T is for trouble with the Pool

Hello ladies, summer has arrived in Spain, at last, normally the first of April the thermostat turns up to hot, this year has been pretty dismal especially as we had eight weeks of total lockdown. I started this post for last week but just totally forgot what day it was until late Tuesday. The whole week was pretty busy for some reason.

Our first outing out of lockdown , we had a lovely morning, after dropping the car off we walked down into the port and along the beach.

This is a rubber tree, you can see how big it is compared to the car driving down the road, it’s even got a palm tree growing through it, the roots have pushed up through the pavement.

we stopped at the bakery for croissants meaning to eat them sat on the seafront but we know the lady at the bakery and as soon as we ordered the croissants she said, dos cafe con Lethe, Steve straight away said yes please, I’m panicking and thinking nooooo! We had agreed before leaving home that we wouldn’t eat or drink out so I had carried two bottles of water! We were the only ones there and I must admit it felt so good to sit in the shade looking at the beach, she told us they haven’t earned any money for eight weeks, it’s such a shame,

We walked down to the marina, around the block and down to see our friends at the pharmacy, they were all pleased to see us, asked about the family and all the ladies came out to say hello, what a difference to the pharmacy on our Urbanización, they really aren’t friendly at all.

I tried five stationers, four closed, the only one open didn’t have ant photo paper but walking back to the garage we passed the phone shop, they had some although it was expensive but now I’ve managed to carry on with my photo journals I’ve been making. I've actually made five pages in the last three days!

Thursday afternoon I had so much fun, I joined a zoom chat with I think fourteen ladies altogether from Splitcoaststampers, Sharon (Foxystamper) joined too, one lady from Australia, one from Canada and the others from various parts of the USA, all on different time zones, some even got up at 6am so we call all meet up, there was a lot of chatter but it was fun meeting all the ladies at last. We were supposed to be crafting! Some of the ladies did manage to combine chatting with crafting and one lady made several dolls from Handkerchiefs, they are so pretty, she intends to give them away, she wanted to visit the care home but obviously isn’t allowed for the moment.

Steve made us a lovely Pork Pie salad as I was busy chatting up in my craft room so we had a late dinner, it was delicious!

Since then I’ve chatter with one friend in Australia, we did get some crafting done and it was good to share ideas.

We now go to the Paseo every day to walk, usually we are there by 8.30am before it gets busy, today they are opening the beaches with restrictions, mmmmm that’s going to be interesting we are supposedly only allowed in our own region for now but shopping centres and larger shops can open. I pleased that they are still strict about shopping, face masks must be worn, hand sanitizer and gloves given out, they even have a guard on the door at one supermarket, makes me feel safer but they seem to let more people in so it’s a case of dodging the shoppers!

This mug has a photo of Woolwich Barracks on it, Steve did his army training there and a friend who's son lives near there bought it for Steve many years ago, it's never used of course but it's a memento of his time in the Army.

Hope you are all keeping safe, We are having the skimmers fixed on the pool, a massive hole has been dug at the end of the pool so the whole garden is a mess but at least they have found the problem, a pipe had collapsed and folded up so nothing could go through it, dred to think what the bill will be but it had to be done, looking forward to them finishing so we can go walking again but he hasn't even turned up yet at 9.10am and was supposed to arrive at 8am, pretty annoying!!

Happy T Day

Jan x