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• How’s your Language Footprint?

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-12 • ( 37 )

  [image source] We Australians aren’t really much for learning languages other than English. We’re quite comfy in our dominant language, and when travelling overseas – or to areas of Australia where English isn’t the vast-majority language – many of us… Read More ›

• Best Mother’s Day present ever

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-11 • ( 4 )

  So you’ll never guess what I got for Mother’s Day… a new native garden outside my window! This was the previous outlook from my bedroom window: A little bleak, no? More:

• Sunday Neato: Earth-bowls

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-11 • ( 2 )

  Fluidforms “Earth-bowls”. Just pinpoint your chosen location in Google Earth, choose a height scale, and these clever Austrians will make it out of wood for you, terrain and all. [Via Oohsome]

• Otterday

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-10 • ( 1 )

  Caturday is so last month. Here: Otters doing rhythmic gymnastics moves with pebbles. [via gigglesugar]

• “Thus the disease may be conveyed by promiscuous kissing”

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-09 • ( 2 )

  The first Ladies’ Handbook post is here. This instalment, “Syphilis” and “Personal Responsibility”, completes Chapter III: “Outside The Marriage Circle”. [Bold is mine.] I don’t really expect everyone to be as interested in old medical descriptions as I am, but… Read More ›

• Linkfest: Random Thursday Night Edition

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-08 • ( 10 )

  Technollama writes about a legal threat sent to a knitter by BBC Worldwide. Her crime? Putting a free knitting pattern for an Adipose critter on the internet: “Doctor Who: Partners in Copyright Crime” [Hat tip to Clive] Bluemilk hits it… Read More ›

• “…it is not strange that men and women who do not recognise the sacredness of marriage should decide to enjoy what they regard as its pleasures without being bound by its contract.”

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-08 • ( 5 )

  Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series: “Chapter III: Outside The Marriage Circle”. The original post is here. The madonna/whore dichotomy is hard to miss in this one. It is the polluted prostitutes that infect promiscuous men, who then carry… Read More ›

• Before the snip

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-07 • ( 9 )

  I just remembered a conversation I had with a hairdresser last week. She was just about to do the Dramatic First Cut, as I was going from long hair to what they seem to call an “urchin” cut. (Proceeds going… Read More ›

• Reader question: your pipe dream in print?

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-06 • ( 4 )

  Khukuri at “Do you have anything in an aquarium?” discovered this book in a university library: [“Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeeth-Century Caribbean”, B.R. Burg.] Given a fantasy world with unlimited resources and knowledge, and… Read More ›

• Birthplans and Expectations

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-06 • ( 31 )

  Just a few highlights from the OB-GYN-L list, in a thread dated last October, “Birthplans and Expectations”. Most of the posts can be found here. In this thread, OBs discuss amongst themselves the issue of women forming their own birth… Read More ›