Melantrys

So, my first Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social book arrived. We'll know soon if I shall thank Mr Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social for his recommendation of Adrian Tchaikovsky's books or not. 😉 It's starting good already with an anniversary edition "sticker" on the cover. Bonus content. More book.

Oh, this was supposed to be part of the second post. The book in question is the one I mentioned last week, Children of Time.

So, my first Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social book arrived. We'll know soon if I shall thank Mr Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social for his recommendation of Adrian Tchaikovsky's books or not. 😉 It's starting good already with an anniversary edition "sticker" on the cover. Bonus content. More book.

So, my first Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social book arrived. We'll know soon if I shall thank Mr Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social for his recommendation of Adrian Tchaikovsky's books or not. 😉 It's starting good already with an anniversary edition "sticker" on the cover. Bonus content. More book.

So I went to Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany today for some shopping and vegan food. Hello, @tkingfisher.com *waves excitedly* Needless to say, Wolf Worm is not residing on that shelf anymore.

So I went to Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany today for some shopping and vegan food. Hello, @tkingfisher.com *waves excitedly* Needless to say, Wolf Worm is not residing on that shelf anymore.

So, dear readers, let me tell you about last week's Friday. I was minding my own business, cussing the customers inside my head for putting a spray bottle of stain remover on the floor when they suddenly became a lot more cussworthy. I bent down and picked the bottle up by the cap, as one does. 1/3

When I had already lifted it quite a bit, bottle and cap parted ways, and the bottle hit the floor hard enough to throw an eruption of stain remover with 5% oxygen based bleach into my face (I was still bending down). Including into my eyes. Don't try that at home, kids. That stuff burned. 2/3

Wer denkt sich sowas aus? Auf meinem Heimweg von der Arbeit steht kurz vor einer Kurve auf der linken Straßenseite ein Schild: "Vorsicht! Genau hier tödlicher Unfall." Einige der Worte sind auch noch recht klein geschrieben. 1/2

Ist ja auch nicht theoretisch möglich, dass einer beim Versuch das zu lesen, majestätisch mit seinem Auto aus der Kurve segelt... *kopfschüttel*

My neighbour knows the bestest life hacks. 🤪 Quite some time ago she said I should get a cream with bee venom for my aching muscles and joints. And yesterday she told me to put old batteries into the soil close to my tomatoes; that'd make them grow like crazy. I'd been meaning to google... 1/3

... the venom for ages. Today I did. Hm-hm, what I expected. The actual experts say it doesn't do anything useful. Oh, huh, wait, what's that? People with asthma should absolutely refrain from using it? I even more strongly expected what I found concerning the batteries. If you do that, yes,... 2/3

So. Went to fill up the car this morning. In front of the gas station, between the entrance and the car wash, was this dude. All in black, black hat, roguishly unkempt dark curley hair, beard. Kinda cute. While I was filling her up, he kept talking, coughing weirdly, waving his hands about. 1/3

He did not appear to be on the phone. Then he started glancing at me while stll talking. I figured he found offence with me still masking up. "Hey, did you say something?!" at me. "No." "You said something!" "No; I'm just filling up my car." 2/3

Does anyone recall the episode of Castle in which a cosmetic surgeon is found dead? For a minute there is a female suspect who has had an insane number of surgeries and looks.... terrifying. (Apparently the makeup people made the actress's lips out of wax.) 1/2

Hey, politisch stabile Gefolgte; @aellalabrys.bsky.social @stormageddon.bsky.social ich hätte auch mal ne Blockempfehlung. Habe mir mit einem Kommentar einen rechten Frischlich eingefangen. bsky.app/profile/alle...

Out eating with @bryni.bsky.social and her hubby. And an unexpected guest.

Pondering the quality of veggies in supermarkets in general while marveling at a broccoli that's still pristine although I bought it two days ago. Only last week I (politely) suggested at the register of another supermarket that the colleague might want to check the organic section because... 1/2

... the sweet peppers there were not doing well. She informed me - a bit snidely - that the colleague was due to check them that evening anyway. I did not say so because I am polite and shit, but when had he been due to do that before? One of the poor things had almost completely liquefied. 2/2

Standing in line at the register of a small Turkish supermarket yesterday. The woman in front of me is keeping up a bilingual conversation with her crabby toddler. (It is a long line and the guy at the register is.... erm.... not the fastest.) Boy says something. 1/2