Crafty in the Med

I am here to enjoy meeting other bloggers and to share my love of craft ,mostly crochet, my thoughts and my daily happenings here in Alicante,Spain, my adopted country. I belong to a local choir because singing and music makes me happy. Flea markets and book shops are two of my favourite places to be. I read lots......sci´fi/fantasy,buried treasure, and off world adventures. I have a passion for history! I walk and walk and walk for about 10 months per year during the hot months I swim.

Friday, 22 January 2016

Cuddle up!!!



Many Many thanks for your get well good wishes from all you lovely bloggers. I think I have it under control now although my tummy is very sensitive still.  One really nasty virus!!!!!

 



I have just seen on BBC World News









the horrendous blizzard that is coming your way all you bloggy friends over there in the USA (east coast)  so I just wanted to send a shout out to you all from across the pond to take care and....


"STAY SAFE AND WARM"

 

Lets hope it isn't as bad as they forecast!!! 



Amanda :-)

Thursday, 14 January 2016

hugging the loo!!!


As I mentioned over Christmas I am going to do my best to keep up with blogging  even if it means writing very sketchy posts  and even while I've been feeling poorly    )-: 

I am so brave !!!!!  ....not!!!!!


Yes I've been pretty well hugging the loo lots over the last 48 hours and not because I have been on the bottle but due to a nasty virus which I have picked up somehow!  It has left me totally drained but that doesn't matter because I think the worst is over. It was getting to the point that my loo seemed miles away every time I tried to get there on time just like those grotty outdoors loos used way back when I was a child.






 I shudder when I remember it!!!
We had to go out in the freezing cold with a torch and crunched ourselves up shivering while we did our business, warily flashing the torch around as if we could ward off the weird shadows with its beam and the closed door being our only protection;shadows that seemed like ghostly beings coming to grab us off the loo!
Each noise and each rustle of branches or bushes coming from the garden that we could hear was a monster which would grab our ankles from under the door.
As for getting back in the house that was when feet sprouted wings ,no matter if a slipper got left behind or knickers were flapping around ones ankles the objective was to get in the house quick before the toilet grabbers could get you!!!!!!

Ahhhh! some would say those were the days!!!!



 It was total paradise when the annex was finally built and we had an indoor bathroom and toilet ........pure luxury :-)



Amanda :-)







Friday, 8 January 2016

It is over!!!







 and yes it is over and I already have post holidays blue!!!!!


I really haven't got the time to post much because I have to go and iron my posh clothes for class tomorrow ...yes I work on Saturdays .....Adult Education at Fundesem Business School  and they have a conservative dress code so I have to look tidy ... you know what I mean!!!

Fundesem Business School

How about that my first embedded video ....hope it works!      This is where I teach :-)



Don't think I have ever mentioned this but.....

I hate ironing!!!!



ok my lovelies (arr..... a bit of the old Somerset ) 

I be away to listen to a bit of music while I iron (Shudder!)


Amanda :-)