Category Archives: neighbours

flor’s rooftop garden

07 Thursday May 2009

Posted by in food & drink, friends, health & happiness, neighbours, photos, plants, yoga

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la-flor

Yesterday evening I finally got to see Flor’s rooftop garden.

Some of you may remember that I met Flor shortly after going back to yoga in January. Haven’t seen a lot of her recently because she’s been spending a lot of time in Portugal (she has property there with an amazing garden), though she did come with me for my last “chemo picnic” on April 23rd. Anyhow, I’ve been dying to see her place for ages and so after our post-yoga juice break yesterday she invited me to come over after I finished my class with Dr A.

Had a great time, a lovely meal and got to meet Flor’s two cute pups and gorgeous cat. Later on today we’re going to tart up her blog with some of the photos I took, but for now just a wee sneak preview …

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just knew I was gonna love this place…

06 Monday Apr 2009

Posted by in cancer, chemo, food & drink, friends, neighbours, restaurants, sevilla, work

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oca-spinach-pizza

When Susan took me out for lunch on Friday (the day after going back on chemo) we tried this recently opened pizzeria called L’Oca Giuliva, right across the street from my house. And I knew straight away that this was going to become the new takeaway pizza joint for casa az. Not that I actually order many takeaway pizzas – in fact, hardly any at all – but they are curiously very good “chemo comfort food”. Especially when, like yesterday evening, I’d just woken up from a four hour nap, was feeling peckish, but was still way too groggy to even make toast…

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