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How much does it cost to travel in a motorhome full time
I'm sorry I can't give you a real answer because everyone's budget and lifestyle differs.
I read somewhere that you can take the cost of your accommodation for the night, in whatever country you are in and multiply it by three. This will give you a reasonable guide to how much per day to allow.
We track our expenditure daily, and to give you an idea of how much it costs us to live on the road full time, I'll update you each month with our finances.
Our goal of our all up costs is around $110NZD per day. This includes unplanned repairs and replacements, so our goal is to sit around $80 to $90 a day.
See our monthly averages here.
Making the Decision
When the decision to live on the open road was finally made, it seemed everything else fell into place.
Originally we had arranged to have three months off work, and decided that we could rent our house out while we were away.
House Sitters
We usually had house sitters, the wonderful John and Judy. We covered the cost of power. They used things like condiments out of the pantry and supplied their own food.
We had one month of paid leave, and two months without pay. Having house sitters in wasn't going to offset our expenses along the road this time, so we decided to rent out our home.
Renting our Home
We were fortunate that a fabulous couple rented our home while they had their own house built. To accommodate our tenants, we moved out earlier than anticipated, but this also helped us save money before our three month road trip along the Southern Scenic Route.
Not that our bank account instantly filled with money, but it gradually built up. We could better envision what a coffee and sandwich would buy- two lunches worth of groceries, or paying for a night at a campground is the equivalent of 25 kilometers worth of diesel.
In the past ten years or so, we have been away in our motorhome (or previous caravans) most weekends. So including work we were hardly ever at home. The only people who used our land line to call us were my Mum and those Sales and Survey People. So we got rid of our landline about five years ago and got cellphones with plans that fitted our lifestyle.
Goal and Focus
Our focus was clear- live a simple life, mostly making our own meals. Our goal is to be happy and we continually monitor this at regular intervals.
Tracking Expenditure
The New Zealand Motorhome Association (NZMCA) put out a request for volunteers to complete a budget of their 'on the road expenses' for three months. We applied to do that and the papers duly arrived.
We put our rates and insurance on to Direct Debit.
Setting up our Finances
We took accounting and legal advice, to make sure we set everything up correctly and had no glitches. I won't go into the details, because the circumstances would be different for each individual.
Medical Expenses
New Zealand has a good, but overloaded health system. We don't have medical insurance, but if we need to go private, we have decided to pay out of our savings.
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Teaching is one of my greatest joys – to be able to help motivated students grow as musicians is endlessly fascinating and rewarding. My goal as a teacher is to help students become their own best teachers, and use that skill to strive to ever-greater heights.
Scott Flavin is lecturer in violin performance and chamber music and Resident Conductor for The Henry Mancini Institute at The Frost School of Music.
In addition to his extensive teaching, he enjoys an incredibly versatile musical career. He is a highly sought-after concertmaster, serving since 2002 as concertmaster of Florida Grand Opera, and having appeared in that role with major conductors and performers, including such diverse artists as Luciano Pavarotti, Lena Horne, and Itzhak Perlman. Equally active in chamber music, Flavin is the first violinist of the internationally-acclaimed Bergonzi String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at the Frost School of Music, and Permanent Resident Quartet at the Pine Mountain Music Festival. He is also violinist/violist of PULSE Trio, who regularly performs across the country and around the world, premiering new works and regularly receiving glowing reviews by publications such as the New York Times and Washington Post.
Flavin holds several important positions as a conductor, including Resident Conductor with The Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra and Music Director of the Miami Mozarteum Orchestra. He has appeared on the podium with artists including Chick Corea, Bobby McFerrin, and Joseph Silverstein. He has conducted for various festivals, and the nationally-broadcast "Jazz and the Philharmonic" for PBS television.
He is also an active arranger, composer, and writer. He has written two plays, The Beethoven Project and The Mozart Dialogues, which have been presented in festivals across the country. His arrangements for string quartet are popular, having been heard often on radio (Performance Today) and around the country in concert, as well as recorded by the Bergonzi String Quartet. His composition Fragment(s) was premiered in 2017 at the Mainly Mozart Festival, and other works have been performed on radio and in concert.
As a recording artist, he is constantly in demand. His recordings include chamber music on the Naxos, M&W, and Centaur labels, and commercial recordings on Sony, EMI, and Warner Brothers, including appearances on over a dozen Grammy Award-winning albums, with such stars such as Placido Domingo, Michael Jackson, and Shakira, He has also performed on television several times for MTV Unplugged and the Video Music Awards.
Flavin and his wife, Margaret Donaghue Flavin, are directors of the Blue Ridge Chamber Music Festival in Blue Ridge, Georgia. Founded by the Flavins in 2013, this summer festival presents international level classical music in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains. They also maintain a music publishing company, M&W Music, distributing works for strings and winds, as well as supporting contemporary composers.
Scott Flavin grew up in Boston, where he received his early musical training, and then attended the Eastman School of Music. He was a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for seven years, and concertmaster of Miami City Ballet for six years.
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My client, an established meat manufacturer is currently recruiting for a Boning Hall Manager for a brand new site they have in the Northamptonshire area. This is a brand new role and the individual who steps into this will have a fantastic opportunity to help grow the business long term.
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- To supervise production so that Stock is correctly controlled, used and rotated including packaging and completing weekly stock takes.
