Melinda Haunton
@melindahaunton.bsky.social
Archivist historian train traveller perennially anxious frequently cooking always interested
Tbh if you RT more than you comment I'm unlikely to follow back. I like to chat. UK based.
Tbh if you RT more than you comment I'm unlikely to follow back. I like to chat. UK based.
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Hello. If you're new to me, please know a *lot* of this feed is pictures of my feet as evidence of having reluctantly gone for a daily walk (#UnconfinedWalks). See also cups of tea (#TeaUp) and a Saturday night social (#ConfinedCocktails). In between there may be some archives.
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Thoroughly enjoyed the splendid and innovative Kandinsky exhibition @philharmonie.bsky.social too- stupendous painting, wonderful musical interpretation and I loved that his palette might as well have been one of his artworks. Thanks @melindahaunton.bsky.social for flagging
November 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed the splendid and innovative Kandinsky exhibition @philharmonie.bsky.social too- stupendous painting, wonderful musical interpretation and I loved that his palette might as well have been one of his artworks. Thanks @melindahaunton.bsky.social for flagging
Watching a Merry Little Exmas which is precisely as bad and necessary as anticipated. Jameela Jamil inexplicably doesn't know how to say Leadenhall, though. This troubles me.
November 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Watching a Merry Little Exmas which is precisely as bad and necessary as anticipated. Jameela Jamil inexplicably doesn't know how to say Leadenhall, though. This troubles me.
I have done as much marking tonight as I can face and I just panicked because I realised I am supposed to wash my hair tonight. And then I remembered I have done that part. Apparently my memory barely lasts 3 hours. Which promises great things for marking. (It's a very technical task.)
November 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I have done as much marking tonight as I can face and I just panicked because I realised I am supposed to wash my hair tonight. And then I remembered I have done that part. Apparently my memory barely lasts 3 hours. Which promises great things for marking. (It's a very technical task.)
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#ConfinedCocktails and having polished a piece of apple pie left over from Thanksgiving, onto Roots Revival Session IPA
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
#ConfinedCocktails and having polished a piece of apple pie left over from Thanksgiving, onto Roots Revival Session IPA
Much fellow-feeling in our cheers #ConfinedCocktails
Night all. I’m late again. I’m facing Decemder and holidays with struggle, I’m so tired. But, in the meanwhile I’m with you on the couch and a beer #ConfinedCocktails.
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Much fellow-feeling in our cheers #ConfinedCocktails
Cheers from us all #ConfinedCocktails
Everyone’s good health from Zoom supper with The Oracle #ConfinedCocktails
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Cheers from us all #ConfinedCocktails
Ooooh cheers to leftover prawn crackers, a delicious vice #ConfinedCocktails
Beer but no snacks, at lunchtime I ate more than my fair share of prawn crackers left over from last night. Trying to get on top of various paperworky organisational things. #ConfinedCocktails
November 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Ooooh cheers to leftover prawn crackers, a delicious vice #ConfinedCocktails
Cheers to intriguing #ConfinedCocktails
Started with Frontaal Dutch Pilsner #ConfinedCocktails
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Cheers to intriguing #ConfinedCocktails
Cheers to mixing it up! #ConfinedCocktails
Evening all ✨ busy day, eye test, then breakfast in my favourite coffee shop. After which I had my nails done. PM I went shopping and bought a skirt for works do. Now relaxing with cherry vodka & tonic in an unconventional glass watching Strictly #ConfinedCocktails
November 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Cheers to mixing it up! #ConfinedCocktails
Always, always cheers to a good cup of tea, and also to random instrumentation of joy #ConfinedCocktails
My #ConfinedCocktails was a cup of tea after day out in Melton Mowbray with the Christmas lights switch on, which was accompanied by a man on a hurdy gurdy and a woman playing something which I feel this audience can identify (zither?) which is partly why I mention it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Always, always cheers to a good cup of tea, and also to random instrumentation of joy #ConfinedCocktails
Cheers to cosy wine and outings #ConfinedCocktails
Long day at a local museum with friends. Finishing with red wine in the pub for #ConfinedCocktails. Did buy some damson gin earlier.
