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• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-01 • ( 3 )

  

  Runnerup: “I swear I didn’t touch him. He just like esploded.”

  Post your cheez o’ t’ week in comments! [Use a link to the full page or the embed code, not just the image, and wait for admin image magic.]

• Faves: Feminism

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-01 • ( 1 )

  Hoyden About Town is looking forward to the finalist voting in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Because it’s school holidays and tigtog and I are family-focussed right now, I’ve put together a few of my posts from the past, in the categories Feminism, Breasts, bodies and birth, Bad science, Big pharma, and Disability. They’re not chosen for any strict criteria – just the posts I found memorable, the ones

• Weblog Awards Finalist!

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-31 • ( 20 )

  We’re in the Best Midsize Blog category. This means we’re up against : Zomblog Betsy’s Page The Sideshow Israel Matzav Argghhh! Rod 2.0 At Largely Scholars And Rogues Suburban Guerilla Voting starts on January 5. Congratulations to Shakesville for their… Read More ›

• Feminist Carnival time! Put your submissions in.

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-29

  The deadline for the Eighth Down Under Feminists’ Carnival is before New Year, so get your December submissions in now! It could be a post you’ve written or a post you’ve read, or lots of both of the above, so… Read More ›

• Linkfest: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-27 • ( 7 )

  The Good Mothers in Medicine: “Getting In the Sterile Field”, by Tempeh. The topic verges on glurge, but it’s well-written and non-cliche enough to bite. Or maybe I’m just susceptible right now. Make up your own mind. As you can… Read More ›

• Otterday, and the Last Open Thread of the Year

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-27 • ( 21 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. What did you do this year – the good, the bad, or the ugly? What do you think is coming your way next year? How do you think the world will look in the last week of 2009? How do you hope it will look?

• Sublime moment du jour

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-25 • ( 1 )

  This carol doesn’t get nearly enough respect. Cast out your O Come All Yes and your O Christmas Trees, this is where it’s at. In Dulci Jubilo, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. ObHeathenism: Gloucestershire Wassail, by Mars Hill Academy… Read More ›

• Xmas Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-25 • ( 4 )

  …recycled from last year. Bonus Grinch LOLcat:

• The Twilight Before Christmas

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-24 • ( 5 )

  via gigglesugar: The Twilight Before Christmas. (Click through for a larger version.)

• Whoydensday: New Doctor Who through the eyes of a six year old

  By lauredhel on 2008-12-24 • ( 28 )

  After much to-ing and fro-ing, we eventually decided to let the Lad watch some New Doctor.

  “Everyone’s frightened of something different,” was part of my rationale.

  Partner is freaked out by supernatural and ghostly stuff, like The Empty Child. For me, the Daleks do it. “Who knows what the Lad’s triggers are?,” we said, “Monsters, aliens, Daleks – it could be anything. We’ll just be there for him, and have fun.”

  So we did, and he OMGloved the first episode.