- To ensure the HACCP process controls are monitored and adhered to, in-process tests are carried out and records completed correctly to a standard fit to meet the requirements of the BRC, MHS and customer audits which is set out in the HACCP Manual.
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- Strong team management skills, having managed a team of over 20 staff including grievances, appraisals, coaching and mentoring.
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Interactions between simulant vitrified nuclear wastes and high pH solutions: a natural analogue approach
Mann, Colleen; Thorpe, Clare; Milodowski, Antoni E.; Field, Lorraine P.; Shaw, Richard P.; Boast, Luke; Hand, Russell; Hyatt, Neil C.; Provis, John L.; Corkhill, Claire L.. 2017 Interactions between simulant vitrified nuclear wastes and high pH solutions: a natural analogue approach. MRS Advances, 2 (12). 669-674. https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2017.59Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)
This study details the characterization of a glass sample exposed to hyperalkaline water and calcium-rich sediment for an extended time period (estimated as 2 - 70 years) at a lime (CaO) waste site in the UK. We introduce this site, known as Peak Dale, in reference to its use as a natural analogue for nuclear waste glass dissolution in the high pH environment of a cementitious engineered barrier of a geological disposal facility. In particular, a preliminary assessment of alteration layer chemistry and morphology is described and the initiation of a long-term durability assessment is outlined.
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Archaeologists in Italy have discovered what may be a rare sacred text in the lost Etruscan language that is likely to yield rich details about Etruscan worship of a god or goddess.
The lengthy text is inscribed on a large sandstone slab that was embedded in the foundations of a monumental Italian temple where it had been buried for more than 2,500 years, the researchers said.
"This is probably going to be a sacred text, and will be remarkable for telling us about the early belief system of a lost culture that is fundamental to western traditions," said archaeologist Gregory Warden, co-director and principal investigator of the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project, which made the discovery.
The slab, weighing about 500 pounds (227 kg) and nearly four feet tall by more than two feet wide, has at least 70 legible letters and punctuation marks, Warden, professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, US, said in a statement.
Scholars in the field predict the stele as such slabs are called, will yield a wealth of new knowledge about the lost culture of the Etruscans who lived in the first millennium BC.
The Etruscan civilization once ruled Rome and influenced Romans in everything from religion to government to art to architecture.
Considered one of the most religious people of the ancient world, Etruscan life was permeated by religion, and ruling magistrates also exercised religious authority.
At one time it would have been displayed as an imposing and monumental symbol of authority, Warden said.
"We hope to make inroads into the Etruscan language," Warden said.
"Long inscriptions are rare, especially one this long, so there will be new words that we have never seen before, since it is not a funerary text," Warden noted.
In two decades of digging, Mugello Valley Archaeological Project has unearthed objects about Etruscan worship, beliefs, gifts to divinities, and discoveries related to the daily lives of elites and non-elites, including workshops, kilns, pottery and homes.
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Max Krimmel
International Award-winning, Contemporary Alabaster Turnings
"I was two years old when my family moved from Pennsylvania to Denver in 1950. I've lived in Colorado ever since. I attended public schools (South High, 1966) and later the University of Denver, Colorado State University and University of Colorado, Boulder. Sometimes I think my attraction to craft began "in-utero". Even the earliest of my childhood projects always contained an extra something, more paint, additional details, or two or three versions of the same project trying to make it better. An early boost came in 1960 when I brought home trophies for First, Second and Third place in a model car contest. I haven't swept a competition since.
In high school I became interested in building guitars. By the time I graduated in 1966 I had sold two of them and quit the last job I've had. So at seventeen I was a professional luthier. I worked out of my parents' basement until 1970 when I moved to Boulder and put the guitar shop in my living room. By 1972 I had bought a house in the mountains near Boulder with space for a real shop (or a real living room, depending on how you look at it). By 1982 my guitar clients included Jerry Jeff Walker, Stephen Stills, David Bromberg, Bob Shane (of the Kingston Trio) Robert McIntee, Spencer Bohern, and Colorado favorites Carla Sciaky, Mary Flower, Bonnie Carol and Chuck Pyle. In 1979 one of my guitars was included in the Contemporary Musical Instruments show at the Smithsonian Institution.
The lathe entered my life in 1972 when a friend asked to store one in my shop. My early woodturnings were made of scraps from the guitar business. I wasn't trying to sell them but one was on exhibit at the Boulder Center for the Visual Arts in 1972. In 1982 I stopped making guitars. I had developed my skills to the point where I could no longer tell if I was improving and didn't feel I was adding anything to the field. I spun my wheels for a bit, went back to school (CU – Fine Art) and got serious about my woodturning. I might have stayed in woodturning for a while but for a chance introduction to alabaster turning in 1986.
Alabaster was immediately attractive and the field was wide open. I entered the first International Turned Objects Show in 1988 and had five pieces accepted, two of wood, three of alabaster. I had no idea of the prestige of the show or that my work was that good. In 1989 I wrote an article for Fine Woodworking magazine about alabaster turning. From 1987 until the present I have taught alabaster turning workshops all across the country. I believe that nearly all contemporary alabaster turning can be traced either to the article, to the workshops I have conducted, or to my website (www.maxkrimmel.com).
In 1999 one of my alabaster turnings was displayed at Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery and another one at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Then in 2002 one of my early woodturnings was shown at the Renwick in the Woodturning in North America show.
I have no idea what may be next. Alabaster is still challenging and I am still getting better at it."
