For the sickos out there

This is an interesting article on the proven benefits of vitamin D, appropriate dosage and such. Of especial interest is the fact that those who aren't deficient have a lower rate of cancer, diabetes and other immunological diseases. Also, some fibromyalgia pain is alleviated by large doses (4,000-10,000 IUs/day).

The unsaid gist of the article, however, is we'd all be healthier if we joined nudist camps and lived where the sun does shine. ;-)

Walkway pics!

Only two pictures, so I hesitate to call it picspam...

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Of course the garden is still very much a work-in-progress, but it's getting there! I managed to put in all the edging stones today, so this weekend will be for planting the contents of those pots, dividing and planting a few of my bearded irises by the power pole, procuring and planting the magnolia (where the little orange flags are) and tidying up the back garden. Which has been sorely neglected, poor thing.

I need to go to a nursery or somewhere to get lots of (cheap?) pretty annuals to fill up the spaces that are left. My mum suggested verbena and alysum. I have a few snapdragon seeds left, as well, so I'll probably scatter those around when the planting is done. Hopefully next summer I'll have the finances to add more perennials (daisies and poppies are on the must-have list, though I don't know where the poppies will go...)

But progress! Definite progress! Yay!