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PAT
BACK TO NORMAL I'M AFRAID
ITS USING ONE OF THOSE THINGS
I HAVE ,
IT BURNS ME
SPITS AT ME
AND RUINS ALL THE FOOD I PUT IN IT.

NOW IF I COULD JUST REMEMBERED
WHAT IT WAS CALLED ,I'D WARN YOU,

Morning Dizzi :-)

Getting warmer here, it was already 18 C when I got up. Now 20 C but wind is getting up and the sun has disappeared behind some ominous dark clouds, very black up the mountain. :-(

Out tonight at local tavern in the next village. Chinese tomorrow and then eat out late Wednesday afternoon, I think down the beach, before going to the airport to drop off friends. Then we'll be sort of back to normal - whatever that is :-D

HI GIRLS,
MORNING ITS BRIGHT,SUNNY AND FLIPPING COLD,
AND I HATE WEARING COATS AND JUMPERS,LOL I'M
BIG ENOUGH ALREADY WITHOUT MORE PADDING,

MIND YOU WHEN IT GETS HOT ,I GET REALLY HOT AND FLOP
AROUND LIKE A BEACHED WHALE WHO CAN FLOP ABOUT,
CATCH YOU LATER
DIZZ

Afternoon Dizzi and Solrosen :-)

Weather here is still cool, the temperature is 20 C but the wind is very cold so I reckon it's about 15 C. Managed breakfast outside before the wind got up, soon moved when it did.

Out tonight, there's entertainment on in the next village so it's a meal out and entertained whilst eating and no washing up :-D :-D :-D

Solrosen it's great going out for a meal as you say no cooking or washing up, (the dishwasher stacked and then put away).

I've grown beans and peas, love home grown veg. Here we have a small garden and the only produce we get are from the orange and lemon trees. The orange tree is in full bloom at the moment. The lemon tree always has a small amount of flowers on it, lemons don't seem to have a season and produce fruit all the year round. At the moment we have fruit ready to pick, some going from green to yellow, some small green fruit, some just set and flowers. :-S

The supermarket we go to has contracts with the local farmers and most of their veg comes straight from the fields. Local tomatoes taste wonderful. :-D

Have a good Sunday. :-)

Hi Dizzi.... I took too long writing, you weren't there when I started :-D :-D

Your weather sounds a bit like here.... and actually, home grown runner beans are the best I think. I used to get given some from a neighbour, years ago, and they were absolutely huge... easily 10-12 inches long ... and tasty, too!

Hope you manage to grab 40 winks later... enjoy your day :-)

'Morning Dizzi and Pat :-)

Lovely day here again, about 5 degrees and rising. I have just come back from dog walking. Saw a cheeky red squirrel peeping at us from around the back of a tree, stood on its back legs and leaning to one side...so cute!!

I'm not a lover of food shopping, Dizzi. Always take a list or else I tend to get carried away.. getting stuff that looks nice instead of what's needed :-D :-D

You've got a busy time ahead still, Pat. Don't know if I could cope with 4 in a row ..
actually, it will be nice though..... no cooking!! ;-)

That walk has given me an appetite ... I'm off for some breakfast xx

HI PAT,HI SOLROSEN,
HAD A FEW CAT NAPS THROUGH THE NIGHT
SO SHOULD FEEL GREAT BUT FEEL MORE
LIKE "I NEED A SNOOZE " BUT I KNOW I CANT.

WEATHER SUNNY BUT REALLY CHILLY,OH IS OUTSIDE
SORTING OUT MY RUNNER BEANS NETTING,ONLY GOT A TINY
PATCH SO I TRY TO STAGGER GROWING SOME TIMES IT WORKS A LOT OF THE TIME I FORGET TO DO IT.
KNOW ITS DAFT BUT I ENJOY GROWING RUNNER BEANS
ALMOST AS MUCH AS EATING THEM. :-)

Morning Dizzi and Solrosen :-)

19 C but very windy and it's a cold wind again. Lovely if you can get out of the wind.

Chinese last night. We are staying in tonight. Think we are then out next 4 nights.

