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🦇 Mel 🦇

@melbailey.bsky.social

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Reads too much. Watches too much TV. Cookbook collector. Indoors Enthusiast. Paranormal Believer. From Aotearoa. General All Round Weirdo. She/Her. 🇳🇿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ I absolutely do not have my shit together.

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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 47m

We have this first one and I recently got the second one and just need to buy a hook for it

A framed picture that says please don't do cocaine in the bathroom

A poster that says ghosts are real and they're watching you poop

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 4h

Lunch is tuna salad: cos, red onion, capsicum, cucumber, avocado, pickles, sauerkraut, tuna and a dressing made with cottage cheese, olive oil, salt, pepper, and tarragon mustard.

A bowl of tuna salad and crackers

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 5h

Gorgeous stewed apples (pureed to mix through yoghurt)

A container of pureed apples that are a lovely rose colour

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 5h

A tray of granola fresh out of the oven

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 7h

New T-shirt day!

Me wearing a black T-shirt with red writing that reads: Sorry, I only date vampires

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Breakfast: hashbrown potatoes, a fried egg, avocado, and kimchi.

A plate of breakfast described above.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We're in a Lego themed room and there's this picture of Lego Dylan after he's been in a fight

A picture of a Lego mini figure head that looks like Dylan

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For those playing along at home tonight is chicken schnitzel sandwiches (but I'm not eating bread today so I'm having it with potato salad)

Chicken schnitzel with avocado and cheese on it and some potato salad

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Went to the Melbourne Museum today and I took exactly one photo

A vintage poster that reads "Pussyland" and has pictures of anthropomorphic cats.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can't believe I'm letting my children be truant from school ...

David Seymour stopped to speak to some children at Velocity Valley in Rotorua, giving them a piece of advice.

“Don’t trust politicians,” he said. “Are you a politician?,” they questioned.

After the three children asked if he was going to be on the news and waved at the cameras, he said: “hey, one question, how come you guys aren’t at school?”

It’s school holidays, they said.

Seymour said they could still go into school, but the kids didn’t seemed thrilled by that idea.

“No, it’s ok,” they said before walking away.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I buy the sort of baby gifts I'd like for myself

2 kid's board books: B is for Boo and M is for Monsters.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tonight's hotel dinner is chicken rice bowls. Chicken and veggies are from the market and we found microwave sushi rice at the supermarket.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hotel dinner tonight is BLTs. We're trying to mostly eat dinner and breakfast at the hotel to save money but on Friday we took my sister and sister-in-law out for Japanese and last night was cheese, meats, dips, and bread.

A Turkish bread sandwich with bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayo, sundried tomatoes, and beetroot dip.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Proof of life. Day 3 in Melbourne.

A photo of me at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love these chips, they're just slightly more flavour than ready salted, the name perfectly describes them.

Smiths thinly cut Lightly Tangy potato chips

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just have a couple of questions

Told that the Green Party had not be involved, Luxon replied: "Great, great. That's good to hear. That's good that you've bottomed that out. Well done, well done... Good job."

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's an Evil Tentacle kinda day.

Me wearing a blue T-shirt with a neon Evil Tentacle picture on it

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A tray of cinnamon rolls

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean sure but also uhhhhhh

Text reads "I beg you to keep the wherewithal for this fantastic snack-cum-supper ..."

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean I wouldn't have called it that

A wide massaging circle held on around the waist with a belt.

It is called "Anko Vibrating Ring Massager".

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dinner is cheesy tomato and pumpkin gnocchi with homemade bread rolls.

Dinner as described above

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My sister gave me her old bread maker so now I can make dough with very minimal effort.

A tray of homemade bread rolls.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meme of 2 big guys shaking hands showing that our sons cannot make sense of time

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Screenshot of posts of mine from Oct 2025.

1: Dylan thought that watching The Mummy "3 or 4 times" was lots and this is how you get statements like "You haven't watched The Mummy enough and it shows".

Anyway he's going to watch The Mummy with me soon.

2: "You've watched The Mummy too many times and it shows"

"No and that's impossible anyway. You cannot watch The Mummy too many times"

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me 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: ... ... ... ...

Me watching The Mummy

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What 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".

Jay Jays just dropped styles and it's denim capris with Mary Jane type ballet flats.

The 90s called (on a massive phone) and they don't want this back, they said to burn them.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dinner is sausages, mashed potatoes, peas, cauliflower cheese, crispy cauliflower leaves, and gravy.

A plate of dinner as described above

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Please admire my cauliflower cheese

A large enamel dish of cauliflower cheese

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once 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.

A bowl of fried rice.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My sister just sent me this. Sorry she didn't get a price on this wonderful artwork.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Somebody 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.

A sleeping cat tucked right in beside me on the bed. He couldn't get much closer without just literally being on me.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My lunch is roasted kumara, pulled pork, yoghurt (because there is no sour cream), and sauerkraut.

A (messy) bowl of food as described

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyway my hair is redder again

Me with red hair

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please join my ongoing campaign 😁

A picture of a post by me being annoyed at penguins being used for Christmas items and suggesting we use Greenland Sharks instead.
There's also a picture of a Greenland Shark that I have badly drawn a Santa hat on.

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🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A plate of dinner as described in the previous post.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dylan: it's the Melanie lolly stand

He's not wrong.

A display stand of bagged lollies: blackcurrant pastilles, licorice cats & dogs, and raspberry licorice allsorts.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This air bnb has what can only be described as a sexy fish???

This is how you get mermaids.

A fish ornament on the wall

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He always has to give me a death stare after he sits up from a nap.

A cat glares at the camera

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes hello my good sir may I help you???

A cat peers around the door at me

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A table full of dinner

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The hallway in our house tends to be pretty dark so I've started using the candles in the afternoon and it looks so good

Bookcases with haunted house battery operated candles on them

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today's lunch is brought to you by going to make a tuna salad and realising there's no salad greens. Instead I made a stir fry of sorts.

A stir fry of bok choy, carrot, red onion, garlic, ginger, rice, tuna, and a random sauce I threw together.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Had a dream that they were making new MCU movies but it was all animated and everyone was dinosaurs and then when I woke up I was like "okay but have I actually seen that somewhere" and it turns out my sleeping brain is too silly 😂😂

A list of What If ...? episodes on the cutting room floor.

It includes The Avengers as dinosaurs (scrapped for too silly)

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Haven't cleaned up my mess yet and can't vacuum for sleepy cat reasons

A lounge with boxes and crap where they're not supposed to be

A sleepy Moriarty on a footstool

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Done!

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm doing a lounge tidy but 15yo walked in, took one look, and said "what are you trying to summon??" 😂😂😂

A lot of knickknacks, decor, and books in a collection on a floor.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A plastic decor item that is a doll's head on a spider body.

Just what every home needs

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Breakfast was leftover burrito mince, corn, and roasted kumara that I turned into a shakshuka-esque situation by poaching some eggs in it.

A bowl of mince and egg with loads of coriander on it.

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Look how adorable 🥰🥰🥰

Mini books with a cat and a skull

🦇 Mel 🦇 @melbailey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The outfit I am wearing today does scream "person who loves Halloween" but I don't actually decorate for Halloween. That's just my lounge. Spooky decorating is for Christmas.

Me wearing a top with a vintage cat and pumpkin design and a skull/coffin/fangs cardigan.