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  • Never too early to start your fetus wearing a tinfoil colander

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    Today’s Useless Baby Gear: Mummywraps! Planning your family, or baby already on the way? You want the best for your child, but how can you protect your precious bundle of joy against the potentially harmful electrosmog that swirls invisibly around… Read More ›

  • Fat-hater wankstain du jour

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    Big Fat Deal reports on a chappie who thinks it’s a Splendid! Shiny! New! Activist! Idea! to start printing up and handing out Fat Tickets. He wants the world to start handing out these tickets, with the revelatory message “You’re… Read More ›

  • Just a spoonful of polyphenols…

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    [Image from Milk And Cookies. Check out her other recipes while you’re there, especially the orange and date tart.] The latest in chronic fatigue syndrome symptom control? 45 grams of dark chocolate a day. The effect was small, but the… Read More ›

  • Urban Clown Posse, Avian Division

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    This morning, a pair of sulphur crested cockatoos decided that my neighbour’s citrus trees desperately needed pruning. They were chopping off branch-tips 30-40cm long, and throwing them into the air. Oranges and lemons were also snipped to plop noisily on… Read More ›

  • I forgot the blogiversary!

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    I first moved to this URL in August 2006, and I started blogging at the old digs on the 10th of September, 2005. Thanks to those who encouraged me to start blogging in the first place, and to all those… Read More ›

  • Jill nails it

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    I’ll take voting rights over a knight in shining armor, thanks.

    And that’s the thing with chivalry: It always demands something in return.

  • Kate Harding plug

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    Kate Harding, one face of the “obesity crisis”. I haven’t done any Kate Harding plugs for a while, and that’s been a bit remiss of me. Kate has a delightful commentariat, no doubt through her excellently executed comments policy, and… Read More ›

  • Sandilands, you’re a prat.

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    [image credit: news.com.au, capped by me.] So shock-jock Kyle Sandilands is a complete pillock. We all know that. He’s always been a pillock, he’s not funny, he’s a bigoted, nasty little twit. Sadly, he’s also a judge on Australian Idol,… Read More ›

  • Calling for votes

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    Anyone want some more Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment? The choices are here. Requests made previously have included: Margie in Austin, Texas: “The Change of Life, or Menopause”. Callie & kristi: “Sex Physiology and Hygiene” PortlyDyke: “On The Threshold of… Read More ›

  • Things not to do.

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    I just remembered something that really, really pissed me off over four years ago, and that I never really complained properly about at the time. I was a subject in a breastfeeding research lab for about a year, in a… Read More ›