Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My ivy has, obviously, suffered from the lack of rain this year, but it's still looking gorgeous. 020 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Cardiff's already busy and buzzy with half marathon runners, heading for the start line in the city centre. It was still peaceful at the wetlands, though. 040 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The housework avoidance is going well today. First a 'flu jab, now this. 280 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"NO, DURAN DURAN THE BAND! Special stamps! Yes, oh, I see Rio, that's the one. Special stamps, yes. Huh? A band. Yup. Album covers." Me, yelling at the young and confused bloke serving in the Post Office this morning. 😆 092 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My weaving on my funny little loom is gradually becoming more uniform. It's a super relaxing thing, this weaving random bits of fabric on a funny little loom malarkey. I'm never weaving anything complicated, because then I'd stop enjoying it. 1121 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Two strawberries. A study. The one on the right is shop-bought. It's exceptionally firm, very sweet and quite juicy. The one on the left is home grown. It's soft, warm and smells of the sun. It brings me joy. 030 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This small parcel sat here from 11.30am, when the delivery person took this photo, until 8.30pm, when I got home. It's like that time I left my keys in my front door for hours, or that time I left my car unlocked for days. Nothing happened. Kinda nice. (Evri though. Argh.) 040 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Sunrise is currently late enough to not feel obscenely early and early enough to deter most. Spot on. 071 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I've been thinking for years about having a Dame Judi haircut. It won't suit me. Still cute, though. 040 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026These (the vase included) were reduced to £2.50 in Big Tescos this morning. £2.50 for a few days of joy seems quite reasonable. 1140 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026If the crumble mixture has been compacted and is no longer capable of crumbling, surely a crumble is no longer a crumble? Please discuss. 220 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I find myself in Llandovery. No, I'm not sure where I am, either. But I need a cardigan, so I'm bloody delirious right now. So far, I've seen this castle, marvelled at the most wedding dresses in a charity shop I've ever seen, and had some nice poached eggs on toast in Caffi Tudor. 171 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Am I excited to cook using a big ball of garlic, rather than a couple of normal cloves costing a quarter of the price? Yes, yes I am, leave me alone, this is all I have. 040 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026From now on, whenever I need a little boost of dopamine I'm going to watch this moment between David Millar and @nedboulting.bsky.social. It's from the superlative 'For the Love of Cycling' podcast. #TourdeFrance #TdF #TdF26 0367 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Six hours with my nieces, who are now 11 and 13, and I'm wiped out. It was the incessant miming to annoying soundtracks and filming ourselves, which now passes for entertainment, that did me in. Here's how sad, old and, frankly, confused I look trying to mime a breaking heart on some app. 160 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Me, looking out my hotel window this morning: Oh! My goodness! There's a kestrel! Me, putting on my glasses to photograph the kestrel: Bloody seagulls. 030 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Went up Beckford's Tower, in Bath, this morning. Because I've been driving past it regularly for years and thought it was about time. I couldn't see Cardiff from the top. Apparently it's often visible. But I know what it looks like already, so I wasn't bothered. 150 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Lovely pootle earlier this morning near the Purton Hulks, a ships graveyard with wrecks of over 80 old boats, between the River Severn and the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. The boats were purposely grounded to prevent riverbank erosion. Met bonus cute dog, not pictured. 220 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I came second in one of the #TdF daily quizzes on Kahoot. I mean, not many people have played it. And it HAS to have been easy for me to get stuff right, because I'm largely ignorant about cycling. But also, my French must still be pas mal, hein? www.letour.fr/fr/quiz-quot... 000 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I'm watching a baking show. This is a baking show. Baking. 020 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Here is your certificate. Please hand it to a family member or friend for safe keeping. Now join the queue for gowns. Congratulations! 010 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I've had no energy to garden this year. The front yard has, left to its own devices, produced poppies from seeds sown in years past. Lovely. 0100 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Feel a bit ridiculous, but there you are. Very much anticipating entering the website and everything falling over and being thwarted. 250 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026You know those navy shoulder bags (I think they are copies of Longchamp's Le Pliage tote bag, illustrated) that are everywhere? They look like something my gran would love. Why are they so popular with young women? 200 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Royal Mail delivered this parcel, which I'd chased twice and they'd declared lost, today. The gross melted, crispy, flaking packaging aside, as a 48 hour tracked item, it was 288 hours late. (Don't worry, I've had a refund.) It's deranged, yes? 311 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Today I was woken by arsehole seagull parents attacking a man walking his dog. Again. Look at these bastard things. Every year they have another baby in a stupid neighbour's chimney pot and raise it on our street. Two years ago the baby was run over and the divebombing stopped and I was not sad. 020 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT 107°F (42°C) FEELS LIKE, BBC! 110 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Wednesday 10:30. 29.5°. Like an oblivious boiling frog, I spent 2.5 hours in this space, before realising I felt rather unwell. I have now abandoned the library. If the books combust, so be it. 030 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Next Tuesday looks to be AMAZING. (21°C if you don't understand old money.) 060 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Just me keeping track. Tuesday 11:30. 27°. 110 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Just for my own interest. At work. Tuesday 08:30. 26°. 130 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I'm back in the same hotel a year later and, because Travelodge let you do this now, I pre-booked a room with a good view of the traffic. I had a lovely evening. 040 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Eating this chocolate because the lady who just gave me my latest COVID jab told me to. It was definitely medical advice. 1110 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The Cardiff School of Art and Design final year show is on at the mo. I thought this, from @ruben.art.insta, was fab. 030 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I enjoyed the graveyard at St Clement's Church in Romney Marsh this morning. These were my favourite headstones. Derek Jarman's (of course), Grumpy's (with the 'its right you're dead' message) and Edward Mark Skilbeck's (because it seems like he lived a good life). 110 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026After 2.5 hours of driving, in between more pootling, I've had enough for today. Definitely can't do the remaining 3.5 home. I've collapsed at a motorway services hotel. D'you know what? It's quite serviceable. This is my view. My entertainment will be in the services watching tired people argue. 😂 050 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I'm leaving this place today. When not pootling elsewhere, I've just stared out at this odd view. I've seen the fox, rabbits, brazen and noisy magpies, a flock of linnets, a few pairs of reed buntings, lots of dunnocks and a random little dog. But not a single human. It's been lovely. 1100 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This morning I visited the sound mirrors at Romney Marsh (meh) and St Thomas Becket Church (gorgeous, worth the effort of multiple diversions around closed unclassified roads). My favourite part was collecting this giant key to open the church from a nearby house. 1111 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The fox visited again. I asked him to move away from the door, then rolled an egg out. He enjoyed his egg. He opened the shell delicately, and licked the contents. Once he'd finished, a magpie flew off with the shell. Nature, eh? 140 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026My head is very quiet in this place. Possibly because of the nothingness. Or maybe the unrelenting wind has blown away all my thoughts. 120 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Excuse me whilst I consult my dictionary before walking on the beach. 😜 130 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026My holiday place comes with a guard cat. It's a big one. 191 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026😆 Okay, you have the glass floor in the carriage, with shingle from the beach underneath, which lights up; my favourite sign (there are lots of signs); and this random train-related thing. 210 0
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Staying in a bonkers holiday home for the next few nights. I'm sleeping in an old railway carriage inside a sort of hut. As you enter there's this photo of long-dead blokes in a ticket booth, with train tickets for you to take. Bonkers. I love it. 250 0