February 2013 – Page 2 – Hoyden About Town

This is aesthetics not health

By Mindy on 2013-02-19 • ( 6 )

Fat bellies and men’s health. Does correlation really equal causation?

A pink cartoon horse is hugging a blue cartoon horse. The pink horse is squeezing tightly and the blue horse is not returning the hug. The pink horse has happy-closed eyes and a blissful smile while the blue horse has eyes wide open and a nervous-open mouth.

À chacun son goût

By tigtog on 2013-02-18 • ( 5 )

One person’s adorable quirk is the next person’s pet peeve.

A thought experiment

By Mindy on 2013-02-18 • ( 7 )

Slacker Mums: Lets come up with a scenario and then add bits to see where we end up.

International Women’s Day Concert To Benefit IWDA

By shonias on 2013-02-18 • ( 2 )

A heads up from the organisers. Links to tickets sales etc at the end.
International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) will celebrate International Women’s Day 2013 with a concert, “Half the Sky”, at the Melbourne Recital Centre on March 7th.

Otterday! And Open Thread

By lauredhel on 2013-02-16 • ( 8 )

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

Still from the movie showing Coraline and the black cat peering into a small, lighted doorway.

Friday Hoydens: Chihiro, Ofelia and Coraline

By Anna on 2013-02-15 • ( 1 )

Last night my family sat down together to watch Coraline, and I found myself instinctively grouping it with two other films centred on little girls navigating dark and strange fantasy lands, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away and Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth.