I condemn my lack of attention towards the desperate shortage of frogging in the world today.
fun & hobbies
enjoyment, escapism, making and general lollygagging
Will the Grauniad’s servers cope?
Ricky Gervais is back podcasting for free at the Guardian, for three seasonal specials: Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. His initial free podcasts, of material written with The Office cowriter Stephen Marchant, were so successful he was able to take them… Read More ›
For eating, not shelving
An e-friend on a mailing list just described a fabulous edible bouquet rather like this one that they received as a gift, a particularly appreciated gift in that she has long given up delighting in gifts of the dust-collecting figurine… Read More ›
Friday garden-blogging, blogroll wrangling etc
Scabious, aka the Pincushion Flower Quite a few of you enjoyed my post on a picture of Saturn’s rings a few days ago. Well, a new blog I’ve discovered has an excellent post on the following day’s Astronomy Picture Of… Read More ›
No, I don’t know why either
See, I was googling for pictures of a kids’ sack race, because I wanted to play Photoshop some and make a banner image for somebody. Well, this wasn’t quite what I was looking for, but I just had to share,… Read More ›
Friday garden blogging
Lorikeets in the pohutakawa last week
Eek! the geek meme
This one’s really got legs – all my US e-mates who don’t even usually do memes are doing this one. Behold, I am a Modern, Cool Nerd 82% Nerd, 65% Geek, 26% Dork
Ahoy, mateys! Arrrr!
Aye, ’tis Talk Like a Pirate Day agin, ye scurrrvy dogs.
Some fine buccaneers from U Penn have spliced a webpage with some tips on talkin’ ‘n’ typin’ pirate, pieces-of-eight.
Pharyngularrrrr will presumably be switchin’ to PZ’s annual pirate mode at midnight Minnesota time, fer those what like their science with more arrrrrrrghs.
Last week’s footy
A nailbiting rugby union club final finish between Randwick and Sydney Uni.
We were sitting in the section of the stands that included what I will call the Loony Uni supporters (if that’s not what they’re named they should be).
The footy image stream is at my Flickr page: first picture here-[link]
Blogiversary! that means food, flowers, feminism and of course, catblogging
Yes, it was a year ago today that the brave ship tigtogblog first set sail! Looking back on ye auld archives, I am struck by my neglect of food and garden stuff recently. V.slack and shame-making.
Food: Truffles (thanks to ABC radio and some chaps in Tasmania who are going to make an absolute bomb now they’re getting in a good harvest – they’ll be able to send fresh “black gold” to Europe out of season). They discussed how to use truffles in cooking, and it all sounded v. finicky – grating slivers on to this and that, and needing something creamy or oily as a base to bring out the truffle flavour and spread it around. Sounds fatmaking, thought I.
But then they mentioned truffle oil.
Hoyden About Town 