Two of my favourite animals!
cat with dophins
10 Sunday Apr 2011
Monthly Archives: April 2011
trees
09 Saturday Apr 2011
Posted in welcome
s’not funny
08 Friday Apr 2011
Posted in health & happiness
So, on Christmas morning I woke up with a killer sore throat, which seemed to come and go quite a lot over the next month or so. And then finally it was gone. But what lingered was this rather icky nose and sinus infection, which also got worse and better, then worse again, etc. Finally after almost four months of this I decided it was maybe time to mention it to my doctor?
In this case I decided to just ask my friend/neighbour/student/GP Agustín yesterday while we were having English class at his place. And so now I am squirting this stuff up my nose a couple of times a day and hoping it will work, otherwise the next step will apparently be some sort of steroid spray. Ick.
For those who previously suggested rinsing out my sinuses with salt water, yeah yeah, I know. But I always seemed to either forget or just couldn’t be bothered mixing it up and snorting it (which I’ve done before and really hated). Agustín told me that this Rhinomer stuff is pressurised so it is much more effective than snorting… and wow, he was right about that. This stuff shoots straight up my nasal passages to my eyeballs and then swooshes its way back down and around all the behind-my-face cavities again before finally trickling out through various orifice openings. I’m impressed! I also wish I did this about three months ago.
And I hope you weren’t eating while you read this…
azar is 16!!!
07 Thursday Apr 2011
He really is the love of my life, this little guy. And now that he’s getting older with his health becoming a bit fragile I extra-value every day, every waking moment, that I have with him. I found him upstairs on the red chair the other day, enjoying the light coming in through the glass door of the terraza – can’t really say he was enjoying the view as I doubt he can see much anymore because of the cataracts. But it’s a delight to watch him racing up and down the stairs, hanging out on the balconies, and even sitting out on Loki’s window ledge. There’s still quite a lot of kitten in him.
Happy birthday mi vida!
Here is the story of how I met Azar.
easyjet az
06 Wednesday Apr 2011
Yesterday evening I was thrilled when I got an email from Annie Manson saying that while flying from Geneva to Málaga she’d seen me mentioned and quoted in the EasyJet’s April Inflight magazine, and congratulating me on such a great PR coup. At first I was totally flummoxed as I had no idea why I would be in there, then when I saw the article (about the Feria in Sevilla) written by Derek Workman, I remembered meeting Derek for tapas a while back and spending a pleasant leisurely lunchtime chatting about Sevilla stuff. He was in town doing research for this article as EasyJet was about to launch a new London-Sevilla route in April. So that was quite exciting! If you want to read the article (which starts on page 50) you’ll have to register, which is a bit of a pain but only takes a minute.
Anyhow, after a few emails back and forth to Annie I got into bed with my iPhone to read a few last tweets and emails before sleeping and saw that one of my favourite tapas bars was mentioned in an article by Shaney Hudson, an Australian travel writer now living in Holland who was here on a research visit last autumn. Then I saw that my tapas tours got a personal recommendation from Shaney in her Essential Guide to Sevilla (!!!). How cool is that?
All of which has me thinking this morning about all the amazing connections I’ve made, and continue to make, via my blogs, Twitter and – okay I admit it – even Facebook. I’ve made friends and biz contacts, and have also found work, as a result of not only sitting in front of my laptop (or with iPhone in hand) several hours a day, but also by going out to meet many of these people when they are in town. Which of course I love as one of my favourite things to do is show people “my Sevilla” and especially take them out for tapas. So anyone who still thinks social media is silly is, well, silly. 😉
casa azahar 