06 Wednesday Dec 2017
Oh my god I LOVED these women. Saw them yesterday outside El Corte Inglés late afternoon and assumed they may have had one penúltima too many after a Christmas lunch. 😉 In fact, there were about 15 of them, most taking photos, and all of them laughing, clearly having the best time. Aren’t they glorious?
05 Tuesday Dec 2017
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Almost 10 years ago I bought this vacuum cleaner. And it was the best thing ever! So I’m not sure why I completely stopped using it when I moved to the previous Casa Azahar, though I suspect it was a combination of the stairs and long corridors, requiring too much faffing with plugging and unplugging, and lugging. In any case, it sat unused for those 6.5 years. But I recently rediscovered the Growling Sucking Monster (as it is known to the cats) and put it back to work.
To think I almost gave this away in my flurry of ruthless downsizing during the last move (I actually now regret giving away quite so much stuff…) because it’s perfect in the more compact, one-level new Casa Azahar. I won’t go as far as to say it makes doing the housework enjoyable, but it’s way faster and more efficient than sweeping. So… yay!
Yeah I know, but hey, it’s my blog. 😉
04 Monday Dec 2017
Posted in christmas, food & drink, friends, sevilla, spain, tapas, tapas bars
The last time Ania @ania_marchlik and I got together for lunch was far too long ago, so on the eve of her heading home to Poland for the holidays, we decided to meet up for what ended up being quite an exquisite tapeo. I checked my “to do” list of places I needed to update for Sevilla Tapas and thought it had also been too long since I’d been to Cañabota. Turned out Ania had never been there, but had always wanted to go, so I got in touch with the owner Juanlu to see if there was any way to squeeze us in and, although fully booked, he found us a “hueco” before another booking for us to have lunch.
It was actually perfect timing, and we didn’t feel rushed in the slightest. The food was even better than I remembered it, perhaps in part because Juanlu is now focusing on a strictly seasonal menu. Check it out… 
Afterwards we took a walk over to La Azotea on calle Zaragoza for dessert and (of course) a penúlitima. Somehow we always end up at one Azotea or another. And somehow “dessert” ended up including some crispy filo filled with cheese and prawns, and a plate of jamón, along with Ania’s choice, the lovely orange cream you can see up there. Anyhow, it was a great afternoon and my first “Christmas lunch” of the season. Looking forward to a few more, and also meeting up with Ania in Málaga when she is briefly back in Spain.
03 Sunday Dec 2017
Posted in christmas, music, sunday song, video
02 Saturday Dec 2017
I always worry about The Dude during the winter, though the other night I saw that someone in the square had put out a blanket and some food for him, and today I found him basking in a sunbeam. Basking and abiding. A neighbour recently told me that he is actually 15 years old (I thought he was 12). Long may he abide.