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He was waiting for me at the airport early this morning despite his having had but a few hours of sleep. Due to my flight having been delayed which resulted in my arriving an hour later than scheduled, we had to take the bus back to Ennis since his ride to the airport left him waiting for me alone.
By now, the flight to Shannon seems more of a commute than a sojourn to a foreign country for vacation. Having made the journey multiple times in the past year, I see Ennis as more of the second home I visit after my 'business trips' to the States. I certainly have gotten to know many people in this small town which is almost more than the people I know back in my Austin home.
Had I been better at tracking my miles on my frequent flyer card, I would have had more free flights. A valuable, albeit costly, lesson I learned was that even though one airline (in this case, Aer Lingus) states they are affiliated with the carrier I frequently use (United Airlines) does not mean the miles are credited towards my frequent flyer program. Combined with the issue of not submitting paperwork for a new card after getting married cost me precious miles I could have been using now. Regardless, soon I will have enough for another 'free' flight.
The weather was warmer than expected. Though I have seen no rain all day, I expect it will arrive sooner rather than later. This is, after all, Ireland where the weather can and does change within a few moments and one must be prepared for any situation. Since I was expecting cooler weather, I opted for my waterproof boots and nothing else for shoes. My taking more would have resulted in having to check in my suitcase which was not a desirable option.
We arrived home and dropped off my little carry-on suitcase before heading out to the coffeehouse. Conor was not there today but a few new faces were present behind the counter which doubles as a kitchen. I decided on a flat white and fruit scone (which almost always means currant in both the Scotland and Ireland) whilst my boyfriend chose a cappuccino. When going out to eat or sit at a coffeehouse is infrequent, it becomes more enjoyable as it is now a treat.
After coffee and a short walk, we returned home where we slept for about an hour before going to have a pint of Guinness at Knox's. There we spent an hour and a half talking about life and our future together and revising plans as needed. Afterwards, we went to The Poet's Corner at the Old Ground Hotel for a late lunch and another pint of Guinness where I was glad to see vacant our 'usual' spot in the back.
Another long nap took place after our meal, this time it having been three hours long. More walking for one more pint of Guinness at a small somewhat hidden bar across the street from Old Ground Hotel and our first day was drawing to a close. It was a long and memorable day at my second home with more opportunities for making memories yet to come.


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EAGLE POINT, Ore. — Monday was a day for Eagle Point High School students to support one another, remember, and grieve. On Saturday they lost three of their classmates—Luciana Tellez, Gisselle Montano, and Esmeralda Nava.
School administrators said that students were sharing both comfort and tears. However, what they left behind when they went home today was a school decorated in their best thoughts, memories, images and prayers—depicted in hundreds of chalk inscriptions all across the school grounds.
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You might remember that I recently posted a photo of the hulls on the almonds on my single tree as they started to split. This post is about the process that I discovered I need to do with an almond harvest! A huge thanks goes out to the AG school in our area: U.C. Davis!
To remind you, here is a photo of the tree as the almonds were ripening and starting to split the hulls…
I went out to my tree last weekend, and thought to myself, "Self, we should pick these now. The squirrels have not gotten to them yet!" Boy was I right! Just an FYI: You need to start harvesting nuts when 75% of the tree have hulls that are split.
The U.C. Davis document I discovered was how to harvest nut fruits. If you have questions, you can get to their site with the information on this by clicking Harvesting and Storing Your Home Orchard's Nut Crop. This article is chock full of information.
So, I had pulled all these almonds off the tree, hulls and all, by either shaking the tree, knocking on the trunk, or just releasing the nut from where it was. Here is what I took from the tree. Notice the difference from the first photo…
I let them sit overnight, and then looked for what to do next, which is when I found the link to the U.C. Davis document on harvesting nuts in your home orchard. The first thing that this let me know to do was to immediately remove the hulls. I ran into the kitchen and what I thought amount to about 30 almonds turned out to be about 65! Not bad for a first crop from a 5 year old tree! So, I hulled, and hulled and hulled!
The next step was to lay the almonds on a screen or another flat surface to dry. Even after coming off the tree, they are just not ready! I did not know that, and we even tried one that tasted pretty good. Drop the number now down 64 almonds. What I did next was take a piece of parchment paper, which I placed on a cookie sheet, and then scattered the nuts in a single layer.
The suggestion from U.C. Davis is to continually move the nuts around to ensure even drying.
I stirred the nuts for 4 days, and then I bagged them and tossed them into the freezer. The U.C. Davis site indicates that this will kill off any egg larvae that might be inside the nut meat. And, I can store them in the freezer for up to 2 years! While they will not last this long, if you grow your own, you can store them at room temperature for up to eight months after they come out of the freezer!
Here is what they look like today before going into the freezer for a few days…We do, after all, want to eat them!
Have you ever harvested a nut? I would love for you to share your story with me! Please do comment with your story!
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As my new release hits the virtual shelves I feel the need to clarify an important difference with this book aside from the fact that it is contemporary vs. my usual historicals. Rush to the Altar is classified under the general market, contemporary romance NOT inspirational. It is a fun, "sweet" read in the vein of a Stephanie Plum (by Janet Evanovich) book or movie. If it was a movie, I doubt it would be PG13, probably PG. There is no violence, one kissing scene that might be a little hot – although certainly no more intense than some of the passionate scenes in my other, inspirational books, drinks at a fund raiser and a couple of light curse words from a secondary character. It does have an endearing heroine who is trying to get her life back together after her husband's death, a hunky man of upright character for the hero and how they handle life's curveballs – together. It's meant to be fun and entertaining with humorous and poignant scenes (think Hallmark movie) – not life changing – lol! Sometimes even authors need a break from intense work and I enjoyed my journey with Maddie and Jake very much.
