I was so crook yesterday I forgot all about this, so I’m glad I did my Googling for images earlier in the week. When I was about 10, in the mid-70s, there was a big old picture palace about a… Read More ›
Life
Happy Birthday Mr Tog
Today my darling added another digit to the figure he puts in certain boxes on certain forms. He’s busy all day today with churchy stuff (he goes, I don’t, yes it used to be weird, now it’s no big deal),… Read More ›
The togmob goes to the cinema: “Click”
Yesterday, for the last day of hols before going back to Term 3 of school, mr tog and I took the kids to see Click (the togster particularly had been very taken by the premise when he saw the trailer… Read More ›
Happy Solstice!
Solstice at Stonehenge – picture from here. So, who does the whole Xmas in July thing, eh?
Tip for the domestically inexact #2
When one has, due to a throbbing migraine 2 nights ago, inadvertently omitted a crucial step in making pea and ham soup such as say, sauteeing the onions/garlic before browning the bacon hocks (resulting in a soup of almost 1970s… Read More ›
Moronic twits and clap-trap
Daily Telegraph columnist Anita Quigley is shrill in her Saturday column about a Sydney pre-school which has introduced a curriculum which is friendly to non-traditional homosexual and transgender families. She’s “a strong advocate for a factual and concise sex curriculum… Read More ›
Hyphenating – who goes first?
So Brangelina’s baby has been born – Shiloh Nouvelle Jolie-Pitt. There is undoubtedly going to be a lot of sneering at the choice of personal names, but today I’m looking at the family name. Jolie and Pitt had already decided… Read More ›
Sunday Stomacher – Fragrant Sour & Spicy Thai Soup
This soup has much the same base as a Laksa, but not so much coconut cream. I tend to use low fat versions of the coconut and chicken stock, but that’s an option. Fresh Asian vegetables can be used instead… Read More ›
Who moved that apostrophe?
I’m a week late, I know, but Helen’s Mother’s Day piece got me thinking. How did a day that grew from West Virginian Mothers’ Work Days from 1858 onwards (where mothers worked together to improve their community), and Mothers’ Friendship… Read More ›
Lest We Forget
Because it’s Anzac Day, I’ve spent much of my time looking over the various diaries/letters of my greatuncles who took part in the Great War. (Various cousins-once-removed and second-cousins have transcribed them over the years and sent out copies to… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 