Tag: health
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Olive Harvesting in Portugal: A Fun Experience
This year, our trip to Portugal coincided with the olive harvest. All around the villages, you could see and hear people gathering their olives. Not having a clue about olive harvesting, we were keen to offer help to our friend Mark, who was in the throes of harvest. Mark speaks Portuguese and, as such, had…
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Lundy’s Yarrow
(Achillea millefolium) Last week, instead of striding out in my break, trying to get my 15,000 steps in. I decided to do something different. I took myself off with my flask of West county Liquorice tea, found a sheltered spot on the west coast near the Old Light, and simply… sat. A small quarried hollow…
Jane Sharkey 