2012 – Page 33 – Hoyden About Town

Sunday Singalong: Donna Summer

By hatbluemilk on 2012-05-20 • ( 8 )

So sad to hear she died this week, reportedly of cancer at the age of 63. Her biggest hits were the disco anthems of “Love to Love You Baby”, “Hot Stuff”, “Bad Girls”, “No More Tears”, “MacArthur Park”, and my very favourite, “I Feel Love”. She had an incredible mezzo-soprano voice.

That frickin’ ‘mummy homework’ thing

By hatbluemilk on 2012-05-19 • ( 55 )

More of the invisible work of motherhood. From here at the Huffington Post. For the uninitiated, Mommy Homework is the bane of many mothers’ lives. While perhaps intended to be an opportunity for bonding between parent and student, it instead… Read More ›

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2012-05-19 • ( 12 )

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

Lucy Liu as Dr Joan Watson & Johnny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes, filming Elementary

Friday Hoyden: Lucy Liu as Dr Joan Watson

By tigtog on 2012-05-18 • ( 12 )

In the new Sherlock Holmes adaptation by CBS – Elementary. Johnny Lee Miller will be starring as Holmes. It’s set in Manhattan. Wheeeee! WATCH ALL THE VERSIONS!

Lazyweb: pistachio dukkah

By tigtog on 2012-05-17 • ( 6 )

A gift. How do I make the best use of it?
While we’re at it, it’s a while since we’ve had a recipe thread. Any awesome noms to share?

Yet another women and purchasing power list o’ facts (and omissions)

By tigtog on 2012-05-17 • ( 14 )

Yet, yet again, it makes no distinction between
*discretionary personal spending which a woman can choose not to do and nobody except herself will care
versus
*necessary household spending, which if the woman doesn’t do then somebody else has to get it done.

Weekly Whimsy: would you give this hitchhiker a lift?

By tigtog on 2012-05-17 • ( 31 )

This week’s whimsy is courtesy of a weirder than usual fashion photo from Queen magazine in 1960. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

Media Circus: Craig Thomson cleared of electoral fraud, let’s talk about something else then

By tigtog on 2012-05-16 • ( 6 )

Let’s keep a closer eye on the impact of policy and legislation rather than buying into the moving wallpaper ethos of personality conflicts trumping the actual political process, OK?