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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 08/11/2025

I mean, the venue choice was already a not-so-great one but Holy FUCK that's an insane price (and for an obstructed view, no less.) Sorry, my rad pal Dave, I love you but it looks like we won't be seeing each other this time. 😭

Screenshot of Ticketmaster app: Foo Fighters tickets with an obstructed view priced at $255.63 CAD - EACH!

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 27/10/2025

Hey fellow Canucks - if you're over on Eh! Social, come give me a follow. LDBlakeley is the @

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 24/09/2025

Tim Hortons rockin' the retro packaging - haven't seen one of these since... highschool?

Closeup of a hand holding an old school brown Tim Hortons coffee cup.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 06/09/2025

Myrtle! I think I just met one of your bébés! 🥹😭

Tiny snapping turtle hiding in the grass in my front yard. He's the right size according to Google ("around 1.5 to 2.5 inches in carapace length, which is roughly the size of a silver dollar") to be one of the hatchlings our sweet lady Myrtle laid this spring 🐢❤️

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 14/08/2025

My FiL passed last week and SiL gave me a $50 Indigo gift card he'd had in his wallet but never got a chance to spend. I used it to purchase a pile of classic horror books to give away as prizes at my Halloween party. I think he'd be pleased knowing he got to attend one more party ❤️

A stack of classic horror books I plan to give away as Halloween party prizes: Dracula (Stoker) x2, The Ghost Stories of M.R. James, Classic Tales of Horror (Poe), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), Frankenstein (Shelley) x2, The Lovecraft Compendium, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other Stories (Irving), Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls (Rymer), The Haunting of Hill House (Jackson). Thanks, Dad2 ❤️

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 23/07/2025

Not my local hardware store forcing me to pull over and have a little weep 💔 #ThankYouForTheMusicOzzy #RIPOzzy

Red & yellow retail sign for Rachotte Home Hardware, with the marquee changed to read, "Thank you for the music Ozzy."

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 04/07/2025

Well, shit. Now that I have space to unpack ALL my books, I see my original mm paperback copy of Interview with the Vampire (purchased in 1985) has gone walkabout. 😭 Fuck whomever borrowed it and never gave it back 😒 If only libib had existed back then. Also smartphones. And the Internet.

The original cover of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. Farewell my lovely. I hope wherever you are, you have a beautiful life

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 27/06/2025

They truly were. The wine was, as well. Surprisingly? They had a dandelion wine (no, seriously) that was absolutely delicious.

White board charcuterie menu:

Edible Flowers
Honey Oat Sourdough

Oven Roast Turkey Breast
Bison Breseola
Port wine + Fig salami
Quail Egg e/ Balsamic Reduction
Salami Rosette
Elk Pepperettes

Old Cheddar Stars
Herb & Chive Water Buffalo Gouda
Celtic Blue Cheese
Irish Cheddar w/ Guinness
Honey Lavender Soft Sheep Cheese
Goat Cheese & Blueberry vanilla
Stuffed Sugar Snap Peas & Red Pepper Cream Cheese.

Potter Settlement Wine Gums
Almond Marquette Truffle
Red Pepper Cream Cheese Nasturtium Vineyard
Honey Rose Wine Jelly

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 26/06/2025

Mid-afternoon wine tasting. Old People: Achievement Unlocked 🔓🏆

A beautiful charcuterie board pre-demolition. Potter Settlement Winery in Tweed, Ontario.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 13/06/2025

Yesterday's visit from this cute little Blanding's makes 3 types of turtles spotted wandering around our property.

Cute wee Blanding's turtle safely in the ditch and out of harm's way.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 10/06/2025

If you can, go in with no foreknowledge. I did, and was delighted! Sinners is genre fusion at its finest. 10/10. No notes.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 09/06/2025

She tried her darnedest but we live on some solid Canadian Shield, so she wasn't able to dig down far enough. I think she tried about 20 different spots. She's waddled off now, but I ordered some signs from the OTCC. In the meantime, we had a little arts & crafts project this morning. LOL

CAUTION: TURTLE - a makeshift sign made with cardboard, black sharpie, covered in plastic and posted on a wooden stake.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 09/06/2025

Apparently my freshly gravelled driveway is ideal for this snappy lady to lay eggs. Not sure right out in the open is the safest place, mama, given all the other wildlife around here. Guess we'll leave her alone and see what happens, then do what we can to help. ontarioturtle.ca/product/nest...

Snapping turtle burrowing into wet gravel.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 07/06/2025

Had a wee visitor sunning himself on a rock at the end of our driveway 🐢

Eastern painted turtle sunning himself, but warily pulling in his wee feeties upon my approach. I left him alone to continue his sunbathing.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 07/06/2025

Now that I'm fortunate enough to have the space to do so, I'm unpacking boxes of books that have been in storage for literal decades, and... 😭🥰 #MyHeart #TheOutsiders #Tex #SEHinton

Closeup of two tattered S.E. Hinton paperbacks: the 80s cover of Tex featuring Matt Dillon on a dirt bike as the titular character, and the 1968 red illustrated cover of The Outsiders. ❤️

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 06/06/2025

Why did I sell my townhouse in Toronto and move to the country, you ask? (I mean, you probably didn't, but if you were curious)

Irises in bloom surrounded by hostas and peonies pre-bloom with a Canadian Shield backdrop of natural rock, pine, and a variety of deciduous trees.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 18/05/2025

My new yard keeps showing me beautiful things. I think it wants me to stay. 🥰

A cream coloured Iris still dewy from the rain. A cheeky little dandelion is about to burst forth in the foreground.

