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Lothlorien
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I hope you'r still getting the tarting wood broken and then the rest split. If needed, we can send Dlet to do that - he's pretty good at it now, one of my successes in parenting. But best wishes to you, and heal well and quickly.
One of my successes too, although eldest son is debarred from any activity like that now, thanks to two major back operations.
I've split my share over my lifetime. I find it enjoyable. Then there's the usual stuff like "being warmed twice." Am even skilled in splitting a large log metres long with wedges, as well as splitting blocks. Aargh! nostalgia kicks in.
I managed an entry in SMH Column 8 yesterday, the first for a long time. This morning there was a reply and also an entry from someone I know in the Mountains. Hit the jackpot.
Link to yesterday's column.
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Loth, I'm in awe and envy at your physical stamina. Having enjoyed my first class of the season (eight 12/13-year-olds; Middle English segueing into Dutch, next week 1066 and the French incursion and Proto-Indo-European) I feel I can go on for years yet as long as my legs last. The kids might be confused if I eventually arrived with a Zimmer frame.
And I have just made another nine jars of lime marmalade.
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Gee D, it's my left lat mal, so I can still drive an automatic. Two docs conferred over it, one wanting me in plaster the other thinking I could get away with a boot. I plumped for the boot so I can take it off to shower and to sleep - it's also very light, which is a blessing.
Extra time to heal is not an issue for me. It surely can't be worse than when I did the achilles tendon on the same foot 5 years ago. That took four months.
Funny how my left arm is much stronger than my right, but my left foot is prone to giving out.
But I'm beginning to think the trees round here have it in for me. The first time I fell off a gumnut, and this time I fell off a leaf.
That's talent!
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I took my first trip to the Cardboard Cathedral today, very nice. Think I'll be popping along for evensong now I live much closer. Huia, I echo your thoughts about the rebuild, our street has bern taken over by the waste water people.
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Huia
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Yes, the workers are great but the smells are awful. I really wasn't aware that smells could be so depressing, but then other scents are uplifting like the poppy and hemp bathsalts I bought today. I told the woman at the chemist they were so good it's a wonder they're not illegal. Maybe I'll carry around a posy of flowers, like people did during the plague.
There are some really good people at the cathedral too Macrina. Before the quakes I had some dealings with the current Dean, whom I find an interesting speaker. I used to vounteer in the old cathedral years ago.
Brilliant day today. I went over to the port to pick up a raincoat a woman had finished making for me. It's purple (of course) and she's one of those clever people who can tinker with the pattern so the wearer doesn't have to be 7ft tall and built like a beanpole. I don't think I've been as excited about a piece of clothing sine my mum made me a lovely pink dress that ties up on the shoulders when I was nine.
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Lothlorien
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Galloping Granny, splitting wood is a therapeutic exercise. In one way it's mindless. In another way, it is so satisfying to seek the pile of split wood get larger and larger. Figuring out the sweet spot to get the greatest effect for the least effort is fun. Even better when it actually works and the block falls apart with one blow.
Your teaching sounds like fun. Currently I am working on grandchildren's grammar. It's difficult for them to understand it's "really well." not "real good."
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Lothlorien
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Banner Lady, I told my St J friend of your mishap. He sends good wishes and had a good laugh at the zombie apocalypse. It reminded him of his mother many years ago, possibly even in the 50s. She had had bone cancer and had one leg amputated.
At the Post Office one day, a small boy asked her what had happened to her other leg. "The rats ate it, " she told him and he hurried back to his mother.
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... poppy and hemp bathsalts ... were so good it's a wonder they're not illegal ...
Are you sure? They sound deeply iffy to me. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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... therapeutic exercise ...
Now that's an oxymoron if ever I heard one. ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
I've discovered something truly therapeutic recently - baking French sticks. The dough is kneaded in the bread-making machine, but you roll and shape it yourself and it really does have the most satisfying feel.
And a pretty damn satisfying taste too, though I say it what shouldn't ... ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Zappa
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
Galloping Granny, splitting wood is a therapeutic exercise. In one way it's mindless. In another way, it is so satisfying to seek the pile of split wood get larger and larger. Figuring out the sweet spot to get the greatest effect for the least effort is fun. Even better when it actually works and the block falls apart with one blow.
So true ... but when I was in wankydilla (happy memories) I used to have to wear a crash helmet, as the wood (gidgee and mulga) was so hard it was like hitting and splitting an iron bar. When you did get the split it could fly for miles and physically knock you out.
Sadly no open fire here - the one thing lacking in this house - but the main wood to split here (when I visit my aged mater) is macrocarpa and that is most satisfying.
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Galloping Granny
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Piglet's made a discovery:
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I've discovered something truly therapeutic recently - baking French sticks. The dough is kneaded in the bread-making machine, but you roll and shape it yourself and it really does have the most satisfying feel.
And if you don't have a breadmaker the whole kneading and thumping process is very satisfying.
