HELLO WEEK

This week I'm saying:

HELLO to a cleaner, cooler dog!

From THIS

to

THIS!

HELLO to the last week of KEEP FIT until September (it's getting uncomfortably hot and there's no aircon in the room we use)

HELLO to the start of FIESTA in the village

HELLO to having joined JENNIFER's online class PROJECTS THAT WOW!.....I will confess to having scrapped nothing yet, but I'm enjoying the prompts and have a photo all ready to go!

HELLO to getting a post written about my Scavenger Hunt finds

Hoping you have some fun things to say HELLO to, this week! 

Thanks for dropping by!
Take care of you
Alison xx

HELLO MONDAY

This week I'm saying:

HELLO to the May Fayre  being over....(sigh of relief!)

HELLO to having raised over 5000 euros!!!!.....making it WELL worth the effort!

HELLO to getting to BOTH Keep Fit AND Line Dancing...I  have managed to get to one or the other recently, but not both

HELLO to realising that my two brothers are capable of more than any of us (including them!) thought...dad's back in hospital and they are really keeping on top of his care and what can be put in place to make life easier for dad and mum ,when he gets home.

HELLO to being grateful for social networking...FB allows my sister in New Zealand, my brothers and myself to 'talk' without having to repeat the same things to each other constantly

HELLO to getting a package put together for SIAN'S GREAT BIG SWAP OF VERY SMALL THINGS (I honestly haven't forgotten, Cheri!)

HELLO to maybe..just maybe......getting some scrapbooking done this week! 

HELLO to trying not to feel guilty for getting on with my life, when I know how poorly my dad is

I do hope there are good things for you to be saying HELLO to this week!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

HELLO MONDAY

This week I'm saying:

HELLO to BEING HOME!..... I have enjoyed catching up with friends and family, but I have to admit to having been happy dancing round the house!

HELLO to feeling guilty for being glad to be home.

HELLO to  accepting that I am going to have to get over to help mum and dad more often

HELLO to noticing what's been happening in my garden since I've been away...pics later in the week!

HELLO to getting back to eating properly..I really lost the plot while I was away!

HELLO to Keep Fit tomorrow morning...but no Line Dancing tomorrow night - I'm off to a Committee Meeting instead

HELLO to the MAY DAY on Wednesday....unlike the UK, we have our Bank Holiday on May 1

What are you saying hello to this week?

Thanks for dropping by!
Take care of you
Alison xx

HELLO MONDAY

This week I'm saying:

HELLO to some new plants

HELLO to finding time to plant said plants

HELLO to a visit to the hairdresser...much needed!

HELLO to finalising my travel plans and my social calendar for my upcoming trip to the UK...yes, ANOTHER one!...this time for a family wedding and checking up on mum and dad.

HELLO to Keep Fit, Line Dancing and Stitchcraft Classes

HELLO to trying to make my own baked beans from THIS RECIPE ( SYN free on Slimming World!)......I made the sauce earlier today and it's yummy!

I hope you have some good things to look forward to this week!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

LOOKING UP AND DOWN

I'm linking up with HELENA once again for her weekly photographic meme:

LOOKING UP

Yes, this IS looking up! This little gecko has been on the ceiling of our Keep Fit hall since we started back in January...it IS alive because it has moved to various spots, and we are all amazed at how it stays hanging there and hasn't fallen on any of our heads!!!

LOOKING DOWN

Ready to start our Keep Fit session!

I'll be looking up and down whilst on my trip to London this weekend...who knows what I'll find there!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

THANK YOU....

.....for all the Birthday wishes, both on here and on FB! 

I had a very nice day.....and had THREE renditions of 'Happy Birthday'- one at Keep Fit, one at the Drop In Centre and one at Line Dancing! Word gets around quickly about such things in a small community!

I came in at lunchtime, to discover that Kirsty had made a batch of Fairy Cakes which I forgot to photograph, but remembered before I ate the last one with a cup of coffee this afternoon...

...she DOES make exceedingly good cakes!

It was a beautifully sunny day, and we headed to the coast for lunch....and I forgot to take photos AGAIN!

That allowed me to be back in time to go Line Dancing last night...a very nice Birthday indeed!

I managed to get another layout finished over the weekend...it's not the one I was intending to do- the printer had run out of ink, so I couldn't get my pics printed off...but I found these ones that I had printed ages ago-and had forgotten to anything with- so came up with this:

...using this STARTING POINT from SHIMELLE.

I made another journalling card using MISS SMITH'S TUTORIAL:

.....and I am now off to re-read the first prompts from her new class TELLING TALES, before I fall too far behind!

Hope you are all having a good week!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

HELLO MONDAY

HELLO to mum, dad and Craig having arrived safely this morning :)

HELLO to Keep Fit starting again tomorrow

HELLO to a night at the cinema with Craig, before he heads off again (to see 'LINCOLN'..not sure how I feel about that, but it's the kind of film Craig enjoys)

HELLO to a visit to the hairdresser (YAY!)

HELLO to a visit to the vet for a certain little dog....time for her rabies booster!

Here's hoping you have a good week ahead!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

ALL TURKEY'D OUT!

Thought I'd just drop by and let you that I have survived THREE Turkey dinners this week....I love how so many of you commented on the fact that two of them were with my Exercise and Slimming Group!

