Well it's been quite some week..

On the third day of the fires the firemen got the fires under control 

And this I wrote around the 18th? 

Who knows, the time passes good or bad.. it passes, as do all things.

The fire that came under control was on my birthday, the 17th..

Good day, went out with friends in town in the evening, ate drank and was merry.

Since then the fires continue in other areas, especially frightening on the road where friends from work live, the road from here to La Cala.. way too close for comfort and they were evacuated.

I've been to the doctors, and for the upteenth time, or at least a minimum of six times, have been put on antibiotics for infection in my kidneys.. at least I know it's these cysts causing the infections, although the doctor, not mine, took some persuading, I think I know when my body isn't doing what it should, and after getting the test he realised I was indeed suffering from an infection!!! 

I am so done with this. For the pain Tramadol/paracetamol mix, so although tramadol isn't so good, it's not as full strength as the one that knocked me out before.

Friend and I had a great evening at the local Artsenal Inoxis Gallery, last Saturday, great rock band, in a wonderful setting, midway through sharing pizza with the band! 

A real breathe or fresh air and doing something different evening.

Photographs are the peach and fig tree we used to have on the terrace..

Miss having the big plants up there.. they too were fresh air of a different kind.. would be lovely to have a small jungle of big plants deposited up there by crane! That'd be a wonderful surprise for the town hall peeps to see!

M.

By my back door last evening.

Yesterday afternoon three fires started on our side of the Sierra de Mijas... They reached Laura Golf and closed the road to Alhaurín de la Torre from us..

On my terrace last night.

Ash rained down like snow from the start and still falling last night at it grew dark.. 

Driving to work this morning I could still see smoke pluming into the sky so it's still burning..

Made a really weird sky last night and still this morning.. 

Sitting in the car now feels strange not to see the ash falling as chatting to a neighbor last night for some time, it continued to fall, kinda get used to it real quickly.

A charred leaf.. burnt where it grew and blown to my terrace.. intact, so many pieces or almost while leaves and twigs.. burnt so ferociously and so quickly they kept their shape and form.

Last night's sunset.. or nearly, still an hour or more from setting..

This morning the terrace completely covered in ash again.. shouldn't have bothered sweeping or suffering from coughing!! My fault!!

And the car.. covered.

On leaving the carpark this morning, strangely spectacular sunrise..

 M.

Franco's birthday today, 65 in Neverland, always young.. I know maybe seems a strange photograph, but with good memories for him and I..

I very randomly and probably rarely do my tarot cards... 

They're usually mostly spot on when I do a kind of 'here and now' spread, as I think of it...

Today when a friend was around I suddenly got up got the cards.. and just being silly did a shuffle and cut and said this was for her dog.. which was fine and as I say silly, but the card chosen was number 48 - Dog card.. 

We laughed, how strange, how weird! Some would say just a coincidence.

Then I did shuffle, and cut, and top three cards for friend, first Card was 48 - Dog card! Now that was spooky.

Then for me, shuffle, cut, three cards.. guess you know where this is going.. 

My first Card was 48 - Dog card.

I did, after some chatting and weirdness over three times it was a first Card... I did a random shuffle and cut.. 48 - Dog card AGAIN!! 

Four times!!! Out of a full shuffled deck of cards! Now someone say it is just a coincidence! 

Had plenty of weird stuff, odd happenings, out of ordinary happenings in my life.. 

This goes up in the top ten now.. 

Watching a Netflix series, Manifest, it's good, this song just popped up.. So sharing.. 

Pearl Jam - Pendulum 

M.

So happy with the terrace furniture.. started the sofa on one day, took an hour to do the three seater and table, then next day even after work and late and hot.. I completed with the corner part and tacked sheets across the beams under the tin roof.. took an hour then I was sat down finishing the book.. noted below...

Not quite a Bedouin tent.. but looks nice and hopefully will keep it a little cooler than just the tin.. after removing the bamboo was like an oven underneath!

I have finished the book I was reading, was going to read and pass on, but it's a keeper of a book.

Anthony Doerr

All The Light We Cannot See

This book has so many parts that is just me, just my thoughts, even the 'starlight starbright first star I see tonight...' poem... 

In parts, too close to my life, too close to my past, it needs rereading, and soon, nothing about the title prepared me for the journey within its pages..

Another quote:

Beware regret 

Regret lives in the 'if only s ' and 'could have beens..'

From my terrace the other evening, beautiful.. Looked like more sand in the air.. but simply stunning..

M.

This was Saturday evening Algeciras .. After the longest week, and at my most exhausted.. finished myself off with a late night, amazing musicians.. 

Great tapas before concert.. wonderful evening..

Diago Amador, Pianist and Flamenco singer, born in Seville and José María Bandera, flamenco guitarist.. I have never seen a flamenco Pianist before, he hands flew across the keys like a guitarists over strings... Magical!

Today, regular day, long, but flew by.. and once home actually managed to relax .. after hosing down the terrace in preparation for a furniture build tomorrow.. 

At last, something good to sit on again on the terrace.. 

Very strange dream last night... Yeah yeah I know, mostly my dreams are strange, or nightmarish! 

As this only makes sense to someone who watched Grimm ..

I was sat with a friend in her home, it was semi dark.. inside and darkish out except for street lights.. 

Her home device piped up "wesen nearby"...!! Pronounced 'Vesen.'

And almost immediately someone passed by outside her window, on the ledge..

We were silent.. then 'he' passed back and then a third time.. then a thud on the roof above our heads.. only the thud woke me! And I waited now awake for something to walk down the stairs from the terrace and trigger my light! 

Of course it didn't!! But?!? Bloody hell!

Time to get my washing in now.. just been a small disturbance on the street, a few doors down, someone sounded like he was breaking in, but they just had a loud conversation and it seemed to settle the matter!! Nice eh!!

Little bit of excitement!

M.