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Monday Morning Photo - Wisteria Time in Andalucia

How quickly spring comes around after the short winter here in the Sierra Sur de Jaén. After lots of very much needed rain we´re back to the normal cloudless blue.  My garden is shooting incredbily with the moisture and now sunshine. And my beautiful wisteria flowers grandly albeit it short-lived. The big black carpenter bees love it. Each flowering season reminds me of the Botanical Gardens in Malaga and the ´tunnel´ of wisteria that I haven´t yet caught in bloom. April is a good time to plan to go if it´s on your list.  Here´s the botanical garden link La Concepción Botanical Gardens. And a sneaky peak at the wisteria. See the Monday Morning Photos list.
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Homemade Rosemary Rub for Aches & Pains

When my gregarious (aren´t they all) Spanish friend presented me with some sprigs of dried rosemary in flower I thought uh oh, another recipe to try. Well I was right and I was wrong. This time it was a recipe for a lotion to rub on aches and pains anywhere on the body, probably for muscle relaxing too but I can´t vouch for that - yet.

All you have to do is shove the rosemary in a bottle of 100% alchohol and leave it 40 days but 20 will do she said! (I can do that). Then rub it into all those aching joints. Well I will make some, but keep forgetting to buy the alcohol, it´s not the usual type on my shopping list.

Then I´ll have to wait 20 or 40 days (does it make any difference one is thinking) and then I´ll need an ache or pain! The beauty is the alcohol costs about 60 centimos, the rosemary free but needs picking when in flower and it keeps for that moment when you have need.

It´s cheap, free and old she told me. An ancient cure-all. Must be good then

My own garden picked Rosemary not the dehydrated offering!

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