Friends go back Wednesday night, think I'll hibernate - no out St George's I do believe - after St George's I think I'll hibernate until June :-D

HI AND MORNING TO YOU BOTH,,
LOVE THE SUN SHINE,
OH HAS BEEN TO TESCO TO GET FOOD
HE GOES EVERY SATURDAY BUT RECONS ITS TOO BUSY
TO TAKE ME,ENT ONCE AT 7 ON A SATURDAY NEVER AGAIN RATHER GO LATER ITS ALL THE DOT COM SHOPPING BEING DONE ,BACK LATER COFFEE CALLS XXX

Hello Dizzi and Pat and anyone else calling in

I've not been around properly for a while, so I thought I would just pop in to say hi.

I'm up pretty early for a Saturday morning and the sun is shining but it is cold - we have a frost and it's 3 deg at this time. It will warm up shortly - I love these mornings. :-)

xx

Morning Dizzi :-)

We've been here nearly 10 years so if we hadn't got it sussed perhaps we'd be on our way back to UK :-(

We have friends who several times went to the Canaries with neighbours. He started to get really fed up. The neighbours were like shadows, everywhere they went or just even if they just stayed by the pool the neighbours wanted to do the same. The neighbours expected our friend to hire and drive a car for them all. The neighbours both drove but wouldn't drive there and as our friend wanted to hire a car to see the place they'd just go along and so didn't need to help pay for the car or petrol.

The neighbours started looking again for their hols with our friends. OH told friend to book a holiday fast. Our friends had always wanted to see Australia and were now in a position to go, so they booked it and neighbours were told. They were OK with it as it was seen as a 1 off. Next year the neighbours started looking again to go with our friends. Then 1 day the female neighbour started arguing with our female friend. Our friend didn't know what she was going on about so walked away. They haven't spoken since. Friend's still bewildered, she doesn't know what it was all about but they don't have to think about hols with them anymore, they both regret ever going on hols with the neighbours.

It's best to do your own thing during the day and enjoy the evenings together. It gives you something to talk about. :-D

HI PAT,
LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE IT SUSSED JUST RIGHT,YEARS AGO 8 ADULTS AND 1 THREE YEAR OLD BRAT WENT TO ALGARVE,JUST ME AN OH FROM ENGLAND THE REST SCOTLAND,INC THE PERSON WHO BOOKED THE VILLA WE ALL STAYED IN HE ALSO BOOKED A CAR FOR US ALL TO USE ,,,,,,NOW 8 ADULTS 1 KID,HE BOOKED A FIVE SEATER,,ONE JUST ONE CAR AND REFUSED TO UPGRADE ,CAUSED A LOT OF PROBLEMS HE WAS FRIENDS OF MY SCOTTISH RELLIES WHO WAS WITH US,THEY WERE NOT FRIENDS WHEN THEY RETURNED HOME,

Afternoon Dizzi :-)

Yes it all goes quiet. At first you think peace at last then it's not another night in ;-).

They come back the beginning of June so it'll only be quiet for a few weeks. Lots of times the phone rings and someone will be on the other end saying they've booked their flights to come and see us then it's all change again. :-S

We enjoy having people. We do lay the law down - we do not go visiting tourist areas all the time. They have to get a hire car if they want to do the tourist bit everyday. Can you imagine week after week going to the same areas to do a tourist tour talk and not be paid - I don't think so. I am not cooking every night, we've plenty of restaurants and we share the bill.

Seems harsh at first but all our friends have had no problem with it. We did it because we know someone who invited lots of relatives and friends out. They took them all around the island doing the tourist bit and started to hate the place. They catered most nights and spent a fortune each summer on food, drink and petrol. They went back to UK as they'd spent too much here :-S

Our idea works and we have a great time, or is it our friends and relatives are nicer people and don't expect us to be at their beck and call. :-D

MORNING PAT,WHEN ALL YOUR FRIENDS HAVE GONE HOME DO YOU FEEL IT'S TOO QUIET ,DO YOU MISS THE HUSSLE AND BUSLE,
I HAVE 2 FRIENDS BOTH IN VERY FIT 70's,THEY GO ON HOLIDAY TOGETHER AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR,ONE IS A EARLY RISER LIKES TI GET UP AND OUT FOR THE DAY,(LIKE ME) THE OTHER IS A NIGHT OWL BED WELL AFTER MIDNIGHT AND SLEEP TILL MIDDAY,COMICAL TO IMAGINE ALWAYS ONE OF THEM TIRED,ONE LIKES WATER SPORTS,OTHER CAN'T SWIM SUCH DIFFERENCES BUT THEY HAVE BEEN GOING ON HOLIDAY TOGETHER FOR 30 YEARS PLUS AND BEEN ALL ROUND THE WORLD ,
AND HAD SOME ADVENTURES,

Afternoon Dizzi :-)

Friends back here again. They've just gone out. Went shopping very early this morning as I was the only one up. No one in the shop, straight round the supermarket and home in 30 minutes. All stashed away before anyone up.

