fun & hobbies

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Spring Garden Saturday

By lauredhel on 2008-09-20 • ( 19 )

I wandered around the garden yesterday, marvelling at the progress we’ve made since we moved in to a neglected pit full of beach sand, couchgrass, weeds, and rubble only a few short months ago. Here are some of the highlights… Read More ›

Otterday!, Open Thread, and New Hoydens Flickr Group

By lauredhel on 2008-09-20 • ( 15 )

Today’s otter statue is from Otterndorf on the German north coast. tigtog interrupts with this weeks innovation: we have created a Flickr group for Hoydenizens – Hoydens About!.The idea is that those of us who have Flickr accounts can submit… Read More ›

Friday Hoyden: Keiko Wakabayshi, martial arts virtuoso

By lauredhel on 2008-09-19 • ( 4 )

Keiko Wakabayashi was featured in the UK Telegraph several months ago (and on Shakesville at the time.) Martial arts expert Keiko Wakabayshi, nicknamed the “Samurai Granny”, has been hired by [Italy’s] military to train recruits in hand-to-hand combat. Miss Wakabayshi,… Read More ›

Thursday Cheezburger

By lauredhel on 2008-09-18 • ( 9 )

Runner-up.

Can’t blog

By tigtog on 2008-09-18 • ( 10 )

Weeding, belatedly pruning the bougainvillea, fixing the garden trellis (not the one supporting the bougainvillea, the one supporting the honeysuckle and the Peace rose).

Whoydensday: the perennial question

By tigtog on 2008-09-17 • ( 15 )

The Guardian’s got a casting thread for the 11th Doctor! […] It was suggested in comments to the Guardian article that the casting probably needed to be a bit left-field, pointing out that neither Ecclestone nor Tennant were the obvious choice to play the Doctor at the time they were cast. So, any more out-field ideas?