My last post was about The Many Varied and Delightful Uses for Foil. One of the listicle points was about sealing the floor and fittings with aluminium foil to make the place liveable. For example: The sea-side rental property I live in has foil over the floors in every useable room. The two bedrooms that I can't use, due to fragrance chemical residue in one of them and a brand … [Read more...] about How to Seal a Whole House with Foil
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10 Uses for Foil
During Creative Nonfiction class at Victoria University (VU) with the wonderfully inclusive teacher and writer, Michelle Fincke, one of our assignments was to write for something for Weekend Notes. We learnt about writing listicles and blog posts (Like, short articles, which, for a verbose writer, and rarely a concise one, was a challenge!) and we practised writing news … [Read more...] about 10 Uses for Foil
How to Seal in Fragrance on a Steering Wheel
I know the title of this post reads funny, but stay with me here. Seven years ago, two years after being diagnosed as sensitive to chemicals, I found myself in the position of needing to purchase a car. The car I was driving—although it was a swank model, had leather seats, and a rockin' stereo—was making me intensely ill, and it wasn't until I moved to live near the ocean, and … [Read more...] about How to Seal in Fragrance on a Steering Wheel