So difficult to read a book now, the one I'm reading now, full of errors, the latest had me rechecking..

She had arrived at her destination by taxi but very strangely, left by her own car! I wonder if it was one of those new electric ones where she preprogrammed it to come to her friends house! Ha!

I dreamt last night, one dream of many as per the norm!

I was I was in a car with people, and we were leaving somewhere..  we stopped for a moment and I looked down the road I could see a small ancient village with a castle beyond... and I said I want to go there I want to see that I've never seen it before! and somebody said don't worry you can come back and see it..

So good people watching, anywhere really, but at airports, especially the departure gate... The way people run up even an hour ahead, then looked shocked that it's not boarding or anyone there! 

Your questions, the worries, so many people.. Málaga is an easy airport one terminal.. two gate areas, B or C... Gates all in row down each 'arm' and they are joined so if a gate change happens still easy to walk to the other...

Bit mixed here, thoughts and Blogging in bits, not a good way to write ..

But if I don't add bits they are lost.. forever in the eons of time..

And now, here I write from my aunt's kitchen table in New York..

Big news! I have been scammed!

Will relate rest of this later! 

So angry with myself! Always warning other people about scams, so my lesson came late, and I won't forget it!

Update..

I've just had an email from the company, GetTransport to ask if my driver arrived in the end, I've asked for a full refund!

M.

No one is ready for a thing until they believe that they can acquire it.  The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.

Napoleon Hill

1883-1970 Author

 

More from Sheringham .. three faces Tony spotted on a wall in town!

It is a lovely seaside town, typically English, or is it quintessentially British? 

Many fish and chip shop bars, many candy stores, two knitting stores, arcades, small supermarket in town and Tesco is on the edge, but that's still in town!

Railway line runs directly into Sheringham.

Two mini golfs, so many walks and paths to follow, the maze of course!

Lots of ice-cream parlours, selling wonderfully different flavours.

The rhubarb and ginger sounded good, but they'd run out, so I had apple pie instead, very very yummy!

Lots of dog beaches which came in handy for us! Although we had our favorite, and stuck to it!

I am not used to the tides! And the tide times are all over the place!! 

M.

 

Well, it's been a while! 

A wonderful week in England, day after I arrived off to Sheringham and a whole week of sunshine, even up today's drive back to Stansted.

All above Sheringham, the town, Beeston Bump! The steam railway... 

Every day full of sunshine, so lucky, and not just because of the weather .. 

Back to Stansted! I was there since 15:30, still on upwards journey to 35,000 feet now, and it's 20:30... Flight delay! But I can't complain, I am usually so lucky with Ryanair.

I've had some water and some sweets!

I have a meal ordered but waiting for Bluetooth to get that order in to work! 

We, youngest son and family, have walked and sunbathed, we've eaten ice-cream and, for me, lots of bad food! 

We had a baby ringneck dove outside the house, he couldn't fly yet, all fluffy and puffy, was so sad sending him suffering..

We had a dead adult dove of the same type the day or two before... A parent I am guessing, because the parent that was left kept coming down to see the baby, but unable to do anything.

When it had gone.. it kept coming back to look for it... Thinking baby didn't leave of its own velution.

Back to now! I have some stomach tablets I just bought, because it's going to be bad again now when I've eaten my flight meal!! 

When I get back to the house it's going to look a right mess! A giant mess! 

I have so much stuff for charity, piled up in crates and black bin bags! 

I also have about twenty moving boxes! 

Nothing set in stone, but looks like it's all systems go for leaving the house! 

And that's okay, more than okay.

It is time, it's probably been time, for a long time, but I hold on, always with a grip of steel.

Well, it's time to let go and freewheel a while..

Holding onto a part of life which has let me go, doesn't do me any good.

Flying home to Spain today, there will be one more trip of flying home to Spain..

Although I know, a small part of me will be forever here, of course, I moved here in 2002.. 

And I feel emotional at leaving, but I know, there is still a full life of adventure ahead of me..

I'm not looking forward to my flight leaving, especially on my own.. 

We're maybe forty-five minutes away from landing, captain said we're flying at 1000 kph, great tail wind! 

So soon be landing, and taxi and home, did have a lift, but coming in this late I said not to worry... 

I didn't eat either, suddenly not hungry, so just read my book...

Took two with me, left the first with my other bits and bobs at son's; wouldn't normally keep a book, any more... But this is filled with great Italian recipes! 

The book with me, has some good stuff too.. not worth keeping, but definitely worth noting!

M.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and 

which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

~Mark Twain

 

You can disregard the previous post, I didn't even bother sharing it, I had been looking at the news and had a bee in my bonnet!

And this weekend I had a wonderful break cat sitting in the country, I was about half an hour from Alhaurín, further up and further in towards the lakes. 

I had to drive from there to work on Friday and it was a nearly an hour, but well worth coming back home to.

Plenty of wildlife that we are used to seeing here in Spain from the little hummingbird thingy that's the technical term, to the shield Beetle above on the tree there, he had fallen in the water and I saved him, of course! 

I also have been saving the wasps that seem to enjoy the pool, I have been fishing them out with leaves and letting them dry out by the side.

Also saving the wonderful bullet ants! One had climbed the glass I was drinking cava from... He left the glass for my glasses! And then my face! Thankfully before he bit me I threw him off into the pool, but then, graciously saved him with my pool noodle! 

The hummingbird moth is the focus of beautiful Wilf!

M.

When you let go of what you think you need, you clear space for the Universe to bring you what you really want.

Gabby Bernstein - Author-Motivational Speaker-Spiritual Leader-Podcast Host

 

Thinking about all of these demonstrations at the moment in a few of our cities here in Spain, and the islands, demonstrating against tourism or tourists, or really more to the point the prices that people are charging for Airbnb and private holiday lets.

I believe, and of course I could be wrong, but hundreds of thousands of people are prevented now because of brexs*it of being able to spend time in what they call their second home here in Spain. 

And so with their homes being empty for six months of the year, I imagine a huge percentage of them decided to put them on Airbnb or privately rent out for holiday accommodation. 

And yes of course they're going to charge premium prices, so another downfall from brexs*it.

If you take out the holiday makers and the travelers from this country you will also remove all of the money received that they spend, we see it in our shop they they make a huge difference to the Spanish economy in the stores every day. 

It brings in money to workers who support tourism in their jobs, in fact some jobs that are only here because of tourism. 

I fully understand how the prices that are charged for tourists to stay a week in an Airbnb or rental, affect what we as residents can rent a property for, and I imagine given the option of charging €650 a month to a local or 1200 for a week from a tourist can be very alluring.

And of course the people who cannot live here anymore or stay longer than six months out of twelve, they want to be able to visit their home every other month or every three weeks, or whatever, and therefore allowing it to be holiday let is viable, but renting out long-term is not. 

M.

No greater treasure than lost time..