Is it lost!

 

 

It is over 5 weeks since I sent my parcel to my niece in Australia , which I wrote about here. She still hasn't received it!  I just hope it isn't lost. I cannot recall any of the parcels I have sent in the past ever taking so long. 

I am going to give it another week and then I will have to go back to the Post Office here and see what they can do about it... tch!   

 🔔🔔Whoopee! The parcel has arrived...that's about 6 weeks to get there but at least I don't have to worry now!! (added 25th March) !

 Sunday morning

 After a rainy,chilly and windy week with snow falling on the mountain peaks it cleared up  just right for our Sunday outing. The outing still wasn't up in the mountains as we had previously planned but instead we went for a walk along Urbanova beach 10 minutes drive outside of the city. 

There was a chilly wind at the beach but the sun was shining and the skies were blue again and quite a few people were flying kites on the beach which was good to watch.

 

 

 

 

 It was such a pleasant stroll along the promenade watching the children in the sand and youngsters playing ball or just sitting on a bench curled up reading a book.  I saw the police patrolling checking that people were wearing their masks and also wearing them correctly and not under their chins.There was a really pleasant ambience,people enjoying the walk and chatting with family members and children happily running around playing as children do. An enjoyable sight which impressed me because it was so normal and frankly it was just so good to feel the normality of it all.

Can you see the snow on the mountain tops in the background?

 

 

 RAOCKS

 Big Red Rose RAOCK , the size of my hand, all ready to go in my stash to be left out this week.. Such a shame the camera hasn't picked up the little sparkly red gems I left under some petals.

RAOCKs are great for using up bits of yarn.  Hook  4, Mixed yarn, No Pattern

 

Books

My sister sent me this book last week from the UK.

 

She knows how much I like to find out the origin of idioms.  The English language is packed full of popular phrases and sayings(idioms) that we use frequently in our daily life. I often find myself wondering where certain phrases or expressions come from. I am finding this book is clarifying for me that question I constantly ask myself.

Let me just give you an example I found out about this curious idiom quite some time ago :

e.g "There is no room to swing a cat in here.   no room to swing a cat is the idiom

This actually originated from Navy jargon around about 16th century. When they referred to a cat in the Navy they were talking about a whip, a rather horrendous instrument called "cat' o nine tails" which was used to punish any unruly sailor.  The whip itself had nine long tails studded with spikes and to be able to strike the poor sailor in question ample space was required so they had to do so on the deck of the ship were there was plenty of space. Today we use this phrase when we want to indicate that a certain space is excessively small because there is no room to swing a cat. 

 Fascinating,isn't it? 😊

 

 Hope you are having a good week

 

Keep well

 

Amanda :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over the rooftops

 

Our microwave caught fire three days ago. 

Scary!!

I had just heated something up and taken it out of the microwave and closed the door. There were a few seconds left of heating time so it continued switched on while the timer ticked away. 

 

I returned to the living room to start our lunch when I heard a sizzling and spitting and then a loud bang. I instantly smelt smoke as I came into the kitchen and cautiously opened the door to the microwave and I saw the side panel alight and a flame shot up along the panel.

 

Does not look like much now but when it was in flames it did!!

  I quickly closed the door and called Sr P but by then the microwave had switched it self off.

I was quite surprised it did not trip the lights and cut the power  but it didn't! We do have a safety switch which turns off the lights if it detects overheating or a fuse blows but it didn't go off!   Sr P is going to get the electrician in to check it out to be on the safe side and at the same time disconnect the mircowave and help him dismantle it from the wall fixture .It was 9 years old so I don't think it will be worth the bother to get it repaired.

Buying a new microwave is presenting a few difficulties because it has to be exactly the same size as the old one to slot into the wall fixture and I also need it to match my oven and fridge which is stainless steel. 

Sunday whereabouts 

Beware eye candy overload!!

The Covid restricts have been prolonged to the 1st March so we still cannot leave the city! 

We thought this Sunday we'd go to the top of the top and look down over the rooftops of Alicante. It wasn't the prettiest of day as it was overcast ,chilly and quite hazy; right... so it can't be blue skies every day.

The top is the castle but we decided we would rather go for a walk up to the Hermitage of the Santa Cruz an area which is at the top of the old town situated on the castle slopes.

We  used the new pathway up to the Hermitage and the Santa Cruz area of the old town (still called new even though it is about 4 years old), it is a good place to be able to look down over all the city centre new and old. 

The Hermitage was our first stop. It is closed of course due to Covid but the view from there is fabulous. It is a bit of a climb but here in the Santa Cruz area of the old town everything is a climb wherever you go.

La Hermita de la Santa Cruz

This hermitage is where they house the Santa Cruz (The Holy Cross float) which only comes out at Easter and the Santa Cruz brotherhood carries it and parades it along these narrow narrow streets and the procession takes the cross down to the cathedral to be blessed.  It takes  ten men to carry the Crucifixion float (the Santa Cruz) down all those streets and then take it back up again... no mean feat!

We went up a little further to a small mirador(viewpoint); part of the castle wall .

 

 

At the top of the Old Town

Looking down...

 

We then took another route down through the labyrinth of streets to get back to the car. These streets do seem confusing and you can easily loose your sense of direction but as Sr P told me years back you just have to remember to keep going downwards towards the sea. 

 

 Definitely no cars up here! 

I often wonder about the elderly people who live in this neighbourhood. They must be tremendously fit with all the steps they have to climb!

Some of the old houses have been restored and are used as summer accommodation.

 

My legs ached lots after all those steps but it is worth it as I always feel better for it. 

RAOCKS

Latest large RAOCK 6 inch flower to be dropped off very soon with a few others from my stash.

 

 No pattern all free-form. Made with bits of leftover yarn,hook 3,5 and a yellow marble in the  middle. 

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Keep well

 

Amanda :-)