Friday, March 15, 2024


Monday, on the terrace, catching some rays..


Had the need for wine.. Not probably, a good thing, but unusual that I had such need so I guess in it's rarity it's okay... 

Having a few days longer off this week as I catch up with time owed.. So back from town the terrace, music, y una vaso de vino tinto... o dos! 

Worked Tuesday and now off! Free like a bird on the wire..

Woke way too early this morning, doesn't matter though does it, not really, so the movie that's got me thinking this morning is Hypnotic, with Ben Affleck.. 

Do we see what's real... Do we see what others see?

How much is illusion and what it real? Really?

Catch up! Wednesday, coffee at my bar, tattoo, home!

Thursday, town lots of friends, home..

Today, Friday, quick trip back to tattooist, down to the coast, met with friends, lunch out.. 

Nice, feeling sometimes like a tourist, or a passing visitor...

Ate somewhere I've seen forever and never been to..

Before lunch I walked down to the boardwalk, and on the beach where I scattered Franco I scattered something else..


My collection of stones and pebbles and shells from all over the place! Here, of course, but Italy the US, Crete... 

A collection spanning forty years..


I can't keep carrying them around with me... 
There are, were, too many.. So they'd been in a bag in the car, along with sand from Marbs I collected in a jar of eaten olives, purchased in 1989 for 155 pesetas! 

That too, travelling here, and to Wales, and back again! 

Now, deposited like a fugitive losing earth from my pockets, from a hole in the bag, along the coastline..

No sand at the moment down there...only rocks, and along I walked... 

I don't know if I want them lost there, becoming sand over the centuries or to be picked up by another and taken home for another thirty or forty years..


After lunch next port of call was La Cala for coffee with a friend..

Now back home in Alhaurín, well nearly, finishing my day with a small caña..

Then home!

M.


Sunday, March 10, 2024

Happy Mom's day in the UK!

This Is Me Now, Jennifer López, just watched this movie, I have to admit I nearly stopped at the beginning, just an unexpected start..

But soon I got it, and then was completely taken with it .. and it resonated with me and was very emotive.. 

I pretty much cried on and off throughout! 

Maybe touching too many sore points I carry..

A very good movie... Glad I watched it.. 

After a couple of rainy days, although today is cloudy with a chance of sunshine, there a breeze and probably colder in the house than outside, but not having actually exited the house I have no true idea! 

We all have those moments where a word escapes our minds, or will do, believe me!

But yesterday at work I think I reached an all time high, or low??  Corn flour is fairly obvious, it's corn flour! I seemed to completely forget and asked what it was made from!! What the heck!!

M.


Friday, March 08, 2024


Yesterday drove a friend down to Torremolinos, he loves the full English breakfast down at The Tudor Rose... Unfortunately, they are closed on Thursdays! 

So we had some breakfast, local style, and a coffee at this bar on the roundabout with Picasso's dancing ladies... 


Just now uploading it here, I had to check, but the post of the bar and the tree are lined up so well, they look as one! I couldn't work out how the roundabout barrier was in the way!! Lols!!

We had a good walk along the paseo on the beach side then crossed back over and had another coffee before returning home to Alhaurín..

And then later in the day the heavens opened and down came our much needed rain! 

And continued to come down, for most of the rest of the day..

Later in the afternoon I was back in town, having coffee inside! And watched as the rain and the sun vied for position.. 

This morning there was a few drops, but only now has the rain returned, and supposed to be raining all day tomorrow, so a boat might be needed for work in the morning! 

The other day after I'd Blogged, sat, still outside Bar Monikas, a dog that passes by sometimes when I'm there, came up close, I petted him...

He cocked his leg towards my seat... And peed! Hilarious! 

M.





Sunday, March 03, 2024


This is great! I'm watching Customer Wars, and at a drive thru the server asks for however much money for the driver to pay the check, it was 16.99 and he came out with information from that year! A war, a declaration and something else! 

Absolutely fantastic! I do this all the time in work! I say a war, or something that happened to me! Leaving school, family birthdays! So me!! Fantastic! 

This series is so alarming and funny! Some unbelievable things customers do to workers! It's incredible! So glad I found it! This is real! Thankfully, although we some stuff nothing as bad as this!! 

Sat at Bar Monikas having colacoa, it's blooming freezing! Outside, not the colacoa, that's hot!

Just took the photograph above, this next season's beautiful figs begin their growth, surrounded by winter still..

First went into the bazaar over the road, I was nearly in tears! I've known her since... Since I guess nineteen years .. telling her my plans.. 

Wishing I'd worn my knitted gloves! Or even brought them with me!!  

M.



Saturday, March 02, 2024

Another February 29th come and gone, my aunt's birthday, I was with her four years ago for her birthday, and COVID appearing at the same time! 

I was with her last year too, but seems like forever ago already!

Few funny, or not so funny work incidents today.. a not funny was a noise made me turn around to a customer, he had a chihuahua with him, on the floor, no dogs allowed really, floor or not.. but this tiny little dog had been dragged up against the shelf stripping corner! It's so sharp! Poor fur baby! I pointed out no dogs allowed and he picked him up, but the little dog was so afraid of him he was flinching, he lifted him by his harness not his body, I could have cried...

When tidying I noticed a Fixodent was missing from its box! 

So I guess we know a little about who we're looking for out on the street! 

Second dog incident, a really tall stocky bearded man came to the counter with a really tiny chihuahua tucked in the front of his coat.. I said 'Oh hello there gorgeous, aren't you sweet!' of course the man had a smart remark back to me, as if I'd said it to him! He had a bit of a ZZ Top look about him...

The little dog was 15! And, as I said, so gorgeous!

Third incident, also dog related! Man came to the counter, put a packet of dog treats down and as I scanned them, he said "That'll keep the bitch happy!"

M.



Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Día de Andalucía

 


Felicidades todo mí amigos!

Fotografía is actually from May 4th 2010..

But today would be very similar, beautiful day.. we had one day of raining, correction, one morning of rain, Monday after I was home.

I had two visits to the clinico and only got soaked on the first visit, coat was still damp through for my second visit!

Bit of an issue with my BP before my trip and had to keep a daily record of it even while I was away..

So my Losartán is doubled! Was worrying about side effects of that, but only thing seems to be my right eye has a twitch!! 

Been a relaxing day today, into town this morning, everything closed, except bars.. and now down on the coast for the evening..

These are the days of which memories are made...

M.


Tuesday, February 27, 2024



Talking to a good friend yesterday about the future and he said he'll miss me.. I said "You're in my good memories case to take with me where 'er I go..."

Which is very very true .. 

And that's the same for everything here... 

Lots of amazing memories.. some bad, so many sad...

But some of the best of my life.. a huge chunk of my life has been here, before I lived here there were fifteen years of visiting, sometimes up to the four times a year.. thirty eight years..

New page, new chapter lies ahead... 

Because although my 'case' is full of good memories, there is still lots of room inside for more!

M.