Friday

 In the garden ...

... the roses are taking the limelight!

M will be here this morning, mostly weeding and general tidying but the cyclamen have to be planted and there are a couple of pots of annuals to be emptied as well.

This afternoon it's the nutrition focus class, all about brain health today which I'm sure will be interesting but, from the brief chat about it last time, will not be covering the one topic that affects me which is migraines (now classed as a brain disorder). I'll still take part in the class because I continue to be fascinated by just how much you can heal your body through nutrition alone.

And that's all there is in the diary for today. I'm now used to doing my daily Italian practice right after breakfast and that works well for me, but I haven't yet settled on the best time for the piano practice. The practice needs to become a habit so, as with the Italian, I'm tacking it on to an existing daily activity and am currently trialling early evening right after my evening meal to see how that goes. This isn't anything to do with a need to be regimented in the timing of these activities but is all about creating habits by hanging the completion of whatever activity needs to become a habit onto an existing habit, and mealtimes fit the bill for the existing habits!

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  1. You definitely have a way with roses - they are stunning.
    xx

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  2. Your ruses are gorgeous, the red ones especially are stunning. I sympathise with you having migraines, they are so debilitating, I used to be a sufferer from regular ones but thankfully not anymore. Enjoy your day.

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    1. The red one is bigger and better than I thought it would be ... the photo doesn't do it justice (reds are hard to photograph properly).

      As I've got older the migraines have eased a little in severity if not frequency but I do now have medication that can stop them in their tracks if I can take it early enough.

      Hope you have a good day too xx

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  3. Your roses are so lovely! You chose well when you chose them! I like how you add on the new activities to the current ones until they, too, become a habit! I hope you have a lovely day, today. :)

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    1. Thanks Bless. All of my roses are climbers so I debating whether I have room for a pot grown shrub rose as well. M will probably advise against it because she prefers the roses in the clay soil and there isn't room for one in any of the flower beds!

      The habit building in that way definitely works.

      Hope you have a lovely day too xx

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  4. Your roses are gorgeous. My poor roses that were big mature beautiful plants, a lovely Pink Knock Out rose, and a gorgeous Zephrine Drouhine that had finally matured into a lovely gloom covered rose, have developed a rose disease which is caused by some kind of mites which cause the leaves to turn red and small and deformed and many of the roses do not open up completely.

    I have only one small, beautiful Christopher Marlowe rose that has not been affected yet by that horrible disease. It has beautifully scented blooms. It is out in the middle of the yard. Maybe it won't get that ugly rose disease. Right at this moment I can't remember the name of the rose disease, it is something like Rosa (Rosacea, which is not correct, but I cant remember it now and the last time I left a blog to look something up, my comment was lost when I returned to it.)

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    1. Is it the rosette disease? Whatever it is, I'm sorry to hear that it's affecting your plants. Will you have to remove the affected plants or can they be treated in some way?

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  5. Beautiful roses. Your tacking the piano playing on to another activity is right out of the handbook of better habits - you are a genius for knowing this already! Also when I was training to teach "they" advised taking a positive activity & adding the difficult task right after & this was for teaching adults not kids (lol). Happy Weekend.

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    1. I've known about the building habits technique for years but strangely have never been able to get it to work for housework or exercise, even by adding it on to a positive activity ... I wonder why that is? 😂

      Happy weekend to the two of you too.

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  6. Thinking of healing through nutrition, I suffer from a condition call vestibular migraine which used to be so severe that I would be confined to bed for upto 3 days unable to even lift my head as the resulting dizziness and nausea was completely disabling. I was recommended a book call Heal Your Headache by David Buchholz. The book goes into detail about foods and chemicals that are known to trigger headaches. I have follow the suggested avoided foods and chemicals such as caffeine for around 3 1/2 years now and have only had 1 attack that but me in bed and when I analysed my food intake over the period leading up to the attack I realized that I had been eating prohibited foods such as hard cheese in cheese scones. I still get lesser attacks but these are treated with medication and very strict clean eating. As some one who enjoys cooking the switch from preserved and prepared foods to as much fresh food and from scratch cooking was not too much of a problem to me.
    I would recommend this book as an interesting way to try and self heal any migraine type conditions
    Jane

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    1. Thanks for the book recommendation. I'll try to get hold of a copy. I've been tested for allergies so am aware of my food triggers and also have a good idea of the cycle of the attacks but anything that may help is worth exploring.

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  7. Such beautiful roses and I'd guess their scent is heavenly.. Setting up good habits is a way to get things done over time and very beneficial.. well done.

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    1. I have no sense of smell so have no idea whether they are scented. I'll ask M next time she is here. I chose the varieties for the colour.

      I've found the habit setting has worked well in the past so it should do the same this time ... fingers crossed!

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  8. Love the roses. Mum had some beautiful ones outside her flat door.

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    1. Thanks Sharon. Maybe you could plant a rose in memory of your Mum xx

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  9. Those roses deserve the limelight!

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