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Paul Baker

@maidbloke

Dad to two, web developer, badminton player, cyclist, bass singer, Raspberry Pi geek, #avgeek, hoarder

 Maidenhead, UK
maidbloke.co.uk/
Joined September 2009
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I made a trailer for my bike. 🤓 First shopping trip today to Sainsbury's. Trailer has 30% more capacity than one of their large trollies. Brought 35kg of shopping home. My lockdown project. Or midlife crisis according to the kids. #cycling #cyclinglife #quaxing
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Merry Christmas 🎄 from Sainsbury's in Maidenhead tonight 😬
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The seasons are moving on. Wearing slipper socks for the first time since spring. 🧦
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It's what she would have wanted #dollyparton
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UK reservoirs completed in the 50s, 60s, 70s: 32. UK reservoirs completed since 1989: 1. UK water companies privatised: 1989.
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Source: Sky News report youtu.be/7ztu7OUU2tI?is=tN76…
UK's first new reservoir in 35 years: Is it enough?

UK's first new reservoir in 35 years: Is it enough?

The UK is facing a growing water crisis, with drier summers, wetter...

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Steady on Harrison! 😗😳 #thearchers
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Replying to @FearofLanding
@FearofLanding amazingly long Vietnam take off 😨 youtube.com/shorts/LiJG12Myn…
New cabin footage from Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 VN-A867 (VN34) during its takeoff from Munich

New cabin footage from Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 VN-A867 (VN34) during its takeoff from Munich

Credit: All rights belong to the original video owner. Email for cr...

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#eclipse paper plate action from Maidenhead UK - pinhole camera – at Maidenhead, South East
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#eclipse paper plate pinhole camera from Maidenhead UK – at Maidenhead, South East
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Watching a 1977 recording of Call My Bluff on BBC 4 with a very young looking Joanna Lumley and a grey haired chap *smoking* on set. How normal it must have seemed then. And how weird now.
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youtube.com/shorts/b9NC09t_f… Athletic equipment shed roof got picked up and blown 50 metres – at Marlow, South East
Athletic equipment shed roof got picked up and blown 50 metres

Athletic equipment shed roof got picked up and blown 50 metres

At a 400m athletics track a shed, housing pole vault equipment, had...

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Lovely montage at the end #bbc #bbcsport #ENGARG 😢
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What happened at #lhr about 30 minutes ago (1915 Saturday)? About 10 planes were directed away from their easterly final approach, like this one? Runway closure? #avgeek
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#MEXENG well that was worth staying up for 🥳 amazing atmosphere, well done boys ⚽ you were awesome 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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#Eurovision my favourite is Greece ♥️ 🇬🇷
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Amazing stuff, well done NASA 😍
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Replying to @NASA
Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.
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This is *incredibly* bad coding. #webdev
Dan Neidle (@DanNeidle) profile pictureDan Neidle
@DanNeidleMar 13
I see some weird things but this takes the biscuit. A vulnerability in the Companies House website, that let anyone view the private dashboard of any one of the five million registered companies, see directors' personal details. And modify them.
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So glad series 2 is here! #Trying #bbcTrying A gentle comedy about a couple's trials and tribulations trying to adopt. Delightful a lot of the time. Desperately sad at others. 😢
Paul Baker (@maidbloke) profile picturePaul Baker@maidbloke10 Oct 2025
Just finished watching #Trying on #BBC iPlayer - loved the hilarious moments but there's plenty of food for thought as Jason and Nikki learn about #adoption and head towards a bumpy ride at the adoption panel. 😢 A very well made show. Now I want to see the following series. ☺️❤️
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Just watched One Life the film about Nicholas Winston, the chap who ran a team of people who organised rescue trains for Czech children just before the start of WWII. Great film about a truly incredible story. 😢 I was privileged to meet Nicky, he was very humble.
Mark Braxton 💙 (@BraxM) profile pictureMark Braxton 💙@BraxMJan 26
Local hero... Nicholas Winton, a Maidenhead resident for many years, is the subject of the film premiere One Life on BBC Two tonight at 9pm. Commuters see the statue of this amazing man every day. #BritishSchindler
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So happy for Karen, so well deserved ❤️ #Strictly
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