tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226677502011-11-28T01:15:07.217+01:00An eclectic blog by The Lady in Spain with a focus on health issues, holistic living and of course my passions - herbs and food, both culinary and medicinal. And anything else on my mind!Lady In Spainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17625390701847370522noreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22667750.post-1167146018595186932006-12-26T15:59:00.001+01:002010-09-25T01:33:59.062+02:00

I know, I haven't paid much attention to my blogs lately. I've been involved in so much lately that when I do have time, frankly I'm too tired to think. Once you become used to that, sadly it can become habit.A few days ago I ran into the following and remembered it because a friend had forwarded it to me quite a while ago. I found this so meaningful I decided it worthwhile to pass on here. We

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I mentioned in my last post something about hope:Hope is limiting...it intrinsically involves a certain degree of doubt.The dictionary defines hope as 'something we believe will happen', or 'a feeling of confidance that something we desire will happen'. But is that really so, or is it 'I wish something will happen, but there is a chance it won't'? In my talks with others, I sense that is closer

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I haven't posted here for a while, naughty me. So much to share and so little time to actually sit down and...share!Today I am though. I ran across a very good article whilst researching subliminal messages/autogenious training/autohypnosis (more on this another time). It is off the InnerPower4Success blog. I haven't cruised around there much, but did notice several other entries I hope to get to

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It seems lately the subject or word 'gratitude' keeps popping up. I recognize that as one of Life's litttle ways to bring my personal attention to a particular topic - for whatever reason.Believe me, I am not an ungrateful person. I have sooo much luck in my life and so many good things that have happened to me - and for that I am grateful and more. But I recognize that sometimes I need to

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Chet Day's Natural Health Circus: Double Chin Exercise

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...do unto others.I know - that's not the way it goes. But it does in this really timely article I found from one of my favourite newsletters . Sounds a lot like a bit of advice I have tried passing on to others at one point or another in my life. Advice that I take to heart for myself. Now and again I have to remind myself, but it is important to forgive oneself for being human. I don't

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My, how time flies! It has been so long since last I posted. That was due to several unrelated situations, not the least being not having a computer for more than 6 weeks in summer. Add one rather last minute visit from relatives and another sudden visit, well...I really got out of blogging. Plus, frankly...the person I had initially intended this blog for as a (hopefully) inspirational excuse

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Lately I keep running across reminders about the Law of Attraction, one of those universal laws. There is a good article called The Secret of Doing without Doing. Here is an excerpt that addresses timing and visualization:Put simply, you should take no action on anything until you have visualizedyour desire and made it real enough in your mind that your next action (step),whatever it is, seems

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By next week my aunt will be here visiting from Germany. Then just before she leaves, my cousin, her daughter and son-in-law will be coming for a week and be staying with me. THAT constellation will be a first.Guests are inspiring. And I am getting around to replacing things I've gotten used to seeing, but that in the back of my mind, were annoying. Like the large area rug in the living room or

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I have found, or rather was contacted by the site owner of The Vanilla Shop in Madagascar to exchange links. They have the most amazing array of products, some unusual such as balsamic vinegar with vanilla (I can get into that). Amazing are the realistic prices too. I shall be ordering from them, especially the beans in quantity. Oh yeah...and the vanilla nectar too! Loveitloveitloveit!

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The Serenity Prayer has accompanied me most of my life. In fact I even cross stitched and embroidered it twice, one for Mama and one for me. I still have it framed in my kitchen. It makes a lot of sense, albeit tricky to follow sometimes. It is a jewel of succint wisdom, as universal and non-denominal as the Golden Rule. Even if you don't believe in 'God' as a single entity in a patriarchal or

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Not everyone is as lucky as I am, that is - when it comes to body hair removal. When I go to Carmen's cosmetic salon here in the village, she makes jokes about 'removing my 4 hairs'. Ok, it's a slight exaggeration. Last count I had 15 or so (!) almost transparent, fine hairs, mostly on the front of my legs and a few on the calves. I thank my celtic/germanic gene pool for that.Sometimes I

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I've been busy this past week. Tweaking my other sites, Epicurean Table and the Epicurean Digest - the later having been rather orphaned for quite a time. Between that and just doing what needs to be done, time has really escaped me. That does happen easily working on the computer hours at a time. I've not even walked much since a few weeks, but this also due to keeping an eye on Reggie. He

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Have you ever had a nice old fashioned crown of ribs roast? I hadn't, which is why I organized this year's Easter dinner at Can Roig - one of our gourmet restaurants out in Cap i Corp, just in view of the sea. I felt it was time I experience this classic roast.The chef, Juan, schooled in one of the top schools in Barcelona liked the idea when I spoke to him some weeks ago. And just to be certain,

