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El-Lei

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#TheBathLandlady @thegrapesbath.co.uk..Ma, bargee, placemaker, allotmenteer, cyclist, Dir. Bath BID, FRSA. Website incoming at eleanor-leiper.com

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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Last ditch attempt….got a puppy so our #womad tickets are up for sale. Starts tomorrow. hbtn00x4.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
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Twickets is an ethical ticket resale marketplace, enabling fans to sell spare tickets at no more than face value (plus fees)
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Watching #JamesPrestwood at #BristolHarbourFestival and having the best time.
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ahead of the Bath in Bloom judging for the Pub Category I got persuaded to enter us for a couple of weeks ago, our little Westgate Parklet is getting some much deserved love. Kids love playing on it, very much part of the intention, customers love it & it’s a great space for rest. #DiaryofaParklet
New larch boards waiting to be installing amongst a parklet in Westgate St Bath outside the Grapes pub, designed by local architects Mitchell, Eley Gould and based on the paving on Prior Park Bridge. The parklet is laid out in triangles at different heights, some for seating and some for planting.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
New piece of work kit turned up last week which has prompted a morning of digital detox and declutter but couldn’t resist this one in the middle. 👀 @oftenarsey.bsky.social
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today in Brexit Britain you are being asked to believe that a Thailand-based cryptocurrency tycoon secretly gave Nigel Farage - the person, not his party - five million pounds without any hope or expectation of getting anything in return.
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Been in India a week today - I think we're ahead :) www.eleanor-leiper.com/monkeys-u-ey...
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Monkeys, U-eys and Padma!
Upon entering the haveli, we were told to always keep the windows and doors shut....'cos monkeys.
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IndieSpiritBath @indiespiritbath.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Two little tickets. Just freed up for tomorrow’s Uber Islay whisky tasting. There’s this 33yr single cask beauty we have been dying to try that’s on it. Lineup has another 30yr bottling, a single cask for the German market, a super hard to get UK bottler’s single cask and an anniversary release.
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The fellas birthday has been a blast. 60 turns around the sun and there’s been plenty of it in Porto. Lush!
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Hilarious - first time in my 53 trips round the sun I’ve been caught speeding - the online course is delivered by Zoom! 🏎️
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Staff party vibes - what a brilliant lot they are.
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It would seem the level of alcohol intake that I experienced during the six Nations can actually be topped by the staff Christmas Party 🍺
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Gulp...the papers have been signed www.eleanor-leiper.com/equinox-a-fe...
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Equinox, a Fedge and Sun Gardens
A signed form, an orchard on the way, and a sense that things are beginning to shift.
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Early night but a bit of an announcement before I do www.eleanor-leiper.com/im-sitting-h...
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As one door opens, so another closes
Endings, beginnings, and finally saying yes to something that’s been waiting for a while.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Nobody can ever accuse Richard Tice of not loving his money!!... I mean his country... sorry... his country www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in tax
The deputy leader’s property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018-21
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Saskia Heijltjes @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
📢 Kidical Mass Bath is back! 🚲 FB event page: fb.me/e/dbfo6dvXv Join us for a family-friendly cycle ride to celebrate cycling and call for safer streets. Let's show that we want to cycle and we need safe spaces to do so! 🗓️ Sunday 19 April ⏰ 2PM 📍 Orange Grove (next to the Abbey)
Image of a precious kidical mass cycle ride in Bath
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Newspapers that told their readers austerity, Brexit, Johnson & Truss would be brilliant are attacking the British Prime Minister for not unquestioningly following a lunatic President into an illegal attack. And on social media, he gets attacked from the other 'side' for doing the precise opposite!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
MPs’ basic salary to rise to £110,000 by end of parliament, watchdog says. This should be accompanied by a total ban on second jobs, which in most cases is a corporate bribe. Must end all conflict of interests. Being a MP is a full time job. MPs must act exclusively as MPs.
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MPs’ basic salary to rise to £110,000 by end of parliament, watchdog says
Ipsa cites rising abuse and constituency workloads as reasons for above-inflation increase of 5% from April
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/02/2026
In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Strange isn't it that Trump is talking about invading Cuba and attacking Iran on the day that another president is being questioned about his friendship with Epstein...
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Yup! Truth.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I hate Dyson with every fibre of my being & will never ever buy anything made by him. He’s a piece of shit who treats people like meat. It was always obvious why he put his money & mouth behind Brexit. More people in this country need to be aware of his Machiavellian ways & boycott the bastard.
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IndieSpiritBath @indiespiritbath.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Put a bet on that. I’d like to thank the Green Party for my beer money today.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Not just a loser. But a bad loser.
Statement from Matt Goodwin,
UK candidate:


