T is for Tuesday

 Hello ladies, thank you to those of you who came  over to visit last week, it was so lovely to see you and read your comments.

Our weather has cooled quite a bit, the days are now comfortable, lovely to sit in the garden, cool evenings too so no air con or even the fan, the pool is getting cooler too which isn’t quite so good as I’m very nesh as we say, we are trying to swim as much as possible before it gets too cool, the pool temperature has been 30c through August!

We see this cow every morning on our walk along the Paseo, usually being pushed out of the shop, always makes us smile as when we had to wear a mask  it had a mask on, sometimes sunglasses, over the weekend a sun hat.

We had a lovely Menu Del Dia last Wednesday but unfortunately I couldn’t take any photos, the place was full and it’s a massive restaurant on the Marina so I felt uncomfortable getting my phone out, shame as it was delicious, I had salad and gazpacho, (cold tomatoe soup),   I actually ordered the pork but when it came it had sauce on it so my husband swapped me for his  meluza(hake) the couple on the next table were  laughing at us, my husband had guiso (stew) it looked delicious but it’s too filling for me, the Spanish really make delicious stews but always for a starter which is usually bigger than the main course.

My drink for this week is this cute mug, they all have quotes on the other side.

They are usually in Spanish but this one is in English.

The cafe where we have breakfast has a selection of big mugs, Alvaro says he knows the English enjoy a large coffee and hot but he was telling us that the Spanish prefer their coffee in  glasses as they prefer their coffee lukewarm .

We finally managed to meet our friends for breakfast yesterday, they go home on Sunday and every time we arrange a day something comes up, we had time to catch up a little bit but we noticed a piece of metal sticking our of our car tyre when we parked so we had to leave to get it fixed, luckily it hadn’t damaged the tyre! 

This is a notepad my GS chose for me from the school Fayre, it's actually quite realistic.

I actually have quite a few notebooks, For some reason I love them and I have quite a few, but never use them! I used to write my shopping list in them but now I use the notes on my iPhone.

I received this lovely card from a crafty friend who lives in Canada,  the background behind the trees of the Northern lights is so beautiful,  I have met so many friends through crafting and the T blog, the lady at the post office even commented when I had a pile of cards to post as I only had one to the UK, the rest were going to Canada and the US.

Tomorrow we are off to Murcia again to try and buy my mini iPad, again, wish me luck as I feel I may need it!!

Jan x

Long Time no T

 I'm back, it’s taken a while to get back into the swing of things. We had Lots of fun with the family but because of the heat we’ve had to get back to normal slowly, I’m not sure why it takes me so long to get back into normal life after visitors.

We had so many lovely meals out, we decided it would be cooler to eat out than cook in the heat, our GS at five years old has eaten so many things, he’s really amazing.

The first evening we went to the Italian restaurant on the Marina which is their favourite place, our GS wanted Octopus, when it arrived it was a whole leg, we thought he would freak him out but no, he tucked in to it and managed to eat three quarters of it, of course his Dad and Grandad finished it off,  as a family we never waste food!

The Cuttle Fish my Husband ordered.

I was boring and had Hake and DIL had Bolonese Pizza.

My Sons fried Fish platter, notice his holiday shirt, they are always left here for his holidays. Also his Tankard of beer!

Second night we had an Indian meal, our GS had poppadoms with mango sauce, some prawn cocktail, we ordered him a prawn korma but he fell asleep, his dad carried him home, totally forgot to take photos . Same at the Chinese restaurant, no photos, GS had spring rolls, duck pancakes that he rolled himself and prawns. 

The last night they chose to go back to the Italian restaurant, our GS had Chopitos, I wish I could show the whole photo of him as he was concentrating on eating with such a serious face!

My husband ordered Ribs, another holiday shirt of course!!

We didn't actually eat out for quite a few weeks after they left, you can see why!

We had a fun trip to Murcia last week, we tried to order a new mini iPad for me, it has to be done online and my DH tried but was a bit worried so we drove over to the apple store, an hours drive, so two young ladies were helping us,I picked the colour, purple of course, all good until we tried to pay, our Spanish debit card wouldn’t bring up the pop up to accept the payment, tried twice, then tried DHs card, same, tried the credit card it, it said NO! We offered cash ,not allowed, asked if they had the card machine, no had to be online for pre orders.

I realised on the way home that they had used our Spanish address with the credit card and it’s a British card, ha,ha, well after that we gave up, we did have lunch on the way home but we both felt physically drained, my DH isn’t good at not being in charge as he likes to take his time and read every part when it involves his money! whereas the girls were zipping through it all LOL.

Hopefully in a couple of weeks they will have some spare stock and we can just buy one with cash!

I received this card from my friend in Australia, it was a while ago, to congratulate me on being the Feature Stamper on SCS, we had made BGs using the Bokeh method for a challenge and you can see how beautiful my friends turned out. It's also very glittery around the circles which doesn't show on the photo.

It was such a lovely surprise to find it in the mailbox.

I hope everyone is keeping healthy, I’m looking forward to checking out what you’ve all been up to, keep safe.

Jan x