Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?
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Sheila - Well now I feel better! Isolated and flies! Truthfully, I was worried about making such a big move and being so far away from my grown kids. I guess I wanted to be the one to make the choice. But, things are rolling along here quite happily for me. I was very ill for a while, and I am getting much much better. Really starting to feel like my old self. My son lived in Brisbane for a while. He is back now and just bought me some Bundaburg (sp?) (just north of Brisbane, I think) ginger beer for nausea. It is good.
Bec - I will soon be ready for that hike in Rocky Mt. National Park - just outside of Estes. It is beautiful up there. The Stanley Hotel - where The Shining was filmed - is there. It's a wonderful old hotel built in the early 1900's I think (do you know AnneW?). It used to have a terrific brunch in a room that overlooks the gorgeous valley. Sadly, they don't do it anymore.
Flannelette - I remember Adele Davis. I skipped the macreme and the tipi, but I did spend a college year on an old farm in Va with a bunch of roommates, and no running water or electricity. It was a little too back to nature for me. I did just read Barbara Kingsolver's book ( blanking on the name) about spending a year eating only locally grown food. It was very inspiring. She also lives in Va. I do try to buy locally grown products, but I am not as dedicated as she and her family were.
Happy weekend.
Sandy
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Sunny 210 - and one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen was the country near Colorado springs - I remember going up, up, up, to a zoo, and looking back, saw the prairies to the east, and we were on a mountain. And those strange geological formations...
It was the 60's and 2 of my friends and i went with (you will laugh) a car caravan to the headquarters of a fundamentalist, evangelical group of Xians called the Navigators. They had a mansion in the desert. Every morning at prayers they would ask if there was anyone in the room swho would like to stand and put Jesus in the drivers seat, and we 3 were obviously the only ones who were sinners and felt all eyes upon us but nobody cracked - ha ha ha. We were so naive, we just went for the trip to Colorado and had no idea of the intensity of what lay ahead. someone would be playing a guitar and singing, and someone else would say things like "do youplay any songs about jesus?" oh......and i got sick...alwys do when I travel...too much stress. My highly spirirted friend kept saying things like "wish we could go to a bar...." too yukky for words...except for the stunning scenery
Enjoy your day at the beach ...it snowed overnight here.
Bec 9861 - no, I didn't get your quote, but am intrigued
Sheila - it must be changing into "fall" there now - do you call it fall?
Take carfe, all
metta to all
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Flannelette
you really made me smile with Adele Davis - wow, those were the days. I almost got myself to eat some of the "yeasty" stuff - remember if it was heavy, leaden, tasted like "wet sawdust" it must be good for us ;-))) thank goodness for Alice Waters - and Barbara Kingsolver!
I live directly across the street from a CSA ( sommunity supported agriculture) organic farm, and one of the reasons I moved to this area in Western MA is that it is truly supportive of "eat local" - and wasy to do. We now even have Winter Farm Markets - easy to get root veggies, and greenhouse (hoop house) kale, spinach all year. I just love, love it. After years of living in cities, New York, London, Washington - it is so good to be growing older in the rural, quiet hills.
Because of horrible SE's of Arimidex, joint pain, muscle pain, I stopped eating all wheat gluten - and it has made such a wonderufl difference. A friend who has celiac disease, told me her doctor has found good results with his patients who had osteoarthritis reducing their joint pain by going gluten free. That's all I had to hear, and I was off! A few weeks ago, in anticipation of allergy season ( hay fever, grass, rag weed) starting I stopped all dairy - all I ate dairy was cheese
And the mucus level in my body had gone to nothing!!!! I can even breathe thru my nose - desperately miss my goat cheese, but feel so good the difference is amazing.Thanks to Adele Davis - who really was the first to wake me up to the importance of what we eat. thanks for remindig me of those days....
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Caerus - I too have all those horrible side effects of arimidex, and another 3 years to go! I'd noticed somewhere on bco that some people had gone gluten-free, and it helped. Also helped the osteoarthritis, which I have, too. But I'd just bought 25 pounds of organic, home-grown, whole wheat flour, an heirloom variety - and I must say - delicious! .....but, now i'm once again thinking of the no gluten thing....there are lots of non-gluten recipes now for breadmaker machine bread, and a good array of premade (but $$) ones. I even see recipes for cookies and such. Hm....any idea how long it took before you noticed some easing of the stiffness, aches & pains? I'm very interested.
