Hello lovely ladies,
How are you all? Today is all about the silver lining in our lives. Our week has been good, mostly and today we went to the hospital and got some bad news. Hubby’s cancer has spread and he needs another operation. On the positive side: my long time bestie from Holland is visiting and that creates the necessary distraction.
I received this postcard from the Netherlands recently. It made me smile.
The stamps have hearts on them. Always a nice thing to see.
Let me show you what happened last week:
Thursday we were still being woken up by a digger in front of our house. We saw a guy who is going to make a plan for a friend’s estate. We are sort of looking after it as this friend lives abroad. It meant showing him around the estate. A lovely walk. The sun is till shining.
I’m having the same problems as some of you have, that Blogger puts photos in the wrong order. So Saturday saw me cook artichokes. Someone had given them to me. I remembered how to do it as I used to cook them in Italy. But because now I have an Instant Pot, I looked up how to do that using the I.P. They turned out really nice. We had the. For supper.In the event we had our Intercambio meeting with Spanish and English speakers. We came across a brass band. It turned out that there was an open air mass in the park.
Jumping back to Friday, I went on a long walk with my friend. Good for the body ( the walk) and for the soul ( putting the world to rights with my friend).
We had bought a new laptop recently and we needed some bits and bobs and cables etc. so I have been up and down to the post office collecting parcels.
Sunday was wonderful. We ( a little fellowship group we belong to) had been invited to a meeting of the Romanian church. It was very different and really lovely. They made us very welcome and made an effort to do everything in Spanish as well as Romanian. At the end they treated us to pizza. They had ordered a table full of pizza!
In the evening we went to say hello to our Danish neighbors, who had arrived from Denmark. I took a picture of our house from their terrace.On Monday there was another parcel. Rather bigger than the others. It was hubby’s keyboard stand. A proper job, as he calls it.
In the evening we had been invited to have supper with the Danes. We sat out on the terrace all evening.
On Wednesday our friends Kim and Andy came. Andy is the computer whizz kid and he spent time sorting things out on our new laptop and Kim and I shared a bottle of white wine!
That is about it from me today. I think my computer knows we have bought a laptop and is having a tantrum. All my funnies are on my desktop computer and he won’t cooperate. Arghh! So this is all I can come up with:
Short and sweet today. Have a lovely weekend,
Keep smiling!
Hugs,
7 comments:
SO sorry to read about Graham. My heart goes out to the two of you, even though he looks rather unaffected by the news, at least in all the photos.
I always get hungry when I visit your blog. You always eat so well.
I number my photos and have never had trouble with my photos loading wrong. CJ showed how to fix that problem of photos out of order with an HTML insert.
LOVED the last funny. It is SO true, especially here in the states. And for those who don't know, OSHA is Occupational Safety and Health Agency. People like to tease me and say I was born with an OSHA badge in my hand, I'm so safety conscious.
I’m so sorry to hear the latest news about Graham...let’s hope they operate soon and manage to get it all this time. Sending you both healing hugs. Love the funnies especially theone about wearing face masks.
Hugs,
Annie x
I think many schools have access to forest school lessons but Theo’s school actually has one on site so he’s very lucky. He’s loving school.
Hugs,
Annie x
Sorry to hear the news about Graham, hope he gets his op. soon but on the bright side I noticed you have artichokes, I love these but haven't had one in ages and might have to look for some at the supermarket next week. It's good to see you keeping busy and spending time with friends is always good for the soul. I have to say the last part of People and safety is so true. I just don't understand some people's thinking. My friend works at the university and they are asking students to wear masks and many of they are refusing, these are supposed to be intelligent people! Take care and have a lovely weekend. Hugs, Angela xXx
So sorry to hear about Graham. He seemed to be doing so well. I hope they have found it in time to remove it.
I am not a fan of artichokes but I am glad you enjoyed yours.
You have some lovely friends to share your life. You seem to do a lot of socialising.
We have zero Covid in the village now but I still automatically wear a mask when I go out. It will be six months since our second vaccination in November so I am hoping to get my third dose and flu combination then.
I have added you both onto my prayer list again. Love Kate x
Well darn. That is sad news about Graham. I am sorry. Cute card. You are always so busy. I love hearing about your days.
So sorry to hear about your hubby, but will keep you in my thoughts and prayers over the coming weeks that his operation is a success and that he can pick up where he left off.
Me and hubby were only saying recently that we have never tried artichokes and they always look like hardwork to actally prepare and cook, so it may remain that way.
You really do seem to have some fantastic friends out where you are from all different nationalites how lovely to have been invited to a different church group and how fantastic for them to ensure you understood the service.
I hope you have a lovely weekend and week ahead
Much love
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