Archive for January, 2009
still here
Hello
Yes there has been a long gap in posts. This is mainly through visitors and chest infections. All is well. I am discovering parts of Spain through the pensionistas trips, and weekly walks.My laptop at present is not working so it may be a week or so til serious blogging returns, in the meantime there are visits from Ann, Marjorie, Nina Paula and girls, Brenda and Bernard and lastly Graham and Sadie. Hopefully normal service will be resumed soon Hasta luego
1 comment January 28, 2009
Boxing Day Costa Blanca Style
Well I did go swimming in the sea on Xmas Day, and I did go to midnight mass on christmas eve, and I have got another heavy cold, which I think is more to do with the freezing cold church, than the temperature of the sea, but all the same I am housebound for a couple of days, a good opportunity to catch up with you all.
Christmas Day was lovely. I actually missed the headlong rush into the sea, which happened an hour before I arrived. However Shelley and Don were still there with the champagne and snacks, providing a meeting place for friends to catch up with each other, sometimes for the first time since last xmas.They are a lovely couple, who work for an english charity, doing hands on work with homeless people, the sick, expats who need to go back to the UK. They also made a splendid christmas dinner, and invited another temporary expat to join them. We were held spellbound during the meal, while Charles, from NZ , who also had lived in South Africa, Rhodesia, and various parts of Spain, working as a nurse, and nurse tutor. Although ill himself he now worked with girls forced into prostitution on the Costa Blanca.
It is now 2 days after new years day, and have spent a lot of it immersed in the flu that everyone seems to have had.
Ihad some great chats with my grandchildren on skype, and new years eve in the square at Altea was brilliant, no doubt about it. I loved the music the free champane, grapes, marraccas, fancy hats, and the fireworks provided a suitable climax to it all. Then we went back and did english new year at my house an hour later. The photos do not do it justice, but took a short movie to upload. Then returned to more coughing and sneezing. I am now pretty well recovered and Graham is helping me revise my exercise leaflets to expand the classes over the next 3 months. So photos to follow, and A HAPPY NEW YEAR ONE AND ALL.
3 comments January 3, 2009
