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Nicola
@engineernic.bsky.social
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Engineer turned museum person. Conservation, energy efficiency & decarbonisation at SS Great Britain. STEM stuff. Childless plant lady. Bristol 🇬🇧
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My happy place. Doesn’t look quite like this in February, mind 😅
A small allotment in early autumn, the sun setting in the distance. In the foreground is a net weighed down with a brick, with leeks and cabbages. Behind is a small cold frame, some overgrown nasturtiums and calendula, and some climbing beans. In the background a squash plant, some flopped over past-their-best sunflowers, and a white bicycle.
February 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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“There are always flowers for those who want to see them” - Henri Matisse 🌱
A close up of a spray of tiny white, slightly pink tinged flowers and glossy dark green leaves A cluster of lime green hellebore flowers, with their leaves in the background A couple of small periwinkle flowers with a background of glossy dark green leaves
January 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Ginkgo 🌱🍂
Ginkgo leaves turning from green to yellow
November 22, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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Screenshot from weather forecast app showing dry sunny weather on Friday, Monday and Tuesday, with heavy rain and a weather warning for Saturday and Sunday.
November 22, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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This post seems to be getting lots of attention now that it’s 24h out of date… no snow today!
Same view as the video but with bright sunshine this time!
November 20, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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The snow has finally made it to Bristol ❄️⛄️
November 19, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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🌱 I grew a 5kg squash! (That’s a full size kitchen knife)

I don’t have a big freezer so now I have about 4.5kg of squash to use up. Tell me your favourite recipes please! 👇
A large wooden chopping board atop a 5-ring induction cooker, in front of a white tiled background. On the board is a squash, pinkish in colour about 18 inches in length and 8 in girth, still with a light coating of dirt from the allotment. The squash has been cut into to show orange flesh and seeds, and the full-size kitchen knife is on the board, for scale.
November 18, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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Two pigeons on an outdoor windowsill, puffed up and facing away from each other.
November 15, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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I don’t have any pets but my pics of other people’s animals seem to be more popular than anything else I post on here, so here’s the cat who hangs out at my allotment, for your Thursday morning 🌱
Photo looking down at a white cat with grey splotches stretching out in the sun on a weedy woodchip path, the cat’s belly is rubbing against the photographer’s brown hiking boot. The photographer’s leg is visible, wearing purple socks and beige shorts
November 14, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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Had a lieu day to use today, here’s what I did with it 😋
Bowl of fruitcake batter Fruit cake batter in lined cake tin Cake in lined tin
November 11, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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My local, Clevedon 🇬🇧
Silhouette of Clevedon pier, a Victorian iron pier with a pebble beach in front/beneath. The sky is full of broken up cloud, a thin band of the lower sky is orange/yellow as the sun has just set.
November 10, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Suspect the frost will come for these in a week or two, but they’re providing much-needed cheer today!
A stone planter filled with orange nasturtiums
November 8, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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Sunshine today! Here’s a little ‘chaos posy’ I cut from the stuff still flowering out there at the weekend
A Waitrose beetroot jar in a sunny kitchen filled with a selection of small flowers in mis-matched colours including nasturtium, wallflower, statice, cosmos, calendula, phlox.
October 31, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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Where do I sign up to get an emotional support dog for my cycle commute please?
View from behind of a man on a yellow and blue mountain/hybrid bicycle, stopped at pedestrian crossing traffic lights, wearing a backpack containing a black and white dog, possibly a border collie. The dog is looking to the side and has his paws on the man’s shoulders.
October 28, 2024 at 9:45 AM