Pink and purple flowers adorn some common lungwort.

My favourite thing so far, the pink and white flowers of a Bleeding Heart plant 🥰

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 16/05/2025

Bought myself a little treat from BookOutlet; what a gorgeous book, beautifully photographed and full of delicious-looking recipes 🥰 Truly the loveliest cookbook I own (and I have two shelves worth 😂)

I Love You: Recipes From The Heart by Pamela Anderson sits on a black kitchen Island.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 21/04/2025

Tell me this moss-covered rock doesn't look like a sleeping Ludo. #Labyrinth

Large moss and pine-needle covered rock that looks like the face of a sleeping Ludo (from the movie Labyrinth)

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 05/04/2025

That thing where you get so excited to see your favourite muffin flavour you fail to read the "filled muffin" part. 🥴 Boo-urns. #TimHortonsFail also #UserError

Tim Hortons failure of a lemon muffin on display with a sign that reads: It's Back. Lemon Poppyseed. Filed Muffin.

Closeup of an abomination: a lemon poppyseed muffin filled with some sort of cream cheese frosting nonsense.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 26/03/2025

The number of times I've typed a reply on social media over the past few days only to delete and scroll on by is worthy of some kind of award, surely. The dumb fuckery... It's getting harder to ignore.

In a pretty, cursive font: Nevertheless, she persisted. A floral motif separates the word 'Nevertheless' from 'she persisted '

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 26/03/2025

Yeah, that's gonna be a hard pass, Bezos. One billionaire/AI fuckery per week is my limit and Zuck the Fuck beat you to it. #HireVoiceActors #FuckGenerativeAI

Email from Amazon:

You've been selected! KDP Audiobooks with Virtual Voice Beta

Hello,

Congratulations! You’re invited to participate in KDP's beta for audiobooks. Starting today, you can now produce audiobook versions of your eligible eBooks using virtual voice narration and reach new customers by making them available on Amazon, Audible, and Alexa. Customers have already enjoyed listening to millions of hours of audiobooks with virtual voice from KDP authors.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 23/03/2025

What a charming gem of a movie. Absolutely lovely. And set in one of the most beautiful places in Ontario (the Muskokas) to boot .

Movie poster for My Old Ass shows Aubrey Plaza and Maisy Stella lying side-by-side on sleeping bags, smiling at each other.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 22/03/2025

It's #caturday so you should pet a cat. Or, at the very least, allow one to use you as furniture.

Stevie, a pretty black cat with white chest fur, sits in loaf pose on her human.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 21/03/2025

Welp. I'm gonna log off & touch some grass. I know I can't do shit about shit, and screaming into the void is pointless. But I'm not letting some soulless billionaire shit-head steal my joy. I'm moving into my dream house in 3 weeks so that's where I choose to direct my energy. My rage can wait.

Bitmoji of the author, a woman with red curly-ish hair and black-framed glasses up to her neck in a bubble bath. #selfcare is written in purple cursive at the top of the image

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 20/03/2025

Hey, you're in better shape than me 🤣

Libby app screenshot:

Careless People: a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Several months wait at Toronto Public Library. Placed 15 Mar. You are 531st in line (started: 542nd) 80 copies in use. 958 people waiting in total. 12 people waiting per copy. Your library has acquired 68 more copies since you placed this hold.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 15/03/2025

Guess I'm not the only one who wants to know what has the Zuck's knickers in a twist. And chances are this wouldn't even have blipped on my radar had they not tried to stop it being published. Fuck you, Meta.

Libby app screenshot of Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Hold placed, 542nd in line.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 08/03/2025

Not even 10 minutes in and we're off to a DELIGHTFUL start! *not pictured: homemade pizza (it's already in my belly(

Glass of red wine held in front of a TV with Heart Eyes playing.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 05/03/2025

Listen, I can't be 100% certain, but that sure looks like the face of someone about to take over the world.

Black cat with white chest fur and secrets smizes evilly at the camera.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 04/03/2025

Shit is going to get so much uglier, isn't it? #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦

Political cartoon showing a beaver holding a Canadian flag as he bitch-slaps the Orange Menace. The beaver is saying: Keep my country's name out of your mother-f%$&@# mouth!

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 23/02/2025

Was this an absolutely beautiful film? Yes. Did I ugly cry through at least half of it? Also yes. Pro tip: watch for the post-credit scene. Your heart will thank you.

Poster for the animated film, Flow, shows a black cat swimming with dozens of fishies.

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L.D. Blakeley ☕📚🍷🍁 @ldblakeley.com · 23/02/2025

Sunday morning breakfast got me feeling like some kinda health influencer. Of course, my dinner last night was a bowl of Moose Tracks ice cream. Balance. 🙃

Blue ceramic bowl full of blueberries, bananas (barely visible, but they're there), sliced strawberries, Greek yogurt, and granola with sliced almonds.

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