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• Sunday Singalong: Donna Summer

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-05-20 • ( 8 )

  

  So sad to hear she died this week, reportedly of cancer at the age of 63. Her biggest hits were the disco anthems of “Love to Love You Baby”, “Hot Stuff”, “Bad Girls”, “No More Tears”, “MacArthur Park”, and my very favourite, “I Feel Love”. She had an incredible mezzo-soprano voice.

• That frickin’ ‘mummy homework’ thing

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-05-19 • ( 55 )

  

  More of the invisible work of motherhood. From here at the Huffington Post. For the uninitiated, Mommy Homework is the bane of many mothers’ lives. While perhaps intended to be an opportunity for bonding between parent and student, it instead… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2012-05-19 • ( 12 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Friday Hoyden: Lucy Liu as Dr Joan Watson

  By tigtog on 2012-05-18 • ( 12 )

  

  In the new Sherlock Holmes adaptation by CBS – Elementary. Johnny Lee Miller will be starring as Holmes. It’s set in Manhattan. Wheeeee! WATCH ALL THE VERSIONS!

• Lazyweb: pistachio dukkah

  By tigtog on 2012-05-17 • ( 6 )

  

  A gift. How do I make the best use of it?
  While we’re at it, it’s a while since we’ve had a recipe thread. Any awesome noms to share?

• Yet another women and purchasing power list o’ facts (and omissions)

  By tigtog on 2012-05-17 • ( 14 )

  

  Yet, yet again, it makes no distinction between
  *discretionary personal spending which a woman can choose not to do and nobody except herself will care
  versus
  *necessary household spending, which if the woman doesn’t do then somebody else has to get it done.

• Weekly Whimsy: would you give this hitchhiker a lift?

  By tigtog on 2012-05-17 • ( 31 )

  

  This week’s whimsy is courtesy of a weirder than usual fashion photo from Queen magazine in 1960. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

• Media Circus: Craig Thomson cleared of electoral fraud, let’s talk about something else then

  By tigtog on 2012-05-16 • ( 6 )

  

  Let’s keep a closer eye on the impact of policy and legislation rather than buying into the moving wallpaper ethos of personality conflicts trumping the actual political process, OK?

• Quote of the Day: playing the Game of Life on the lowest difficulty setting

  By tigtog on 2012-05-16 • ( 10 )

  

  A comment from Chuck Repke about 100 comments in on a post by John Scalzi, which I really recommend reading…

• That attachment parenting TIME cover

  By tigtog on 2012-05-14 • ( 9 )

  

  Annie Urban looks at how it’s so easy for the MSM to misuse the concepts underpinning attachment parenting to “throw some fuel on the mommy wars”, and how motherhood is not a competition.

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