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Ungovernable goose

@themarthamyth

Former silly goose turned ungovernable. Jo’burg-based. 🇿🇦 🪿 treats: cake, gin, yarn. Whatever you’ve heard about me is a lie. I’m way worse. Guaranteed inappropriate.

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Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· 24d

Best I can do, cropped from the archives. Oh. And 🔥🫂

Cleavage.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· 25d

New strategy to try and heal the scabs on my right arm. Restricting access. Because I can stick my hand down a sleeve. Relying on pure willpower for the shoulder. It’s not gone well so far. Might stick on false nails. Contemplating whether the left arm is bad enough to be wrapped up too

Right arm wrapped in a white bandage.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· 26d

How did this even make it onto the menu? (In a Portuguese cafe that’s got Bony M on - Ra-Ra-Rasputin keeping me company, apparently).

Pasteis De Nata Martini
Bacardi Rum, Amarula, Ultra Mel Custard & Milk.
Ultra Mel is a shelf-stable custard.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· 26d

So you know, fun and games. We had planned water outage/maintenance from today for the weekend. Then this happened yesterday. Oh, and Cape Town is fine. Nothing glowing or three-eyed there.

Power outage disrupts water supply to large parts of southern Johannesburg
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Koeberg reports three radioactive contamination events
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Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· 27d

Wouldn’t know where to start. Friend’s flying to the UK for a week on Saturday. Wish I could stow away in her luggage.

send me anonymous messages!
If you could get a free ticket to anywhere right now, where would you go?

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 9

Kilts.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 9

The Rhino Keeper by Jillian Forsberg.

Based on the true story of a Dutch sea captain who traveled with an Indian rhinoceros called Clara across 18th century Europe, THE RHINO KEEPER evokes both the thrill of discovery in the archives and the wonder felt by a world in which no European had seen a living rhinoceros.

2022 – College student Andrea Clarkson uncovers a historical mystery while studying abroad in Holland. From hidden desk drawers come unusual historical documents featuring a rhinoceros. On a lichen-covered eighteenth-century grave, the same animal is carved. When an expanding river forces exhumation, what she finds buried there is life-changing. Andrea faces her nightmares to retrieve what a grave robber steals: valuable proof of a long-forgotten history.

1740 – Ship captain Douwemout van der Meer has something not seen in two hundred years: the only rhino in Europe, called Clara. Douwemout and Clara the Rhino tour Europe, enthralling peasants and queens, hoping to change popular views that rhinos are man-eating beasts. Absolute wonder follows, but when a priest sees idol worship and becomes hell-bent on destroying her, Clara, Douwe, and the lives of her bonded caretakers are at risk.

As Douwe becomes protectively dedicated to adventuring with Clara, unexpected love finds him, and his heart starts to tear. Will he choose a life with a traveling wonder-beast forever, or can love exist in many forms for the rhino keeper?

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 8

i'm not rude, i just have the balls to say what everyone else is thinking.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 8

The Shining Girls by @laurenbeukes.com

A masterful twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist.

Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.

At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of these shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing without a trace into another time after each murder -- until one of his victims survives.

Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on an impossible truth . . .

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 8

South Africans are deeply unserious.

Beitbridge border so porous only crocodiles can stop people crossing it,
says Macpherson
https://brnw.ch/21x3X7A

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 7

The Rook by Daniel O’Malley.

Suspenseful and hilarious, this novel is an outrageously imaginative thriller for readers who like their espionage with a dollop of purple slime.

Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But there is a mole inside the organization, and this person wants her dead.

Battling to save herself, Myfanwy will encounter a person with four bodies, a woman who can enter her dreams, children transformed into deadly fighters, and terrifyingly vast conspiracy.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 6

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker.

When Truly Plaice's mother was pregnant, the town of Aberdeen joined together in betting how recordbreakingly huge the baby boy would ultimately be. The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity; her father blamed her for her mother's death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her polar opposite sister Serena Jane, the epitome of femine perfection. When he, too, relinquished his increasingly tenuous grip on life, Truly and Serena Jane are separated--Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May Queen and Truly to live on the outskirts of town on the farm of the town sadsack, the subject of constant abuse and humiliation at the hands of her peers.

Serena Jane's beauty proves to be her greatest blessing and her biggest curse, for it makes her the obsession of classmate Bob Bob Morgan, the youngest in a line of Robert Morgans who have been doctors in Aberdeen for generations. Though they have long been the pillars of the community, the earliest Robert Morgan married the town witch, Tabitha Dyerson, and the location of her fabled shadow book--containing mysterious secrets for healing and darker powers--has been the subject of town gossip ever since. Bob Bob Morgan, one of Truly's biggest tormentors, does the unthinkable to claim the prize of Serena Jane, and changes the destiny of all Aberdeen from there on.

