Naughty girls down under. With a bullet.
Har. Hoyden About Town is now top of the pops in a Google Australia search for naughty girls. Update 26 Dec 07: we’re now second in a worldwide googlesearch for naughty little girls.
Preparing for the holidays
So, how’s everybody else doing? I’m panicking. Cards, gifts, decluttering – I’m behind on all of it. Today I have to drastically trim the rampant “La Nina summer” foliage in the garden (tomorrow is the fortnightly Green Waste collection that our wonderful Greens-heavy council introduced a few years ago) and deal with a beehive that [...]
Friday Hoydens: the Garden Makeover TV Brigade
Despite my misgivings about the whole lifestyle TV phenomenon and the renovation cult, as largely being driven by our good friend consumerism rather than any true aesthetic sense, I have to put in a good word for the women who dig holes on these shows, hoydens one and all. As a keen gardening hoyden myself, [...]
Gollumbabies
My draft posts are getting nowhere, for now. (Wiggles concert yesterday, doctor’s appointment today.). So as to not leave this space blank unintentionally: a LOLcat for you, courtesy of I Can Has Cheezburger.
Weekend kid art: what’s on his mind
The lad has become rather fascinated with rules, robbers, and law and order. He is hopping mad that “squiggle-robbers” have graffitied the sign and wall at his kindy, and keeps coming up with plans to trap any robbers that try to break into our house. He tied his Spiderman toy down with kitestring last night [...]
Festive Soapmaking, November 2007
A few pictures of the results of my soaping session this week! I haven’t got around to trimming and planing yet, so these are raw. Cranberry Fig stars. I dusted the molds with gold mica before pouring the soap, and I did a red in-the-pot swirl. Frankincense and Myrrh holly soap. Same mica-dusting technique. These [...]
“Seen And Heard”: Children in public spaces
The dearth of children in public spaces is too often decried purely in terms of The! Obesity! Crisis!!1! But there are much better reasons to encourage children back into the public world, and they’re reasons not readily addressed by a cycle-driven videogame or standing-desks in classrooms. Seen And Heard: Reclaiming the public realm with children [...]
Friday Funnies: 24 spoof – Jack Bauer saving the day with 1994 technology
Found a YouTube version to replace the CollegeHumor direct embedding which broke the blog. (link in case the embedded Flash doesn’t work for you) Oh, the memories: maintaining a dial-up connection uphill both ways in the snow! H/T Pam at Pandagon.
Grin du jour.
I’m enjoying a temporary blogflump, thanks to a bit of soapmaking and some post-election floatiness. So I bring you this, courtesy of Neatorama. Illegitimi Non Carborundum
LOLvovos
Courtesy of baroquestar and middle_marker, this LOLVoVo call-and-response: Background: if you missed Rudd’s victory speech: he addressed his frontbench thus: “We’re ready for hard work. We’re ready for the long haul. You can have a strong cup of tea if you want in the meantime. Even an Iced Vo-Vo on the way through, but the [...]
Melbourne Choral Flashmob urges “Vote the Bastards Out”
Your Youtubes du jour. First up: “Vote the Bastards Out”, sung a choral flashmob in Melbourne. The composer was Stephen Taberner. Jodes writes on reddit: Members of several choirs decided to create a choral flash mob across several parts of the city to encourage people to Vote the Bastards out this weekend in the Australian [...]
Sagacious Shakespeare & Hoydenalicious Margarita Mayhem
Assume a hoyden, if you have it not. Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from? Get your own quotes: Meme yoinked from Lauredhel’s LJ. I spent the weekend overlooking Copacabana Beach on the Central Coast with three of my favourite hoydens, old friends from my stand-up comedy years. (It would have been four [...]
Greetings from Middle Perth
From StrangeMaps comes this map of Australia, Middle-Earth style: “One Ring to Rule Them All, Mate”. I forget who once pondered the impossibility of believing Shakespeare spoken in an Australian accent. Maybe it’s the implied anachronism, for in Shakespeare’s time there wasn’t an Australian accent, owing mainly to Australia not having been discovered yet. At [...]
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