Today’s baby otters learning to swim come to you via Zooborns.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.
Year: 2010
Soapmaking Photo Walkthrough, Part Four: Finis
I thought some of you might be wondering what the finishing process and the finished product looks like! Here’s a little run-through of my process from rough just-unmoulded soap to finished soap ready for labelling.
Reasons why you should see Made in Dagenham
(1) It is a story about women, in a world where there is a dearth of stories about women.
Thursday Cheezburger: FACE-OFF! – And Delurking Day.
Today’s lolcat theme is: Faceoff!
Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.
Not guilty!
Tegan Leach and her partner Sergie Brennan have been acquitted:
Bitch PhD closes down
I saw some sad news when I clicked on one of my favourite blogs yesterday. Bitch, PhD is closing down.
The signs were there. Posts from my favourite BPhD writers have been thin on the ground this year. This has been one of my go-to group blogs since 2004, and has been one of the feminist blogs which has helped me work out my own feminism.
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Today’s little smooching otters are coming at you via The Daily Squee.
For our sons but not for our daughters
A recent UK internet survey (sample size: 2,500 but non-random) found mothers are more critical of their daughters than their sons. The results sound utterly depressing:
Thursday Cheezburger – Unimpressed
Continuing last week’s school holiday theme I give you “Unimpressed”. As in I have been unimpressed with some of the mischief my children are capable of.
Laughing at mental illness
“Mental illness isn’t abnormal,” she says. “It just exaggerates experiences that everybody goes through. Everybody has felt sad, been slightly hyperactive. Mental illness isn’t this separate world – it’s just a step beyond the normal world.”
Hoyden About Town 