Not sure what bird this is? Eagle? It's neck looks too long.. and photo here is already zoomed in!

Yesterday I met up with someone selling a headboard.. down a road off the main road on Sierra Gorda.. not turned up there since the last time I collected the Pipster from her holiday location spot..

People were nice.. headboard perfect!

Then to La Trocha market, I had the giggles walking around wondering how the hell I'm going to mount the world's largest headboard on the wall and will it even fit!

Then I saw this massive, like two feet high ceramic/china cat.. it was in a sitting position, gazing up with massive oversized eyes.. it appeared to be staring at a man, whose back was towards me.. as I carried on past, I stopped, the man standing by the stall.. floor based stall.. and he looked like he was staring at the cat staring at him!! He actually didn't move, his face or eyed.. he was literally just staring towards the cat.. which was as it seemed to me, staring back at him... Thankfully my mask hid my by now laughing my head of face! 

Crazy!

Anyways, got home, unloaded headboard! 

And today! 

Doctors as last, my appointment had disappeared off the radar.. now I know why, it is because when I booked it last Monday at 10 a.m. my appointment was actually for an hour and a half later, who knew! I thought it was for today that is why the appointment disappeared from the app and from the website.

So I got to the doctor's on time and waited and told her I thought I had an appointment for today she said it was last week, but still saw me.

Read my blood work from the hospital urgencia three weeks ago, I have a kidney stone!

So I've got an appointment coming with the urologist, two with her.. two different types of pain meds to alternate between every four hours and a medication for the kidney stone..

At least now I know why I'm in so much constant pain, you can imagine where my head was with it all.

M.

November 7

                           

This amazing sunset from a couple of years ago.. still for me a spectacular sight.. 

Flicking through the photo memories with this popping up, I realised as I turned my phone it actually looks like a face... incredible!

Maybe I've said this before? Deja vu happening now..

Been a lovely weekend.. yesterday I took a friend down to his favourite breakfast haunt, The Tudor Rose down at Torremolinos.. still open long weekends going into November, normally closed from October.

Had a wonderful, for me rare.. English breakfast.

Then a walk along the paseo marítimo and back to the car and back to Alhaurín.. 

I then popped to Aldi, a stray dog in the car park as per norm.. I went to give him water but Pippa's old water bottle was broken.. so had to throw it away.. 

Did I tell you I found her old fox toy? It still smelled of her.. I've returned it to where I found it.. 

Later yesterday I met up with another friend and had coffee at a bar recently opened down the road from me.. it used to be a bar, decades ago.. but now reformed reopened and great coffee and tapas!

This morning I went off early to La Trocha market, coffee with another friend and then a.. as my mom would have said.. mooch around the stalls... Cooler undercover, but lovely out in the sunshine..

I tried to go through stuff this afternoon, but only got as far as Tony's basketball certificates!! And year ten reports! And they ended up back in the box.. 

In time eh.. everything in time.

M.

Ships don't sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don't let what's happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.

Unknown

November 9 A different 9/11

The worse day today..

I wonder if one day my life will be happy enough that today won't bring me down to where I am right now..

No more words left. 

From the movie The Shack.. I'll think about you..

M.

Small cat in the house the other evening, the sensor light came on out back, then I heard the fly screen open... I wasn't really worried.. I mean it'd have to be a damn skinny human or ten inch high something at the most to squeeze thru the rejas!

Then along ran this cute puss cat! Meowing towards me, like a long lost friend.. meow meow.. ran to my leg my hand.. so cute! It had a QR code so I knew she was somebody's cat..

She explored the house thoroughly, we had a cuddle and I thought I better put her out, so she didn't get too comfy.. 

She wasn't around anywhere on the terrace so I knew she could get out as easy as she got in.. 

And I missed her...

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Definitely a chill in the air this morning.. 10° in Alhaurín! Blooming heck!

Hands are cold in the house! 

Kidney issue still happening.. guess I better do something tomorrow, can't today.. but tomorrow.. mañana eh.. always mañana, until there isn't.

I can categorically say I was flying from Bristol to Malaga this time five years ago. 

And I hope one day I can Not think of this.. 

It's like I am an old '45 record and I keep on jumping, back.. I run forward, then, jump back again.. on continual play back. Or one of those damn annoying movies where the script jumps back and forth and you, the watcher never knows 'when' you are!

Things need to change, I need to change.

I need to run so fast I can't go back, can't even get the chance to look back.

M.