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New Year

A Very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year from both Peter and I to all our family, friends and blog readers.
We are looking forward to seeing the New Year in this year, in a local village pub with friends and their families and stay the night at friends so no probs with drink driving [...]

Visit to the Doctors

Today Peter and I went to the the surgery for an hour long session with the practice nurse.
The first half hour was councelling to assist us to give up smoking and we have our nicotine patches to help give us the kick start we need. We are both determined so watch this space!
We then [...]

Christmas

Well, Christmas is all over for another year. It will come round again in a blink as time seems to pass so quickly these days.
We had a wonderful Christmas with the family and I am so glad that we changed direction and came back to the UK after all as we did intend to stay [...]

Strictly Come Dancing

Well, it is all over. What do we have to look forward to watching now? Not a lot, looking at the programme listings.
The final of Strictly Come Dancing was on Saturday. Although not the best dancer, we were delighted that Darren Gough won. In our opinion, he deserved to win, as out of the finalists [...]

Back in the UK Again!

Well, we’ve been back in the UK again for 10 days and what busy, busy people we have been.
We arrived on Monday 12th December, landing 1/2 hour before schedule once again, through passport contril, collected luggage and out of the airport before we should have landed. We can’t knock EasyJet although other people do.
Lovely Pam [...]

Diary Update From Us in Spain

The Weather
Well! What Can I Say! The last few days have been stupendous. Long sunny days, clear skies and daytime temperatures well into the 20’s. What more could you want in December? Wonderful!
Social
On Tuesday we went to a Gardening Circle we joined last year. The speaker was a bit boring, rambling on at great length [...]

I’m a Celeb!

We have never watched I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here as it has never been a programme that appealed to us. However, we were at a friend’s home recently and watched it with them. It was the programme where Carole Thatcher was driving across a ravine.
We got hooked and watched the rest of [...]

Diary Update From Spain

Yes, here we are folks, back in Spain again since last Friday and I must say it is rather nice to be here!
Weather
What a mixed bag we have had this week – a little rain, some beautiful warm sunny, still days and like today gale force winds which makes it feel very cold. Having [...]