Posts by Carol Stewart
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Deborah,
One of the things about a CGT is that if you exempt family homes, which is a fairly standard exemption worldwide, then the people who tend to end up paying it are those who own holiday homes and second homes and boats and share portfolios and so on.
What about rental properties? Won't any tax increases will just end up being passed on to tenants?
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And yes, Bart's advice is good though I found ibuprofen worked a lot better than Panadol.
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Southerly: Continuing After A Short Interruption, in reply to David Haywood,
David - yes, I've had plantar fasciitis over the past year. It came on after stupidly forgetting my tramping boots so I had to do a 4 day trip in barely-adequate shoes. A mistake I paid for rather heavily.
The classic symptoms are severe pain underneath your heel, and it tends to be worse after sitting down or lying down for a while. Murder first thing in the morning.
My doctor recommended stretches, and rolling a frozen water bottle under the sole of your foot. I'm not convinced these made much difference. You can get insoles that take more weight on your instep and ease the weight on your heels. I got some in the USA that were sold specifically for this condition; I don't know how widely available they are here, sorry. They did make a difference in making walking more bearable.
There is an intervention involving injections of anti-inflammatories into the affected area. My doctor was not very enthusiastic about this, and recommended giving it a chance to resolve naturally first. Happily to say, it is more or less resolved now, but it took a little over a year. I was much slower to diagnose it than you, which probably slowed the recovery quite a lot.
Sorry not to be more cheering, and I really hope it resolves quickly for you. -
This is a very elegant commentary, Jon, thank you.
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Southerly: My Life As a Palm Tree, in reply to Russell Brown,
I, too, was lucky enough to have tribes and wild spaces in my childhood.
I may have mentioned this here previously, but my brother and I were turned loose to forage at the local dump, which was just round the corner.
And then there was the time the two of us went missing on the interisland ferry, and were only discovered asleep in a cabin several hours later after the ferry had berthed in Picton and all the other cars had disembarked .. -
Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Andrew Stevenson,
An ulu! Thanks Andrew. I love that article. Mine did come from Alaska and it does look most like the Alaskan version shown.
What a tool! Its applications includeskinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child’s hair, cutting food and, if necessary, trimming blocks of snow and ice used to build an igloo.
.. although preferably not in that order ;-)
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I love all the items shown here.
A couple more that I can't quite imagine doing without are:
a) small Victorinox knives for slicing tomatoes, paring fruit etc - cheap and brilliant;
b) a strange device that I don't even know the name of - it's similar to a mezzaluna but has just one handle in the middle. It's really good for slicing pizza and chopping up baked slices and sundry small tasks. I will post a photo when I get back home. -
Hard News: Who else forgot to get married?, in reply to Richard Grevers,
Plummer-Butt (!)
As opposed to the more aristocratic Butt-Plummer?
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You all, weary travellers and otherwise, might enjoy this delightful distraction:
http://www.mobydickbigread.com/
A collaborative project organised by Plymouth University featuring the 135 chapters of Herman Melville's amazing novel Moby Dick read aloud by a range of interesting folks, accompanied by artwork. -
Southerly: Getting There is Half the Fun, in reply to Danielle,
He was called Cnut.
Pronounced canoot, I believe. I know a Canadian Knut.