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 🇬🇧

Photo of a hand holding a kindle displaying the cover of the novel “Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr. The words are white and fill the whole cover, the background (also black and white since it’s a kindle screen) has a city skyline across the bottom, clouds across the middle and birds across the top.
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.
A close up of a spray of tiny white, slightly pink tinged flowers and glossy dark green leaves
Ginkgo leaves turning from green to yellow
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.
Same view as the video but with bright sunshine this time!
Brunel’s SS Great Britain, a Victorian museum ship in dry dock, with snow falling around. The ground is wet and the snow is not settling.
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.
Two pigeons on an outdoor windowsill, puffed up and facing away from each other.
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
Bowl of fruitcake batter
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.
A stone planter filled with orange nasturtiums
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.
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.