Return of the Friday Furry (with bonus ad hoc hoyden!)
I believe some of you have been suffering withdrawals (that’s my excuse to justify how I’ve been missing playing around with my image collection anyway). Stabled (1990) William Wegman Wegman is the Weimaraner photographer, who’s taken umpty-zillion shots of his soulful hounds over the years. They must be amazingly well trained. The hoyden photos for [...]
Grieving again
The fabulous picture above was done by Olduvai George a few years ago, portraying Chris Clarke and his dog Zeke in the Pleistocene Death Valley. (hat-tip, Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony) A few days ago I found out through my blogfeed subscriptions that Zeke sadly had to be put down, after a long period [...]
Weekend walking
So, mr tog and I decided, on our return from abroad, that we really should keep up this walking-around-with-the-kids habit we’d developed over the 4 weeks of sightseeing. Instead of just lounging around the house on Saturdays, we should get out the door bright and early and go somewhere for a walk. As we are [...]
Back, jetlagged
Arrived 6:25 yesterday (Monday) am from Heathrow after spending a few days in the old haunts around Wales (one afternoon with our neighbours and I had the lilt back again). Slept midmorning 1:30pm, out for lunch at the beach with kids falling asleep while sucking milkshakes, back home and back to sleep. Woke up for [...]
La plume de ma tante sent comme le fromage
Not actually, but the cupboard of my kitchenette here near the rue Faubourg Saint-Antoine smells of glorious unpasteurised Camembert (the texture of Tasmanian/King Island brie/camembert is excellent, but pasteurisation kills the best part of the taste). We have been buying our food fresh from the streetside shops just like proper Parisians. We walked home yesterday [...]
Neither of my Blue Mountains nieces is 8 years old
So my dread on reading this headline was shortlived. Girl, 8, drowns in Blue Mountains pool Thank you, considerate subeditor. Obviously, whenever a child drowns someone blames themselves for not supervising carefully enough. The parents and any other adult who could hypothetically have been watching more closely will castigate themselves for the rest of their [...]
Belated Friday Furry: a confusion of cuteness
Original caption: Fudge the cat says “so which are my kittens!” originally uploaded here Related posts: Friday Furry one day late Friday Furry: kewt widdle puppy edition Friday wet and furry Friday Furry: awww (and a bonus Flickr Fluffy) Friday Furry: disapproving bunnies
Friday Furry: disapproving bunnies
Cinnamon disapproves of what you’re doing on the Internet. Originally uploaded at Disapproving Rabbits! by Birdchick Related posts: Friday Furry one day late Friday Furry: kewt widdle puppy edition Friday wet and furry Belated Friday Furry: a confusion of cuteness Friday Furry: awww (and a bonus Flickr Fluffy)
Saving this for the 21st
I get to see my new niece for the first time tomorrow, although I’ve been sent many fine pictures of this mighty fine specimen. She looks lovely, and the parents look happy, in those other shots. But this one has just that certain something. First Bath At Hospital Related posts: Femmostroppo Reader, September 21st 2012 [...]
Boring consumerism
I took the tigling and some of her friends for a cinema and pizza outing yesterday to celebrate the tigling’s birthday. That was fine, lots of fun, actually. But because of the weather we had to stay inside the mall instead of going across the road to play party games in the park as originally [...]
I’m an auntie once more!
I have a new niece, delivered just on an hour ago by caesarean section. Her mum is still in recovery after the surgery. Her nana says she’s beautiful, but I’ll have to wait for a little while to see her. I’ve found myself getting clucky lately in anticipation. Said nana and partner papa now have [...]
Thugs on DVD
After yesterday’s initial outrage, prepare for more from today’s story: Students who knew members of the gang involved in the DVD said some were unapologetic and had laughed at the public outrage. Year 9 students at Werribee Secondary College said a classmate allegedly involved in the film was expelled last week for exposing himself in [...]
Ugly
That’s the only word for some of the recent spats in what were previously some of my favourite corners of cyberspace. First there were the feminister-than-thou wars about lipstick and marriage (see Pandagon and Feministe), then there were the pseudonymity wars about accountability, stalking and outing (complete with accusations of defamation) (see Feministe for why [...]
It’s gone
Last week I wrote this: if you’ve still got this catalogue online next week I’ll be amazed I just checked. The pictures from their Summer 2006 catalogue are not online anymore. I hesitate to automatically assume that it was because of the community reaction to the Corporate Paedophilia report, but just maybe I wasn’t the [...]
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