Lu`cky you, to have such a feast at your door, and beauty, too.
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Arlene, we mostly use English words so we say autumn. Yes, March to May we consider autumn. Also we hardly have any trees whose leaves fall through most of Aus. Most deciduous trees are introduced. Eucalypts and wattles make up most of our native trees and they are evergreens.
When I saw the bare trees in England after a long break it looked so stark and somehow made me feel colder. I'm near highlands now which have a colder winter and many have planted deciduous trees in gardens and along roads which look lovely in autumn so I get the benefit of seeing all the autumn colours. I'm on a small rural property in a small country town so there's plenty of greenery all around us. We've been here for 23 years while raising our boys. So much for the traveller, she's in my distant memory now.
I have an aunt who lives in Ontario. I recently made contact with her after not seeing her since my early 20's. Otherwise I know little about Canada.
I must go out now to visit my mother.
1pm in Eastern Australia.
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Flannelette,
I noticed a difference, if I remember correctly, in about 2 weeks. Mostly I noticed I went from taking about 10 ibprofen a day - to, get ready for it, NONE! No more joint pain. I was doing, and am still doing, other things - massage, exercise, acupuncture - but when I went gluten free, it all seemed to come together. I SWEAR it was the "final" piece I needed to feel good. Now, without any dairy - I only ate cheese cuz am lactose intolerant - I feel even better. Will be interesting to see how being dairy free helps during the up coming ( in a few months) Spring allergy season. Food makes a HUGE difference!
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Ahh Sheila, I thought you might not be Aussie born with a name like that!
I came from England 61yrs ago, so I don't sound like a Brit either. I find it funny that some Aussies are embarassed to call me by my name and often call me 'Shirley' as if they can't imagine anyone being called a generic name for girls.
A couple of years ago, I met an older lady called Girly and when I mentioned that we had similar (in meaning) names, she admitted that she had five older brothers and that when she came along her father couldn't remember her given name so he always called her Girly like some kid he didn't know. Now the whole town where she lives calls her Girly too. I think I would have felt insulted at some stage that my father couldn't be bothered to get my name right.
Sheila.
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Caerus - Thanks for the info. I think I will give it a try. with arimidex, it's like my body went from 60 - 80 overnight
, as you know. Now here's a bit of a song for you, you are in western Massachusetts, right? "Oh the first of December was covered with snowSo was the tunrpike from Stockbridge to Boston
Though the Berkshires seemed dreamlike on account of that frostin'
With ten miles behind me and 10,000 more to go......"
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
One of my all-time faves, I sing it aloud, want it played at my funeral (not popping off, soon, I hope)
Aussie Sheila - I too live in a rural area, and the place my friend is building her house is not unlike what we have here - mixed suburban and older rural near a wee village with a lively pub, on water (except ours is the St. Lawrence River) about 15 miles from bigger towns. My 2 memorable things about Australia are one I read - "A Fortunate Life" - did you, years ago, that wonderful autobiography that the WW1 veteran sat and wrote at his kitchen table? or so I heard. And, of course, the TV series A Town Like Alice - where we all fell in love with - Bryan Brown? BBC and other English tv productions are played, or used to be, a lot, on american public tv, which we, on the border, can receive, thank god. But I guess people plugged into cable and satellite can, too. One thing you can say about the Brits - their TV productions are fantastic. Remember Inside the Line (British cop series about bent coppers) - the only thing I've seen on US TV to equal that was The Sopranos, which I am just watching as I never had cable or satellite in those days - and it is brilliant.Black humour galore.
Now i've got to go out and listen to the morning birds - I can see whole flocks migrating. We had a BBQ yesterday - yay spring!
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Flannelette,
(Smile) James Taylor lives a bit west of me in the Berkshires of MA. Sings in the summer, now with Carole King at Tanglewood. SBJ was a song he wrote for his brother's new born sun, on his way to NC to visit his new nephew ( named after him) for the first time. Latest Album - think it's called Troubadour, with Carole King is just lovely. I play it all the time ;-)))
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Caerus - oh, so that explains it - "rockaby sweet baby james" - he's singing a lullaby, to a real baby. I alwys thought he was trying to comfort HIMSELF with a lullaby. Maybe he was doing both. and that line 'there's a song that they sing when they take to the highway.." the highway to NC. So totally beautiful. Thanks for enlightening (no pun intended) me.