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Do you remember these panorama, pressed sugar eggs from your childhood? Nostalgia and running across the kit (can't remember if it was Belgium or in Germany...or did I order it?) prompted me to try my hand at making 'sugar art'.I made these eggs about 3 years ago. A few are faded because I had them out too long past Easter and the sun bleached them somewhat. But they store well and I bring them

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. The dye used to colour the bright red uniforms of British soldiers (think 1700's or so) was made from the root of 'madder', a type of cleaver (Galium family).. The herb referred to in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' that was for remembrance was rosemary.. Americans consume about a third of a pound of pepper per capita annually.. Caraway is the most popular herb seasoning for bread in ...Germany and

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This afternoon after discussing with Mama who's doing which cake when, I decided to make a yeast cake - a traditional German one. This version has ground hazelnuts and grated apple as the main ingredients for the filling. The eggs were coloured raw as they bake with the cake.I know Mama likes a good, fresh baked yeast cake so she took home half. Tomorrow I'll be baking a regular cake but one in

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Here's a little herbal trivia for you from my notes:Increase your beta brain waves and heighten awareness by sniffing stimulating essential oils, such as rosemary or peppermint.For promoting relaxation, a sense of well being, activate the alpha and theta waves by sniffing on lavender and sandalwood.It's not a bad idea to carry a homemade sniffer with you depending on your situational needs. A

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Easter is upon us and besides chocolate bunnies for Reggie and bringing up a few Easter decorations, my thoughts are on eggs...which I love anyway. Mama enjoys the holiday bits and, well, if it makes her happy I play along. So, we colour eggs et al. Some Easters together, other times - suddenly Easter is upon us and we do our thing separately until time to exchange our baskets.But none of the

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Besides bouganvilla, wisteria must be one of my favourite climbing plants and one that I always aspired to have gracing a wall of my house. For me it is a romantic, elegant plant with the similar grace of willow trees. I always have an emotional reaction to them.We planted this pale wisteria about 3 years ago and were told that it can take 4 years to bloom. Promptly that year it gave us two

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A few days ago I went out to Cap i Corp again to one of my favourite places to gather certain wild herbs. Sometimes I take Tosca with me, my favourite herbal walk companion.This time, while I was gathering tender, young fennel fronds (somewhat out of the photo and more to the back) I noticed that Tosca found one of her favourite munching herb - Daucus carota aka. wild carrot or Queen Anne's Lace

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I have finally updated my Epicurean Table site with the seasonal menu (and of course vegetarian suggestion) and other updates. Much of it 'maintenance' work and I am still at it...since this morning until this evening. With breaks of course...little walk with Tosca, lunch, this and that and almost two hours at the pensionista dance. Not much going on there though this evening. So I came home

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...and here it is today in its full glory, bees and all busily buzzing about to and fro. Yes, this tree buzzes or so it seems until you look a little closer. Note the difference in the photo montage of 'How Does My Garden Grow' post.I too, have been really busy these last days, mostly readingreadingreading until my eyes cross. But I have been out for my long morning walks (Nordic Walking about

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Mama's mimosa tree coming into bloom is one of the reasons to look forward to spring for. It is glorious - preceeding that may be a few bulbs coming up such as daffodils and crocuses - but a mimosa tree in coming into bloom is simply a spring delight.I can watch hers progress from our terrassa.Hers is a different type to mine (see right) which always blooms after hers, as if not wanting to

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...with lavender, iris and mimosa tree too! I had to share with you what is blooming, or some at least. The mimosa tree photo is from last year and it (the tree :D) is much taller now. I'll photograph it tomorrow, it is just starting to burst into bloom.Note the lemons behind the iris? This year the lemon tree is laden with so many lemons as we have never seen before. Reggie does baby it all year

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I have to share this quote from probably the oldest working pediatrician:Dr. Leila Denmark, a pediatrician, who "sort of" retired at 103 in 2002:Quote:"Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I never worked a day in my life."-Dr. Leila Denmark, 100, USA's oldest practicing physician.Don'tcha jus' love it?!