Out tonight, local tavern, had a Chinese last night :-D

Weather warming up 22 C today, had breakfast outside on the front patio. Wind still a little coolish but not nearly as strong as it was. Will soon be summer. :-)

HI PAT
FATHER IN LAW DIED 17 YEARS AGO HE ONLY HAD A ONE
BED FLAT BUT ENOUGH FURNITURE FOR A SIX BED,HE HAD KITCHEN AND LOUNGE ,IN THERE HE HAD 3 DINNING ROOM TABLES AND CHAIRS ,IN KITCHEN 2 TABLES AND CHAIRS YOU HAD TO CLIMB OVER ARMCHAIRS,IT WAS AWFULL BUT NOT DIRTY JUST CLUTTERED TOOK A MONTH TO CLEAR BACK LATER TO TELL MORE,XXX

Morning Dizzi :-)

OH's aunt told us after her husband's death when she was in her mid 70s she was decluttering as she kept everything. She had OH down as executer and it would be up to us to dispose of all that was in the house - they didn't have children. She only had a very small house and downstairs was kept very neat. Lots of ornaments about though. She died in her mid 80s. I would have hated to see the place upstairs before she decluttered. :-D. There were 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, a sitting room and a kitchen that's all. It took both of us 5 days to clear out upstairs. We then went back home and returned for the funeral. Told all those who came back to the house after the funeral they could have anything they saw as a memento of her. They all took, except 1, an ornament. The lady who didn't was her gardener and she went out to the garden and took a couple of small plants and some cuttings, she asked us first if it was ok. The ornaments left and the complete dinner sets then went to a charity shop.

Many other things had already gone to the charity shop. The house was sold to a young man who was just starting on the property ladder. He had no furniture or crockery so we left him some really old fashioned furniture and all the remaining pieces of crockery left over from incomplete sets, all very old but it would do until he could afford to replace them. We did ask him, if it was still in good nick, to donate the furniture either to social services a charity which he said he would do. He was very grateful for the help.

I think you're right in what you're doing, things we cherish may mean nothing to whoever is left. If you can turn them into money to use for something else all well and good. With OH's aunt's possessions I thought it was awful throwing so many memories away but they weren't our memories. OH went through hundreds of photos. Most were thrown away as they were pictures of scenery etc from holidays. The family pictures he kept.

We have moved quite a few times and we always have the great throw out each time, trips to the charity shops and the tip. We all collect so much. I started giving away lots of paperbacks but for some reason they all came back when they'd finished reading them - they didn't want the clutter either. :-

It's hard to do but OH has a rule - haven't used/worn it in 5 years out it goes.

Hope you do well in your sale. :-)

MORNING PAT,
WE FINALY GOT SOME DECENT SUN, LOVELY AND BRIGHT
OH HAD ANOTHER SORT THROUGH BA GOT HIS OLD TRAINS
TO TAKE TO AUCTIONS,HAD A WORD WITH DAUGHTER ABOUT IT,,WE HAVE GIVEN GRANDSON SMALL BITS BECAUSE AT HIS AGE HE RESPECTS HOW OLD THEY ARE BUT THESE ARE ABOUT INCH MAX AND CAN KEEP THEM IN HIS BEDROOM,TH E REST OF THE STUFF IS DAUGHTER WOULD ENDING UP PUTTING IN GARAGE ,THEN RUBBISH BIN ,SHE HATES CLUTTER BUT WHEN SHE LIVED AT HOME SHE WAS A MEGGA UNTIDY,GOT TO GO TAKE CARE XX

Have 3 friends with that, 1 just has to be careful when he has a cold that it doesn't go on his chest. Another has a few bad days a year, the other is on lots of medication and is always saying he's got problems with his breathing.

Seems to be a general term with a huge range from those who have very little problem to those who are on oxygen.

Hope yours isn't too bad. x

FIRST VISIT TO GP'S I HAVE GOT CRONIC LUNG DISEASE
BACK NOW FOR 2ND APPOINMENT XXX