MarthaMarthaMartha
@marthaajax.bsky.social
Love antiques, country & city life, native plants, cats, my kid, cooking, and witty people. Saw too many Dead shows in my wayward youth.
Margery Allingham is by far my favorite golden-age British mystery writer. Charming and a hoot! There’s one where an American rents a manor house and the locals keep making up ancient traditions that require free beer for the townsfolk.
January 11, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Margery Allingham is by far my favorite golden-age British mystery writer. Charming and a hoot! There’s one where an American rents a manor house and the locals keep making up ancient traditions that require free beer for the townsfolk.
Campion (TV Series 1989–1990) ⭐ 7.6 | Adventure, Crime, Drama
| TV-14
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January 11, 2026 at 4:19 AM
I once managed an exhibition installation with a huge (like 20’ x 8’) wall graphic. I proofed it, the designer proofed it, my boss approved it, etc. Wasn’t until it was installed that an Eastern European janitor looked at it while mopping and asked “Why does the title say ‘the’ twice?” 😬
January 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
I once managed an exhibition installation with a huge (like 20’ x 8’) wall graphic. I proofed it, the designer proofed it, my boss approved it, etc. Wasn’t until it was installed that an Eastern European janitor looked at it while mopping and asked “Why does the title say ‘the’ twice?” 😬
Back in my online dating days, my profile said “You should have a favorite book (but if it’s The Fountainhead, we’re not a match)”.
Guess how many dudes told me I was stupid *and* still wanted to date me. 🤷♀️
Guess how many dudes told me I was stupid *and* still wanted to date me. 🤷♀️
December 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Back in my online dating days, my profile said “You should have a favorite book (but if it’s The Fountainhead, we’re not a match)”.
Guess how many dudes told me I was stupid *and* still wanted to date me. 🤷♀️
Guess how many dudes told me I was stupid *and* still wanted to date me. 🤷♀️
I sat next to the actress in those coffee ads on a flight once. A passenger became sick and people suspected he had Ebola, so everyone was talking. Then we all had to wait to disembark so Salman Rushdie’s armed bodyguards could escort him off first (he’d been hidden the whole time). 😳
December 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I sat next to the actress in those coffee ads on a flight once. A passenger became sick and people suspected he had Ebola, so everyone was talking. Then we all had to wait to disembark so Salman Rushdie’s armed bodyguards could escort him off first (he’d been hidden the whole time). 😳
I once gave a nice coffeemaker away to a friend and thought I ought to give it a good cleaning beforehand. Which is when I found the little filter I was supposed to change every month. I’d had it for five years. 😜
December 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I once gave a nice coffeemaker away to a friend and thought I ought to give it a good cleaning beforehand. Which is when I found the little filter I was supposed to change every month. I’d had it for five years. 😜
I also loved this series, sort of an homage/parody of the genre, complete with wolves, but hilarious. My kid and I listened to the audiobooks, the reader is fantastic. I adored them all (my son, not so much).
www.maryrosewood.com/the-incorrig...
www.maryrosewood.com/the-incorrig...
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place — Maryrose Wood
www.maryrosewood.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I also loved this series, sort of an homage/parody of the genre, complete with wolves, but hilarious. My kid and I listened to the audiobooks, the reader is fantastic. I adored them all (my son, not so much).
www.maryrosewood.com/the-incorrig...
www.maryrosewood.com/the-incorrig...
🎵 It’s a free ride… when you’ve already paid
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🎵 It’s a free ride… when you’ve already paid
My kid and I listened to “Moonfleet” — a novel set in 18th c. England with loads of sailing bits. Amazing how many phrases we still use today come from this era. Even so, there were entire paragraphs that were incomprehensible (to me) that would’ve been legible to the original late 19th c. reader.
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My kid and I listened to “Moonfleet” — a novel set in 18th c. England with loads of sailing bits. Amazing how many phrases we still use today come from this era. Even so, there were entire paragraphs that were incomprehensible (to me) that would’ve been legible to the original late 19th c. reader.
Saw an ad for an really nice apt once on the UES that was priced suspiciously low… maintenance was $10k 😳 Turned out to be a condo in a hotel with daily housekeeping service.
October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Saw an ad for an really nice apt once on the UES that was priced suspiciously low… maintenance was $10k 😳 Turned out to be a condo in a hotel with daily housekeeping service.
Would 100% take “Queer Gardens.”
Reminds me of my tiny Quaker high school where teachers could teach anything as long as three kids signed up — Utopian Communities, Literature of Hollywood, and the popular Demagogues — a class I wish all Americans could take.
Reminds me of my tiny Quaker high school where teachers could teach anything as long as three kids signed up — Utopian Communities, Literature of Hollywood, and the popular Demagogues — a class I wish all Americans could take.
October 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Would 100% take “Queer Gardens.”
Reminds me of my tiny Quaker high school where teachers could teach anything as long as three kids signed up — Utopian Communities, Literature of Hollywood, and the popular Demagogues — a class I wish all Americans could take.
Reminds me of my tiny Quaker high school where teachers could teach anything as long as three kids signed up — Utopian Communities, Literature of Hollywood, and the popular Demagogues — a class I wish all Americans could take.