I hope you will give it a try but if you only read very conservative Christian books then you may want to pass on this one. For those of you that enjoy a sweet romance that makes you laugh one minute and cry the next, this one is for you.
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Great Article on Harris Tweed!
The Tweed jacket has become synonymous with the 'English Country Gentleman'. Ideal to be worn on Autumn and Winter days with jeans and a checked shirt but there is a long, romantic history to this unique cloth. The hard work and craftsmanship that goes into producing this coveted cloth is something very special indeed.
Harris Tweed was born in 1846 when The Dowager Countess of Dunmore, asked a crofter on the remote island of Harris to reproduce the Murray family tartan in tweed. The resultant fabric was like no other, dyed, spun, woven and finished entirely by hand.
Lady Dunmore, with her connections was able to establish a thriving market for the fabric in London and far beyond. The tweed was established firmly as a status symbol and worn amongst Queen Victoria's royal circle and the aristocracy of the time.
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"Puttin' on the Ritz at The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco"
By Robert W. Bone
Cars, the Caribbean and Costa Rica captured the attention of BATW members attending the June meeting at the luxurious Ritz-Carlton hotel in San Francisco.
Attendees learned much about these subjects, such as that the diminutive Fiat 500 automobile, now sold in this country, is manufactured in Poland; there's a place in Costa Rica where you can see both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the same time; and on the small island of Montserrat, travelers can take a lava tour to inspect a live volcano.
Speakers included Cheryl Andrews, who heads her own PR firm in Miami, Alejandro Castro, marketing director of the tourism board of Costa Rica, and Scott D. Brown, media relations manager for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
Andrews represents several tourism locations in the Caribbean. Castro answered many questions about Costa Rica, which he described as "the longest-lasting democracy in Latin America."
"We have no bull fighting in Costa Rica," he said. "Instead, you can see bull riding by the campesinos (rural residents). "It's pretty wild!"
Following the meeting, Brown led an inspection of two Chrysler-made cars parked in front of the hotel, a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Fiat 500. Some members also visited the new wine tasting room off the hotel's main lobby.
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The Legends Surrounding "Silent Night"
"Silent Night" is celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2018. Over the years all sorts of legends have grown up surrounding the world-famous Christmas carol.
- Silent Night Memorial Chapel © Tourismus Salzburg GmbH / no name
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Joseph Mohr wrote the words to "Silent Night" in 1816 and Franz Xaver Gruber added the music in 1818. But why was the song arranged for two solo voices and choir accompanied by guitar? After all, the guitar at that time was seen as more of a coarse "pub" instrument and not suitable for use in church.
The imaginative explanation is the story about the mouse. The poor creature was supposedly so hungry that it chewed through the bellows of the Oberndorf church organ. Which is why the instrument was unplayable on Christmas Eve and a guitar had to be substituted. False: The truth is that the organ was indeed playable but in need of repair. The following year the organ builder Carl Mauracher came to Oberndorf from the Zillertal to inspect the instrument. Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber could also have decided ahead of time to arrange the song to be sung with guitar accompaniment because they wanted to sing it directly in front of the nativity scene immediately following the church service.
Did Joseph Mohr do business with poachers?
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Joseph Mohr's first position as a young priest was in Hintersee, SalzburgerLand. The assistant priest was known for his compassion and helpfulness and always had an open ear and heart for the needy townspeople.
No fewer than 272 inhabitants of Hintersee supplemented their income at the time through illegal hunting. Even today the story is told that Mohr purchased meat from poachers in order to donate it to poor families with many children. Where the vicar got the money for the "forbidden" meat is unclear, as he scarcely owned anything himself. It has been suggested that he perhaps "borrowed" the money from the offering bag. Be that as it may, the story has it that Mohr was caught and reported to the police, but he never had to serve a prison sentence.
Was "Silent Night" composed by Michael Haydn?
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The names of the authors of "Silent Night" – Joseph Mohr as lyricist and Franz Xaver Gruber as composer – were for many years buried in oblivion. In order to determine the true authorship of the song, in 1854 the Royal Chapel Choir in Berlin sent a formal enquiry to the Archabbey St. Peter in Salzburg. It was suspected that the actual composer was Michael Haydn, who had close ties to St. Peter. The enquiry was presumably sent from Berlin to Franz Xaver Gruber in Hallein by way of Gruber's son, who at the time was a choir boy at St. Peter.
Gruber subsequently wrote a letter entitled "Authentic Origins of the Composition of the Christmas Song Silent Night! Holy Night!". In this document, Gruber describes how the song came to be written: In 1816 the priest Joseph Mohr wrote the lyrics in the form of a poem. Two years later in Oberndorf he made the acquaintance of Joseph Gruber, who was working there as a musician. In the afternoon of Christmas Eve 1818, Gruber composed the melody and following the Christmas mass that evening the two of them gave the premiere performance of "Silent Night".
Should "Silent Night" be sung only on December 24th?
- Weihnachten mit der Familie © Landal GreenParks GmbH
Truth content: between 0% and 100%As is usually the case with rituals, most customs have their strict rules. There are various views about when the "correct" time is to sing "Silent Night". Even people who are concerned with traditional customs do not always agree.
