I knitted a TARDIS dishcloth, and you can do it, too! Adventures in time and space and washing up.
fun & hobbies
enjoyment, escapism, making and general lollygagging
BFTP — Endangered Sunday: grey nurse shark
I’ve been in the water with a lot of sharks: leopard sharks, wobbegongs, Port Jackson sharks, grey and white tipped reef sharks and grey nurse sharks. What’s a scary thing I’ve encountered diving? That dreaded apex predatory homo sapiens. Homo sapiens is of course the big threat to today’s Endangered Sunday species, the grey nurse shark or carcharias taurus.
The annual Sydneysiders’ Coogee femblogger trip: Sunday Jan 15
Come join us at Coogee on the 15th!
Melbourne Hoydenizen meet-up: Sunday Jan 8
Anyone up for a meet-up in Melbourne? Sunday 8 Jan, From 11.30 am (late arrivals fine!), Portland Hotel, 127 Russell St (cnr Lt Collins – NW corner).
We will be in the casual bar area.
“I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because [Lego]’s just so good for little girls’ brains”
“If it takes color-coding or ponies and hairdressers to get girls playing with Lego, I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because it’s just so good for little girls’ brains,” says Lise Eliot. A neuroscientist at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, Eliot is the author of Pink Brain Blue Brain, a 2009 survey of hundreds of scientific papers on gender differences in children
BFTP – Friday Hoyden: reading in public
This post is part of our Summer Slowdown repost series, and is revisited in solidarity with 15 year old Reddit user Lunam: comments on the original version of this post in October 2008 showed how often a dim view is taken of women reading in public.
Thursday Internet Tradition: Status Cats
Hoydens are aware of all Internet traditions! But we share our hard-won cultural knowledge! This week, we introduce you to the tradition of the Status Cat.
Whoydensday: In which Chally knits a Dalek
A knitting project both pretty and potentially lethal.
Weekend Womenscraft: knitting shrugs and shawls
Come learn how to make a super simple and quick knitting project.
Now entering the Xmas zone: open thread
This is the yearly bonus open thread for Christmas chat, for Hoydens and Hoydenizens who are interested. Feel free to talk services, observances, decorations, gifts, surprises, feasting and family traditions heart-warming and otherwise. All observers of Christmas welcome if you… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 