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I've been preoccupied lately by a new project that really takes up my time with reseaching and reading a lot. I can only say at the moment that it involves another website - this time I want to have the background work really honed so that it is optimized in the best way for the search engines. Already have a domain name and designed a logo (which I had graphically perfected by the woman who did

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Ran across two interesting thoughts this evening, from www.aksworld.com at the blog:"Fear has been described as F_E_A_R = False Expectation Appearing Real."Unfortunately such clever anograms usually work only in the originating language. I'd love to pass this one on to my (German) Aunt. The anagram won't work, but the statement is 'real'. On second thought, I should just leave it alone (

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Yes, I am...still amused at something that happened on Women's Day 8 March.On that day I purchased a spanish newspaper from the paper shop and the girl gave me a bottle of flour cleaner."What is this for?" I asked, meaning why-are-you-giving-me-this."Its a free gift from the newspaper for International Women's Day."We looked at each other with that knowing, ironic look. A look of solidarity

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Looking younger is something we are all interested in - even those who loftily deny any interest in the subject. Deep inside we all are happier when we look our best and that alone makes us 'look' or 'feel' younger than our chronological age. That little boost is uplifting.And what is aging? (I mean beyond the wrinkle!) Is it our chronological age (based on birthday)? That is far less important

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I found following in a newsletter I receive:"Give yourself a tropical pick-me-up with antioxidant-rich guava.Red guava offers more antioxidant benefits than spinach, strawberries, or oranges, a recent study concluded, making red guava a free-radical-scavenging powerhouse. The phenols in red guava are responsible for the fruit's antioxidant activity. Simply peel and remove the seeds from

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Happy International Women's Day!Today I thought I'd post a few inspiring quotes:"Women are half the world's people who do two-thirds of the world's work. They earn a tenth of the world's income and own a hundredth of the world's property." WomenAid International ...warrants comment when in mixed company. Amongst we women, 'gee, why are we not surprised?'"If you are patient in one moment of anger,

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Good news! My yoghurt turned out great...thickish and creamy (could be a little tarter though) and I am happy. I have about eight jars. Today I made Irish Soda bread with it instead of buttermilk...very nice and tomorrow maybe I'll do a simple almond cake using some yoghurt and honey as well. I shall be asking Blanca for more of her milk in future.Here's an interesting link on the value of

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My walks out to the lighthouse take me past an old stable - in past years abandoned. Last year or so I heard dogs there and often saw them running free in the enclosed acres. Then a few months ago I heard the low clang of bells - and that sound can only mean goats or sheep (a deeper, longer clang means cows). And there among the brush of rosemary and company was a herd of goats. Monday I heard

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Any of you read about L'Oreal proposing to take over Body Shop?? I did, several days ago and immediately fired an email off to the German and of course the main UK centrals. I won't bother to reprint the article re: L'Oreal /Body Shop - suffice it to say it was that 'L'Oreal is considering a proposal (of takeover) to Body Shop and not much more.Here my email in English (same but in German sent to

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Two days ago I drove up to the Santa Lucia chapel and enjoyed the pink view up there. This photo is a good example but the best view I could not take as the sun was in front of me. Good thing I did too. With the exception of the white plastic 'green houses' to the left, all the light areas, all the way to the right upper area are almond trees.Yesterday it rained all day with heavy winds, so I

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The title sounds more complicated than where my thoughts are heading.Didn't most of us learn in school the scientic 'discovery' that all things are made up of atoms that are in constant movement (energy)? And that the only difference between human skin, a mango or a table surface is the rate those atoms move? Albeit, a bit oversimplified, but wasn't that the jist of it?Wow, weren't we impressed

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This is another old article of mine that I have also added on my site here and also submitted to zinos.com as well.My girlfriend Marlies in Tübingen introduced me to dry brushing - something she has done for years. She is a little older than I am and has the silkiest skin! Fine pored, smooth and she takes cold showers....brrrrr! Me, I end my showers with really cool water, but that is another

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For some, February's only redeeming values may be Valentine's Day and it's fewer days but for us it means an explosion in pink - seemingly overnight.Everywhere one looks and sometimes as far as the eye can see the almond trees are in bloom. Pale rosé almost white with magenta centers, pink to almost fuscia almond tree's are 'doing their spring thing'.I love living where the year is marked by

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Well, having a cold does have its good side. I've not been out at all for a few days (sneezing my head off) and managed to start this blog AND write two articles. One is Illuminating Thoughts - Toxic Candles and the other is A Burning Question - Are aromatic candles safe? It was interesting researching for these articles and there is so much more info on the subjects than I have in the

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I came across this site which has information about the dangers of using common paraffin candles and why soya candles are a better choice. I must be out in the woods somewhere...I didn't know that there is such a thing as a soya candle. I appreciate the article for the warning, but I don't know if I want to support the soya industry - it is a big enough problematic industry as it is.I think I

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What do you think of my bright and shiny new - and first - blog? "Who wuddathunk" that I too would succumb to the mode and have a blog too? Well not me, but I did after all. Why? Hmm...good question. Actually, I had you in mind and your crossroads you mentioned you are at. This blog is a good way for you to just log on and jot your thoughts about your process or add comments to postings. I

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