It actually made me stop and think why that seemed so strange (apart from the irony of course)...and when I thought back to my life in the UK, I realised that when I went to any of these groups there they were quite impersonal, and that unless you went with friends you didn't really socialise. Here though, after every class most people stop for a coffee or a drink and a chat...I'm not sure whether it's because the ex-pats are in a minority and so stick together more, or whether the lifestyle here is just more suited to socialising, but I must say I have no complaints! 

Lots of eating, drinking and singing!

I hope you too have had a festive week!

Thanks for dropping by!

take care of you

Alison xx

HELLO MONDAY

This week I'm saying

HELLO to my first full week at home for almost a month

HELLO to being back at both Keep Fit and Line Dancing...the toe is still a bit swollen but not causing me pain..YAY!

HELLO to changing my 'twig tree' from Summer to autumn/ Fall /Halloween

HELLO to getting some work done in the garden....a few of my pots need changed and there's some pruning needing done too.

HELLO to SHIMELLE's new class which will hopefully get me back into the swing of scrapping again!

HELLO to 'Passing The Book' later this week


HELLO to sending out some HAPPY MAIL

HELLO to helping to organise three charity events coming up in November

Hoping you have some good things to be saying 'Hello' to this week

Thanks for dropping by!
Take care of you
Alison xx

TEN THINGS I'M SAYING 'HELLO' TO

This Monday being the 10th of September, I am joining in with SHIMELLE'S TEN THINGS and saying:

HELLO to all my friends out there, after having been MIA for a week..having used the visit from 'the girls' as a little holiday for myself!

HELLO to getting used to the quiet again as the girls head home today

HELLO to Craig arriving on Friday

HELLO to catching up with lots of blog-reading

HELLO to hobbling around for a few days...I managed to break the little toe on my left foot on Saturday....painful, but a nuisance more than anything!

HELLO to missing the first day back at Keep Fit tomorrow...due to said toe!

HELLO to getting back to eating properly, after having eaten (and drunk) far too much over the last week

HELLO to trying to catch up with LSNED

HELLO to getting some scrapping done

HELLO to starting to think about Christmas...maybe not actually DOING anything about it yet, but  certainly to start making a few tentative plans. 

I hope you have some good things to say 'hello' to this week


Thanks for dropping by!
Take care of you
Alison xx

GIVEAWAY RESULT AND AN APOLOGY!

Just a quick post, to say that  the the name out of the tin (you can tell how sophisticated we are in this house!), to receive a copy of 'Extremely Loud.......'

is........................

BEVERLY!......GLORIOUS RESULT!! ;)

I've had a lovely weekend with Kirsty, though have eaten far too much! I'm off to my Keep Fit class just shortly though, which will hopefully help get me back on the straight and narrow! This afternoon I'll be driving up to Valencia, to drop her off for her bus  back to Barcelona...not quite 'life in the slow lane' today!

Oh!...and my email address book was compromised last night, so apologies  if you have received spam emails from me.....seemingly the way to avoid this happening is 

a) not to click on the links in emails which have subjects like:

 Nicee Day

You?

Lovely Photos

Great Email

If you do , when you click and open up the link it hacks into your account and sends these kind of e:mails to all your contacts.

b) change your login details every month

Again, sorry if you've been affected

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

Grandma's Girl

At last I've got around to actually doing something with the first prompt from SHIMELLE'S new class! 

The last couple of days have just been a little bit crazy, what with getting mum and dad to the airport and attacking the laundry pile (DD was here for the weekend, and left some laundry too!)...then of course yesterday was big exercise day- Keep Fit and Line-dancing (I can manage one-and-a-half dances now, without causing damage to anyone else-or myself, for that matter!!)

This morning saw some shopping at the market (and let's not forget the floor-cleaning )...and then, eventually this afternoon I got this done:

Am now about to attempt Prompt 2!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

Unheard of!

NEVER! 
NOT EVEN ONCE!........and there are many who can confirm............


I did something TWICE yesterday, that I have very rarely done even ONCE in a day!


Here's a clue( well, two clues):

Yes world....yesterday I partook in two exercise classes!!!!!! Believe me, exercise is so not my thing.....I hate everything about it, normally. But I have decided that if I want to  keep on with my weightloss journey, it is a necessary evil....to be honest it's probably because I have lost weight, that I feel able to exercise!

Anyhow, it just so happens that the two classes I would want to go to , fall on the same day..though, fortunately, not at the same time (or I would need the time-turning 'thingie' Hermione had in one of the Harry Potter books!....actually I would LOVE a time-turning 'thingie'...but I digress!)

In the morning, the trainers went on, and off I went to a Keep Fit class, which was actually quite good. Bizarrely, they did a routine that was very akin to Scottish country dancing....my school days came flooding back and I had to stop myself going into a full-flung 'Gay Gordons' (I realise that by this time, many of you will be off 'googling', trying to work out what I'm chuntering on about!!)

In the evening it was more dancing...though Line Dancing this time! I mentioned this in a LSNED  post here......and I did indeed get some new shoes (the second pic). I can't say they turned me into a fantastic dancer, but they were certainly more flexible...and I actually cottoned on to quite a few of the steps this time....though there was still much stumbling and mixing up of feet!

Both classes were fun (anyone reading this who has known me for any length of time, pick yourself up off the floor now!) and it was good to meet some new people, so this looks as though it might be my new Tuesday routine.

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx