This year, Australia is only two weeks behind the UK for Doctor Who — “The Eleventh Hour” — the first episode of the fifth series of New Who will be airing on ABC at 7:30pm this Sunday April 18th, BUT… Read More ›
arts & entertainment
music, stage, writing, comedy, cinema, telly, arts, sport, crafts, photography – all this and more!
Endangered Sunday: Aussie natives need to be pets to survive?
ABC Online: Pet market tipped to save endangered wildlife Our native animals are so vulnerable to feral species in the wild that a major rethink of long-standing policy (that many native animals are illegal to keep as pets) is in… Read More ›
Friday Hoydens: Jazzy Women
This post was inspired by this great gallery on Slate: Jazzy Women. (I only just discovered Slate’s Today’s Pictures feature – fascinating photos every day.) The gallery has 30 photos of fierce, passionate musical women – highly recommended. Here’s just… Read More ›
Wednesday Warm Fuzzies: Fully Epic Rapsody
It has now been 102 long days that Ive been here in the hospital all up, isolated with a case of Multi-Drug Resistant TB…. Yep… Still going… Is it normal if you want to eat your own leg?
Virtual Traveling: Stourhead, Wiltshire
Stourhead is an absolutely stunning landscape garden set in a river valley in Wiltshire which has been artfully dammed and diverted to make for a lovely meandering promenade with plenty of spots for sculptures and architectural follies to be scattered – it was one of the first gardens to be created according to the principles of the English Landscape Movement. There are also more rambling woodland walks full of enormous rhododendrons and other flowering shrubs amongst the trees.
Endangered Sunday: Bilbies
Kids around Australia know the bilby because of a successful program begun over 10 years ago to encourage people to give chocolate bilbies to kids at Easter instead of chocolate bunnies
Dragon trailer doesn’t do it justice
How To Train Your Dragon is the best family entertainment film since Monsters Inc– pure feel-good escapism.
Fire in the frost: Feisty Olympians defy the odds
As the opening quarter of 2010 draws to a close, we look back on what I believe is the one of the highlights of the year: the Winter Olympics in February. In this event, a whole different kind of athletic… Read More ›
Disturbing Strokes
I’ve long known theoretically how easy it is to make a scene feel totally different simply by changing the soundtrack, but that’s a really effective demonstration.
It’s machismo time!
Regular readers know that I have a weakness for escapist action flicks, and the more absurdly preposterous the martial arts combat scenes the better. (I like to see them make an effort towards stylistic authenticity, but bring on those flywires and hidden tramps, yeah!)
Two potentially great ones are coming up very soon (released in the US in May):
Hoyden About Town 