I once had a not-quite-special-needs class who pounded out their frustrations making bread and 'hot initial buns'. I began with the old demonstration where you put yeast/sugar/warm water in a bottle, cork it and wait for the cork to blow off; but when we mixed the dough they were worried that I hadn't used any baking powder.
Then there was the Sunday when we had two bread-makers in church, making a wonderful smell before we took the bread out for communion. I asked a small boy afterwards if his family made bread at home, and he replied wistfully that they didn't have a breadmaker.
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Piglet
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I don't think it would ever have occurred to me to try making my own bread, but D. took a fancy for it a couple of years ago and when somebody had bread-machines at half-price we bought one.
Up until now we'd only made the sort that bake in the machine, and they were fine, but it turns out that the ones you bake yourself are almost easier (fewer ingredients and hence fewer potential cock-ups).
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Piglet, do you have one of the clay baker thingees for the french loaf? There are a variety of types and they make a very nice crust. Mine is simply a long half-cylinder of clay and it works great.
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Huia
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I have a recipe for bread made with beer. The beer is waiting in the fridge, as it has been for a month or so, but I haven't got round to making it yet.
I tend to vent my frustrations in chopping vegetables for bacon hock soup. I have a 6 litre crockpot simmering away at the moment, most of which is going to be used to bribe a friend to climb up into my ceiling to see how damp the (now fixed ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) ) leak in the roof has left the fibreglass insulation. I live in fear of black mould.
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Piglet
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Piglet, do you have one of the clay baker thingees for the french loaf?
No - the recipe makes three 14" loaves, and we baked them side-by-side on an ordinary baking-sheet lined with parchment and sprinkled with whole-wheat flour (it was supposed to be cornmeal, but we didn't have any and decided that the flour would do, and it worked just fine).
Huia, I think your ham-hock soup would go very nicely with the bread - can you send a virtual bowlful over this way?
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Lothlorien
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Life here this year has been mostly of the new normal for us. However, the old normal broke through for a while at the weekend.
Miss M and her sister attended a vampire themed birthday sleepover and she slept over. Complete with some horrifying vampire makeup. I guess her mum must have been at the party too for a while. New normal requires evenings to be a tightly maintained schedule of food, drink and medication. If the cycle gets out of time, it has to be started over to ensure efficacy of medication. Once she's asleep, she's so tired she sleeps just fine.
New normal kicked in again on Sunday evening. She's back in hospital for several days for what we hope is the last session of the rather nasty chemo in this cycle. Then something else starts again.
Still, we are very grateful that doctors are happy with her progress. There have now been three children known to the family from hospital lost in the last five or so weeks. The last was the death of the not three year old daughter of an Olympic athlete. She was diagnosed at three months old with the same aggressive leukaemia as Miss M, but all treatments failed.
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Continued prayers for Miss M, and also for all the other leukemic patients thriving and lost. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Lothlorien
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Continued prayers for Miss M, and also for all the other leukemic patients thriving and lost.
Thanks Pete. We value those prayers and pray for you too.
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from here, too.
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Piglet
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What Pete and WW said.
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Indeed, same from here as well!
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And from us.
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Huia
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It's such a cruel disease. So good to hear about Miss M having some of her old normal life in spite of it.
Huia
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Prayers and loving good wishes for Miss M
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Miss M
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(Gidgee ... mulga ... macrocarpa ... lest I be told off for speaking in tongues)
Z, I don't think you'll ever be in danger of that.
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Lothlorien
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The joys of ALL! Miss M and her big sister are here for the weekend. Last night there were eyelashes in the hand basin.
She has now finished the fourth round of chemo and results so far are good. This was the worst round yet in many ways. There is a breathing space of three weeks to the next lot.
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Huia
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Oh Loth! Enjoy the weekend.
Prayers continue.
Despite being winter it hasn't rained here for over a week. I'm noticing particularly because I want to check that the leak in the roof has been fixed properly. also I have had a purple raincoat made for me and haven't had a chance to try it out.
On the other hand there are trees coming into blossom in town.
Huia
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What Huia said, Loth - have a great weekend!
If it's winter, why are your trees coming into blossom?
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Lothlorien
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If it's winter, why are your trees coming into blossom?
Sydney at least has a record breaking spell of warm weather, a few days out from winter. I had fan on last night in bedroom and was still hot. Birds are nesting, trees are blooming and we are hot! Mid twenties today.
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Crikey - if it's the mid-20s when it's nearly winter I shudder to think what it must be like in the summer!
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Possibly giggle quietly to myself but never make fun of you!
Well, maybe just a little bit...
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Fortunately, we put water tanks in a few years ago. After the rains earlier, they've been full, but we've had to start watering again. Very mild here today. Too pleasant to work, but I'll have to.
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Huia
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I was told today that the tree that's blossoming is an almond, I didn't think they grew this far south, but it is fairly sheltered by a buildingwhich is the "gentleman's Club, so there may be extra hot air coming from it ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Around 20c here today with a warm nor'wester but next week it's forecast to go down to 8c one day, with -4c overnight. Fortunately by then the bloke will have come and renewed all the catches on the aluminium window frames. My 1950s house doesn't have double glazing but I may bubble wrap some of the windows for extra warmth.
