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• Recovery day

  By tigtog on 2007-09-07 • ( 2 )

  We had a quiet day today except for meeting up with all the togster’s chums from Rock Eisteddfod in the morning to unpack the trucks and do the communal gloat. What a night we had last night! We didn’t get… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Ella Fitzgerald

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-07

  “I know I’m no glamour girl, and it’s not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I’ve got it figured out that God gave me… Read More ›

• Fish-wives, savages and the curse of Eve

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-07 • ( 7 )

  More Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment for you! My original post is here, in which you are treated to a few sage words on choosing a mate, a woman’s role, and how to prepare for a wedding demurely and chastely…. Read More ›

• ironlupins

  By tigtog on 2007-09-06

  My favourite photo so far this week.

• Spring stunner: Lavender honey

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-06

  baroquestar has a new camera, and spring has sprung Down Under. Check it out.

• Belated Wednesday Wow: Go your way, I go mine

  By tigtog on 2007-09-06

  I got a good tip from the headphones guy in the hi-fi store last week (who is also a photographer, of course): when travelling, check out a city’s name in the Flickr tags and see what people like to photograph when there: you’ll get a lot more to see than just the tourist bureau picture postcards. What a brilliant idea.

• Slowing down when passing a crash does not mean one is a rubbernecking ghoul

  By tigtog on 2007-09-06 • ( 3 )

  It might just mean one has consideration for the emergency workers and tow-truckers out there on the roadway while cars are whizzing past. All of us have been well trained to slow down when there are roadworkers on the roadway… Read More ›

• Bless her dainty hooves

  By tigtog on 2007-09-05

  If you listen very hard, you can hear the typing of a million sociology theses/dissertations about online social networking sites, crunching the data and waving the allegories. It’s pretty obvious that the various Special Interest Groups (SIGS) who have thousands… Read More ›

• Sydney has finally joined the club

  By tigtog on 2007-09-05

  The club of cities where one sees people casually commuting to work on their Segways, of course. I don’t think it had anything to do with APEC or President Bush being in town: after all, he certainly seemed to be… Read More ›

• The mantle of Galileo

  By tigtog on 2007-09-04 • ( 11 )

  “Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.” — Robert Park This quote was presented in comments at Pharyngula some months ago now, reacting… Read More ›

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