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Otterday! And Open Thread

By Mindy on 2016-02-13 • ( 3 )

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

100 books by women in 2016

By Mindy on 2016-02-07 • ( 6 )

My reading challenge for 2016.

A paleskinned fat woman with dark hair lies front-down and naked upon a bed of white daisy-like flowers. Her head is held high with a wide smile looiing into the camera. We can see her head, one shoulder, a bit of buttock, and her feet up in the air. One hand is just visible holding a flower next to her face, and we see another flower held between her toes so it lies just on the sole of one foot.

Friday Hoyden: “Mama” Cass Elliott

By tigtog on 2016-02-05 • ( 1 )

Just look at her fancy white-booted footwork in this clip of The Mamas and the Papas performing “Dancin’ in the Street”.

Otterday! And Open Thread

By Mindy on 2016-01-23 • ( 2 )

Perth Bipedal Writers Festival

By lauredhel on 2016-01-14 • ( 4 )

There are things I hear a lot, when I’m trying to figure out whether I should bother trying to go to a place or an event. “Just ring and ask!” “Why don’t you just call?” “If there’s a problem when… Read More ›

Vale David Bowie

By Mindy on 2016-01-11 • ( 9 )

What’s your favourite David Bowie song/movie/thing?

New Year’s Open Thread

By Mindy on 2016-01-01 • ( 2 )

The first open thread of 2016. What’s new Hoydens?

On New Year’s Resolutions and the non-hilariousness of violence against women

By lauredhel on 2015-12-11 • ( 5 )

If there is one thing I’d like people to take away from 2015, it’s this: Violence against women is not funny. Over and over and over this year (and in all the years prior), we’ve heard the same excuses and… Read More ›

Mega Doctor Who Snog, Marry, Avoid.

By Mindy on 2015-12-04 • ( 3 )

Who would you snog marry or avoid in the Doctor Who Universe?

Otter Tracks on the Snow-Covered Ice The otters had walked up the Water of Girvan, at the place where they usually swim, leaving their distinctive tracks on the snow-covered ice. Otter tracks show 5-toed marks, with a clear "heel" behind the pad. I also saw fox tracks on the ice.

Otterday! And Open Thread

By tigtog on 2015-06-27 • ( 14 )

This open thread is brought to you by otter tracks on snow-covered ice. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?