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Crikey - if it's the mid-20s when it's nearly winter I shudder to think what it must be like in the summer!
eta: I expect A Certain Fellow-Host Who Lives Somewhere Hot will be along in a minute to make fun of me ...
Lived. The only thing I regret about moving (well almost the only thing) is the Antarctic climes.
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Hey Zappa, are you going to the Dylan concert in Hamilton? I'd like to go to the one here, but there will be too many people.
It's hailing off and on here today with a cold wind and the people are still working down the end of the road. For all the comments your hear about roadworkers just leaning on their shovels you couldn't pay me enough to do that job.
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Hey Zappa, are you going to the Dylan concert in Hamilton? I'd like to go to the one here, but there will be too many people.
It's hailing off and on here today with a cold wind and the people are still working down the end of the road. For all the comments your hear about roadworkers just leaning on their shovels you couldn't pay me enough to do that job.
Huia
I was in Carterton today, where there were some extended power cuts over the weekend due to storms. One of the guys I was talking with said that the powerline guys were out and up the posts in the storm trying to get things up and going again - he echoed your sentiment!
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Huia
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We currently do not have any tickets on-sale for Bob Dylan.
Sigh.
On Sale from Wednesday (today) I think.
Happy Birthday Adam Pater and Happy Birthday me.
The forecast -5c frost didn't hapen today, for which many thanks to the wind, but it was so cold at bedtime I got the extra duvets down from storage and wore two hats to bed.
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A Happy Birthday to you Huia! May there be many more.
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Happy Birthday, Adam Pater and Huia.
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The forecast -5c frost didn't hapen today, for which many thanks to the wind, but it was so cold at bedtime I got the extra duvets down from storage and wore two hats to bed.
I'm jealous, Huia. Well perhaps I don't want -5°, but it's hot here. Forecast of 27° for Sydney today. That's ridiculous for the time of the year. The only thing which seems to recognise it's just on winter is the sunrise and set. They are at winter times, but the days are hot. I'd love a colder night.
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Happy birthday to AP & H, may the day enfold you gently, and lay you down with peace.
Studio storage floor is now finished, complete with stairs. And me unable to carry anything up to it.
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Lothlorien
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How about some of the grandsons?
Hope all is healing well. Have some experience here with son and ankles. Reconstruction of one some years ago by one surgeon. Then he had a nasty fall down fire stairs at work and did the other one in. A new surgeon who did a really good job, but while that was healing, the first one could not take the strain and went again. Redone by second surgeon.
When all that was over, we discovered major back problems hidden during little movement after ankle surgery. Two operations later, one by top neurosurgeon in Australia, and that is very, very slowly healing.
So please take care, even if lack of movement and length of time frustrates you.
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Yesterday after I had posted I decided that the day was too good to waste so I took myself off to Willowbank which is a place that has various native and endangered animals. It is now on a bus route which means it is fairly easily accessible to me (3 buses each way, but all run reasonably frequently). Last time I went the Asian otters were hiding and I was really disappointed, but this time they were visible for a short time. I also saw the takahe, I suspect because it was close to feeding time. The Arapawa Island goats I smelled way before I saw, while the kiwi had gone into hiding because their area was being fixed.
I bought a small packet of bird fool, which meant I was stalked by a pukeko (swamp hen) and a greedy bantam. It was a lovely day.
Today I went to school and there were a pair of mallards accompanied by 10 or so chicks on the playing field - they even stayed until inteval when the children fed them. Definitely out of season.
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I'm back on the Wellington-Wairarapa beat for work. The weather has been indescribable: today in Welly, overcast and gloomy; as I top the Rimutakas, the Wairarapa is sunny and glorious, if a bit cold at 9.30am, but up to 16C by lunchtime. The wind on the Rimutakas was horrendous, however, rocking the car around something terrible.
I'm still hoping the hospital will spring for a transporter device, a la Star Trek.
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After a sunny and mild few days, today is looking more like the bleak end of autumn. We have had B1.2 at home sick for the last few days, and B1, B3 & B4 have all been struggling with viruses. My 95 year old Mum, however, is hale and hearty.
I have just returned from a visit, where I discovered she has begun knitting coats for penguins in recovery after oil spills. She was very cross, as the peripheral neuropathy means her fingers won't always do what she wants them to do. She had unpicked the hot pink acrylic wool several times because it "wasn't quite right".
I did assure her that the penguins wouldn't notice a few mistakes... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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It is lovely to have some good news to report. Son with ankle and back problems as detailed in my reply to Banner Lady has just come from neurosurgeon. No more visits till November.
The surgeon has been concerned about the pace and amount of healing of artificial joint in back. It did not seem to have attached properly. Son was allowed 10 minutes in pool twice a week and a short easy walk each morning.
Surgeon now thinks it has attached and has given the go ahead for light rehab to actually start. A bit of physio too. He has to be careful not to overdo things, but he follows such instructions meticulously.
This is very good news.
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