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If you are hanging pictures in your study, you will need to know how to measure a straight line, perhaps how to calculate symmetrical distances from one object to another in order to situate the picture at dead center, and you’ll have to know how to use a hammer. If you are painting your bedroom […]

Apples, olives, lettuce, red cabbage, beans, flax seeds, basil, thyme, camomile, cumin, bay leaf, sunflower oil… you could be forgiven for thinking it’s a list of the world’s healthiest foods. But actually it’s a list of the foods my partner David is currently intolerant to!   I am passionate about food – eating fresh, organic

I’ve been a Costa Women member for nearly a year now without having written a thing. That’s pretty disgraceful for someone who writes for a living. But maybe understandable? In my defence, anything digital gives me ‘cybertrauma’ (I just went to Preview this post and it vanished. Luckily I copied it first – I know

I’d been thinking about writing a story about the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela for some time, ever since we had made a visit to Galicia and fallen in love with the place.  All our Spanish friends had said that we had to visit the north of Spain, how cool it was in the summer and so green.  

How often do you forget to shower? I would guess the answer is never. Well, how about brushing your teeth? Here the answer might be rarely. OK. So how often do you neglect to give yourself food? And assuming you have hair, how often do you forget to brush it in the morning when you

As I ploughed through the internet looking for updates on Saturday morning following the outbreak of the wildfire on the Costa del Sol, I came across two photographs that meant I could no longer sit there and do nothing. The first showed five donkeys and horses fleeing the flames; the second, the burnt face of

Iodine: are you getting enough of this essential nutrient?   Iodine is essential for your health. Yet, according to Dr Mercola, it’s one of the three most common nutritional deficiencies along with Magnesium and Vitamin D. (Fortunately, the latter is not a problem for those of us lucky enough to be living in Spain, as

Life’s a Box of Chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get, so said Forest Gump.  Life is all about choices and as expats we have chosen to get on that flight, or in that car and move to a different country, culture, climate and community.    So once here, have we found the elusive

Hi, I’m Helen and although I have been around on Costa Women for a while but not always an active participant…..until now that is. Back in the summer of 2010 hubby and myself were living in rural Norfolk along with our three adorable cats. I spent my days hurtling my faithful Citroen around the little

I’ve always wondered what they’re like. You know, the posh parties at Marbella beach clubs where you have to wear white or silver or gold or red? Where the glamorous people line up to have their photos taken, beautifully made up with smoky eyes and coiffed locks; where the men wear freshly ironed linen suits