T is for Tuesday

Good Morning, afternoon or evening depending where you are in the world.

I’ve had a very busy few days since the last T day, we decided after having problems with our car that we would look for another one as we drive usually twice a year from Spain to England so need reliability, we saw a car we liked and was told two weeks, that was a shock, we were expecting six weeks, anyway to cut a LONG story short, from ordering it on Monday morning by 7pm Wednesday we were driving home in our new car! Talk about frantic, organising new insurance documents, money transfers, then an hours instruction on how to use all the gadgets, our old car being twenty years old only had a cassette player and no mod cons, now our iPhone rings on screen, etc,etc, our brains were frazzled by the time we arrived home, we are quite computer savvy but having it all in a car is quite another thing,  also having no key,!! 
Thank goodness for YouTube and the manual, I had my first drive yesterday, today I drove to the beach for our walk, it's lovely to drive but having six gears was a challenge!
Of course within ten minutes of getting home a photo had been sent out to our family showing their Dad with his new toy, he told them he wasn't worried about spending the money as it was only their inheritance, DIL thought that was very amusing.

We had lunch our with our friends last week, same restaurant and no photos, too busy chatting!! In the course of the conversation our friends were saying they had new neighbours and whilst chatting to them started to tell them about a mosaic they were doing, their neighbour said he knew someone who had made a massive mosaic years ago,  they then realised that they were both talking about the same Jan, me ! 

This is my mosaic, just over six feet high and about 30 feet long, it took  ten months to complete.
  Before we moved to Spain on TV a gardener made a small one as a focal point, when we moved in I decided to have a go! Ten months later! Yes it took that long, Steve smashed the tiles, I roughly drew the palm trees and mountains and then painstakingly stuck the tiny pieces on, we used to go around at night into gardens of unoccupied villas, the workers would just throw the spare tiles away so we collected them for the sky and the dark ones for the sea.

My drink this week was going to be a drink in the outer part of the pineapple with juice and fizzy water mixed together, our son gave us this gadget that cuts pineapples up, it’s amazing how easy it is, we had fresh pineapple and Greek yoghurt and honey for afters, unfortunately we cut too deep and made a hole in the bottom, lesson learnt for next time.

My drink today was Elderflower Cordial with fizzy water, too warm for tea, very refreshing, I buy ice now as they last much longer in Summer, the ones you made yourself are too small and sometimes have melted away before you get outside!



Thanks to all my visitors last week and kind comments, I hope you all have a great week and are enjoying some good weather.
Jan x