It has been a while...
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stellar_muddleSo, since Labour weekend:
Labour weekend: Fri to Mon morning Folk festival. I think it worked out to ~9 hours of singing in total + some very good concerts and some occasional sleeping. Picked up 2 CDs from groups I liked - The Jimies* and Catgut and Steel. Got home round lunch and with assistance from many wonderful people (S,S,T,K and R) there were 2 loads done and the majority of stuff was over. And much food and good company in the evening, hosted by R&S&A. And then the first night in the new place.
* Yay to very good "celtization" of Eleanor Rigby.
The following week was filled with the usual paid work in the day and house cleaning and shifting remnants of stuff in the evenings. That weekend, on the Sat, we did the last cleaning and gardening and formally surrendered keys etc for the old place.Sweet-off Local big fireworks display in the evening (if I remember correctly - Ed: nope). Sun was unpacking. Kitchen and books seemed highest priority.
This past week has been more unpacking on average. Thurs was spent in town at the fireworks over the Harbour. Many big sparkly explosions.
This weekend: Fri evening much late night company and conversation at R's for his birthday drinkies. Sat: more tidying than unpacking. Much fun at M's steam-punk birthday party. Many quite cool costumes. Sun: more unpacking and tidying and rearranging.
Dug out the embroidery, so finally able to get back to working on the blackworked coif. All the way across at the top now.
Think that covers things.
Labour weekend: Fri to Mon morning Folk festival. I think it worked out to ~9 hours of singing in total + some very good concerts and some occasional sleeping. Picked up 2 CDs from groups I liked - The Jimies* and Catgut and Steel. Got home round lunch and with assistance from many wonderful people (S,S,T,K and R) there were 2 loads done and the majority of stuff was over. And much food and good company in the evening, hosted by R&S&A. And then the first night in the new place.
* Yay to very good "celtization" of Eleanor Rigby.
The following week was filled with the usual paid work in the day and house cleaning and shifting remnants of stuff in the evenings. That weekend, on the Sat, we did the last cleaning and gardening and formally surrendered keys etc for the old place.
This past week has been more unpacking on average. Thurs was spent in town at the fireworks over the Harbour. Many big sparkly explosions.
This weekend: Fri evening much late night company and conversation at R's for his birthday drinkies. Sat: more tidying than unpacking. Much fun at M's steam-punk birthday party. Many quite cool costumes. Sun: more unpacking and tidying and rearranging.
Dug out the embroidery, so finally able to get back to working on the blackworked coif. All the way across at the top now.
Think that covers things.
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Date: 2009-11-10 08:43 pm (UTC)(the gory details)
It is currently being washed once every 2 weeks (shower at the new place is erratic/HOT!!!!, and the sink is annoying). This involves using a mix of about a teaspoon or two of baking soda and a plastic pudding bowl worth of water on the scalp and conditioner down the main length as the "shampoo" bit, rinse out, then pour a mix of cider vinegar and water over the hair, then coat in conditioner again, let sit for the usual time, finger comb to get out tangles, and rinse out with cold water. Air dry and if the ends/bottem half are getting dry, rub about a tiny little finger tip of coconut oil (the cheaparse stuff you get from the asian grocery stores for a couple bucks for a bottle should last a couple years) before it is completely dry.
The conditioner is the cheap Homebrand stuff you get from Countdown/Woolworths. A bunch of the websites I have seen seem to reccomend much conditioner for curly/wavy hair.
If it needs vague holding in place/smoothing down, aloe vera gel (same stuff as you put on sunburn) works well.
That make sense?