Your Own Personal Elle Boyd

@theelleboyd

Transcriptionist by day, writer by night. Cat wrangling Bluenoser. 🇨🇦 Links to some of my shorties: Unsolicited DMs will be ignored like the scourge they are.

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Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· 3d

Happy International Cat Day! I bought a bit of turf for the cats to chill on the balcony, and they love it. #Caturday #Catsky

Kjell (ginger and white) and Ayden (black and white) loafing on a rectangle of green turf on my concrete balcony. Ayden is looking at the camera and Kjell's big ol' butt is facing me, hah.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· 9d

So many books to add to my TBR, so little time. I'm currently reading Nothing Tastes as Good by Luke Dumas, and unfortunately, I'm a bit disappointed. Over 200 pages in and not much happening.

Nothing Tastes as Good - bite out of a jelly doughnut oozing red filling - Luke Dumas. White background.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· 14d

Sorry, can't work today. My office chair has been occupied. #Cats #CatsofBluesky

Jelly on office chair (covered by a sham cover), snoozing. Ginger and white kitty.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· 15d

Without saying your age what is your favourite movie from the year you turned 18. [Sorry, no gif for mine!]

Sorry, no gif for mine! Poster for Raise the Red Lantern, starring Gong Li, directed by Zhang Yimou. Gong Li sits on a brick structure in winter, in a blue Chinese style coat and red and black muff. Looking gorgeous as always.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· 16d

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains

Album cover for Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos. All white cover with Tori crouching in a box.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· 22d

Share a book you'd love to see adapted into a movie.

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. Background: a nice pink-to-blue sunrise/sunset. Low yellow mountain range. Centre/bottom: square hole in the green-to-purple ground with a white ladder sticking out of it.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Jul 13

Best Star Trek captain. Wrong answers only.

Captain Jack Harkness! John Harrowman in promo shot, trench coat, foggy background, standing a bit our left and looking to the right all stoic-like.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Jul 2

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in July. 🖤

Big-ass zucchini at a farmer's market stall! Next to some bagged carrots and in the background middle-aged women checking out the other produce.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Jun 27

I almost missed #Caturday! I miss having a lap cat. (My current cats aren't interested, dammit.) #CatSky

Hmmm, how do describe? Me sitting on a couch in a ratty brown t-shirt, lovely crocheted blue and white blanket on my lap, topped with two cats. Maxi, shaved (she was much happier that way), black and white tuxedo, sitting beside me; Heathcliff, all black, lying on my lap. I'm scratching Maxi's chin.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Jun 20

Happy #Caturday! Jelly trying to relax after a thunderstorm. #CatSky

Jelly, ginger and white fat kitty, reclining on blue couch with brown sheet on it, ears half back, ready for another rumble of thunder.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Jun 15

My mother-in-law's azalea bush.

Lovely orange azaleas. Unfortunately there's no greenery on the bush, so there are these bright orange blossoms on the ends of spindly bare branches. :-D

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· May 30

Happy #Caturday! If there's one thing Ayden is good at, it's helping me work. #CatSky

Ayden, white with black kitty, stretched out on my black desk. One paw is reaching for my headphones (I'm a transcriptionist), another on my laptop. His back is against my separate keyboard. What a cat.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· May 23

Ahhh, I almost missed #Caturday! #CatSky

Shadow. She was a big girl. White with grey kitty lying on her back snoozing with all four paws in the air, on a light-coloured couch (covered with a brown patterned sham cover).

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· May 16

Happy #Caturday! I said it before and I'll say it again: cat bones are liquid. #Catsky

Ayden in an impossible pose. White cat with black, tummy up, on brown rug, bent into a C. Front paw pressed against black ottoman for leverage, I guess. Also, he likes to scratch it. Fortunately we don't care. It's faux leather anyway.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· May 10

A late Happy Mother's Day to all who celebrate! And a special shout-out to all the cat "moms" out there. 🐱

Ayden and Kjell (aka Jelly) sunning themselves on the living room floor. Ayden (white with black) sits next to his brother (ginger and white), who's lying on his side and looking askance in the camera's general direction. Grey cat tree in the background.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· May 6

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

Dog Sammich. What looks like a corgi with a slice of bread on his face. :-D Like a hole pulled out for his nose so it covers his eyes. I'm terrible at describing things. He's wearing a slice of bread over his nose on what looks like his family's deck.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Apr 27

Currently reading Still Alice by Lisa Genova. It's a more engrossing read than I expected. Thumbs up so far.

