T is for thunder storm

 Since last week we had another small job to do, my husband said he would make me a fly screen for my craft room window, I've only had the craft room for eighteen years so maybe it could have waited for cooler days, my fault really as since we put the fly screen over the door it blocks out the breeze, I mentioned this and so he went out to buy the bits and pieces.

We started at 7.45am as it was slightly Misty and lovely and cool, so the first three sides were quick but doing the top part, again it was a concrete pillar with metal rebars, the drill actually stopped working but luckily my husband still had the old plug into the electric type, then the raw plugs were too small then the screws were too small so an hour later , in the sun we decided enough was enough, two hours we’d been up there, we still haven't put the mesh in as it's been too hot, maybe tomorrow, early.

Good news, our vaccine passports arrived by post, that’s ticked off the list, I was excited when I saw it was front the health authorities thinking it was my new medical card, oh well at least one of the three documents we are waiting for has arrived.

Reading Elizabeth’s blog and seeing the photo of her Poinsettia, well this is mine from last Christmas. It’s slowly going green, I’m assuming in the winter the flowers will appear again. I did keep in the the conservatory until it started to wilt in the heat,  then I took it outside in partial shade, didn’t like that either, now it’s in the shade and it’s growing again.

We have trees over here that have flowers that look like poinsettias, one village has them growing along the road and the trees look quite bare but have the big red flowers on them. I had a poinsettia a few years ago, planted it in the garden and it grew into a small tree until my husband decided it needed trimming, sadly it died, I was quite annoyed and banned him from touching my flowers after that

Walking around the Marina last week we saw this beautiful ship, it’s from Gdańsk in Poland, I'd love to know if it actually sailed from there, we’ve been told  you can pay to look around, a bit disappointing as we thought you could go on a trip, it has a pirate flag and thought our GS would enjoy it.

It's beautifully made and even has guns on the top deck at the front.

It' very hot and humid at the moment so we've had to start using the air con during the night, I haven't been spending much time up here in my craft room, half an hour and I'm melting!!

Yesterday afternoon we had rain, slowly the sky became darker and darker, suddenly we heard strange banging, it was massive hailstones, they were bouncing off the villa, we were sat outside and they were actually hitting us underneath the roof, it was quite nice until the lightening came, I had to go inside, scares me. This was 2pm believe it or not.

The bits are hailstones that have smashed up.

The thunder rumbled on for a couple of hours but after that everywhere was so dry you wouldn't believe it had rained.

Part of Our beach has washed away so it roped off for now and the main street in the Port was flooded, again, some had photos that looked as if they had snow on the ground.

Although I didn’t join the ATC  swop due to the slow postal service I have made one for the occasion.

 A crafting friend send me the vintage ads I used for the BG and I added brown glitter to look like hot chocolate, also my ticket to the tea party for this week.

Thanks you to all my lovely visitors last week, after seeing the awful floods in so many countries I hope you ladies are all safe and well.

Jan x