now where was i? Mom? she is home and doing well, has lots more tablets to swallow, but they're doing good, so what if she rattles when shaken!?! Tony brought her home late'ish on Friday afternoon... and she has her last radiation therapy tomorrow, Monday. and the appointment with the specialist is on the 13th of the month. and contrary to what i said the other day... she wont be coming out here now in September, the doctors say its too risky, a cancer hospital would need to be here, right here! and insurance costing well over a thousand pounds would also be necessary... so that's on hold for now...

now the photo above... looks like a similar scenario to the famous road in San Francisco? ok, well maybe not, but it looks good from here... i zoomed in from this shot below, taken from the roof at Miramar...

we were naughty... we drove home up through the road works (!) lots more done i guess, not enough for me to get excited over, the photo below though shows the house that is in the hollow on the left, as your going to Fuengirola, it has slowly over the last few years been taking bits and pieces of rough land, building a wall, a small building, planting out etc, well now the road we travelled on is right there down on that level and very close! not sure where the road will end up being though!

i turned from above and took the photo below of the hill we had just come down from, the coast is over that mountain! you wouldn't think this was a road would you? a main highway to the coast? well i suppose at the moment it has gone back 25 years to how it was when my neighbour moved up to Alhaurín el Grande...


now been making lots of notes... i really should use a little tape thing... wonder if my phone can do that, probably shall look into it later!

i wrote during week whilst watching a tv show, i think it was a 'living in the sun' channel 4 thing... the woman said regarding the man noticing the damp on the wall... well she said, no damp courses in Spain, true, but once your in and living here it will go, lies, if you live in an old(er) house, or apartment, you will share your house with damp, mildew, mould, hang on this sounds familiar now i think i am repeating myself, so sorry will get off my soap box... and rest a while.....

that's the trouble with making notes here there and everywhere.... what about this? on Loose women the other day one of the gals was talking about how in ye olden days the women, not them! would be outside the houses everyday washing the stoop and the street in front of their houses... and how much cleaner everything was then(not so sure about that eh!?!), but here too, as you know with my embarrassing moments of cleaning out front! but then here when you walk along people ahead dropping wrappers, tissues and all sorts! the street cleaner comes round every single day down our street, but if the people had a little more respect .... oh he would be out of a job! ok... today i was having a mood at everything down in Miramar, poor Franco had to carry that worn old soap box of mine... its getting too heavy for me....

i think maybe i should switch off now... its Sunday after all, no band practice this evening i don't think, and they cant march from our Vera Cruz with the road still up! i was giggling last afternoon, a wedding in the church, no access to the car park, for strangers anyway, no road access... goodness know where or how the bride and groom arrived? but lots of the guests were walking past, looking gorgeous, the women in wonderful dresses and high heels... i followed the little dug outs they left walking Pippa this morning, looked like little animals had been burrowing all the way up to the church!

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

ARISTOTLE

TTFN

Marian