Soggy here, innit?
Rainy Sydney in 2011, much the same now
In Sydney right now anyway. How about where you are, everybody?
I hope all hoydens and hoyden-adjacent folks are safe and sound during the latest manifestations of the climate emergency.
Articles from Hoyden About Town
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In memoriam: Diana Rigg
Sad news to wake up to this morning. My first iteration of this blog had banners that were all images from Diana Rigg’s stunning era as style icon Emma Peel. Of course Ms Rigg did so much more in the many decades since then. It’s sad to see her go. I plan to update this post later with all the images I ever posted of her but I’ll have to ferret out some backups first.
Are we all still here?
*Waving from an appropriate distance*
Hi everyone! How are you? How is everyone you know, and those you care about most?
Since Mary posted at the end of February about the effects on mothers of the string of closures we were seeing, things have obviously got a lot more extreme. Here in Australia we had just got through the worst bushfire season of all time, before we were driven indoors once again. This year has really turned into a game of choose-your-apocalypse.
Lengthy closures of schools and childcare centres will end mothers’ careers
Cross-posted from puzzling.org.
Otterday and Open Thread
I have awoken with the urge to blog for the first time in many moons and offer you this otter doing a backflip at Capron Park Zoo in Massachusetts.
#AWW2017 – non-fiction – six reviews
Turns out my sign-up post for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2017 was not actually posted, despite the WordPress app on my phone telling me it was – and I never cross-posted here anyway.
In any event, although I read 10 books within my challenge parameters by about March or April, I did not post any reviews at the time.
So here is the revised sign-up post PLUS six reviews in one post.
Getting out the ‘yes’
This Friday, 27 October is the last day to get our marriage equality postal surveys into the mail to guarantee they will be counted in the tally.
ATO scammer time of the year again for Aussies
Just got a robocall from a purported “ATO officer” “alerting” me to a supposed lawsuit “taken out against your name” reciting a phone number that I was supposed to call or suffer dire consequence.