A zoomed in photograph from my old living room.. those mountains looked different at every different moment of the day, and time of the year..

I wish I'd stood on those mountains and looked back at Alhaurín El Grande, although I have from Casarabonela and Gibralgalía.. oh and more villages of course!

I wrote this earlier, and am definitely up and about now!

I need to get up; watching a good movie in bed.. it's warm under the covers, black out curtains makes it feel like night, and I can hear the rain against the window... 

I was watching the third in the Knives Out movie series, absolute the best! Fantastic! 

And I watched the rest already! Took longer than it should, pausing to hang paintings, pausing to string pictures with no wire or hooks... Pausing to call a registration for something for the house.. Spent about quarter of an hour doing that! Not because it took a long time to do, but because we were talking about ancestors, archaeology, and family...

And pausing, of course, to make coffee!

Saturday went to a great centre in Ilkeston, Armstrongs Mill, near the railway station.

Went to have a look around Armstrong Antiques, I didn't know all the other things were there! 

Basement has ex high street brands, womenswear floor, menswear another floor, furniture, carpets, other floor, and floor four? I think? Yip floor... The antiques area.. filled with so much!! Was like being back at my mom and stepdads, familiar things.. always wondering if I'll ever come across one of my step dads paintings.. could have spent hours, and hours there.

Lovely restaurant too, where we stopped for coffee, and a toasted teacake, for me, of course, seemed only right.. 

And now the paintings are up, like seeing old friends once more...

Before I leave; that rain against the windows earlier... That sound always makes me feel sad.. My sister from another mister is leaving work, and her home, and returning to this country, I think I am feeling her sadness also.

All those emotions; leaving your homeland is massive, then living somewhere else and taking on that country as home, and heart is a very big deal... Then leaving, another leaving, for whatever reasons, like being pulled apart, physically removed and yet one's heart and mind remains.. 

M.

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

Roy T. Bennett - 1939-2014, Politician