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Must be Japanese...

Hi friends,

Hope you are keeping well.

Shockingly, I got atopic eczema at the tender age of 46!! Unbelievable!

Atopic eczema, also called atopic dermatitis is a common skin problem for small kids but they grow out of it once they establish their immune system. However, there are some adults who get it in their 30s and 40s. They are said to be allergic, having intense stress, have got dry skin etc.

Hurrah! It seems I am one of those unfortunate adults.

Common characteristics of these adults are, asthmatic and often getting hay fever…..yes , it is so me, isn’t it? Damn…

To ease the symptom, I started reducing sugar intake (good bye cakes and chocolates) and start eating more vegetables and sleep earlier.

I also got this and started taking it in smoothie.

This is spirulina powder. If you are not familiar with spirulina, there is always good old Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_(dietary_supplement)

And this is my spirulina smoothie. Does not look particularly glamourous or appetising, is it?

Spirulina is a kind of sea algae, isn’t it? You know the green stuff floating in water. Not seaweed, bit more fluffy thing. I think it is closer to fungus than weeds.

As we live in modern world, we now know it contains lots of nutritious but, I just wonder who on earth started eating such weird thing.

Must be Japanese…..lol.

Watch your...

Watch your thoughts for they become words,
watch your words for they become actions,
watch your actions, for they become habits,
watch your habits for they become your character,
watch your character for it becomes your destiny.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Church Cottage

Hi friends,

Hope you enjoyed the lovely weather yesterday. It was bit chilly this morning, wasn’t it?

I had been busy looking for a place to live in South Warwickshire and found a little cottage in a picturesque village.

This is the cottage I am moving into. It is 300 years old.

Living Room.

Although this is supposed to be a living room, I will use this room as a dining room. As you may remember, my favourite dining table is 2m long x 1m wide solid oak and this is the only room I can place such a bulky thing.

Bed Room

This is really a petty room. Although it is small, it has got certain charm and I envisage myself spending more time in this room. This will be my sitting room. I have 2 bed rooms, so the other room will be used as a main bed room.

I should be settling down by my birthday. Wait for my invite for special green tea here. 

See you soon.

Breakfast and Lunch

Happy Spring Cleaning - Clothing Part1

Hi friends,

I am moving out from the lovely cottage in Kineton at the end of April. It has been happy six years and I would like to express my humble gratitude to the best landlord any tenant could wish for.

He has been looking after me and other tenants so well but decided to sell everything to enjoy his retirement. It is sad but I wish him and his wife happy retirement and all the best in the future.

Prior to the moving, I decided to start sorting out the clothes, since it is my spring event anyway.

I have more dresses than any other clothing, because I am always wearing a dress at work.

Well, I have to admit, I have lots of dresses, but they are my work clothing. I wear them all the time.

Then, jeans. Skinny ones,  wide-legged ones, rolled-up ones, 2 cropped ones.

Coats and a winter jacket.

Cardigans and a bolero.

Jackets.

I only own one suit.

As the number is indicating, I hardly wear them, once or twice in a year.  I do not like spending money on things I do not often use, so the above trousers suit came from Sainsbury’s but they are decent enough, aren’t they?

Skirts.

You have seen 50 items of what I have in my wardrobe. Let’s see what else I will keep.  

Spring cleaning continues….

Healthy! - Rice Salad with Poached Egg

Hi friends,

Don’t you sometimes get the moment that you become desperate for a certain food?

I do. On Easter Sunday, I was dying for rockets. Not the one NASA is spending fortune on but the green bitter leaves you can find in posh salad.

Good old Waitrose was closed on Bank Holiday Monday. Damn.

I became so desperate and Googled opening hours of Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Morrison’ s to check which one opens earliest.  How sad is that!

Since Monday, I kept eating rockets and now,  I do not wish to see them for few months.

Rice salad with poached egg.

As well as rockets, there are some salad leaves. I used onions, asparagus, shiitake mushrooms, spring onions and sweet corns for fried rice. It is curry flavoured rice, similar to Biriyani.

It was so good with a poached egg. Yummmm…..