Odds and ends, as the year draws to a close

[heliopausa]

Phew!  This is meant to be the quieter time of year - in between the solar and the lunar new years.  But this year it seems not so - or not right now, anyway.  Still, there's time to note a few odds and ends...

Comments

[wellinghall]

I am disappointed in the trustees, but pleased to hear that, thanks to Justice Wood, sense has prevailed.

[heliopausa]

Yes, indeed. I think any honest judge would have to have made the same judgement, but it feels fitting that it was a woman defending another woman's long-past attempt to support others.
(I hope the dentist wasn't too bad; looking at the clock, I think it must be all over now? Sending sympathetic vibes.)

[wellinghall]

It wasn't too bad, thanks :-)

[heliopausa]

Good! :)

[puddleshark]

No, it's not right when trustees try to wriggle so far out of the spirit of the bequest. I'm glad the judge was able to see that.

Goldfish! Oh, wow!

[heliopausa]

They are very eye-catching on their way to the pre-Tet markets, carried maybe twenty at a time, in twenty separate plastic bags on the backs of bicycles. (But burning paper fish is also -- increasingly? I don't know -- acceptable.)

[learnsslowly]

Umm..... Goats climbing in trees?

[heliopausa]

:D That seems a reasonable expectation - I'll be alert for them!

[asakiyume]

I wonder if it's too late to recommend a female-centric movie? I've left it several days to comment on your post! But I'm thinking of the movie Yesterday, about a woman in a small village in South Africa who discovers she's HIV positive. The actress, Leleti Khumalo, is **brilliant**, just wonderful, and the film is very heartfelt without being sentimental. The trailer is *terrible*--made by someone who hasn't seen the film, I'd say, who's going for cheap exoticism and tears rather than the true flavor of the film, but this set of scenes from the film, found under the actress's own name on Youtube, is much, much truer to the feel of the film. (The shack in the one scene is not their house; it's a nursing room that Yesterday builds with her bare hands for her husband when the rest of the village doesn't want him around because he has AIDS.) ... Okay, the subject matter is really sad, but it's such a beautiful film

[heliopausa]

Not too late to recommend it to me, at any rate! :) Thank you for the tip, and I'll be alert for the chance to see it. halfamoon itself is looking at fanworks, though.
The trustees... yes. It would be burdensome to be administering, and they probably thought a century was long enough - but a trust is a trust - and there's plenty of odd wills* making provision for all sorts of things still being administered faithfully in countries with longer testator histories.

*not that I think it's an odd thing to be wanting to benefit single women in financial difficulties!