November 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Cheers to cosy wine and outings #ConfinedCocktails
☠️☠️☠️ #ConfinedCocktails
Oh you won’t like these then (Marmite v much a background note)
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
☠️☠️☠️ #ConfinedCocktails
Cheers to the good bits, especially this fabulous sewing we've been watching all #ConfinedCocktails lately
Evening all. Water, strictly and sewing. Another very busy week - minor surgery on Tuesday but feeling fine now! Mixed feelings about incoming December for a variety of reasons! Cheers #ConfinedCocktails
November 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Cheers to the good bits, especially this fabulous sewing we've been watching all #ConfinedCocktails lately
I’m surprisingly ahead with the Christmas admin but unsurprisingly behind with everything else. In good news, the foam on this non-alc beer subsided a few seconds after I took the photo. Cheers!* #ConfinedCocktails
*not “Cheese!”, which is what I typed originally.
*not “Cheese!”, which is what I typed originally.
November 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Cheers to comebacks, and to experimenting inna can (though not sure about super cinnamon?) #ConfinedCocktails
Cheers. Dipping my toe back into social media after a bit of a break. I’ve got a winter spritz from a can (v cinnamony) and some Beef Wellington crisps to accompany a K drama sort of evening #ConfinedCocktails
November 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Cheers to comebacks, and to experimenting inna can (though not sure about super cinnamon?) #ConfinedCocktails
Cheers to pacing yourself with #ConfinedCocktails
Cheese and wine tasting imminent, so a light one tonight - a Less Is More Negroni with Savoia Americano and quarter strength gin.
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Cheers to pacing yourself with #ConfinedCocktails
Cheers to wine that's too nice to photograph #ConfinedCocktails
Today was a nice glass of merlot but no photo as it was too nice so I drank it too quickly... so have a photo of our effort at wallpapering our new kitchen (weird lump was a giant nut? It will be behind the fridge freezer anyway!) #ConfinedCocktails
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Cheers to wine that's too nice to photograph #ConfinedCocktails
Cheers to everything in this other than twiglets which remain evil #ConfinedCocktails
Evening. #JacobinDay #ConfinedCocktails serendipitous mash-up. Redcurrant gin with #Lionesses currently 7-0 up. Coventry City are STILL hugely and magnificently top of the league and I've heroically avoided eating the Christmas twiglets. Winning at life! #PUSB. Update 8-0
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Cheers to everything in this other than twiglets which remain evil #ConfinedCocktails
But this is much better news #ConfinedCocktails
Right. The Alexander was basically undrinkable so I’m having a snowball. 70’s-tastic. Cheers! #confinedcocktails
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
But this is much better news #ConfinedCocktails
Cheers to experimental #ConfinedCocktails This is how great discoveries are made.
Good evening. I impulse-bought a bottle of Avocaat so I’m trying a Christmas Velvet Alexander. Quite fierce. Needs adjustments imho. #confinedcocktail
November 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Cheers to experimental #ConfinedCocktails This is how great discoveries are made.
Hooray for writing and hibernation #ConfinedCocktails
Same as ever. Carry on and hope reality doesn't notice me. This evening has a 7Up zero with Strictly, and tomorrow, I'll be trying to write a new story. #ConfinedCocktails.
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Hooray for writing and hibernation #ConfinedCocktails
Cheers to juniper observance par excellence #ConfinedCocktails
A very bad picture of the remnants of a very good martini - Papa Salt gin is highly recommended #ConfinedCocktails
November 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Cheers to juniper observance par excellence #ConfinedCocktails
Evening all. An improvised fig negroni tonight #ConfinedCocktails for juniper day, and a pleasingly autumnal edge. How are you facing the imminent Decembering?
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Evening all. An improvised fig negroni tonight #ConfinedCocktails for juniper day, and a pleasingly autumnal edge. How are you facing the imminent Decembering?
#UnconfinedWalks to an increasingly wintry Playhouse
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
#UnconfinedWalks to an increasingly wintry Playhouse