Annabel

@annabelt.bsky.social

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Further attempts to be social. Writer of many things. Former bookshop owner and lapsed academic. Knows far too much about coffee. Annabeltownsend.ca SK, 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

Photo of the back of a bottle of Caesar salad dressing being stabbed with a large knife.
Penguin Archives edition of The Veiled Woman by Anais Nin. Cover is a pale teal colour with black text in the most annoying angular font you can imagine.
Ink sketch of Seaton House in Toronto with people lining up outside it.
Slim Book stack: Unpacking my library by Walter Benjamin, Report from Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson Moonlight Travellers by Quentin Blake and Will Self And a guide to 5 minute Sketching People. Receipts from the two indie bookstores in Saskatoon are on the right of the stack
An all-black kitten,.aptly named Doom contemplates attacking our wonky Christmas tree in our living room. Grey leather couch and bronze coloured curtains are visible behind it. The tree is only decorated with white lights so far.
HopeStreet book cover showing neon lit skyscrapers looking up into a cloudy sky, title and author are in yellow block caps
Video is only a video because the texts "type" across the screen. "Just published" "my first Fiction book is coming soon!" Next to a polaroid photo of a cityscape at sunset.
Weirdly red, but cute heart-shaped aurora tonight, Regina SK. Terribly fuzzy phone photo
The band with rocks in - Discworld fan art by Loopydave A hunchbacked troll made of stone plays drums, a dwarf plays a French horn and a man who looks suspiciously "elvish"/Elvis is on lead guitar
Crappy water colour painting of a tropical island that's vaguely "T" shaped, with beaches, a rocky mountain and faint grey lines crossing it showing how they've already ruined paradise with roads
Map of Regina with my delivery route marked in orange (from Cathedral in the centre, west to Dieppe, north on McCarthy Blvd, around Uplands, east towards Argyle Park, south as far as 4th Ave N, east again to 'Cityview' then south west through Eastview and North Central to close the loop back home.)
Poe the cat (black with white paws) lying firmly asleep right in the middle of the pile of the papers I'm supposed to be editing
Fat assed cat on me
My book, 'A Thousand Lives, Bookshops, Coffee pots and the COVID crisis' sits on a table covered with old book pages. The cover has an open book with a magical watercolour swirl coming out of it.
My ferrets, Peanuts and Pretzel. (Pringles not visible)
My book, Books and the City on amazon.ca, with the product listing showing 76% off.
Green smudge above our house
Pencil sketch of the Penny University bookstore in Regina, 2020-2024
Text conversation: -Does Pineapple belong on pizza? - I feel answering that question may endanger me -ANSWER -I enjoy it, yes -Correct -Omg -Omg -I thought I was so alone
The most world weary, sarcastic and angry grwy tabby cat you can imagine, giving me a death stare.
Eleventy billion carrots still with green tops, one giant zucchini(marrow), half a dozen lesser zucchini, a bowl of podded peas, 6kg pumpkin, several ears of corn all dumped on my kitchen counter next to the bread machine.
A pin board covered with handwritten suggestions on how to improve Regina. Centre (purple) caption reads "what's your most bonkers story about Regina? Tell me your weird fun facts!"
Frog in a loin.cloth holding a giant spoon next to a cauldron. Caption says "that's it you're going in the soup"
An abundance of peas in our veggie patch
A squadron of pelicans at AE Wilson park
Strava map of my walking route trying helplessly to get out of Regina airport
Beautiful purple shiny hardback edition of Dracula, Deadpool-as-Cthulhu Funko Pop, weird little gold chair with an eyeball painted on the back.
Me and Pretzel the little dark brown polecat ferret
Mozzarella Stick the tabby kitten has been adopted!
The black kitty who has very odd eyes
Grey kitten with stripey legs (part tabby) grins at the camera with her tongue out.
My big fat manuscript of a book called HopeStreet. I thermal-bound so the paper had a clear plastic cover and a black spine. I'm lifting the bottom right corner to show how fat the manuscript is.
Cartoon: woman saying "I don't write anymore. I just give bullet points to chat got and ask it to write the paper." Bloke replies "I don't read anymore. I just ask chatgpt to summarise the main points."
Two little tiger cubs and a baby black panther pose for their album cover, while Mum looks on proudly. Leader singer Smudge (grey with a stripey nose) is off to the side, looking shy. Actually they're all three week old kittens but they have big dreams.
Jo March