where have i been, what have i been doing………for goodness

sake, where has the time gone?

Knew I hadn’t  written anything for ages, but what? It’s been over six months?  Six months!  Where has the time gone? And for goodness sakes, what have I been doing?

Well, as far as I can remember, and the old memory is not what it was, Xmas was spent in Morocco..seems like my second home, Morocco for birthdays, Morocco for Xmas…and going again in August (yes, for the old birthday again). However, Xmas 2008 took the SMART car over (otherwise known as ART the SMART) and didn’t he cause eyes to stare..the kids thought he was out of the Telly Tubbies TV programme and seeing as though he is akin to a real person (told you I am going senile!) didn’t he just love it! The journey took us from Ceauta across the Moroccan border and down to Fez. We saw some sights and did some things but you will all have to wait for the book to come out as I’m telling you nothing!

February saw me linking up with friends to have stalls on Torrox’s Saturday morning market which is held in the main square….me with my photography and hand knitted scarves, Rachel with handcrafted items like lavender bags, cards, pin cushions, felt needle cases (the two of us spend many an evening round her table cutting,filling and tying up the lavender bags and making the pin cusions) and Jan (ex Galleria) selling off the surplus from the shop. 

Though Jan is back in the UK now, Rachel and I are still there, every Saturday morning….the stock has developed and grown, my scarves have been put away till October so I am concentrating on the photography…and we have added genuine Amani and Boss clothing to our range, which we also shown at house parties and in a cafe/bar down on the coast where we organise a weekly market.  We have been joined by Sue, the monkey lady…..no, now don’t go there! Sue makes Phunky Monkeys out of socks…new socks…no thinking of donating your old ones, it doesn’t work that way.. and she is now branching out into making FeekIts…and I have it on good authority that it does not mean what you think!

Time just seems to have rushed by and I am now feeling that a ”dog chasing its tale’ with my hearing going and dizzyness coming. Went to the hospital last week and apart from being convinced that the specialist considers me  a typical menopausal woman with nothing to do except imagine I have ringing in the ears…of course what other thing would I be doing with my time…I now have to ‘swill the blood round my head’..he didn’t go as far as to suggest I spend my time standing on my head instead I have to take medicine twice a day.  He also thinks I am depressed! What? I haven’t got time to be depressed, what’s the matter with the man?

So, hope I’m roughly up to date with you all. Summer has come and hit Torrox with it’s full force…yes, it’s hot!  The rental business, or should I say, my rental business is doing quite well, always need more though, so the lot of you WHERE ARE YOU? Come and experience Torrox for yourselves.

Oh, yes, before I go…..apart from the above I have a Writing Course being held here July 27th for one week. My friend Deb Sutton from Buxton, who is a qualified Writing Tutor and published author, is coming to teach it, so anyone interested and who reads this almost immediately, contact me and book a place.