Boxing Day Costa Blanca Style
January 3, 2009
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.
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1. Graham and Sadie | January 5, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Two Christmas day swims in a row is quite impressive. Will you be swimming again next Christmas or would that mean breaking the ice on the Leeds to Liverpool canal!?
Hope the leaflets print out and drum up some eager punters.
Love Graham and Sadie xx
2. Marjorie | January 9, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Hi,
glad you had a good christmas. The social life out there does seem fantastic. Because you are ‘outsiders’ do you think? You seek the familiarity of others with the same backgrounds? Generally I mean. Some will be more adventurous in socialising with locals, depending perhaps on both their level of Spanish and their lack of shyness, or their good social skills.
I have signs of a beginning underactive thyroid it seems, and may need to take the hormones which are being depleted by the antibodies which are thinking my thyroid is a foreign invader. What a genotype I appear to have.
I found your camera CD in my desktop Ann, when I used it temporarily to receive emails while my laptop was in for repairs. If you need it I can post it, or keep it till I see you again.
Well I’d better leave you to your swimming in the sea, whilst I bring my frozen clothes in off the line. Don’t mind about us will you?
Seriously though, make the most of it, it’s extremely cold here,
Marjorie
3. Val Carroll | January 13, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I look at your blog regularly Ann – it’s great to hear how you’re getting on, even though our weather here is so dire and we’re all green with envy.
Hope you’ve recovered from your flu by now. It’ll go round like wildfire over there with all the socialising that goes on. Those of us who’ve battened down the hatches over here are perhaps less susceptible. Not a good reason for living like this though!!!
I’m counting down till I leave work at the end of February – 34 working days to go, including today (13 Jan). And am looking forward to my Cuba trip with Val in mid-March. She’s in Belize at present with Sophie and Lee at their house on the beach – sounds great, but I haven’t heard from her yet. (They got engaged at Xmas by the way!)
Looing forward to the next blog…..