Har. Which Alice in Wonderland character are YOU?created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Cheshire Cat You scored the Cheshire Cat! You are quite a cheerful sort although you can be very cheeky to others. You like to stir up trouble… Read More ›
Life
Universal Smartarses Cooperative
Just a bit of fun, yer ‘onor. Every now and then I feel the urge to “play the Troll card” or “play the Bored card” on certain discussion threads i.e. point out that another commentor has grown tedious in one… Read More ›
Two cubic metres down and counting
That’s how much unneeded clutter was hauled away from my driveway this morning, courtesy of my council’s Free Booked Waste Collection. How much do I love not having to pay for a skip and then have the stress of filling… Read More ›
Wednesday Cheezburger
from i can has cheezburger.
Step up, Rudd: Lib doctors throw down the gauntlet on foreign aid and abortion
This may be a watershed: the Rudd government has been challenged to show its true colours on women’s rights. Way back in the twentieth century, the Liberal government faced a situation where a woman-hating theocon, Brian Harradine, held the balance… Read More ›
Perhaps I’m the last person in the world to realise this
…but I only just found out that the name of Britney’s younger sister, Jami Lynn, is a portmanteau of the names of the parents, Jamie and Lynne. How on earth Britney missed out on either parent’s name is unknown. Perhaps… Read More ›
Being single…stinks?
Today’s guest post is from baroquestar. Baroquestar is a 28 year old singing, studying, Australian museum geek with eclectic tastes in reading material. She is a solo mama to one beautiful daughter who likes dogs too, the bigger the better…. Read More ›
Is it true or did you read it in the Tele?
Yesterday I learnt that this is a bumper sticker that has been seen around town. I guffawed because I’d already been enjoying a congenial lunch with witty women and had laughed sufficiently that I had arrived at the point where… Read More ›
Astronomy Pictures of the Year for 2007
I’m sitting here, back from the “family” fireworks display over Sydney Harbour at 9pm (just slightly less frosty than the New Year firework display in Norway that we attended last year), about to pour myself a something with Frangelico, and… Read More ›
A Christmas paean to Akismet
The comment autospamulatron we use at Hoyden About Town is Akismet. As of right now, it is reporting: “Akismet has caught 99,993 spam for you since you first installed it.” I figure that we’ll hit the 100,000 mark sometime within… Read More ›
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