Category Archives: spain

saturday errands

06 Sunday Sep 2009

Posted by in food & drink, friends, home, life stuff, sevilla, spain

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Saturday morning errands are one of my favourite things. And in the HEAT of summer (and yes, it is still summer and still HOT here) it is always best to get out early in order to get errands done. Which is what Nog & I attempted to do yesterday but then got waylaid by a neighbourhood scandal. Apparently someone in our very own building has been dropping their garbage from their balcony, and leaving it to lie where it may. Or so I was told. Upon further investigation – calling all tenants downstairs for an emergency meeting – it seemed that nobody was guilty. But by the time we all agreed to agree on this over an hour had passed and it was already HOT.

And so our Saturday errands (shown above) ended up something like this …

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orange

05 Saturday Sep 2009

Posted by in photohunt, photos, sevilla, spain

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orange harvest

Today’s Photohunter theme is “orange”.

The pre-digital camera pic above shows the orange trees in my street being harvested. And below is a photo of my very orange bedroom (before I got the new headboard). The colour orange is also quite prevalent on this blog, as you have probably noticed. And also on my azahar and Sevilla Tapas blogs, and my two Twitter accounts. It’s my favourite happy colour to look at (favourite happy colour to wear is red), and I have it on good authority that it’s a really good colour to use for getting people to purchase items online. Then there is my online name, which is Spanish for orange blossom, though the flowers are actually white and look like this. Apparently my love is not orange, but the colour orange I am is … well, orange. Take the quiz…

Quiz: What Colour Orange Are You?

orange

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ripples

22 Saturday Aug 2009

Posted by in holidays, photohunt, photos, spain, summer

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Today’s Photohunter theme is “ripples”.

Bit of a no-brainer for me this week as I am spending ten glorious sun & sea filled days in Zahara de los Atunes. Every morning I go for a walk along the beach and bathe my feet in the Atlantic, so when I was wondering yesterday what I could come up with for “ripples” (was walking on the beach at the time) the obvious  suddenly dawned on me.  Feeling more than somewhat duh I promptly took out my camera…

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paloma

21 Friday Aug 2009

Posted by in food & drink, friends, health & happiness, holidays, spain, summer, travel, trips

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paloma de picasso

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…

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