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'A fortunate life' is a classic here Flannelette, and we read it in school. I think every child should be rquired to read it these days to give them an idea of what life was like in the past. The funny thing was back then that people didn't expect things to handed to them on a plate, they knew they would have to work damm hard to get the basics of life let alone things they wanted.
I must say I agree with you on the British TV productions, I much prefer them to some of the junk that is considered popular with the younger set.
Sheila.
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I watch a lot of BBC programmes here and love those done with Discovery. BUT, there is more than one BBC channel, and some of them run crap. The US copies the worst (short on ideas?) and makes them even worse. Ah well.
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Maya2, I loved the British series "Coupling" and I don't know if that's one you would consider crap or not, but I definitely considered the American version crap. It seemed like they sucked out all the natural dry British humor and tried to turn up the little oddities to a level that just became garish.
I do have to admit that the last season of the British series jumped the shark and was crap, but I continued to watch just to see where the heck it was going.
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To those discussing going gluten free. I did that back in January and the results in my case have been impressive. I'm not on hormone drugs so it wasn't for those aches. I had chemo (for lymphoma) four years ago and had been having stomach and bowel issues ever since. I thought that was just my new "normal", but as a result of having a HIDA scan and researching my strange results I came across celiac disease and gluten intolerance. I didn't have much hope that this would be my answer and I didn't want to go through more testing so I just decided to give the diet a try, figuring that after a couple of months I'd drop it if things didn't improve a lot.
I started noticing improvement in just over a week. I had the first day I had had in years without stomach pain. Within a couple of weeks my psoriatic arthritis was down to a very low level, my psoriasis was starting to clear a bit, my stomach and bowel issues resolved. I even had more energy and slept better.
Afterwards I found out that if I want to be tested for gluten intolerance I have to go back to eating gluten for at least four weeks. I don't want to do that and my doctor says that since the only treatment is to stop eating gluten that as long was I'm willing to do that I don't have to be tested. The changes have been so good that I can't imagine myself willingly eating gluten again.
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River_Rat
So happy for you to have found such relief going gluten-free. I got the same answer from my doctor when I asked for a test - and it became less important for me to "know" - than it was to just appreciate how much better I felt. I buy ( in bulk, so there could be a teeeny, weeeeny bit of "contamination" of gluten) gluten free baking flou, it is so much less expensive than buying the packaged gluten free flours - there's a banana bread baking in my oven as I type! Also, happy Spring to all, we're having a lovely snowstorm today!! Yup - about 5 inches on the ground, but won't last cuz it's supposed to rain tonight.
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From my calendar: One who returns to his nature
and adheres to is, is worthy.
- Chou Tun-i
No idea who he was - maybe confucian? Zen? And what is one's nature? The wholeness of a person, as we tend to see it in the west (for lack of a better explanation) or - something more like Buddha nature, that mostly hidden inner quality we have lost sight of, which some here believe in, and some don't.
Mett to all
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OK - I just realized (I must have been half asleep) there are 2 Sheilas from Australia. I'd just assumed (dumb thing to do) that -Sheila- had changed her name to Aussie Sheila, and also her picture. duh - until one Sheila addressed herself to the other.........pardon me, I'm often slow on the uptake!
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I do sometimes call myself Aussie Sheila, but the name was taken!!! It's confusing for me too and I do a double take when my name is signed to words I never said. I'm thinking of changing my name in case any of my relatives google my name. I just need to think of something suitable.
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you aussie ladies are a hard act to follow..lol im just remembering.. my parents lived in west tisbury, on marthas' vineyard. James taylors' personal recording studio was on the main road to town.. and he and Carly Simon would be caught singing all the time in her grocery store. you'd walk in, think it was a tape, and then she'd walk in singing it herself. i caught the PBS special with Carol King and James. if you get a chance, get it, and tape it. i did. it was a wonderful trip down memory lane..
who else still misses Jim Croce? and Joni Mitchell? well, she's still around, and in my CD player as i write this...lol 3jays
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If I had to change mine Sheila, and the password to go with it, I might as well give up as I would never remember it all.