In most countries and cultures, "Silent Night" can be heard throughout the entire pre-Christmas season coming from the radio, and people are constantly singing or humming the melody. In Alpine regions, however, some people still follow the unwritten rule that "Silent Night" is to be sung only on December 24th.
Was Joseph Mohr's skull exhumed?
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The mortal remains of Joseph Mohr were buried at the cemetery in Wagrain – but not his skull. How did this happen? During his entire lifetime Mohr resisted having portraits done of him, which is why not a single picture of Mohr exists. In 1912 the sculptor and priest Joseph Mühlbacher wanted to create a memorial to Mohr and Gruber, for which he did, in fact have Mohr's skull exhumed.
The grave in Wagrain was located and the skull removed. After the memorial was completed, however, the skull was not returned to the Wagrain cemetery. It was stored until the construction of the Silent Night Memorial Chapel in Oberndorf, where it was then embedded in the wall. At the foot of the hill where the Silent Night Chapel stands is a cast of Mühlbacher's relief. However, even this likeness of Mohr presumably bears little resemblance to him: in 1912 the technology was not advanced to the point that a realistic reconstruction of the skull would have been possible.
The top "Silent Night" events of 2018
Opening of the Silent Night Museum Hallein:
The world-famous Silent Night Museum will reopen in 2018 (Attention: It is closed until then!).
Hallein Silent Night Museum
27 September 2018, 2 p.m.
Special exhibition in the Salzburg Museum: SILENT NIGHT 200 – History. Message. Presence. Salzburg Museum 29 September 2018 to 03 February 2019
Stage play "Silent Night Story" in the Felsenreitschule Salzburg: Felsenreitschule Salzburg Premiere: 24 November 2018
Dedication of the Gruber Organ in the local parish church of Hallein: Mass and supporting programme with organ concert. Stadtpfarrkirche Hallein 25 November 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Salzburg Advent Singing 2018 "Silent Night" in the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg:
Performances from 30 November 2018 (premiere) to 16 December 2018. Ticketservice Salzburger Adventsingen
Special exhibition in the Schlossmuseum Linz: Christmas singing
200 years "Silent Night! Holy Night!" | 135 years "Es wird scho glei dumper" –
Linz Schlossmuseum | 1 Dec. 2018 to 2 Feb. 2019
Music evening "Silent Night! Holy Night!" The SteudlTENN is a 700-year-old barn in the Tirolean village of Uderns in which theatre and other events are held.
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• 3 Tbsp. horseradish (more or less if you like)
• 4tbsp honey
• 1 tsp. lemon juice (about ½ lemon squeezed in)
• 1/2 tsp. hot sauce, like Tabasco (optional)
DIRECTIONS: Mix all together and serve
• 1 cup ketchup
• 3 Tbsp. horseradish (more or less if you like)
• 4tbsp honey
• 1 tsp. lemon juice (about ½ lemon squeezed in)
• 1/2 tsp. hot sauce, like Tabasco (optional)
For a really great shrimp cocktail, you want to go with large shrimp. I use a 21-25 or 15-16 count, which means there are (21-25) shrimp per pound. But them deveined and easy peel but uncooked. Whether they're peeled or not already doesn't matter. If they're not peeled, you can either peel them while raw or you can cook them and then peel them. Either way, make sure that you leave the tail on. Easy peel shrimp have had the peel cut down the outside to get out the vein and then there is a cut around the tail. This makes it easy to remove the peel while leaving the tail intact. You want the tail because it makes a nice presentation and acts as a handle for your shrimp.
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BBQ CHICKEN KABOBS with BACON and PINEAPPLE BBQ
Prep Time 15 mins/ Cook Time 15 mins /Total Time 30 mins
Chicken Kabobs with Bacon and Pineapple recipe with tender chicken grilled with pineapple and bacon then slathered with your favorite BBQ sauce. These are the ultimate BBQ chicken kabobs and are perfect for your next cookout!
Servings: 6 -8 2 large chicken breasts cut into 1 1/2" - 2" chunks, salted lightly
1 1/2 cups of your favorite BBQ sauce
1 lb bacon cut into 1"- 1 1/2" segments
fresh pineapple cut into 2" chunks
- Combine chicken pieces with 1 cup of the BBQ sauce and marinate for 2-3 hours. (This step can be omitted if you're pressed for time!)
- Microwave bacon for 2-5 minutes, depending on the thickness of your bacon and how crispy you like it. Let bacon cool slightly.
- Using wooden skewers previously soaked in water for at least 1 hour (or metal skewers!) thread chicken, bacon pieces and pineapple in a pattern. The larger pieces of pineapple are easier to skewer. Fold thin bacon pieces over in half and arrange next to the chicken, being careful to not put the bacon pieces too close to anything else, so that they have space to heat up properly to cook.
- Grill kabobs until chicken reaches 155-160 degrees F. Slather remaining 1/2 cup of BBQ sauce on kabobs when they're nearly cooked. Cover loosely with foil and let sit for 5-10 minutes before
- Grill kabobs until chicken reaches 155-160 degrees F. Slather remaining 1/2 cup of BBQ sauce on kabobs when they're nearly cooked. Cover loosely with foil and let sit for 5-10 minutes before
Prep time 20 minutes /Cook time 18 minutes /Total time 38 minutes
Tender flaky scones with fresh strawberries throughout and a dreamy glaze!
