samaritans.org
December 24, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Christmas can be a tough time for all sorts of reasons.
No-one needs to be alone with their thoughts or feelings. There are people who will listen and listen. No rush. No judgement. No pressure.
#Samaritans are here no matter what has happened or is happening.
www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-h...
No-one needs to be alone with their thoughts or feelings. There are people who will listen and listen. No rush. No judgement. No pressure.
#Samaritans are here no matter what has happened or is happening.
www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-h...
Putting this decoration on the tree and proclaiming in my best Hyacinth Bucket voice that we have a bauble from 'the Palace'
December 16, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Putting this decoration on the tree and proclaiming in my best Hyacinth Bucket voice that we have a bauble from 'the Palace'
Annual leave? A long-neglected core day. Wasn't smiling about 5 minutes before these were taken, but I survived 😅
December 16, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Annual leave? A long-neglected core day. Wasn't smiling about 5 minutes before these were taken, but I survived 😅