T is for tired of the never ending rain

Hello ladies of the T gang, hope you are all keeping safe and well as we are here. I hope all you all managed to have a good Mother’s Day in the UK, I had a lovely email from my DIL in SF, she calls me her second MUM, she is a lovely kind and thoughtful young woman, we bless the day she joined our family!

our GSs had written Happy Mother’s Day in the sand for me! Both sons rang too so I got to see all the family even though we are all in different countries.

We are now on an extended lockdown here in Spain, it’s been extended until April 12th, we were due to go back to the UK to look after our GS again on the 14th but obviously we have cancelled our trip and as our son is working from home they don't need us anyway! There has been a message to say that although our small local medical centre has closed for general appointments, anyone who has to have regular blood tests will still be able to go there, that’s good news as Steve has to go next week for his five week test, they are also still seeing cancer patients which is good news!

I must say Brittany Ferries have been very helpful and have let me transfer our sailings free of charge to a later date. All hotels are being forced to close today but unfortunately the Spanish hotel in Santander have said they will not give us a refund, I asked if we could transfer to a later date they said yes, but want another €88! we’ve already paid €74 for one night. I not only told the manager no thank you but also that we will not ever use the hotel again, we have been staying there for about five years and sometimes three times every year. I just hope that if everyone else had the same response that they will lose business when they are allowed to reopen.

We are having awful weather here, rain started on Saturday and it’s still going off and on, it’s been raining all night and our garden is flooded, so the song about the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plane certainly isn’t true???

I’ve also been crafting, making a page for my journal and some cards for my stash. The BG is coordinations paper, sanded down after I had embossed it,

All our fruit trees on the front garden have new buds, well they did before all this torrential rain! and we still have loads of grapefruit, kumquats and lemons on the trees, I make marmalade but I didn’t want to buy sugar while there may be shortages, we still have plenty of food in The supermarket. While I was looking through the food cupboards I came across this packet of Pumpkin Bread mix, we love it and I always buy a few packets from Trader Joes to bring home.

You wouldn’t believe how excited we were to find it, luckily I had some eggs, smells glorious, we made it last and savoured every slice!

Seeing as we can’t go out I found this photo from my birthday meal last year, this was my starter, Oysters Rockafella, is that how you spell it?? Anyway they were delicious and the first time I’d tried them, persuaded by our DIL, her favourite. It’s also my ticket to join the T party, the glass of iced water, I also had a glass of wine to celebrate!!

I hope this makes you all smile, steve spotted it online, gave us a giggle.

To be honest I don’t find it boring to stay at home all day.....but I don’t understand why in one box of Rice Krispies there are 22,456 and in another there are 22,466, (and before anyone asks I have triple checked my figures).

Stay Safe Friends Jan x