T is for Teapot

Another week gone by and time to join Elizabeth and Bleubeard once again.

Thank you for all your kind comments last week, I’m pleased to say that Steve’s scars are healing really well, I think due to the fact they are only slowly increasing his blood thinning meds, he had to stop taking them for three days before his op so his levels dropped quite a lot. He is still waiting for his follow up appointment with the surgeon, hopefully it will before the boys come over seeing as last time we were there over three hours even though he had an appointment time.

My drink related post for this week, this cute teapot and cup.



We were just passing a shop down a back street when I spotted them so I had to run back to take a photo!

I'm assuming it's a children’s teapot as it was in a toy shop but it's so cute.









We’ve had a lovely warm week, today we left home at 8am, had our walk, breakfast, did the shopping before stopping at the garage to fill up with diesel and check the pressure of the tyres as we suddenly had a light on the dashboard come on!!
It looked as if the back tyre was nearly flat by this time so we turned around to go back into town, had a coffee while it was fixed, it had a nail in it, honestly this last week has been very trying, Saturday Steve was cleaning the pool and two tiles were sucked off the bottom, on the way home that morning a car swerved when overtaking us and flicked a stone up, cracked the windscreen, yesterday my printer stopped working,
Good old google, Steve cleaned the printer head and hey presto he's got it working again! so now we are waiting for the pool man to come around with his diving gear to fix the pool, saves draining it as it takes two days to empty and almost as long to fill it up again.  After the doctors tomorrow morning we have an hours drive to Cartagena to have the windscreen fixed. Who said retirement was boring, LOL

The school kids have been spending time on the beach body boarding, canoeing etc, the waves here on the med are only about two inches high so no surfing. Three coaches arrived as we were having breakfast, so about 150 of them all singing, clapping and cheering their way along the Paseo, it’s been going on every day and it’s so lovely to see them.
They are supervised by all young people, I guess it’s a company that does it as they all wear bright tea shirts, it looks like they have so much fun.

I just wish I could have taken a photo of all of them, it was a joyful sight seeing so many marching along with their backpacks.

Our traffic islands, something I'm not sure you have in the USA, around here have some kind of theme, well the one going in the Puerto has this Phoenician Boat on it, it is a replica of the one they found in the bay, quite impressive I think.

I will try to take photos of the others as they all represent something from this area!

Thanks for stopping by, Happy T Day!

Jan x

T is forTuesday

Happy T Day,

Hola, I'm back to join the T Party over at Elizabeth and Bluebeard's,

I’ve been MIA the last few weeks,  I was busy waving my worry stick around as Steve would say, he had an opp May 31st, with taking blood thinners he had to have blood tests etc to check the levels, it was under local anesthetic but he was actually in there for an hour and a half, they did more surgery than expected, I was pretty worried sitting waiting, trying to read my book, it’s been pretty hectic going to have his dressing changed and then in the middle of all that we had a letter to have our colon tests, such fun, LOL

On a happier note, we celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary, May 29th, we went out for a meal in the evening at our local Indian restaurant, I actually remembered to take photos, well I should say that when each course arrived Steve kept reminding to take a photo!
It’s only a ten minute walk from our villa so we had a lovely walk in the evening sunshine

The Dining Room is very nice


The early Bird Menu, between 6 pm and 8pm
As you can see from the menu they offer a large choice.









Pickles and Poppadoms while you peruse the menu.



Prawn Salad for 1st Course

Main course, Lamb Rogan Josh and Chicken Tikka Masala with Garlic Nan and Pilau Rice

The drink of choice for Steve was Sin Alcohol Beer,
 (Non Alcoholic beer), I had a glass of white wine but taken from where I sat it looked ginormous.





In my efforts not to worry I've been surprisingly crafty and have made about fifteen cards, Birthday and Christmas ones. I pulled out all my Christmas papers, I have so many that I decided to use some of the smaller pieces before the full sheets, most are freebies from craft Mags.

 I also bought a box of multi coloured card about seven years ago and some of the cream was quite a dark colour and I've found it hard to match it with patterned papers so I first picked papers that did match the cream, I got quite carried away with the Z folds, I made one for a challenge and that was it, I couldn't stop until yesterday when I ran out of steam so I put everything Christmassy away and cleaned up, it was quite a shock when I came up here this morning!

The weather has warmed up but it’s still quite windy, it's 22c when we leave home at 9am so by the time we are walking back along the Paseo it's getting very warm, we’ve started swimming but the pool isn’t  what I call warm, it’s fine once you’re in and swimming but with the wind you have to get out and dry pretty quickly, it needs to warm up in the next month before the three Grandsons arrive.

Hope everyone has a lovely crafty week and some good weather too

Jan x

Santa Baby Challenge

I am trying to use my stash so the papers used to make this card came free from a Making Cards Magazine.

I started with red base card, added a white layer with the red and green paper on the top.  The topper was also free with the mag so I attached it to some red foil card and added glitter.

The shaped Die cut is from this Sissix collection.