T is for

Hello Ladies, Happy T Day, my drink related photo this week is our breakfast place on the Marina, you can see we had already finished by the time I remembered to take a photo,

You can see the tables are spaced out and no one around as we left home before 8 am so not too many people about although as lockdown eases it’s getting busier, that worries me as we will soon be getting visitors from outside of Murcia, we have been virus free for about three weeks now so I think people are getting complacent, they don’t walk to the side sometimes when we pass, quite annoying as we walk in single file, the shops are still being careful, in fact I saw a spanish man sent out for not wearing a mask, another was asked where his mask was, oh in his pocket, really!

This is a road near our house, these trees are beautiful when the flowers are out but unfortunately they only last a short time, they are a pretty colour though. I believe they are called Jacaranda Trees. this year they seemed to have bloomed everywhere!

I have been doing my scrap pages and making cards for the Alpha Challenge, the first one E for exercise. I printed the BG and pieces for the decoupage, I think it's from an old La Pashe CD from years back,

The second card Just chilling, was for J, sometimes it's a small link to the letter!!! I found the image in an envelope when I was tidying my craft room shelves!

We've been doing one job per day, my job last week was to fix a leak on one of the steps leading under the villa, the rain water has been getting through from under the path, it's not high enough to use the space down there so we only had spare tiles under there, I also tiled the one step and the front and sides while I was down the hole, unfortunately I then couldn't step on the newly laid tiles, Steve tried to pull me out, in the end I had to get my foot on the narrow ledge and with Steve's help managed to pull myself out, not a pretty sight I can tell you, he told me afterwards that there was a massive spiders web with a giant spider down there, he knew I wouldn't go down there if I had known. LOL

I guess that's all my news for this week, nothing too exciting!

hope you are all keeping safe and well, Jan x

T is for Two New Grand Doggies

Hello Ladies , T Day once again, the last week seems to have past very quickly, after our morning walk we have been doing one job per day

I've been up on the roof of the shed painting the metal rejas over the ensuite window, that took two days because when we thought we had finished we went inside and realised how much we had missed from the other side, we have a fixed fly screen so we can't paint it from inside, the next day Steve was telling me where to paint from inside!! no easy task as it has swirls and curls all over the place. so trying to guess where he meant was hard going and I was in the hot sun!

Trying to get down was scary too as I didn't have anything to hold on to as it was all wet paint, the paint brush was stuck to my plastic glove and Steve is stood there holding the ladder telling me to let go and hold his hand, ha, ha no way, eventually he came half way up the ladder to help me.

Our Grandsons have been very excited as last weekend they collected their new puppies, our eldest DGS called his pup Freya after a Greek god and the younger DGS called his Millie! I was talking to our son on my iPad when my iPhone started ringing, it was our eldest GS calling me from the Garage, he wanted me to see the pups, he’s very excited and is taking his duties as puppy owner very seriously. The younger one said he's not sure he's as interested in puppies as his brother, that didn't take him long to realise it's hard work!

This is where we walked this morning, well most days, it's a Fiesta today, Murcia Day so it was quite busy even at 8.15 am when we arrived. we sit here as it's half way and admire the views, we usually come to this end with the family, just away from the rocks, it's less busy and near the car park, saves carrying all the gear needed when you have the GSs with you. It's very shallow until you get quite a long way out which is good for the youngest. They like to look between the rocks as there's very often small fish.

Sadly their flights have been cancelled , they should have been arriving next week for two weeks, we have also had to cancell our flights to see them in October as we have been told our travel insurance won't cover us for the virus, I'm not sure anyone thinking of booking to go to another country this summer have actually thought about this, We are still waiting to get a voucher from BA, fingers crossed we actually get one that we can use next year.

You can see the lighthouse on the left, the building with the white wall to the right is actually a cafe bar, it is on all different levels with tables on all levels with beautiful views, it has a small swimming pool at the bottom .

As you can see our family love to come up here for a drink when they are over in summer, the cafe is only during the summer months, not sure about this year though! Things are slowly getting back to normal although we are being super careful as people seem to forget they should keep their distance on the seafront, we seem to be the only ones dodging round everyone.

Thank you to everyone who came over for a visit last week, sorry to anyone I missed, I tried to visit everyone but I was confused by the double posts, thanks Elizabeth for linking me up!

Until next time, Take care everyone and stay safe Jan x

T for Tostada con Tomate

Good Morning Ladies, Happy T Day, the weather is beautiful here, rather hot when we have any jobs to do but a quick dip in the pool afterwards is always refreshing.

Last Sunday we went down to Bolneuvo for our walk and breakfast, Tomatoes on Toast, a dibble of Olive Oil, sprinkling of Pepper, delicious and A cup of Flower of Jamaica coffee!

This is the view from our table,

We extended our walk along the seafront, a five minute sit on the bench and then back down the paseo for breakfast, around the campsite and back to the car, it's a couple of miles and lovely views. While we were taking a five minutes break we were watching a man trimming the palm trees, the building behind him is a two storey building.

I love the way they chop them so the round bit below the leaves looks like a pineapple, he was just tied on with a line but you can see how he leans back and bearing in mind he has a chain saw hanging from his belt!!!

The Paseo, lots more people opening their holiday villas this week.

Bolneuvo is famous for the Sand sculptures, made by erosion from the wind and rain. Believe it or not people climb on them to take selfies, one part, you can just see to the right hand side a flat piece balancing on the top, that has fallen while Lockdown has been going on so it's all roped off as some fell on to the Car Park!

I thought this might make you smile, we see this lady on the other Paseo at the main beach, always makes me smile as she always takes her dogs for a walk, an unusual way to exercise them don't you think!! Taking three of them out in her shopping trolley.

I made this card for a challenge, it was suppose to be to use splats and sprinkles but when I went to post it I realised it was supposed to be a CAS card, hardly that but it's another card for my stash. I enjoyed messing with brushos but it ended up too dark so I sprinkled Gold Micra poweer on too, I die cut the TH Apothecary Bottles with some acetate that has bits in it, never used the die before even though I had it for some years, I used the poppy die to make the flowers, tied some gold beading around it with a tag, it took me two days to finish it!

Hope you are all well and keeping safe, you could almost think nothing had happened here apart from seeing people in masks, I must admit it scares me a little but people are keeping their distance although one lady in the supermarket was told off at the check out for going to close to the man paying, maybe she didn't see the great big orange strips on the floor!! some people, LOL Have a Happy T Day. Jan x