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Reyes Morales bringing the official poster for Sherry Week to life 😎 🥂
queen of sherry week
07 Thursday Nov 2024
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blue tuesday
05 Tuesday Nov 2024
So much for asking my GP to fast track my next KNEE DOCTOR appt… thought I’d ask her about a couple of things while I was there with Peter today acting as translator. But turns out I will have to make my own appointment to get any info about my stuff. Which I guess is fair enough as I know they aren’t given much time with each patient… but this was just to ask her to check the knee thing. Anyhow, she told me I could ask downstairs at the reception desk, which I did and at least got a copy of the appt request by the last traumatologist. It will be with an orthopaedic surgeon! They didn’t actually tell me that, or give me a copy of the request. Anyhow, it says it’s a “normal” request (not “urgent”). And so I have dutifully made a phone appointment with my GP (earliest available Nov 19th) to ask her about a couple of other things and to also ask her if she can change the surgeon appt to urgent. Meanwhile, while at the reception desk I asked if it was possible to get a shingles jab and she said, yeah sure. So Peter and I will get vaccinated for that next week. And then on the way home I saw this beautiful blue, so not an entirely wasted morning.
sherry week 2024
04 Monday Nov 2024
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Well you all know that every week is sherry week for me, but this is the start of the 11th International Sherry Week, from November 4-10th which is being held… well, everywhere! Thank goodness I can still do my Sherry & Tapas Tastings, and so I can also offer them on the Sherry Week Webisite. Although I’m not able to do my walking tours at the moment I can still manage to hobble over to Casa Morales on my crutches and then back again. And I have quite a full week coming up.
So no matter where you are in the world have a look to see if there is a fab Sherry Event this week near you… Sherry Week Events! Get to know the most inclusive and versatile wine in the world.
chair kickboxing!
31 Thursday Oct 2024
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So I’ve been doing chair workouts – chair yoga, chair pilates, chair cardio, chair barre, etc – for over a year now (due to fucked up knee)… then this week I tried chair kickboxing for the first time and wow, what a great workout. I love that there is enough variety with this woman’s workout vids that I can always find something that works and also something new. I’d honestly be lost without them.
bar campanario
30 Wednesday Oct 2024
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The other day my friend Javier (who was once my flatmate a million years ago) sent me this photo. Javi and his wife Laura have led quite a nomadic life these past years but they continue to keep a storage unit back home and he said random finds like this make it all worthwhile. This t-shirt is from 1999 when Javi did a brief stint working at Bar Campanario.
My first time at Campanario (which no longer exists) was when I drove down from Salamanca in 1993 with a friend and with all my worldly belongings in the back of his car, along with some precious cargo – my cats Lua and her son Sunny.
We arrived in Sevilla at 8 pm, as previously arranged (to meet landlord and pick up keys), and miraculously found parking almost in front of my new home in calle Mateos Gago. But there was no landlord. And as this was 1993 there were no cell phones, so we just waited. And waited. Finally we asked the bar we were parked in front of if we could get something to eat and drink, but we didn’t really want to leave the car because of the cats and all. And bless them, the people at Bar Campanario actually brought food and drink out to our car, like we were at a drive in, and it was lovely. The landlord finally showed up at 11pm full of apologies, but we were fine (and the cats were happy to see their improvised litter box!).
Bar Campanario ended up becoming my local, heck it even became my living room (my studio apt across the street was tiny). The owners became friends and still are. This photo from Javi brought back a flood of memories, which I’ve shared with the family.