Serves: 12
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons chilled unsalted butter cut into 1/4-inch cubes
12 small strawberries hulled and diced
3/4 cup half and half
For the glaze
3 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup half and half
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Add butter and cut in with a pastry blender (or your hands) until mixture resembles crumbs.
- Toss in strawberries and coat lightly with the flour mixture. Add half and half and fold together gently until the mixture just begins to come together and form a soft dough. (Do not knead or over mix the dough.)
- Turn dough out onto a floured surface and pat into a 1-inch thick rectangle. With a sharp knife, cut the rectangle into 6 squares, then cut the squares on the diagonal to form 12 triangles. Place scones on prepared baking sheet and bake 16-18 minutes or until cooked through and golden.
- Place a sheet of parchment on a work surface, then place a cooling rack over top of parchment. Remove scones from pan to cooling rack. Cool about 10 minutes.
- In the meantime, make glaze by whisking together powdered sugar, vanilla, and half and half until smooth. (If glaze is too thick, add a bit more cream. If it's too thin, add more powdered sugar.)
- Generously drizzle scones with the glaze. (Glaze will firm up when scones are completely cool.) Eat and enjoy!


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It's been 2 years since we opened our doors. The support we've received from our community on a daily basis over the past 2 years is more than anything we could have ever imagined. This past Saturday, we celebrated this milestone by hosting a celebratory holi-versary party to share in our collective achievements through the year.
Black Tusk Athletics was built to create a community of like-minded people; people who like to have fun, work hard, be better than they were the yesterday. This continues to hold true two years later. All the people we've met along the way who share this same mindset is a testament to this. We work hard everyday, we support each other everyday. With that being said, we'd like to share a few kind words from clients that have walked through our doors at some point in the last 2 years. Our hearts are full and we thank you all.
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YARD is a meditation on conflict, set in the slaughter-yard of a warring family of butchers. It examines how brutal acts, ostensibly to end a civil war, can instead ensure its continuance into the next generation.
The first draft of YARD was written in a frontline town where Kaite O'Reilly was working as a volunteer relief aid worker during the war in former Yugoslavia.
It was co-winner of the 1998 Peggy Ramsay Award.
Images are from the Maxim Gorki production of "Schlachthaus".
First production
October 1998
The Bush Theatre
Director: Julie-Anne Robinson
Writer: Kaite O'Reilly
Cast: Peter Dineen, Dawn Bradfield, Kate Binchy, Ged McKenna, Aidan McArdle
Published by
The Bush Theatre (October, 1998)
"… A scathing eloquence…gives notice of a strong, fresh comic talent."
The Independent
Paul Taylor
Friday, October 9, 1998
You can't say they didn't warn you. Yard, the new play by Kaite O'Reilly, comes with a caution: "Not recommended for vegetarians." Set in the ailing knackery of a dysfunctional family of Irish exiles in Birmingham, it would at times test the stomach of the most committed carnivore.
Running up a presumably prodigious butcher's bill, Julie-Anne Robinson's production does not go in for the euphemism of replicas. Dead flesh dangles from hooks and is slapped, business-like, on blocks. The queasiest moment , producing a lot of defensive audience grinning, comes when the mother flourishes a dish of glimmering calves' testicles, mimes the gelding process, then briskly chops them up with a cleaver. And there was I, not even able to cross my legs, since, thanks to the Bush's uniquely uncomfortable seating, my feet were at that point trapped under the bottom of the woman on the ledge below me.
It's worth overcoming any squeamishness, though, for Yard, which, as the, er, joint winner of the 1998 Peggy Ramsay Award, gives notice of a strong, fresh comic talent. The play discovers the Catholic Rourke family in crisis. Supermarkets are swallowing up their kind of small business and the decline accelerates when the boss's treacherous, scavenging brother (Ged McKenna) decides to makes some money by letting the donkey sanctuary people in to "liberate" the family pet from the "death camp". The only way they can survive the negative publicity is by winning the Mastercraft Butcher of the Year Award. Yet the only available candidate is the firm's raw recruit (Aidan MaArdle) who, at the start, can barely cut the meat on his plate.
Da, magnificently played by Peter Dineen, is a great bull of a man who originally wanted to rear animals rather than slay them. The embittered wife (Kate Binchy), who lives on memories of what he was like before he took to beating her, has worked alongside him for 10 years without directly addressing a word to him. Now their daughter (Dawn Bradfield) is pregnant from someone anonymous encounter. O'Reilly's achievement is to present this world in vividly colliding perspective. At one moment, you see butchery through the eyes of Da, who likens himself to the "Creator's opposite" in some elevated reverse of Genesis, scorning vacuum-packed supermarket meat as "void of a sense of having lived". The next, you view it from the level of one whose privilege it is to wash the shit out of the third intestine of a carcass.
The script has a scathing eloquence: "Wouldn't give you the drip off the end of their nose, but if it has four legs they'd fucking marry it," is how animal rights activists are tenderly typified at one point. True, the overall shape of the play is not as satisfying as the pleasures that can be derived scene by scene. But O'Reilly is a talent to watch, as many punters will remark over their post-show lentil burgers.
"…The talent that Kaite O'Reilly shows is unusual: bloody, poetic, rhetorical, full of violent emotion, but civilised and savage. It is very much like Jacobean drama – but modern and in microcosm… emotional savagery…YARD's virtues are so unusual, you can easily see why the judges (of the Peggy Ramsay Award) chose it."