Moms on a bench in Central Park:
Mom #1: Look at the grass stains on my kid’s pants, ruined.
Mom #2 (me): Have you tried Oxyclean?
Mom #3: [deep sigh] I used to have a real life, now I’m living a laundry commercial.
Mom #1: Look at the grass stains on my kid’s pants, ruined.
Mom #2 (me): Have you tried Oxyclean?
Mom #3: [deep sigh] I used to have a real life, now I’m living a laundry commercial.
September 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Moms on a bench in Central Park:
Mom #1: Look at the grass stains on my kid’s pants, ruined.
Mom #2 (me): Have you tried Oxyclean?
Mom #3: [deep sigh] I used to have a real life, now I’m living a laundry commercial.
Mom #1: Look at the grass stains on my kid’s pants, ruined.
Mom #2 (me): Have you tried Oxyclean?
Mom #3: [deep sigh] I used to have a real life, now I’m living a laundry commercial.
Just learned that the horrors intersect with one of my favorite movies as a tween. A child star grew up to advise Epstein 😳
Still adore this movie, but yikes. Also poignant is the other star was allegedly harassed by the married 40-ish director, ruined her career
youtu.be/V_FxV38CsEM?...
Still adore this movie, but yikes. Also poignant is the other star was allegedly harassed by the married 40-ish director, ruined her career
youtu.be/V_FxV38CsEM?...
The World of Henry Orient (1964) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
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September 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Just learned that the horrors intersect with one of my favorite movies as a tween. A child star grew up to advise Epstein 😳
Still adore this movie, but yikes. Also poignant is the other star was allegedly harassed by the married 40-ish director, ruined her career
youtu.be/V_FxV38CsEM?...
Still adore this movie, but yikes. Also poignant is the other star was allegedly harassed by the married 40-ish director, ruined her career
youtu.be/V_FxV38CsEM?...
I remember only needing to dial 4 digits in small town Delaware.
September 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I remember only needing to dial 4 digits in small town Delaware.
Don’t forget fen
September 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Don’t forget fen
There’s a great 1930 British murder mystery where an American interested in history and folklore rents an ancient manor house. The locals introduce him to many quaint customs that involve the lord of the manor donating a keg of beer and giving everyone in town a holiday.
August 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
There’s a great 1930 British murder mystery where an American interested in history and folklore rents an ancient manor house. The locals introduce him to many quaint customs that involve the lord of the manor donating a keg of beer and giving everyone in town a holiday.
Someone I love was once described in a published memoir as a *great guy* and I’ll always wonder what, exactly, the author meant. 🤔
August 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Someone I love was once described in a published memoir as a *great guy* and I’ll always wonder what, exactly, the author meant. 🤔
Seconding suggestion of spritzing vodka or gin. I once shared this costumer’s tip at a dinner party, said I keep a spray bottle of gin in my closet and I my husband said, well, that explains a lot. 😜
August 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Seconding suggestion of spritzing vodka or gin. I once shared this costumer’s tip at a dinner party, said I keep a spray bottle of gin in my closet and I my husband said, well, that explains a lot. 😜
Also what awkward phrasing:
“Beginning August 7, we will begin notifying individuals, on a rolling basis, whose personal information may have been affected, via U.S. Postal Service mail.”
“Beginning August 7, we will begin notifying individuals, on a rolling basis, whose personal information may have been affected, via U.S. Postal Service mail.”
August 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Also what awkward phrasing:
“Beginning August 7, we will begin notifying individuals, on a rolling basis, whose personal information may have been affected, via U.S. Postal Service mail.”
“Beginning August 7, we will begin notifying individuals, on a rolling basis, whose personal information may have been affected, via U.S. Postal Service mail.”
I get fake mailers pretending someone actually analyzed our house (but didn’t) with reasons we need new ones. Apparently our windows are “out of date,” but dude, our funky homemade 1948 fake log cabin was *never* trendy and we like it that way.
August 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I get fake mailers pretending someone actually analyzed our house (but didn’t) with reasons we need new ones. Apparently our windows are “out of date,” but dude, our funky homemade 1948 fake log cabin was *never* trendy and we like it that way.
www.brownstoner.com or the Municipal Archives (old tax photos are fantastic, my standard housewarming gift when a friend moves into an older building) www.nyc.gov/site/records...
Brownstoner | Brooklyn Real Estate News
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July 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
www.brownstoner.com or the Municipal Archives (old tax photos are fantastic, my standard housewarming gift when a friend moves into an older building) www.nyc.gov/site/records...
As per the NYPD bomb squad unit signage in the W. Village.
July 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
As per the NYPD bomb squad unit signage in the W. Village.
As you noted, the old New Yorker listings are mind blowing today, they go on for like 50 pages, accompanied by charming hand-illustrated ads. Nightlife is helpfully organized in this one by “small and cheerful” or “big and brassy.”
July 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
As you noted, the old New Yorker listings are mind blowing today, they go on for like 50 pages, accompanied by charming hand-illustrated ads. Nightlife is helpfully organized in this one by “small and cheerful” or “big and brassy.”