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• Soap!

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-25 • ( 25 )

  I trimmed and labelled some soap today. Strawberry Kiwi. Lovely fresh fragrance, lovely fresh colours. Lavender Vanilla – do you like the flying-seagull shape the swirl in the top soap formed? I used the Brambleberry Black Amber Lavender fragrance oil… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-25 • ( 12 )

  Clam doughnuts! This sea otter at Vancouver Aquarium is bashing a circular iceblock to get to the clams frozen inside. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in… Read More ›

• White Panic: Made In England

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-24 • ( 11 )

  Ah, the Daily Mail. You never fail to amuse, disgust, and generally cause a bad smell. The latest manufactured outrage is over the lyrics of a Sam Dunkley children’s song written for St George’s Day. This clunky, banal piece of… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Sex slavery just like football draft, says defence

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-24 • ( 6 )

  WA Today: Prostitutes likened to AFL draftees in trial A barrister acting for a man accused of bringing five Thai women to Melbourne as sex slaves has compared their plight to an AFL footballer being drafted to another club. […]… Read More ›

• Jessica alba bear bottom and cauliflower gardening: Ask Auntie Hoyden

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-24 • ( 7 )

  I know you’re wondering why I haven’t done a referrer-logs search terms post lately. Here you go! Random searches bringing folks to Hoyden About Town: college rape statistics breast ptosis study redundant breast tissue thesis greenwashing toys i hated as… Read More ›

• Families protest breastfeeding discrimination at Barnett’s office; is he about to flip?

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-23 • ( 21 )

  Thirty to forty adults and their children and grandchildren today protested the lack of breastfeeding discrimination laws in Western Australia. The group, organised through Joyous Birth and Facebook, rallied outside Premier Colin Barnett’s office in Cottesloe. Many passers-by were supportive…. Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Supernatural Kittehs

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-23 • ( 11 )

  Supernatural Cheez! Runner-up:

• It’s not sex it’s rape: strategic remorse edition

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-21 • ( 25 )

  What would you call it when a step-father repeatedly rapes a girl, starting when she’s 13, and this goes on for three years before he’s caught? Rape? Sexual assault? Molestation? Pedophilia? Sexual abuse? Child abuse? Not according to Andrew Korner… Read More ›

• Emergency Department “Did Not Waits” – what’s the real story?

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-20 • ( 17 )

  This appeared in yesterday’s West: “Urgent ED cases walk out before treatment”

  More than three patients needing urgent attention leave the busy emergency departments of Perth’s major hospitals every day without being treated, new figures show. Documents obtained through Freedom of Information laws show that last year, 7215 patients across all levels of urgency attended the emergency departments at Royal Perth, Sir Charles Gairdner, Fremantle and Princess Margaret hospitals but left without being seen by a doctor.

  They included 48 category 2 or “emergency” patients, typically including suspected heart attacks, and 1184 category 3 or “urgent” cases, which can include head injuries and major bleeding or fractures. Twenty of these patients were children.

  This article looks at some important questions, but it fails to illuminate us on what the answers might be – and the information presented is a little misleading.

• Severely injured asylum seekers and the right to privacy

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-19 • ( 12 )

  As Aussies probably know, folks on a boat were rescued by the Navy up off Ashmore Reef this week, after their boat caught fire. The origin of the fire is a matter of some dispute. The Liberal (conservative) Premier of… Read More ›