Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. – Marlene Dietrich Which reminds me I haven’t collected any Dietrich pics for my hoyden images collection. A sad oversight indeed. Googling for images is a fine… Read More ›
arts & entertainment
music, stage, writing, comedy, cinema, telly, arts, sport, crafts, photography – all this and more!
Sunday Songbook
Laurie Anderson – Beautiful Red Dress lyrics below
Vale F.U.
Ian Richardson has died, at 72. I saw him on stage a few years ago with various other Sirs and a Dame in that show about British Royals: his diction was so fabulously pure I swear he articulated the apostrophes.
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… Read More ›
What a show!
Regular readers, I’m talking up the Astronomy Picture of the Day site again. This was taken in Perth on Australia Day (yes, it’s a panorama made from separate shots). The faint streak in the sky just left of centre is… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
My goodness, it’s a holiday pic
From the second half of my holiday time in Norway, when we were touring through the fjords and mountains between Oslo and Bergen: Originally uploaded to Flickr by tigitogs in the Norway set. This was taken the day after the… Read More ›
Harsh of the week
He’s so insubstantial that he’d be rejected by Bertie Wooster’s Drones Club on the grounds that he wouldn’t have the strength let alone the nerve to steal a policeman’s helmet on Boat Night. ~ Lance Mannion (on Hugh Jackman’s interpretation… Read More ›
Totally missing the comet so far
There was no news coverage about this comet in Norway, France or England/Wales, so we didn’t know that the night of our return was the night of the brightest showing of the brightest comet for decades (who else remembers the… Read More ›
Seeya Warnie
So Shane’s retiring. Enjoy your mooted commentary career, and try and behave yourself. Georgina has a post up at LP, and Shaun has one up at Sidelined. A lot of the commentary has been about his sexual infidelities, which don’t… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 