Its another beautiful day here in Welsh Wales... had a couple of dreary days after last weeks heatwave, and now today its back! Hot hot hot!!

And so enough already of the weather report! How sad I am being!!

Time is going okay, I am, as aforementioned, calling on the next week in my thinking, so its two weeks next Wednesday for me now! And as its Wednesday tomorrow, it really will be two weeks on Wednesday, the rest of this week is going to be a busy one due to the amount on the calendar, and although not wishing my life away, just my time here, it will soon be Monday and in my head I will be saying one week next Wednesday!!

I'm getting confused though and well ahead of myself, because I have only been here two weeks tomorrow!! LOL and it feels like months already!!

Closeup shot of a clematis above and a spider-like creature below, its not a spider, its a Harvestmen thingy! There are hundreds on the outside of the house in the evening!!  Its like they're gathering up!

That's it!  The 2016 Olympics are over, I have never in all my life watched this much of them!  I was a captive audience! And now TV is back to cookery programs and nature documentaries, really the only things here...

My friend who comes to visit me here has been away in Italy!  She is back now, and I can't wait to see her! Web cam conversations with family and phone calls with friends, they all keep me real...

TTFN
Marian
[hanging in!]

Morning Dew

Back in work now almost a week.  I try to speed the week through by missing all the days between each week, round up the days so to speak! So when I arrived on Wednesday last week I said, 'Okay, four weeks next Wednesday!'  Therefore, tomorrow I will be saying, 'three weeks' next Wednesday!

Just my way of getting by, especially as this is a long five weeks stint...

But serious stuff now! You know, ladies out there reading this, there are a few things that no one told me about, now they must be things lots of people do know, just never bothered saying... like moms telling daughters!  I know when young I found there were several unknown factors that I had to come across by myself!  But as I get older, some more are becoming quite clear!

Last month I mentioned to son about an eyebrow... just the one!  My eyebrows have always treated me well!  Never having to pluck or change or move about... only a little tweezering when I was about 13 and they remembered where I didn't want the odd stray and they never came back there!  Then suddenly, and I mean suddenly!  My left eyebrow is not the same as the right!! To all intents and purposes it looks okay, but the structure of the hairs has changed, and one grew really long!!!  My son didn't look too surprised, nodded and agreed, and when I said 'this doesn't seem like news to you!'  he said it wasn't and was something that had happened to him years ago!!! LOL  Minus the tweezering of course! LOL

And, now this is the really bad news that maybe some people know, or don't!?!  Well, I know I have a good head of hair, as people always tell me, but this has definitely thinned out!  I can feel it, and it is really worrying me, which probably won't help... Reading up on this, it seems that when estrogen levels drop, testosterone levels increase, bringing the male hair pattern with it!  So check out your dad or granddads hair line!

It coincided with me upping my levels of turmeric, for bonus reasons, then found a negative of too much turmeric is hair loss!!  Also been under a bit of stress this year, so could just be a combination of things I guess, I need to relax about it and not get panicky!

Morning Dew

I've walked into town once in the last week, and have to walk in again today... I know its not that far, but it seems it, about 20 minutes to half hour, the last bit back here is uphill all the way... The road is fast, a 60mph zone and the other day there were about half a dozen Welsh Water trucks were parked up near a hole in the ground!!  I asked if this was the Welsh water well?  A man said 'yes!' and we stealing it and taking it to England!!

I have to try to walk in at least once every few days, otherwise I just don't get fresh air or exercise, and I must, its very tiring doing nothing, and I need air!!

Today looks like another hot one, yesterday evening at ten to six, this is what the thermometer read!

HOT HOT HOT

Summer in Wales, don't blink!  Come visit!  Take me to town!! LOL

TTFN
Marian

Alhaurín El Grande!

Be looking at this wonderful view again soon! Cannot wait, well have to, but not long to go, before this buena vista of the Guadalhorce valley will be in my sights...

And the terrace from which the view is seen by... of course Pippa dog will not be there, that will seem very strange indeed, been the odd night when Pip was at the vets... but the house will seem empty indeed without her very noisy presence....

I have been very slack in my Blogging, been busy, working and working!  I go to a centre once or twice a week and have leant some new things I hadn't learnt before!  Card making, and gift bag making, I have been really enjoying the experience, not just the craft work of course!

I had a long days course on Thursday, luckily nearby, very interesting course, day went quicker than I thought it would, but sitting for over seven hours is not high on my list of must do's is it!  So was not surprised when a migraine followed yesterday, wasn't too bad at the centre, sort of managed to hold it back, and my day ended earlier than it should have, lucky again, as the migraine took over, although maybe of course, had I still been working it may have held back a bit longer?  not sure though...  Anyway, came it did and bad, went to bed, stayed there till whenever, got up and sent a couple of messages and was back into bed soon afterwards, in the night it kept bothering me, but when I woke up this morning, I was better, took a while to get going, bleary eyed and slightly dyslexic as I am after a bad migraine... and then I finished Lorraines book on both Kindle and LULU, and then finished Peter Maddocks Pig & Whistle on Kindle and CreateSpace!!  So two books, three different formats all done today - after a bad head!!

Well well, and the sun is still shining, lots of washing washed, dried, brought in and put away!

Need a poem here, bare with, let me go purloin one from somewhere.... play quietly while I am gone....

Summer:
Birds song rises early
Sun through trees filters like golden speckles
Plants grow green and lush
The lawn runs wild
Sun sets late
Red gold the sky
Swallows here, so is summer.

TTFN
Marian