When Serena Jane flees town and a loveless marriage to Bob Bob, it is Truly who must become the woman of a house that she did not choose and mother to her eight-year-old nephew Bobbie. Truly's brother-in-law is relentless and brutal; he criticizes her physique and the limitations of her health as a result, and degrades her more than any one human could bear. It is only when Truly finds her calling--the ability to heal illness with herbs and naturopathic techniques--hidden within the folds of Robert Morgan's family quilt, that she begins to regain control over her life and herself.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 6

Shenanigans.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 6

You honked?

SOUTH AFRICAN LANGUAGE
explained
Ja = Yes
No = No
Ja no = Maybe
No Ja = Maybe
Ja No For Sure = Maybe
Maybe = No
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Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 5

I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.

That's when the first ace arrives in the mail. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 4

Inspired by @ursh.bsky.social to post this one. The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson.

Just because the world ignores you, doesn’t mean you can’t save it . . .
Nombeko Mayeki was never meant to be a hero. Born in a Soweto shack, she seemed destined for a short, hard life. But now she is on the run from the world ‘s most ruthless secret service, with three Chinese sisters, twins who are officially one person and an elderly potato farmer. Oh, and the fate of the King of Sweden – and the world – rests on her shoulders.

As uproariously funny as Jonas Jonasson’s bestselling debut, this is an entrancing tale of luck, love and international relations.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 3

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen.

Welcome to Bascom, North Carolina, where it seems that everyone has a story to tell about the Waverley women. The house that's been in the family for generations, the walled garden that mysteriously blooms year round, the rumours of dangerous loves and tragic passions. Every Waverley woman is somehow touched by magic.Claire has always clung to the Waverleys' roots, tending the enchanted soil in the family garden from which she makes her sought-after delicacies - famed and feared for their curious effects. She has everything she thinks she needs - until one day she waked to find a stranger has moved in next door and a vine of ivy has crept into her garden . . . Claire's carefully tended life is about to run gloriously out of control.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 2

Your girl is not amused.

Randburg
Clear
10%
9°C.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 2

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.

1949. At sixteen years-old, John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

A classic of American literature and a grand love story, Cormac McCarthy's novel is about the passing of childhood, of innocence and a vanished American age.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 1

Finally finished my first cross stitch in a long time. It’s a bit silly, but was great fun.

Anyone interested in a whimsical little witch with a spell book and a few bottles of potions.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jul 1

The Stand by @stephenking.bsky.social

A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jun 30

Rocking cosy pastels today.

Pink sneakers, green leg warmers, and a blue, pink, and purple jumper.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jun 30

Heartburn by Nora Ephron.

Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs" is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes.

Heartburn is a sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect soufflé.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jun 29

Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides.

A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides--the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."

So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jun 28

What I loved by Siri Hustvedt.

This is the story of two men who first become friends in 1970s New York, of the women in their lives, and of their sons, born the same year. Both Leo Hertzberg, an art historian, and Bill Weschler, a painter, are cultured, decent men, but neither is equipped to deal with what happens to their children - Leo's son drowns when he's 12, while Bill's son Mark grows up to be a delinquent, and the acolyte of a sinister, guru-like artist who spawns murder in his wake. Spanning the hedonism of the eighties and the chill-out nineties, this multi-layered novel combines a plot of mounting menace with a deeply moving account of familial relationships and a superbly observed portrait of an artist, set against the backdrop of a society reaching new depths of depravity in its frenetic quest for the next fashion, drug and thrill.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jun 27

Remember the jumper I finished in January? This is it!

Woman wearing jeans and a yellow jumper standing behind a table with sweet treats and holding the “0” balloon of the 40.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jun 27

Saturday, usual agenda.

Scones with apricot jam and too much cream.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jun 27

What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson.

What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death.

But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and when tragedy threatens to divide them forever, Chris risks his very soul to save Annie from an eternity of despair.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jun 26

I’m a really trash friend. I’m feeling a little resentful about having to spend my last money on dinner. And I don’t have gift wrap.

Gift packaged in a small Woolies Dash paper bag, closed with stickers. Like a fucking toddler. I need help.

Ungovernable goose@themarthamyth· Jun 26

Besties, I’m going out-out. Too much pink?

Herself in a Barbie pink shirt, a navy jacket covered in dog hair (it’s been years since I’ve lived with a dog), and pink balloon animal (dog) earrings.