Lisa Genova in blue. Still Alice in black. White background with blue translucent butterfly wings near the bottom. The OG cover without Julianne More.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Apr 18

You think I can get them both to look up at the same time? #CatSky #Cats

Two cats sitting next to each other on a brown faux-wood floor. Left: Kjell, white and ginger, looking at camera; right, Ayden, white and black looking downish.

Two cats sitting next to each other on a brown faux-wood floor. Left: Kjell, white and ginger, looking downish; right, Ayden, white and black looking almost at the camera. Close enough.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Apr 6

Just started The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson. An enjoyable and well-written read so far, but he tends to reference his own previous works in the notes section. 🤔

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, Toby Wilkinson in a black banner mid-cover. Top: detail of woman's face from ancient Egypt; bottom: wall painting from the tomb of Nacht (hard to describe - a woman in white holding reeds and leafy things on either side, general chaos in the middle. Pots? Geese? Plants?).

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Apr 4

Oh my goodness, I almost missed #Caturday! A blast from the past: my first kitty Tubbs enjoying some fresh air (and a ribbon).

Pretty grey and white tuxedo kitty on a once-green-painted balcony (the paint was really peeling), one paw holding down a purple ribbon, looking up at ... something that's caught her eye.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Mar 23

Picked up In the Woods by Tana French months ago, DNF for some reason (I can't remember why!), picked it up again and I'm enjoying it more the second time around. Go figure.

Background: misty-looking green spindly trees. Overlay: In the Woods (white) Tana French (yellow). Nice enough cover - I've seen worse.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Mar 21

It's #Caturday! My sneakers have become cat pillows. #CatSky

Black and white kitty lying on interlocking gym mats with his nose in my white sneaker. He's next to a treadmill (aka cat bed) with a blanket on it.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Mar 9

I'm re-reading The Cobra Event by Richard Preston. Scary stuff! #Booksky

Centre (well, slightly right): bloodshot-looking green eye with cracked iris. Top: Richard Preston. Bottom: The Cobra Event. It's a meh cover, not gonna lie.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Mar 7

You, in another decade (I really liked that shirt!)

Me, in the early 2000s. Putting on lipstick in bedroom mirror. Photo taken from behind, so my back is in the foreground. Lovely gray cap-sleeved shirt with lace overlay, short curly dark hair, leaning in and lipstick pressed to lips. Those were the days.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Mar 7

Happy #Caturday! Why do cats love laptops so much?

Ayden crouching on my laptop. White with black kitty ... crouching on laptop. :-D On black desk? Black cable from laptop to out of picture.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Feb 17

Let's see your profile pic in its full-size glory.

Me. :-D Head and shoulders shot with glasses on top of my head, hair back in a ponytail, smiling at the camera and about to take a sip of wine. My wedding ring is on my pinkie because sometimes it itches my finger.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Feb 16

I'm reading Love and Capital by Mary Gabriel - a look at Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage.

Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, by Mary Gabriel. Red book with black silhouettes of Karl and Jenny facing each other. Title above; subtitle below.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Jan 31

This is who runs this account

I NEVER thought this photo would see the light of day. :-D Me aged about two? standing and smiling at the camera in a pair of blue overalls with red-and-white checked patches. Very seventies chair to the right with a calico kitty underneath.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Jan 24

Happy #Caturday! Action shot of my friend's kitten shortly after bringing him and his brother home. #Catsky

Tabby-striped kitten with white tummy on a grey fabric and wood stool with a blurry paw out for a dangling yellow feathered teaser toy. And his mouth is half open. He's ready to make mince meat of this thing.

Your Own Personal Elle Boyd@theelleboyd· Jan 13

I am so late to this! (It's still Monday here in Canada!) Just started Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Really looking forward to diving in.