For whatever reason you have come here, you are sorely disappointed and quite frankly, I can hardly blame you.
Which brings me to my new recurring feature, Your Digital Pal Who's Fun To Be With.
This is where I direct you other things out there somewhere in the digital landscape to something else besides this blog that is a significant improvement over whatever the hell you might find here.
Today's digital pal who's fun to be with is Sandi Toksvig and here most decidedly delightful You Tube video series Vox Tox.
Sandi Toksvig was born in Denmark. Her father, Claus Toksvig, was a Danish journalist, broadcaster, and foreign correspondent. Her mother, Julie Anne Toksvig is British.
Toksvig spent most of her youth outside Denmark and the rest of Europe, living mostly in New York City.
She studied law, archaeology and anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree and receiving two prizes for outstanding achievement. Sandi Toksvig is very, very smart.
She is also very, very busy as a writer, comedian, broadcaster, actor, and producer on British radio, stage, and television. She is also a political activist, having co-founded the Women's Equality Party in 2015. She has written plays, novels, and books for children.
A lot of that busy schedule ground to a halt with the advent of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. But Sandi Toksvig would not be silenced and thus Vox Tox began.
Recording videos from her home which she shares with her wife Debbie (who's working the camera and provides other support roles for these You Tube posts), Sandi Toksvig holds court on a variety of topics but usually coming back to the subject of unique and clever women whose stories are untold in frequently male dominated history books.
In addition to what she says, Sandi Toksvig's Vox Tox videos are distinctive and pleasant for how she says what she says, with a comforting British accented voice that embraces one's ears like a warm auditory blanket.
By the way, the British accent is an affectation, one that Sandi Toksvig adopted while attending college in Cambridge when she was teased for her American accent.
Sadly, Sandi has decided to hang up Vox Tox as she describes in the video below.
But while the number of Vox Tox videos may be finite, the joy and the satisfaction I get from listening to Sandi describing obscure items from history and the oddities of the world around us is nearly infinite.
Sandi Toksvig is a digital pal who is fun to be with.
Remember to be good to one another.
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