The Financial Times
"…astonishing…Irish lyricism and some imaginative writing about apprenticeship, love, family feuds and betrayal and you have strong theatrical meat…"
Daily Mail
Friday October 9, 1998
Yard is an astonishing debut play of Kaite O'Reilly, a tense drama in a family butchery threatening with the chop.
Anyone who's read Alina Reyes' erotic novel The Butcher, or seen the film of Patrick McCabe's The Butcher boy, will get part of the picture.
Add Irish lyricism and some imaginative writing about apprenticeship, love, family feuds and betrayal, and you have some strong theatrical meat. Strictly not for vegetarians, in Julie-Anne Robinson's truly offal and well acted production.
"O'Reilly is clearly a writer with promise. She has an ear for lyrical dialogue, a strong sense of setting, and a vital humour."
Daily Telegraph
Tuesday October 6, 1998
Kate Basset
A Warning: don't go to Kaite O'Reilly's new play with the intention of noshing afterwards on, say, a juicy steak or spare ribs. If you're squeamish about raw meat, you'll be feeling distinctly queasy by the final curtain because Yard - which is joint winner (no pun intended) of this year's Peggy Ramsay Award for new plays - is set in an abattoir.
It depicts a love-starved family of butchers who hack up animal carcasses while looking increasingly ready to slit each other's throats.
The slaughterhouse - designed by Nathalie Gibbs - ably combines industrial minimalism and menace, with its slash plastic curtains, gridiron drains, and hooks and choppers hanging overhead.
Directed by Julie-Ann Robinson (apparently a vegetarian), the cast's constant work with flopping slabs of flesh is both fascinatingly naturalistic and humorously gruesome. Finoulla Rourke, the butchers daughter (Dawn Bradfield), perfunctorily swills bloody water across the concrete floor in the very scene where she touchingly, briefly becomes the sweetheart of her father's new apprentice (Aidan McArdle). Meanwhile, Finoulla's Ma (Kate Binchy), brooding murderously on her husband's domestic brutality, coldly slices up some beast's flayed testes. This had some spectators visibly wincing.
O'Reilly is clearly a writer with promise. She has an ear for lyrical dialogue, a strong sense of setting, and a vital humour.
Peter Dineen looks perfect as the master butcher: a great hunk of fatty muscle in a vest, with bristling hair like some horrid prize pig.Scrawny Ged McKenna is particularly entertaining as the scamming tinker Skully Rourke, getting frisky with his brother's wife, and fitting the family's donkey with a prosthetic limb made out of a table-leg. Dawn Bradfield and Aidan McArdle are outstanding young actors as well. She arrestingly combines adolescent vulnerability and fierce spiritedness, while he charmingly and comically unites nervousness, tenderness and determination.
"Kaite O'Reilly's new play shared this year's Peggy Ramsay award and it's not hard to see why. It's a bold and beautifully affectionate piece of writing from the heart."
Time Out
Charles Godfery-Faussett
Wednesday, October 7, 1998
The knives are out at the family-run Birmingham slaughterhouse when Fin Rourke returns home. Ma and Da - 'Bull man' Rourke - are so busy not talking to each other that they hardly have time to register their daughter's arrival. Da has taken on lovestruck dolt Rory as an apprentice, while scallywag uncle Skully is hanging about making eyes at his brother's wife.
Kaite O'Reilly's new play shared this year's Peggy Ramsay award and it's not hard to see why. It's a bold and beautifully affectionate piece of writing from the heart. Designer Nathalie Gibbs' meticulous and thoroughly sinister abattoir set is inspired, with its great wooden chopping block enshrined before a sliding screen of grubby see-through plastic slats.
The men are brutal (like Peter Dineen's massive, sweet-talking Da), feckless (like Ged McKenna's Skully) or idiotic (like Aidan Ardle's holy fool Rory). The women are abused and bitter. Dawn Bradfield makes a wonderfully sullen and volatile Fin, while Kate Binchy's Ma is a powerhouse of repressed rage.
"…a bitter and brutal beauty… The language and rhythms of speech - delivered in the all-Irish cast's lilting tones - regularly touch on the poetic in a script stamped through with quality and real gallows humour..."
The Gazette
Steve Morgan
Friday, Ocober 16, 1998
You are offal, but I like you
Bush Theatre
Shepherds Bush
"NO CULTURE, no future, " opines Da 'Bull Man O'Rourke, head of the family-run abattoir. "We're the last of the Mohicans."
Kaite O'Reilly's grim tale of a Birmingham Irish butcher's heading for a chop and the years of family scars and betrayal it unleashes won't suit all tastes - the real meat hacked up regularly on stage will certainly see off the squeamish and the odd vegetarian. But look beyond the harsh exterior and there is a bitter and brutal beauty at the heart of this, O'Reilly's first major play.
While the warring O'Rourkes - bullying Da, razor-tongued wife Breda. Da's oily, conniving brother Skully and pregnant daughter Fin - tear themselves apart with squabbling, success for gormless kind hearted apprentice Rory (Aidan McArdle) at the prestigious Mastercraft Butcher Awards offers an unlikely, albeit temporary, stay of execution.
The language and rhythms of speech-delivered in the all-Irish cast's lilting tones - regularly touch on the poetic in a script stamped through with quality and real gallows humour.
