Hoyden About Town

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. In other...

https://hoydenabouttown.com/2022/03/07/soggy-here-innit/

Sad news to wake up to this morning.

https://hoydenabouttown.com/2020/09/11/in-memoriam-diana-rigg/

*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 t...

https://hoydenabouttown.com/2020/04/06/are-we-all-still-here/

The second-order effects of massively disrupting the global and local movement of people are coming for us all, but they're coming for mothers pretty early on.

https://hoydenabouttown.com/2020/02/29/lengthy-closures-of-schools-and-childcare-centres-will-end-mothers-careers/

Emergency and donation info, plus photos of the Bells Line of Road on December 28, now two fire emergencies ago.

https://hoydenabouttown.com/2020/01/02/australia-burns-bells-line-of-road-28-december-2019/

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.

https://hoydenabouttown.com/2019/10/19/otterday-and-open-thread-332/

Hello, it's been a while! I expect many may need to vent, although more substantive contributions are always welcome! Since I wrote this on Friday morning, the Christchurch terror attacks have ma...

https://hoydenabouttown.com/2019/03/15/elections-auspol-2019-thread/

In which the author finally gets around to blogging about, and reviewing for, #AWW2017.

https://hoydenabouttown.com/2017/12/26/aww2017-non-fiction-six-reviews/

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. Right now, if you are Australian and registered ...

https://hoydenabouttown.com/2017/10/26/getting-out-the-yes/

Just got a robocall from an "ATO officer" reciting a phone number that I was supposed to call or suffer dire legal consequence. I guffawed.

https://hoydenabouttown.com/2017/09/19/ato-scammer-time-of-the-year-again-for-aussies/