21 Friday Aug 2009
Posted in food & drink, friends, health & happiness, holidays, spain, summer, travel, trips
A couple of days ago I got a call from my friend Paloma telling me she’d just arrived in Zahara and was going to be here for awhile so we should get together. I met Paloma through Agustín and she was also my student for awhile. She’s a bit older than me and is the mother of my favourite chatterbox, Bosco, who is going to be coming to Zahara today. But I am getting ahead of myself…
18 Tuesday Aug 2009
Posted in books & writing, change, chemo, fitness, food & drink, friends, health & happiness, holidays, hope, internet, life stuff, travel, trips, yoga
Yesterday I read this article called Can You Handle 24 Hours of Solitude? … and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to do this. In fact, it’s taken some time to get used to being alone on holiday here in Zahara. I know some of you think this is like a dream come true, but I came here not just to spend some time at the beach and take care of Mini – it was also a personal challenge. I really wasn’t sure how I’d feel being on my own for a whole ten days. And now it’s day four …
02 Sunday Aug 2009
It’s been just over two weeks since I wrote this post telling you all about my friend Manolo offering me the use of his beachfront apartment in Málaga in August. It’s been like waiting for Christmas but finally today is the day! Nog and I are going to leave just after lunch, catch the train at 3pm and should be at the apartment by 6 o’clock. In time to unpack and get settled in and then hit the streets early evening in search of tapas…
16 Thursday Jul 2009
Posted in cancer, chemo, food & drink, friends, health & happiness, hospitals, tapas
Just call me Dr az.
I went to see the oncologist yesterday. Dr Ana is on holiday so I saw one of my original colon cancer oncs. As I mentioned in my summer holidays post, I’ve had very bad reactions to the last three infusions of Oxyplatin and so I decided that for the sixth and final round of chemo I’d just take the Xeloda chemo pills and forgo the infusion. When I told my friend/student/GP Agustín this the other day he went all doctory on me and said this wasn’t a decision I should make without the advice of my oncologist. So I gave that a shot and I’m not surprised at all how things went…
15 Wednesday Jul 2009
Posted in animals & pets, friends, home
It’s not as if da boyz need any help throwing up, but …
A couple of months ago my yoga buddy Flor insisted that since Sunny & Azar were indoor cats I should grow some grass for them to eat. And then one day during our after-yoga brekky she gave me a packet of “cat grass” seeds and said I could grow them on my balcony. I finally got around to planting them the other day and was surprised yesterday to see the grass had virtually shot up overnight. Cool, eh?
Has anybody else ever planted cat grass? That’s actually what it was called on the packet. I’m going to move the planter down to balcony floor level later on today and see what happens. I’m pretty sure that Azar will go for it because he eats any plant he can reach, even those that seem impossible for him to get at (no doubt he shape shifts during the night, the little sneak). Though perhaps after being spoilt with fresh asparagus they will both turn their noses up at a bunch of grass. We shall see…
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