T is for

 Thank you to all the lovely ladies who came to visit last week, sorry I didn’t get time to visit everyone who posted later, we were so exhausted by the time we arrived home from the vaccine centre all we wanted was a cup of tea and to sit down!

My DH had an appointment for 11.33 but when we arrived half an hour early it was clear that people had just arrived with no appointments and were being seen anyway, the line went around the sports centre, down and up the next road, along the main road and down and up another road, it took two hours of standing and slowly moving until he finally got into the hall, then it was a snaking line.

 all organised at the point of injection thankfully, two minutes and he was done, now we know we will ignore any appointment time and get there when they open, the next morning we both had aching back and hips, bearing in mind everyone in the line was aged 70- 79 you’d think they would have kept to appointment times to save older people having to stand for over two hours, I don’t know why we were surprised as here in Spain they have no organisation skills whatsoever.

The good thing was that we got chatting to people we had never met before, as usual the Brits in the line made jokes about it all, I’m now waiting to hear when I will have the pleasure of getting mine! My DIL said her Mum in Poland had the same experience!

One of our walks last week, another cloudy day but we enjoyed it, not many people around either. 

This is on the beach side of the Marina, a lovely place to have a drink in the summer. The restaurant used to do a ten course tasting menu, it was really delicious, you didn't get a menu and our friend Mary doesn't like shellfish, we did warn her there would be some, of course about four of the dishes had shellfish so our DH's had to eat them, no complains from either of them.

of course the views are spectacular as the other side is on the edge of the sea.

I took this from the same place looking down the Paseo, I love that we are surrounded by the mountains although they look pretty threatening when it's a cloudy day.

 This is my piece of art for our dear friend Nancy's challenge on SCS, to use corrugated cardboard.

It took me two weeks to finish it as I always get stuck at the end, I think I used everything I have in my stash, even used my corrugated paper maker, you know the little gadget that I just had to have and haven't used for about ten years.

Overnight on Sunday we had a really awful storm, thunder, lightening and torrential rain, when we woke up yesterday morning our whole garden was covered in red sand, it seems to be happening more often in recent years, it also means a few hours of intense cleaning to get rid of it.

We had to hose down the garden, something we hate to do as it such a waste of water but we know from past experiences if you let it dry it's impossible to sweep up as it dries like clay on the tiles, as for the pool, well that will be more waste water as it will have to go straight to waste water to get rid of the sand otherwise it just gets back into the filters! 

My drink related photo this week is a mug that was a gift from a friend to my DH, it’s from Woolwich where my DH did his Military training, it shows the Woolwich Barracks, it never gets used as it’s quite fine China but it was a lovely surprise gift as it reminded my DH of his time there.

Well that's me for this week, more cleaning to do, it's all go being retired LOL

Have a great T Day and keep safe.

Jan x