The virginal white of the butcher's trademark garb also lends the play a stark, unearthy feel. This is enhanced by lightning that switches from harsh fluorescent strip one minute to sinister shadow the next, with carcasses outlined in silhouette behind the plastic strips bordering the action. The cast is uniformly excellent too. Peter Dineen as Da is a ringer for Robert Shaw's salty sea dog Quint in Jaws, a brute of a man and one as likely to pat you on the back as punch you in the kidneys.
There's little room for optimism in a script that fairly bristles with tension, but O'Reilly's characters all speak in proud and fiercely defiant tones, notably the feisty Fin (Dawn Bradfield) who dares the dreaming Rory to pity her at his peril.
Pretty it isn't, but if you like your meat blood red, there's a feast to be had there.
The Stage
Andrew Aldrige
Thursday, October 8, 1998
Family strife is razor sharp Yard. Growing up the daughter of a butcher and working for a relief organisation in war-effected Croatia, Kaite O'Reilly is probably better equipped than most to write about mass slaughter.
In Yard she attempts to combine a comic tale about a family of Birmingham butchers, fighting for survival as out of town supermarkets threaten their business, with, you suspect, an allegory of man's capacity to instigate systematic pain on others.
On the one hand, our attention is focused on a race against time storyline to save the shop. in a bid of a lift its profile, Da (Peter Dineen) primes Aidan McArdle's apprentice boy for the Mastercraft Butcher Awards, an accolade, which would heap much-needed publicity on the business. However, as a history of family violence and broken love comes to the fore, we are held by the emotional carnage in front of us: the husband and wife team who have not spoken to each other for years, daughter Finoulla (Dawn Bradfield) , pregnant after being raped, and Ged McKenna's scavenging brother Skully.
The play's reduction of relationships to their animal origins has its roots, I suspect, in Pinter's The Homecoming, and the family's sense of place as a kind of gladatorial forum is as strong here as it is in that play. O'Reilly also displays a fine line in verbal menace, which is translated by some noteworthy performances, particularly from Dineen and Kate Binchy as his battered wife.
There are times when the metaphorical preoccupation with killing and violence does not connect with the rest of the play - I fail to see how this is about war, even though it says so in the programme. It remains, however, a powerful, and often very funny play.


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You're less likely to get it if you protect yourself during sex, but it's not that straightforward.
HIV is something just about any human exposed to, can contract. But relatively recent research has shown that some people may be more likely to get it than others. And it simply comes down to the bacteria in their body.
Some background first: HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) attacks a person's immune system and it used to be a death sentence. Having it- and living with it untreated- means that your body can't properly fight off infections when they come to visit.
Related: A British Man May be the Second Person Ever to Be Cured of HIV
The illness develops into AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) over time. It's transmitted through contact with semen, blood, vaginal and anal fluids, and breast milk, however it isn't passed through sweat, saliva or urine.
So who is more likely to get it, over others? a few particular individuals. Research done in January of 2017 showed that women with vaginas that are dominated by pro-inflammatory bacterial species are 4 times more likely to acquire HIV if they come across it.
The study behind the findings looked at 900 women between the ages of 18 and 23 from the KwaZulu-Natal province of Durban, South Africa. (This region unfortunately suffers from some of the highest rates of HIV in all of Africa).
Volunteers participating in the study visited the research site twice a week. There, they had samples of blood and genital mucosal taken.
It was found that 70% of the women involved had diverse bacterial vaginal communities with low rates of something called Lactobacillus and furthermore, these women had high genital inflammation. Researchers suggested that these vaginal environments were making it easier for HIV to find a foothold and blossom.
In contrast, check this out. HIV is such a mysterious disease. Back in 2007, it was discovered that various women working in the sex trade in Kenya are somehow miraculously immune to HIV. They've been exposed to it thousands of times, but still aren't sick.
The human body is a mystery. Hopefully it continues to reveal it's many secrets.


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Reflections - Buffalo National River
This is a beautiful section of the Buffalo River, hiking up from the bridge in Ponca. As you continue up along the river there is a trail that mirrors this path and leads you to the famous Steel Creek Overlook. I've followed this trail many times encountering Elk along the way.


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Resources & Links
Dementia Australia
Alzheimer Australia WA was formed 20 years ago as the nation's first support group for people with dementia and carers. Support includes counselling, information, education and respite services.
Helping Minds Arafmi
Association for Relatives & Friends of the Mentally Ill
Mutual support groups for relatives and friends of people with mental or emotional health
ACT Mental Health Consumer Network
An organisation run by consumers for consumers whose aim is to bring about a higher standard of health care in the mental health sector, through representation, lobbying and active involvement in new developments in the mental health sector.
A national, independent, not-for-profit organisation working to address issues associated with depression, anxiety and related substance misuse disorders in Australia.
BluePagesTM is a web-based program providing information on the symptoms of depression, how it is diagnosed and which medical, psychological and alternative treatments work for depression.
Carers Association of Western Australia
Carers WA is a non-profit community based organisation and registered charity dedicated to improving the lives of family Carers living in WA. Services offered include counselling, carer participation & representation, education & training, social support, young carers and hospital program.
Western Australian Children of Parents with Mental Illness (COPMI) Project
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Life in Mind Australia
The Living is for Everyone (LIFE) website is a world-class suicide and self-harm prevention resource. Dedicated to providing the best available evidence and resource to guide activities aimed at reducing the rate at which people take their lives in Australia – the LIFE website is designed for people across the community who are involved in suicide and self-harm prevention activities.
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