M.
I am pieces of all the places I have been, and the people I have loved. I've been stitched together by song lyrics, book quotes, adventure, late night conversations, moonlight, and the smell of coffee.
Brooke Hampton
"Each friend represents a world within us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." ~ Anais Nin Vita dolce far niente...
M.
I am pieces of all the places I have been, and the people I have loved. I've been stitched together by song lyrics, book quotes, adventure, late night conversations, moonlight, and the smell of coffee.
Brooke Hampton
And the completed peas.. there were more than it looks... I went into the kitchen and cooked off some red onion some garlic, diced up a few new potatoes, keeping on the skins, cooked off a little more with some stock, then added the peas for five minutes and some fresh mint!
Was okay, I mean not the best soup, but I ate it over the next few days so nothing wasted...
Now.. what else, Saturday! Went to a beer and food festival, there were a couple of sudden drops of rain but not enough to stop people eating where they sat on the grass, or to stop the musicians from playing and people to abandon the hay bales..
Two great bands, solo singers... but neither of them said 'hello' or introduced themselves.. it's nice when musicians interact with the audience, you feel included...
Anyways, I bought a few items, an amazing snake made with a 3D printer, and an octopus!! I'll take photographs tomorrow... Couple of LEGO characters.. Mmmm oh and a very large amount of Turkish Delight!! Two pieces of every flavor, after he cut off tiny pieces for me to try!
I was aiming for an advertised price for a specific weight.. but that went.. somewhere! Where all good intensions go! As the seller was just piling it in a box then weighed it, I tried to not looked shocked and just tapped my phone and ran!
Cannot show you, today is Friday and there is none left! At all!! Can't lie!
Today, went for a ride out on a bike, Matlock Bath, lovely sunny day, had a jacket spud with chilli con carne.. nice bit of spice actually...
And sat there, outside the pub, the benches all up on a raised area above street level, with all bar one bench taken, every one of the customers were bikers; the path, a slow moving walkway of people admiring the parked up bikes next to the kerb.. my casco, (helmet), on the wall, my jacket on the back in my seat.. my 'helmet head' hair pulled back, my fine array of tattoos! And I giggled to myself when a passing woman said to her partner when he suggested 'sit up there?' she looked up, looked shocked looked panicky! and said "oh no, I didn't want to sit up there!."
So funny, to be somewhere where someone can't imagine being happy sitting, because of how the other people, the majority, all look like!
Made my day!
M.
The universe will surprise you
Constantly
Oops catch up! When I last posted I was on the beach down at Cabopino on Sunday..
What did I do Saturday? Let me check my calendar! Okay! Met up with friends here in town, coffees chatting lunch! I remember now!
Then Sunday with J. down at Cabopino most of the day, didn't get back until the evening, I was under the parasol all day, well, most of me... A group started playing in the mid afternoon which was nice, so a day of good conversation, lots of laughter and people watching.. followed by more laughing!!
Yesterday, Monday, Torremolinos with the girls, K. and S.,
Went to The Tudor Rose I used to take Peter too.. which was why we went. On the approach no parking spaces, so I carried on past, around the two Picasso dancing girls roundabout, and back.. and a space right outside! Perfect!
We walked up and sat down, no electricity! She said only cold drinks and food at the moment.. We debated staying or leaving and I said out loud, 'Peter!! What are you doing to us?!' and the electric came back on! Again! Perfect!
After a light breakfast, my second of the day! We went to Ikea, where I tried and succeeded in not buying anything!! A very rare occurrence, but then, seriously! What was a going to do! Carry it back to England with me!! Noooo!
Then!! After items were purchased we were off to Casa las Flores! Hence the turtles in the top photograph, they have opened up the area around the raised flower beds and painted the fence; when I was last there I couldn't get close to see them!
Night before last there was a fire in the Finca la Mota área in the evening and turned the sky a beautiful color...
Coffee with T. and then my neighbor, then a wander around town.. made the mistake of (or made the most of), going into my favorite store, Bulee, only purchased two items! Well, one item is a twin set.. So sort of three items, for the price of two! I say, explaining myself to absolutely no body at all!
Now I sit here at Bar Mori, Isa's café, a cup of té verde, writing my memoires..
M.
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
Bob Proctor - 1934-2022 - Author and Speaker
More from Fridays trip to Málaga and the Botanical Gardens..
My photographs really do not do the place justice..
Stunning colors, some blooms fading already as the heat sets in..
The area above they use for weddings and we imagined how they would hold them there .. Then we began wedding planning! How, where, the best places there... And if our gardens... What we would do...
