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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Latest update. We had a historic building survey done and the house dates to approx. 1815. I shall henceforth call it the #RegencyHouse and style myself after 1995 Colin Firth.

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Mr Darcy in Pride And Prejudice

ALT: Mr Darcy in Pride And Prejudice

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My parents switch their router off at night because they don’t want their bill to add up…

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

She’s going to slap huge tariffs on imported grain?

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sitting room and son’s room have actual natural light!

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A blunt wood saw and a pair of secateurs. It’s going as well as I expected it to. 😡

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today in #VictorianHouse I am attacking this triffid of a Wisteria which is pulling down the guttering.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We have assumed responsibility for an old encaustic tile floor. It has been unloved and abused for years, by the look of it. How am I restoring it to its former glory? Any experts?

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Kids to rugby. Food shop. Take some cardboard to the tip. Hang some curtains in my son’s room. Iron school uniform.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love this. If anyone says “oh what martial art do you do?” he can just narrow his eyes dangerously and say “all of them…”

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He has his last trial next weekend. Then possibly 12 weeks of Saturday 4hr net sessions throughout the winter… 😨 What belt is O up to and which martial art?

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@hayls.bsky.social how’s Ff doing at university? Liver waving a white flag yet?

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The ending was great. Not saccharine or irritating. Just… normal.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And when it’s done well it’s so, so funny.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My niece proudly wearing her leavers’ hoodie. Two kids whose names are Fred and Rose displayed proudly together. There is absolutely no way that wasn’t deliberate.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think the moment in Colin From Accounts when Ash knocks over her grandmother’s coffin might be the funniest moment of television I’ve seen in a long while.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I can’t comment on the particular case because each school is different, but I do know that boys especially CANNOT. STOP. Touching each other. All the time. It’s a daily refrain. “Just let him go!”

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you! All done bar the unpacking now. The house is a little bit dishevelled* *enormously so

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Python did all for us so we don’t have to.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thank you. 2/3 of the house is packed and there’s a lorry on our drive chock full of our crap. It’s amazing how much crap a small semi detached house can hold!

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

TIL. Movers have wardrobe boxes which they transport your shirts and things in, on their hangers. This is mind blowing stuff.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Immigrants don’t integrate enough. Or they integrate too much. One wonders if it might not actually be the immigrants which are the issue, but the racism… Only wondering mind you.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Clearing out the loft in preparation for the move. At some point I must have thought this was worth keeping in case it increased in value. Lee Sharpe’s autograph from 1995.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Trying to prove to a solicitor that your savings are legit and not the fruits of a poisoned drug trafficking tree is much harder than it sounds. If I ever launder money I’d like to think I’d be more ambitious than an end-terrace in Wiltshire.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thankfully never needed; I’d be terrified of falling asleep and forgetting to work the little bellows.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Moving house throws up belongings you forget you have. In my case this infant gas mask which is sinister and cool all at once.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The latest series of Colin from Accounts is absolutely fucking mental. Love it.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We think so too. Between Hen’s discerning eye and love for F&B paint and my legendary parsimony we should come up with something habitable in a year or so.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Are you still in it now? We’re hoping this is our last move until downsizing.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s grade II listed so my usual tactic of channeling Messrs. Bodgett and Leggitt isn’t going to wash. I’m going to have to do it all properly.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thank you. I can’t wait to get stuck in in the garden. The house not so much!

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The more time I spent there the more I thought “this is the right decision”. It’s lovely.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We move into this haunted Victorian house on Weds. From our lovely finished house. What have we done?

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Whereas anywhere west of Reading and south of the M4 might as well be on the far side of the moon.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have enormous respect for those police officers. Standing there and keeping a straight face through all of that is impressive.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Me: Clemmie did you enjoy your school dinner today? Clemmie: No not really, I only ate all of mine and half of someone else’s.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just say that the whole process felt slick from start to finish.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Rufus: I’ve got £1 could you buy me a scratch card like granny? (My MIL loves them). Me: No, it’s a waste of money. Rufus: Pleeeeeeeeaaaaasse. Me: OK, but only to show you that it’s a waste of money. Rufus: Oh look, I’ve won £10.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

He did so well! 3 wickets and a run out. I deliberately stayed out the way and watched from the car park so he could just have fun, and he was buzzing. Has moved onto final round of trials now on 3rd October. Thanks for asking :)

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Don’t worry, the populace of North Somerset haven’t long discovered fire so they’re a long way from being able to cross the Bristol Channel.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I know I should be taking this seriously but I can’t help chuckle at masked thugs “stopping the boats” by standing on the shore and facing inland.

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Wrong Way Dingus

ALT: Wrong Way Dingus

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My next door neighbour almost cried seeing in his uniform. She was pottering in her garden the day we came home from the hospital.

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interestingnick.bsky.social @interestingnick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wilf. First day of Y7 on Thurs. County cricket trials tomorrow. Big week for rapidly growing boy.

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