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christmas angel

13 Sunday Dec 2009

Posted by azahar in christmas, fiestas, friends, holidays, home, Malaga, neighbours, sevilla, spain, travel, trips

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angels, christmas, neighbours

In case you’ve never seen an angel before…this is Isabel.

If you haven’t read the story about Isabel’s wonderful generosity and how she totally saved my holiday in Málaga last weekend, you can find it here. Someone asked if I had offered to pay her for taking me to the train station, but I knew she would have never accepted money and so I got her this lovely box of Belgian chocolates while I was away. And it was hard enough getting her to accept those! She kept waving them away and telling me not to be “tonta”. And when I asked if I could take her photo and told her that she was already “famosa” on my blog, she turned to the shop assistant and said, “I just did the tiniest of favours for this girl and she’s making such a big fuss over it!”

The tinest of favours. Yeah right. She only saved my holiday and renewed my faith in human kindness with her very spontaneous act of generosity.  No big deal.

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my málaga christmas

11 Friday Dec 2009

Posted by azahar in cats, christmas, food & drink, friends, Malaga

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christmas, Malaga, spain

Day & night pics of Calle Larios … taken on my  iPhone to twitter.

Fotki albums: Málaga Winter, Málaga Christmas, Málaga Tapitas

After a rather shaky & stressful start, my 4-day long weekend couldn’t have been better. Well okay, we could have passed on bussing out to Marbella on Saturday to go to the new M&S there – that was a real waste of time and money. The M&S was tiny with a very uninteresting selection of products. They didn’t even have any decent Christmas cards for me to use next year! But they did have mince pies (bought two packets) and amazing blueberry muffins (Jessica got some for brekky). And I also got some lovely Belgian chocolates – I left one box as a thank-you gift in Manolo’s kitchen, the other I’ll give to “mi salvadora” Isabel. But I’m getting ahead of myself …

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homemade snowglobes

10 Thursday Dec 2009

Posted by azahar in christmas, fiestas, home

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christmas, homemade, snowglobes

I’m not one for souvenirs but ever since I went to Barcelona for my fiftieth birthday I’ve been collecting snowglobes of the places I visit. I think they are both tacky and charming, and they look very cute lined up on my bookcase. So far I have snowglobes from Barcelona, Córdoba, Cádiz, Tavira, Lisbon and a couple from Seville. Couldn’t find any in Tangier, which wasn’t really surprising, but I also couldn’t find any in Málaga or Gibraltar that weren’t, well, way beyond tacky and not at all charming.

It never occurred to me to make my own snowglobes – what a great idea!

See instructions at Well-worn.com or below the links…
(all items can be found at a craft or haberdashery store)

~ from Well-worn.com via India Knight ~

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nice to be home…

09 Wednesday Dec 2009

Posted by azahar in animals & pets, christmas, holidays, home, Malaga, sevilla, spain, travel, trips

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cats, christmas, holidays, Malaga

Got home from Málaga yesterday evening … I was so excited to see Azar again! As soon as I opened the door he started MEOWING like crazy. Then he ran under the bed and pretended to sulk. But unlike other times he only managed to sulk for about three minutes before coming out and allowing himself to be snibbled. That was when I saw that he had managed to keep himself amused during my absence by dragging clothes out from the storage boxes under the bed and making mincemeat out of a roll of paper towels that had been left on an end table in the livingroom (and not for the first time).

After much snibbling and rolling around on the bed with small black cat I started on the first of several loads of washing that need doing and then … I put up the Christmas tree! Right on schedule.

Today I’m going to work on my Málaga photos and will hopefully have them up on Fotki to show you all a bit later. It was a wonderful long weekend and great to get away, but also so very nice to be home again.

[very cool tea towel was a gift from alejna]

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do you have the christmas spirit?

08 Tuesday Dec 2009

Posted by azahar in christmas, quizzes

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christmas, quiz

Your Christmas Sprit Level: 65%


You have a lot of Christmas spirit, and it’s evident to most people who know you.

You love most things Christmas, and you do your best to make sure everyone has a great holiday.

While you like the more commercial aspects of Christmas, you truly know what the spirit of Christmas is about.

You’re all about giving, being kind, and sharing the spirit of Christmas with everyone you know.

Do You Have the Christmas Spirit?

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