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bogavantes!

22 Wednesday Dec 2010

Posted by azahar in christmas, food & drink, home, sevilla

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bogavantes, christmas eve, lobsters

The other day Carmen from El Marino (an excellent seafood tapas bar & restaurant here) posted photos of some lobsters (bogavantes) that they had just got in. And it occurred to me that this would make for a fabulous Christmas Eve meal. It’s been years (about 20) since I cooked lobster at home, so after I call Carmen’s husband Nicolas today to find out where to get the best bogavantes in town I shall have to figure out how I want to cook them.

Any suggestions?

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cosy

17 Friday Dec 2010

Posted by azahar in cancer, change, home, sevilla

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Apartment, moving, seville


Thought I’d share a cosy moment that happened this afternoon. Wish they could always get along so well, but I think the fact that it’s 12º in the apartment has something to do with the boys snuggling up like this under the sofa cover.

And the fact that I’m freezing and there’s practically a gale force wind coming in through the cracks in the balcony doors makes me think that today’s phone call from my schizoid landlord wasn’t such bad news after all. Yes, he has changed his mind – again – about renewing my contract, even though just two weeks ago he’d told me there’d be no problem giving me a new one … aargh.

So much for flipping a coin about Christmas in London, as I will now have to save every penny to move in February, plus I’ll need be here to look. I mean, I haven’t stopped looking around since I was first given notice, and I have ads of my own placed, but I liked having the option of staying if nothing better turned up. It really irks that this is happening, and it worries me too in case I get bad news in January and have to go back on chemo, or have another operation. On the other hand, having an apartment with double-glazed windows and heating/air-conditioning would be nice…

cheques mágicos!

15 Wednesday Dec 2010

Posted by azahar in home, life stuff, sevilla, spain

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cheques magicos, el corte ingles, sevilla


Magic Cheques from El Corte Inglés.

So okay, a couple of weeks ago Nog & I went over the El Corte Inglés to do some Saturday morning shopping at the supermarket, and found people handing out these “cheques mágicos”. I’m used to having weird and useless promo stuff handed to me, but when I went to refuse the woman said “trust me, you want to know about this one”…
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I gotta job!

08 Wednesday Dec 2010

Posted by azahar in sevilla, welcome, work

≈ 19 Comments

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marketing, social media

My first real new part-time freelance job since starting off this season as a social media manager … got the phone call yesterday afternoon. And I did that whole jumping up and down thing. It really was very exciting.

I’ve actually had three meetings this past week with tapas bars/restaurants that I feel could use my services, and I showed up with everything set up and with my presentation totally organised and – I hope – interesting. Made me realise more than ever that I’ve got to get myself an iPad…

But otherwise and that, I have a new job! And the great thing is that this job didn’t actually exist until I created it, packaged it up in an interesting way, and then went out and convinced a few people they really needed and wanted this, and that I was the best person to set it up and maintain it for them. This is a really big step for me. I mean, sure, it’s just part-time, but with a few more of these I could maybe end up being something resembling full-time.. maybe.

written

27 Saturday Nov 2010

Posted by azahar in food & drink, photohunt, photos, sevilla, spain

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photohunt, written

Today’s Photohunt theme is “written”.

One of my fave seafood restaurants here serves everything so fresh
that their menu is hand-written every day, depending on what comes in.

El Marino

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