26 Tuesday Aug 2008
Posted in video
Today while I was out for a walk I passed a guy playing this song on his accordian and it made me smile, and I got an urge to see this video again. I especially love the bits when Topol stomps his feet and waves his arms about. 🙂
Though if I were a rich az I would have quite different ambitions…
25 Monday Aug 2008
Posted in food & drink, friends, sevilla
My dear friend Pipocas took me out for a very nice Sunday lunch yesterday. The original plan had been to go to the new Italian tapas place that I recently discovered, but it turned out that during August they close on Sundays, so instead we went to an Asian fusion restaurant that I’d read about. I’m always keen to try out recommended international restaurants here because after 16 years even the very best tapas can get a bit tedious. And so off we went, promptly getting lost and having to look the place up on Pipocas’s crackberry. But we eventually got there and it looked quite promising. . .
24 Sunday Aug 2008
Posted in food & drink, sevilla, spain
Or ‘toad skin’ melon – my latest food passion!
Remember way back in March when I solved my fruit dilemma by making fresh fruit purĂ©es? Well, that all went by the wayside when I went into hospital in May and somehow I never got back into the habit. Then the other evening I was out for a walk with Nog and I was so hot and tired and wishing I could have an icy cold granizada de limĂłn … and suddenly I thought of melons. Lovely crisp and juicy piel de sapo melons. And so I told Nog that we had to get to a supermarket immediately.
And I was right. It wasn’t cold but it totally quenched my thirst and tasted so fresh and delicious … and well, I’ve been eating melon daily ever since. The trick is to find one that is perfectly ripe and, since I have no idea how to do this, I ask someone at the fruit stand. Personally I don’t think they know either but they’re quite good at looking like they do.
Am thinking melon would also go well in a frozen vodka drink …
23 Saturday Aug 2008
Posted in food & drink, me-me's
From Wandering Coyote’s fabulous food blog Retorte, a fabulous food “me-me”.
Here’s what to do:
I’ve tried 60 out of 100. How about you?
(I’ve linked to the ones I had to look up)
22 Friday Aug 2008
Posted in cancer, friends, health & happiness, hospitals, progress
This morning it was going to be another early morning bike ride to the hospital – this time for pre-op blood tests and two xrays – but I woke up feeling quite queasy and tired so had to go by taxi instead (though I did cycle back). My appointment with the anaesthetist is for September 2nd, the same morning I see the oncologist again (will definitely have my travel scrabble game with me for that one!). And it is supposed that sometime between now and then I will be told the date of the liver surgery.
As for progress …
casa azahar 