Well, well, well - three holes in the ground.
I have had a day at home and I slept about 11 hours last night : I don’t remember 11 pm and I woke up around 10 am this morning. We all slept in and then had stir fry for brunch. I have knocked over 3 tapes and also watched 2 episodes of Stargate. A day well spent!!! I have not had a nap as I am hoping to sleep tonight.
The bad news is that health insurance is going up by about 15% again this year. Even though the Howard Coalition has promised many times that the cost would stay the same and most likely fall, in the last 3 years it has risen, on average, by over 30% - it could be more. Mine rose by almost 50% last year even though the average was $8. It is ironic that if I didn’t pay so much I could afford to go to the dentist regularly. I haven’t been for 18 months. With the rebate it still costs about $100 for a check up, and I pay $120 a month with a big $800 excess. This means that I hardly ever use the insurance but continue to pay $1440 a year at least. You are forced to be in a fund, as you are penalised a 2% increase for every year of your age you have not been in a fund. So if I left now and rejoined at proper retirement I would be paying 50% more of the price in 25 years.
The Lennon Red-neck “Green” pulp mill bus – and there’s an oxymoron if I ever saw one, is now expected to cost the state’s taxpayers over $2,000,000 and the pulp mill has not even been pronounced as a significant business yet. It is a Kafka-esque existence we lead here. Soon there will be jackbooted Lennon soldiers patrolling and arresting those who speak out against the government : why do I think this? Look at the way the Gunns’ 20 have had writs served against them for speaking against Gunns, which is, apparently, our defacto government.
Choc-Peppermint Fudge
45 g butter
1 cup icing sugar
1 ½ tspn milk
½ - ¾ tspn peppermint essence
300 g dark chocolate
180 ml condensed milk
Beat butter and icing sugar till well creamed and add milk and essence. Refrigerate for 15 minutes. Melt other ingredients till smooth and then cool for 15 minutes. Grease and line a 20 cm square tin and spoon peppermint mixture over base and cover with chocolate mixture and swirl. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Cut into small squares.
The bad news is that health insurance is going up by about 15% again this year. Even though the Howard Coalition has promised many times that the cost would stay the same and most likely fall, in the last 3 years it has risen, on average, by over 30% - it could be more. Mine rose by almost 50% last year even though the average was $8. It is ironic that if I didn’t pay so much I could afford to go to the dentist regularly. I haven’t been for 18 months. With the rebate it still costs about $100 for a check up, and I pay $120 a month with a big $800 excess. This means that I hardly ever use the insurance but continue to pay $1440 a year at least. You are forced to be in a fund, as you are penalised a 2% increase for every year of your age you have not been in a fund. So if I left now and rejoined at proper retirement I would be paying 50% more of the price in 25 years.
The Lennon Red-neck “Green” pulp mill bus – and there’s an oxymoron if I ever saw one, is now expected to cost the state’s taxpayers over $2,000,000 and the pulp mill has not even been pronounced as a significant business yet. It is a Kafka-esque existence we lead here. Soon there will be jackbooted Lennon soldiers patrolling and arresting those who speak out against the government : why do I think this? Look at the way the Gunns’ 20 have had writs served against them for speaking against Gunns, which is, apparently, our defacto government.
Choc-Peppermint Fudge
45 g butter
1 cup icing sugar
1 ½ tspn milk
½ - ¾ tspn peppermint essence
300 g dark chocolate
180 ml condensed milk
Beat butter and icing sugar till well creamed and add milk and essence. Refrigerate for 15 minutes. Melt other ingredients till smooth and then cool for 15 minutes. Grease and line a 20 cm square tin and spoon peppermint mixture over base and cover with chocolate mixture and swirl. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Cut into small squares.
posted by 2paw @ 3/04/2005 08:43:00 pm
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