🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 53mDylan is packing and it's giving me anxiety. He just picks up clothes and puts them (folded at least) into his suitcase without making a pile first to double check what he's taking. It's madness. MADNESS!!!! 350
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 1hOff to Melbourne early tomorrow morning. Hoping this is a really relaxing holiday, no rushing around, nowhere we have to be at any time, lots of chill time. 3120
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dylan: what's this???? And it was a surprise Southland care package, thanks @andrew.joll.nz 🥰🥰🥰 Are Belgium Biscuits considered a breakfast food? 🤔 270
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 29/09/2026My friend Steven runs an improv stand-up show every month in Auckland called The Dice Show - highly recommended! It's on tonight in K Road if you're looking for an outing. events.humanitix.com/the-dice-sho...events.humanitix.comThe Dice ShowDaring comedians take on The Dice of Destiny (cue lightning crash!), crafting comedy on the spot in this wild, high-stakes improv stand-up show. 0136
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I got myself a batch of OIA documents from the Ministry of Education about school attendance. One of them presents David Seymour with a rather awkward problem. It begins on 11 February 2025. Intrigued? #nzpol 18540
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There's a new season of MKR but I'm watching the first episode and it's barely about the food any more and all about the drama so I don't think I'll bother. 100
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is alllllll making a lot of sense 571583213
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Should I make cinnamon rolls? I should make cinnamon rolls. 1120
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lying in bed when I hear the sound of the cat's biscuits being eaten, which is weird because I sat up and looked at Moriarty and he looked at me. Whoever it was left through the cat door when I got up to investigate 🤷 4170
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Dinner is cheesy tomato and pumpkin gnocchi with homemade bread rolls. 2150
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My sister gave me her old bread maker so now I can make dough with very minimal effort. 1240
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't even know if the teens have noticed that the clocks changed. It's the school holidays, time has no meaning. 4190
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Me having just spent 2 hours shoe shopping with the 15yo: ugh I need a rest but I don't know what I want to watch Netflix: hi have you watched The Mummy lately? Me: ... ... ... ... 080
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I got 11/15 but only because I remembered some of them from @ninjakitty.bsky.social's posts. They somehow all manage to look like the worst thing. 2165
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What if we brought the worst fashions back? These look terrible on everyone. I also saw a stretchy, low waist, below the knee, handkerchief hem skirt the other day and was like "oh .... no". 6212
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Dinner is sausages, mashed potatoes, peas, cauliflower cheese, crispy cauliflower leaves, and gravy. 1231
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Once again using up leftovers we have fried rice (using leftover sushi rice) with capsicum, cabbage, onion, garlic, ginger, carrot, cabanossi (leftover from last night's garlic bread pizzas), egg, and kimchi. 090
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I refuse to line up for ages for unnecessary things. Like lining up for whatever new shop is opening or the latest viral food place. Like, no, I will not be waiting an hour for the privilege of giving a business my money, I'll just go somewhere else. 5270
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Lunchboxes guys, lunchboxes 34115
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Came home from the supermarket to find out the 15yo (yes 15 not 5) had drawn facial hair on himself. At least it was with a whiteboard marker. 3280
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Me: (driving car into wall) My car has gone rogue! Me: (dropping phone into tub) My god, my phone has gone rogue! Me: (tripping over table) The table! It's gone rogue! 212439
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I loaned my copy of Tender is the Flesh to my dad and he was saying that he reads a bit each night but then has to put it aside to digest (haha) what he's just read 😂😂 260
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My sister just sent me this. Sorry she didn't get a price on this wonderful artwork. 050
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I literally only just found out that Daylight Saving starts this weekend. Oops 🤷 270
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Somebody was further down the bed but then he needed to be closer. He's going to be so sad when we're away. The youths will be here to look after him but they sleep downstairs so he'll be a bit lonely. 0190
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026@madhmstr.bsky.social Happy Birthday you gorgeously lovely person 🥰🥰🥰🥰static.klipy.comHappy Happy Birthday Monkey DanceALT: Happy Happy Birthday Monkey Dance 210
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇Frances Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 24/09/2026ranking all my mutuals by mouthfeel 1632759
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One week until we take the younger teens to Melbourne for a week! Planning a pretty chill time, no real itinerary, just a few things we want to go to, a lot of food we want to eat, and we'll see how the weather and energy levels are each day and go from there. 6330
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Watching an American decluttering her wardrobe and she's like "I need to go through my swimsuit bin because there's so many I just don't think I like any more" and I still live in a "why would anyone own more than one (or maybe two) swimsuits????" world. 1150
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My lunch is roasted kumara, pulled pork, yoghurt (because there is no sour cream), and sauerkraut. 160
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We did a pulled pork for dinner on Tuesday night, had leftovers last night, and there's still enough left for lunches today (and maybe tomorrow too). And the pork was $28 so that's pretty good. 4130
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10380962797
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Few things I hate more than starting a new book. Who the fuck are these guys and why are they bothering me? You think you can compare to the last guys? You have no idea what we went through together. 410816
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 23/09/2026You sleep on you back wrong and wake up with a sharp tinge in your shoulder To take three Tylenol, turn to page 125 To ignore it with the belief it will work itself out throughout the day, turn to page 98 45115
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/webworm.coThis Could Change The Way Victims Get JusticeDavid Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand. 8345183
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇Chuckabilly Clay @chuckabilly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hello my fellow Horror Hounds! I’m in process of opening an horror indie bookstore with plans to open Fall 2027. We could use your help if you can spare anything. Even a $7 gift helps get us to our goal! Or if you can’t give, please share! 💙📚🩸 📕gofund.meDonate to Join Us in Creating a Horror Community Bookstore in Chico, organized by Charles ClayI am a book and reading advocate and activist in beautiful No… Charles Clay needs your support for Join Us in Creating a Horror Community Bookstore in Chico 031
🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm watching a pantry reset video and she's like "generally on the top shelf we put things we don't want the kids to be able to get" and then she pulls down a harmonica and just yes 😂😂 1190
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇mama.melancholia @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“I am a mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved…” 🥰 16237
Reposted by 🦇 Mel 🦇Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year 20450132