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• Sunday Gardening: Strawberry flowers, rockmelons, butternuts, and native shrubs

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-01 • ( 5 )

  An update on our vegetable garden.

  The citrus are coming along very nicely, and the pineapple gauva trees seem to have put down their feet. We ended up with a total harvest of around 35 kg of tomatoes before mowing the summer-fried vines under. As well as eating mountains of insalata caprese and fresh salsas and tomato sandwiches, and giving bags of tomatoes away, we’ve frozen large batches for adding to spaghetti sauces and curries, and have jars of tomato relish/chutney stocking the pantry.

• Two little slices of stupid

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-31 • ( 14 )

  WA Today: “Marketers cash in on Obama girls”

  But what will the first mum make of the next wave of lookalikes: child models who are being recruited throughout America because they look like Sasha and Malia?

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-31 • ( 18 )

  The otter of the week comes from Idahobill2008 on flickr, who has a whole series of great shots of otters and other wildlife.

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

• Australia Day Corso racist displays: Sharon realises she’s busted, rings 2GB

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-30 • ( 51 )

  

  Oh my, is this a dud fauxpology.

  The Daily Telegraph has audio from 2GB, which took a phone call purporting to be from one of a group of three young people photographed on Australia Day. They had a scrawled Australian map on their bellies with the inscription “FUCK OFF WE’RE FULL”.

• Friday Hoyden: Yoko Ono

  By Guest Poster on 2009-01-30 • ( 8 )

  When Tigtog and Lauredhel asked me to introduce Yoko Ono as a Friday Hoyden, I was thrilled. I’m an avid reader of Hoyden About Town, and if anyone deserves hoyden status, I’ve always thought that it should certainly be Yoko.

  I was asked to write the introduction because of my recent five-part blog series that analyzed Yoko Ono as cultural phenomenon from a feminist perspective.

• Essure-thetics: “What mark will you leave? None.”

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-30 • ( 22 )

  Anyone remember “What Cheeses Me Off” on Hey, Hey, It’s Saturday?

  No?

  Hrm. Nevermind. (This homophobic crapola was about the usual level of it. Largely linked here for the spunky 80s fashion choices of Daryl Somers.)

  Anyhow. What cheeses me off today is this advertising for the Essure tubal occlusion system, an alternative to laparoscopic tubal ligation for female sterilisation.

• It’s not “sex”, it’s rape.

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-29 • ( 50 )

  

  And today’s doucheplonker of FAIL award goes to… this Sydney Morning Herald reporter, who managed to write this entire article without once mentioning the word “rape” or “assault”. Instead, she repeatedly labelled these violent gang rapes “sex”.

• In memoriam

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-29 • ( 20 )

  R.I.P. Darcy Freeman, age four.

  May your brothers and mother somehow find a path to healing. My heart also goes out to the witnesses and healthcare and police staff involved.

  Trigger warnings for horrific family violence. Link

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-29 • ( 3 )

  more animals

  Runner-up: I’m Melting!

• It’s nearly Carnival time!

  By lauredhel on 2009-01-29

  The Ninth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching! The deadline for submissions is the end of the month, so get your posts in before midnight Saturday.

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