Reform


"Given the reports we are reading in
UK media about family voting and
sectarianism, I am deeply concerned
about the extent to which the Gorton
and Denton parliamentary by-election
is a free, fair, and democratic election."
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A little bit more hope returned this morning hearing about the Gorton and Denton win for the @greenparty.org.uk - now for a few hours finalising our VAT return before heading off to see friends for a weekend of walks by the sea, pubs and cheese. I’ll take that. Congratulations Hannah Spencer. 🥬
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Greens now have 5 MPs. Reform has 8 - but four of those are Tory defections who were not elected on a REF ticket.. Bet Jenrick and Braverman are feeling a little sick this morning.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Now watch the billionaire media throw all the dirt it can at the Greens, who could thwart its dream of a Farage government.
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
OMG so excited. Have finally booked tickets for WOMAD - been wanting to go for years.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Related to Freddy no doubt!
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Back on the building bandwagon and another post for anyone who's interested in progress www.eleanor-leiper.com/on-space-tim...
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On Space, Timber, and Ever After
Shelves, timber, and the unexpected return of breath.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Let's go! 💚🎉 youtu.be/sWIdfmWBYjU?...
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Huge New Poll BOOST For The Greens
YouTube video by Turn Left
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Broken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The wonderful - as always - Caroline Lucas performing with surgical precision, a complete demolition of 'ReformUK' and its "new top team" of terribly tarnished Tories from the past. Caroline is the best PM we never had. #bbcnewsnight #r4today #bbcnews #Reformatives
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The lights are fixed at last. We're no longer possessed! I did another one. www.eleanor-leiper.com/on-light-soi...
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On Light, Soil, and Chance
Flickering lights, turning soil, and books that have the potential to stitch two lives back together.
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Numero #3 from my fledgling website and its been an eye opener of a week www.eleanor-leiper.com/on-nearness-...
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On Nearness, Distance, and Knowing
Flats, mountains, memories, and the delicate art of knowing when to hold on and when to pour a glass of wine.
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The Times calls Keir Starmer's decision to hire Peter Mandelson an "egregious error" which deserves an "inquiry into the appointment process." Not included is any demand for an inquiry into their own appointment of him, long after his post-conviction relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was exposed
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New window signage completed @thegrapesbath.co.uk as the last lot that were traditionally sign written and gilded took a battering from condensation and the style and messaging were copied almost verbatim by a nearby pub 😮 so we’ve switched it up. #DogsWelcome #LiveMusic #LocalBooze #NotAChain
The burnt red frontage of The Grapes in Bath with a central door and two windows either side. The left-hand windows says live music and then, Local booze the window above the door shows that the pub is a free house and the windows to the right state that dogs are welcome and we are not a chain.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I must say, even as a Tory, that Reform can never be accused of hypocrisy. For instance Nigel Farage saying Mr Starmer’s association with Mr Mandelson was a “Grave error of judgement” & he should resign. Mr Farage’s ‘associations’ could NEVER be called grave errors of judgement.🤔
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
So I did a thing and got my own website together. After years of being a consultant and wearing different hats, or being 'a business owner' its a bit of a departure. It's only the very start but for anyone who may be interested, here's my latest endeavour www.eleanor-leiper.com/from-fairs-a...
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From Fairs and Trees to really Trying
On Sunday Jonny and I went for a jaunt up to the Spring Fair in Birmingham. I hadn’t been for years and, as ever, it was big, busy, and full of things — some of them genuinely lovely — and I came away...
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Wishing you all a happy return to the light ☀️ Imbolc ☀️ Off to the Spring Fair at the NEC in search of makers and beautiful things ✨
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 22/01/2026
Elon Musk is a white supremacist. Case closed.
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
These are the kind of stats the proposed Bath Riverside Walk would benefit from. C’mon lads, sort the KPI’s.
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Just seen the most random post ever from someone in the Bath community on that there FB. In the interests of ‘who knows, the internet folks could fix it’ does anyone have a small adult, swimable mermaids tail they could lend out for a few days?
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a white cat wrapped in a pink fish tail
ALT: a white cat wrapped in a pink fish tail
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The University of Bath @uniofbath.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Huge congratulations to Dr Alex Cresswell, a Reader in Organic Chemistry at the University of Bath, who has been recognised for his contribution to the field of process chemistry by the Society of Chemical Industry.
Alex Cresswell.
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El-Lei @thebathlandlady.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Been buzzing about all morning getting ready for a nippy afternoon at Twerton Park, preparing a stew and getting the thermals out, for the game to be cancelled 45 mins before kick off. Boo! 1000 Southend fans incoming!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The world's richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget The UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year. We can't afford the rich - they produce corruption, poverty, environmental degradation; destroy democracy.
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World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam
Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Thank you Eugene Goodman for saving Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th
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