Yep, three women dreaming as girls ...
Black bamboo, a couple of amazing bamboo forests here, green and black ... Amazing to walk through...
Many of the pools and streams had thousands of tadpoles in! The water was alive with them! And in this one a turtle or two!
This building, a small museum, below, looked new but was very very old... Gorgeous..
So many pathways, so much to see, beautiful.. we'll be back!
Hopefully, again and again, it's so close! Forty minutes from here really, that's all...
Or again bus and coach, easy...
M.
Go as far as you can see. When you get there you will see how you can go farther.Thomas Carlyle - 1795-1881 - British Historian-Essayist-Philosopher-Mathematician-Teacher
The house! Stunning! I'll put a link here to the Botanical Gardens of Málaga.
Some photographs today, more in the morning..
Two nights ago I dreamt about many holes in the road ahead of me...
Dreams about holes in the road often symbolize life's challenges and obstacles, suggesting the need for caution and perseverance. The holes can represent unexpected difficulties or situations that require careful navigation. It may also reflect a sense of being lost or facing uncertainty in one's life.
Interesting eh! Sorry dream out of context, but I'd already left this here from yesterday morning.. and let's be honest, much of life is out of context!
So yesterday!
After our long wonderful day in Málaga, I had a brief reprieve and then off to Bar Monika at the other end of town, my old end, so to speak!
After a glass of wine and the world's largest burger to share! Would not, could not be eaten alone, and still both left some!
A good laugh, good conversation and in my old local..
Yesterday's walk back from Cabopino, much humidity
And along the beach much much seaweed!!
Piling up all along here.. sand is missing and rocks aplenty..
This used to be nice to sunbathe on, not too wide, and never too busy..
More rock puddles now and sea urchins!
My temporary fur baby.. She's so beautiful, so loving and last night kept very tight to me, all night..
This was around midnight..
The thunder and flashings of lightening drew me up to the terrace, I watched nature's amazing light display..
Photographs were difficult to capture and videos a bit hit and miss!
I love these Spanish storms.. spectacular!
Stayed up there a long while until the rain began hammering down, then I thought I better get back in, and continue with Lady Chatterley's Lover, on TV..
Feel so sorry for J.'s mom, using her Netflix account, I'm completely trashing it!!Today I drove down to the market to meet a friend for coffee, I parked as directed by the attendants and walked off to the bar in the Carrefour nearby.
After coffees I went for a meander around the market, and it was only when I got to the very end, the top end... I walked back into the carpark area from there... And realized, I have absolutely no idea where the car is!!
I walked up and down like a numpty, both exist lanes full of people trying to get out by car, and after a quarter of an hour I gave up!
When I go back, I'll walk up to the BBVA bank, and try to retrace my steps from there...
And, the market will be emptier by then, it closes at 14:00, it's not closed yet... But I've walked into La Cala and have had some pizza and Aquarius drink..
Then I'll walk the boardwalk for a while..
Fingers crossed enough cars will have left and the car will show up for me!!
Never lost a car before!! I think ours had a small bit of reflective tape on the aerial... Franco was always losing the car! He was allowed to!
Update! Walked a long way down the boardwalk, about as far as Miraflores.. then I walked back to the feria ground... The back way, the main road way... Still stalls up, mostly being packed away, but still seemed busy, cars were thinning out... I was looking for my car .. before, in the totally wrong place, it was up against a barrier??
I do not remember that, I guess being distracted by the .. everything else!!
M.
You choose the life you live. If you don't like it, it's on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.
Kim Kiyosaki - Author and Speaker
Today lunch with J., but first I parked down at El Zoco, first visited in 1989, it can't have been there long, talking to our neighbor from Calipso.. She remembers when her and her husband bought the apartment and there was no El Zoco.. just an olive grove there ..
I don't think it would have been there that long then... Thirty six years since I first visited there, for restaurant, for supermarket for the bars...
I did the tourists thing and took plenty of photographs, not many people about, and lots of places closed, or closed up.. Seems sad there..
She was sat with a lady who used to own the Almond Tree with her husband... Before the Sullivan's were there... I knew the lady also, from work...
I'd popped into the office and saw the lady who works there, for the apartments.. It was her birthday!
Good to see her also..
Then!! Off to 'work' and we went for lunch, I tried not to pull forward too much, or faceup! So difficult not just do what I did...
Had a lovely lunch as always, time went too quickly.. I miss her...
More tomorrow..
M.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
William James - 1842-1910 - Philosopher and Psychologist