Mel Malton
@melmalton.bsky.social
🇨🇦Gardener, cook, scribbler and god-botherer. Author of the Polly Deacon mysteries.
Bwa-hahaha. ”Fogarty, darling’, bring me some of them M&S cashews and a box or two of that solid black currant jelly when you come back from your package tour, K?”
December 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Bwa-hahaha. ”Fogarty, darling’, bring me some of them M&S cashews and a box or two of that solid black currant jelly when you come back from your package tour, K?”
I wish we had M&S here. We should ask.
December 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I wish we had M&S here. We should ask.
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In fact, why not do a $10 and $20 coin as well? We could carry $50 around for incidentals, and wear a cool leather money pouch at our hips, like medieval merchants.
December 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In fact, why not do a $10 and $20 coin as well? We could carry $50 around for incidentals, and wear a cool leather money pouch at our hips, like medieval merchants.
I always knew Banff was a province of Narnia.
December 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I always knew Banff was a province of Narnia.
Also The World Made by Hand series by James Kunstler is good. Prescient.
December 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Also The World Made by Hand series by James Kunstler is good. Prescient.
Station Eleven. So good, you start reading it again the moment it’s over.
December 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Station Eleven. So good, you start reading it again the moment it’s over.
There’s creams for that.
December 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
There’s creams for that.
Yes. That’s a banger.
December 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Yes. That’s a banger.
I’ll have to take a closer look at his poems. Not terribly familiar with him.
December 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I’ll have to take a closer look at his poems. Not terribly familiar with him.
You’ll just have to pickle them.
December 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
You’ll just have to pickle them.
That was helpful. Thanks.
December 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
That was helpful. Thanks.
He’s remembering his racy earlier writings.
December 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
He’s remembering his racy earlier writings.
Me, too. Her expression is modern, isn’t it?
December 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Me, too. Her expression is modern, isn’t it?
Especially when you look at the brush strokes and realize that they’re loose and gestural, yet the effect is almost photographic.
December 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Especially when you look at the brush strokes and realize that they’re loose and gestural, yet the effect is almost photographic.
Oh, sister. I feel your pain, so I do.
December 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Oh, sister. I feel your pain, so I do.
I have a nice little device called a TV-B-Gone, which will turn public televisions off remotely. Handy.
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I have a nice little device called a TV-B-Gone, which will turn public televisions off remotely. Handy.
In the same vein, big roaring snowblowers are the middle-aged man’s loud motorbike.
December 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In the same vein, big roaring snowblowers are the middle-aged man’s loud motorbike.
Anoia likes a pronged pasta server, on special occasions.
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Anoia likes a pronged pasta server, on special occasions.