Sheila.
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3jays,
there's a CD of tht PBS program for those who didn't tape it. Adding to your list: Buffie St. Marie, Kate Wolf ( my all time favorite) and sometimes Judi Collins (Clouds) - happy snow to all of us in Western MA...Spring? when....
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Good morning all! I've been lurking and entertained by the thread, just haven't been posting much lately. I had to step into the music discussion. I am beginning to suspect that we are all women of a certain age. Jim Croce, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Carol King, Buffie St. Marie, Judi Collins...you've got happy memories going through my mind. But I don't recall Kate Wolf - I'll have to look her up.
3jaysmom - here's a link I had fun with the other day when I was missing Jim Croce:
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River Rat: Ha, ha, ha, I'm not going to say which shows I thought were crap on the BBC. I could get into trouble with that. There are very few threads where I fit on BC.org (no children, no grandchildren, live unconventional life) so I don't want to take the chance of offending someone with my choice of television viewing.
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Maya2, it wouldn't bother me if you thought "Coupling" was crap. I was surprised that I liked it, but DH and I laughed our heads off for the BBC version, until the last season when it got too weird. We couldn't watch the U.S. version at all though. It is rare for us to watch a regular TV show. We don't like reality TV and it seems that's the big thing now. So we generally watch comedy, movies, travel and science pieces and news and there's really nothing now that we watch on a regular basis.
Would you care to mention something that you do like?
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Well, I'm with you on the reality TV. I've always thought a rad or chemo treatment center would be more real. I enjoy nature, animals, science (and BBC and Discovery do a bang-up job on those), and paranormal shows. And I watch a couple US series: NCIS and Supernatural. Liked Medium, but now it's gone. A lot of American shows are telecast in France, even soap operas, with French subtitles. I can also see most American movies. They usually open the same or one week later than in the States--I see a movie every week.0
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The "Planet Earth" series was the last series we watched and then we bought it on DVD because we loved it so much. My mother loves all the NCIS type shows but I've never watched one. She seems to watch "religiously" and I just don't want to commit to having to keep up with a series.
We watch a lot of stand-up comedy, but I must confess we also turn a lot off half-way through. DH loves comedians with puppets so when he finds one of those we definitely watch it all the way through.
I don't get to see new movies all that often. I like to go, just don't like to spend the money. We do watch a lot of subtitled movies and I've found it interesting that as I get involved in the movie somewhere along the line I lose track of the fact that I'm reading the subtitles.
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Yes, Plant Earth was fantastic. Wish I had the DVDs, but oddly, I usually don't watch them--unless it's a yoga DVD. Are you talking about the CSIs? I don't watch them. Too gross. NCIS is different, often tongue in cheek--and it has Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly and David McCallum! I usually watch via computer. I won't stay home to watch much of anything on TV. We have certain days or times when there is a reduced rate to get into the cinema. Also belong to the movie club which gets me a free movie and snacks from time to time. I never pay full price. But I do always have popcorn and Coke whenever possible.
Sometimes at an American comedy, I'll find I'm the only one laughing--and everyone in the theatre realises I'm American. Of course, I laugh at French comedies too--the benefit of understanding another culture.
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Yes, I would be talking about the CSIs, I guess, not sure.
NCIS does sound like a different type of show? Is it something that you need to watch on a regular basis or does each show stand alone? Because it seems like I DVR things and then never remember to watch them.
We may be seeing more new releases in the future. I just found out that we qualify for the senior discount at one of the local theaters and they have also opened a discount theater nearby. So between the two there is hope.
Being able to live in France sounds like quite an experience. It is nothing like just visiting is it?
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oh yeah, ladies, im 61 tommorrow, and im guessing by music choice here, many of you went thru the hippie dippie era with me! and, im happy to see, im not the only one who didn't lose her taste for GOOD music!! thanks River Rat; i bookmarked it on my computer. now i can listen anytime.
im still changing my record (gasp) collection to CD.. i get them from CD Trader, so its' been cheap, and well worth it!
i have a confession, though.. i did by the first Lady Gaga cd, and taught my little dog to dance to "bad romance" now, how does that fit into the profile?eh
sorry, i dont know how i did that. gonna ck later, and pratice. its kinda cool, but not here... 3jays
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