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• Sydney, Australia feminist blogger meet-up on 29 August!

  By lauredhel on 2010-08-05 • ( 1 )

  Announcing a meet-up for feminist blog folk in the Sydney region. You don’t need to write a blog yourself or be a regular commenter or anything, it’s just an invitation to come and hang out with some like-minded folk for a couple of hours.

• Thursday Cheezburger: Odd One Out

  By lauredhel on 2010-08-05 • ( 4 )

  One of these things is not like the other ones…

  Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.

• Accessibility statement = waffle that should be kept out of the Senate, says Abbott

  By lauredhel on 2010-08-02 • ( 10 )

  The parliamentary secretary for disability, Bill Shorten, said Mr Abbott’s comment was ”an insult to the millions of Australians living with impairment … who have campaigned for decades to improve access to cinemas”.

• Otterday, and Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2010-07-31 • ( 31 )

  Today’s otter comes via National Geographic. An otter species thought to be wiped out from Borneo, Lutra sumatrana (the hairy-nosed otter), has been captured on film in Sabah. One of the world’s most endangered otters, the last time a hairy-nosed… Read More ›

• Children are awesome

  By lauredhel on 2010-07-29 • ( 22 )

  My scooter stopped today, while I was out with the Lad. Just … stopped. No lights, no fuel indicator lights, no beepability, brakes locked on. “Bother”[1], thought I, “that’s going to be a right pain in the buttocks”. There were… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-06-19 • ( 18 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

• Thursday Cheezburger: Mastercheez

  By lauredhel on 2010-06-17 • ( 7 )

  I don’t know about you, but we’re hooked on Masterchef here. So here’s a Masterchef-themed Thursday Cheezburger.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-06-12 • ( 24 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

• Trouble commenting? It’s not just you!

  By lauredhel on 2010-06-11 • ( 29 )

  UPDATE The Second: as you can see, things are looking a bit more familiar. Sometime over the next week I’ll incorporate our hoyden images ~ tigtog

• This is Domestic Violence Culture: Tim Westwood on Big Brother Big Mouth

  By lauredhel on 2010-06-10 • ( 5 )

  Reality TV show Big Brother has just started its eleventh and final series in the UK. BBUK has a chat show that airs after each episode, Big Brother Big Mouth. The format of BBBM is that there are two or… Read More ›