here is up close and personal with Tony's tree! still haven't got our selves a tree yet, not sure if we will bother now, i don't seem to have any incentive to go looking now, the old one and all the baubles gone...

this week we sadly attended a friends passing... not sure what to call it really, we went to the what we all thought was the crematorium here in alhaurín, never realising it isn't a crematorium at all... a cemetery and the church only... the nearest one may be at alorá for alhaurín.

anyway, we gathered... and said our goodbyes, to me she was one of our 'ladies that lunch', and was such a shock to all of us, totally unexpected and un real. there was no priest, no vicar no one to do a ceremony... a good friend stood and we said the lords prayer, then we were left with our thoughts and prayers for her onwards journey...

i must admit i was shocked and didn't know that this is actually quite normal for 'us lot', if you don't prepare someone for the service, have someone lined up so to speak, or are a different religion, if its very sudden you may not have anyone to officially wave you off... please click on this link and say this for carol... thank you...


ok... here on the left is a woodpecker as seen in my friends garden when i was in England... i don't think i have ever seen one before, apart from TV etc, it was stuck there on that bird feeder for so long i thought its beak was caught!






and here... home again, look at the snow on the sierra de las nieves...

last evening Franco and i went to la trocha after doing our food shopping in Lidl in Coín and Franco bought a new warm winter jacket, was great, got it home and there was the secure magnet thing... should have rung some bells when we left the store, that worked then didn't it!


its a huge fine, well deserved of 750€ for spitting in the street in Cartama, good job too, i think there is a fine everywhere for doing so, but not sure how much its implemented!

yesterday i went into Cudeca in town, they were having theyre christmas fayre in the shop, lots of people in the store, Santa was there, of course! hope they did well, they need lots more money coming in to keep the fountation running...

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience
Paulo Coelho

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Marian