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it’s heeeere…

05 Tuesday Aug 2025

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That was supposed to read THEY’RE HEEEERE except they only ended up bringing one mattress today (mine). And then they broke one of the light fixtures in the stairway on the way up (Encarni is thrilled with me, as you can imagine). Well, they took photos to send to their boss, I got them to clean up the broken glass (they were just going to leave it!!??) and also took the boss’s phone number. I don’t know what happened to Peter’s, except it isn’t a standard size so perhaps it wasn’t in stock and mine was. Whatevs.

I have a new mattress! It’s way more, um, substantial than the old IKEA one. Also taller, which I think is a more standard size as the bottom sheet fits better. Anyhow, had to make it up straight away as the cats were already getting interested and I didn’t want them ripping the shit out of it. And now I can’t wait to go to bed (been awake since 5… late for me!). I hope I like it. 😬

reprieved & relieved

24 Thursday Jul 2025

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Signed my new contract for Casa Azahar today and so… phew! At least one more year here (and hopefully many more). But every year it’s the same thing, getting all stressed about maybe having to move and I really really really don’t want to have to do that, frankly ever again. Anyhow I promised myself that if I didn’t have to move this summer I would splash out on a new mattress while the sales were on. Looking back, I bought my present bed back in October 2012 so it’s probably overdue by now, plus there’s a noticeable dip in the centre. Peter’s isn’t quite as old (March 2016) but his mattress wasn’t that great to start off with, so that’s it. We’re both going mattress shopping! No idea what I’m looking for. The IKEA one I bought with the frame was fine but I can’t remember anything about it. This could take a while… any tips?

new stick blender!

11 Wednesday Jun 2025

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My trusty old Braun stick blender suddenly died while making alioli a couple of days ago… fuck. I looked back through the blog to see when I first bought it and, as it isn’t here, I can only assume it was purchased pre 2006. Otherwise everyone would have heard about it! 😃

Anyhoodle, a quick trip to El Corte Inglés this morning ended up with this purchase and it’ll be fine. Doesn’t have quite all the accessories as the other one but this will do and it was only 45€ (on sale). It’s weird how whenever I purchase anything new these days I always think this will be the last time I have to do this.