Franco has found us a new home!  Its unfurnished, but we will have lots of boxes! Thank goodness there is a cooker though, so at least we can eat!  I have checked it out on google map and the house looks lovely, the street really nice, views of the mountains! I have 'stood' in the street done a 360° turn, gone up the road, in five minutes your in the country until the next junction, then going the other way its a 20 minute walk into Neath town centre...

The house if off from the road, up some steps and Pippa will not be able to see anyone passing, or even the cars! 

At least all our things will be there, bits and bobs the week we arrive!

The kitchen light broke yesterday, well I broke it! Unintentionally I hasten to add, the bulbs had been flickering and I tried to take it out and broke the plastic hinge that was holding it in!  I thought, just buy a new tube and glue the thing in somehow, but a couple of people said the black powder over the inside of the light sounded a bit dodgy and that I really should get a new light fitting, so I phoned a friend, and he organised a mate of his to come and have a look, he was only half late, so not bad really, saw what was needed, went down the ferriteria and bought a new one!  Its so bright in the kitchen now, I fear the planes coming over to land in Malaga will mistake my light for the landing lights!!  Its so bright, the house is lighting up the whole town!! like Oxford Street during Christmas!

TTFN
Marian

Hello amigos...

I am doing something with my Blog, it involves going over a few years of it, therapeutic, sad, and very funny, especially where I have made the most amazing mistakes... like saying about never eating after September 29th! Didn't mention it was blackberries did I! Hope none of stopped eating after September 29th, especially as I didn't say when you could start eating again!!!

I even signed my name wrong in one place, changed my name altogether! What the heck was on my mind then, alot I know...

And the poems...

I am doing a Blog type book, type thing, I may, or may not put it on Kindle.  At the moment it is still only in its infancy, and still growing, its nearly at 100,000 words, boy do I write!! My goodness... this is only less than two years of writing, and I have been writing for about 7 years now, or more!  And these two years, I really didn't write as much as other years!

I also didn't really 'do' grammar did I, lets be honest, or spelling exactly! So its not just going to be a case of putting things together, its changing spelling, grammar, font size etc etc. 

Even if it never reaches anything else, its giving me something to do to keep my mind busy.  I am waiting for another book to be written for me to edit and publish on the kindle for Peter Maddocks, I said lets leave the next one till the new year.... well here it is, the new year! Where is the book please!!!!

We have just over 4 weeks to go now, its a very strange feeling, sort of like when I left England, but totally different also?  Confused? Well I certainly am!  Every-time I look out from our buena vista from the roof terrace I get a tearing feeling in my stomach, a wrenching squeezing thing going on, but, the house isn't sold yet, it is still our house... Its these mountains of Spain, the country...  Then, also, I am excited by a new chapter in my life, work again! Can't wait, seriously cannot wait to get back into the work place, I miss it.  Franco may have found a house for us, I checked it out on google maps yesterday, and it looks great, the house, the street, the countryside around it, the mountains too, that's the bit I want, need to see mountains! Maybe I was a mountain goat in an earlier life do you think! Don't answer that!

And so of course, being a woman, house = furnishings! Furniture, floors, materials, new this and new that!

But I am dreading these last few weeks, people are already stopping me in the street and asking when I am off!  "and see you before you go!" Like the date I arrived here, the date I leave will remain with me forever, mind you, I am funny like that!  I remember the date I very first came to Spain! 3rd of August 1988, till the 17th!

How many of you will follow me to Wales I wonder! Should I change my line? Diary Blog Spain and beyond? Strange about the beyond bit, when I wrote it I must have known I would leave...  Have I left a mark here in Spain, I hope so, I hope this whole time here wasn't for nothing, I did come here and find my love.... "I followed my heart, and it led me here to Spain"

TTFN
Marian

Well its the 3rd already amigos! Weather is beautiful one of the best Christmases and New Years holidays for a couple of years!  We only had one hour of rain on Boxing day evening, and if I hadn't been told it was drizzling a tad on fb, gone up stairs to look, I would be non the wiser of the event at all!

Its cold, especially first thing in the morning, down outside the bar!  Looking like crazy idiots sitting there in the cold, its colder at that time of day than in the UK!!  But sunshine, and no showers or gale force winds eh!

Our skylight has a small sliver of a crack, so will need to get that sorted soon as possible, going tomorrow to hopefully find something to cover it up!  Shame having just, at last got it right, that it must now be covered again, but I don't want anyone slicing off a finger or three on that!

My cousin sent a couple of cards early on December to me here in Spain, and they've not shown up yet!!  and I am still amazed, did I tell you?  Barry post arriving in two days from here.... wonders will never cease!

Been busy this week already, cancelled the phone/internet line, they say its going to take 15 days, but I am not going to be sure until that date, sure that they won't either cut if off sooner, or leave it still active after!

Pippa's trip is also all paid now, final questions answered and unbeknown's to her plans ready for her two day trip up country, through France and on to Wales!  Oh if only she knew???

As I write the neighbours dog has started to bark, signalling to Pip that she must join in and rush up stairs and up onto the terrace to bark at some poor passer-by, or alternately it is someone who enjoys standing right at our back wall and looking down thereby antagonising the dogs until I come up to see what's what! What makes it worse is as soon as Pippa is up there, next doors dog stops barking, job done! she is just the alarm and Pip carries on, needlessly sometimes! people have past, danger is gone and quiet is destroyed!

Haven't slept well the last two nights, last night I was absolutely shattered, but a busy mind, turning acorns into massive oaks kept me turning this way and that!  The night before it was 'just' pain, spasms or cramps too close to my spine and nowhere was painless to try to sleep on, normally I can go to sleep on one side or the other, turning all through the night each time its too sore to stay in any one place for long, but not that night, no where!  That's why I was so tired last night! Oh how I wish my water bed hadn't sprung a leak!

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and
learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on
earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except
yourself.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Bloominghumans 

TTFN
Marian


House for Sale!





 

Open the book Its pages are blank We are going to put words ourselves.The book is called Opportunity & 1st chapter is New Year's Day.....

I have borrowed this from a friend on Twitter.... thank you, if you read this you know who you are!

TTFN
Marian