Melanie
@melobeee.bsky.social
The tweeter formerly known as Paris Bergerac-Dahl. Bookshop owner. Middlesbrough supporter. Mother of a son.
Tfw you’re playing a drum and an ox and an ass are keeping time.
December 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Tfw you’re playing a drum and an ox and an ass are keeping time.
Go to Canada instead
December 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Go to Canada instead
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My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them?
Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
December 3, 2023 at 1:13 AM
My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them?
Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
Loved that Scotland performance. What a mad game. And great interview with Andy Robertson. Very moving to hear him talk about Diogo Jota and their shared World Cup dreams.
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Loved that Scotland performance. What a mad game. And great interview with Andy Robertson. Very moving to hear him talk about Diogo Jota and their shared World Cup dreams.
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Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
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should we all move back to europe and be like jk we never left what’s america lol you guys are crazy anyway where is my health insurance at
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
should we all move back to europe and be like jk we never left what’s america lol you guys are crazy anyway where is my health insurance at
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Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance
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Guy Fawkes' signature before & after saying on Bluesky that he lets his cat go outside
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Guy Fawkes' signature before & after saying on Bluesky that he lets his cat go outside
Luke Ayling. I love your smile 😃
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Luke Ayling. I love your smile 😃
For the love of God will someone please beat Coventry City
October 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
For the love of God will someone please beat Coventry City
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Hour of knead: a Boro Bakers' delivery man doing his rounds in Middlesbrough.
October 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Hour of knead: a Boro Bakers' delivery man doing his rounds in Middlesbrough.
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Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
October 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
This however is very cool
Breaking: Caledonian Sleeper's highland sleeper to Inverness, Aberdeen & Ft William will call at Birmingham International from 15 January onwards, picking up northbound at 22:42, setting down southbound at 06:20. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More about the sleeper: www.seat61.com/sleeper-to-s...
More about the sleeper: www.seat61.com/sleeper-to-s...
Caledonian Sleeper train to link Scotland with Birmingham
The new service will start in January linking Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William to the West Midlands.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This however is very cool
This is so crap. I took the Vienna to Paris sleeper on my way back from Prague and it was absolutely wonderful. Boooo to the French govt and SNCF.
It's now official: Due to the French government withdrawing support & SNCF unsupportive, the Paris-Vienna & Paris-Berlin Nightjet sleeper trains will be discontinued from mid-December. presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be...
The Brussels-Vienna Nightjet will continue, 3 times per week.
The Brussels-Vienna Nightjet will continue, 3 times per week.
October 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This is so crap. I took the Vienna to Paris sleeper on my way back from Prague and it was absolutely wonderful. Boooo to the French govt and SNCF.
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Well yes. England in particular remains in thrall to the wholly artificial "class system" and its an absolute menace.
I do think that a lot, particularly as I relisten to my two audiobooks on Anglo Saxon history... So many of the people who lord it over of us are basically in place because their distant ancestors were better bullies than those around them. It doesn't seem much of a qualification.
October 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Well yes. England in particular remains in thrall to the wholly artificial "class system" and its an absolute menace.
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Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)
September 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)
Love the choice of headline photo here @theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Love the choice of headline photo here @theguardian.com
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Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.
September 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.
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[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
September 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
I love my cat and her stupid face. 10/10 for her loaf pose here as well.
September 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I love my cat and her stupid face. 10/10 for her loaf pose here as well.
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Can't believe it's been thirteen years since Danny Dyer couldn't believe it had been eleven years since them slags smashed into the twin towers and it still freaked out his nut til that day, it still freaks my nut out to this day.
September 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Can't believe it's been thirteen years since Danny Dyer couldn't believe it had been eleven years since them slags smashed into the twin towers and it still freaked out his nut til that day, it still freaks my nut out to this day.
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Maybe not my forever fav but it always makes me laugh. AND has good advice.
September 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Maybe not my forever fav but it always makes me laugh. AND has good advice.