Welcome!
Thank you for all your support, especially of late. I greatly appreciate your patience. You are truly the best.
Buffet is open. For those who enjoy a glass of bubbly, there is plenty in the chill cabinet.
Enjoy!
I must away for a wee while. I shall catch up later. 
‘Evening All’.
It really is nice to be home. Different pleasures.
We’ve just climbed into bed to read/surf for a half hour after enjoying a delicious curry over the road. Our usual. I think we are ‘on the spectrum’ as we like what we like, always. Lamb madras for me and chicken bhuna for Himself. We are not very adventurous.
Lovely photos of Ripley & Milo LLFL.
I’m curious what prompted your user name? It’s so unusual!
Hello kitchen people.
What a beautiful autumn day. We had lunch at a nearby pottery and I bought one or two Christmas presents. We then drove to the first garden centre where we bought lots of spring bulbs (and a bag of fudge) then on to the second garden centre where we bought even more bulbs
Back home and OH is bagging his pea and ham soup. I’m sitting on the sofa with Milo and Ripley. I am being surrounded
Hello lovely kitchen people.
I hope Mr. Soop’s poor head heals well and does so as quickly as possible, it must be such a relief to be home together again.
Thankyou so much lovely Neine and you too FGT for thinking of me. I’m fine, or at least my usual self which passes for fine, we’ve had a succession of visitors recently and although they’ve been an absolute pleasure, I certainly find it more tiring than I used to. Maybe because we live such a quiet life normally.
When I catch up with GN in the evenings I tend to think, “ I’ll answer that in the morning when I’m fresher.” and of course the morning is then busy again.
I empathise with you Neine, trying to walk around clutching your bottom without being too obvious about it. I get sciatica and if I can get the pressure on the nerve just right, I can sometimes stop it in its tracks. But it’s not a good look if anyone else is around. 
I loved your picture at the airport FGT, even though it made feel quite wistful about coming back to England. which DH and I haven’t done since just before the pandemic. It conjured up the whole travelling excitement. Maybe we’ll manage it next year.
I’ve been worried about you and your lovely husband managing to get back home safely. I could imagine you trapped at the airport with all flights delayed. Especially when flooding started in Malaga as well. The pictures on the news here of the army of volunteers in Valencia coming across the bridge with their brooms and buckets brought tears to my eyes.
The weather has been its usual Autumn unpredictable self. We’ve certainly had horrendous downpours but also some beautiful days as well. We console ourselves that we personally live on top of a hill and it will all eventually drain away, as long as the house doesn’t get blown away of course. 
Extended family are visiting Albufeira at the moment and I’m hoping that they haven’t been affected by the flooding there. We can usually see the Albufeira area across the sea and for the first half of this week they were bathed in sunshine. The last couple of days you wouldn’t know that there is any coastline there!
In a gap in the rain we went down to the town for lunch ( telling ourselves it’s good to get out) and I was reliably informed by a gentleman who is usually too shy to speak to us that the rain is a good thing. And it is of course just preferably not all at once.
DH made us giggle by using the verb querer which means to want when he meant to say he cared about me when helping me on with my jacket. English humour can be very different from Portuguese.
Sad news Gillgran . I’m so glad soop has her dear man home - give him a gentle hug please. Good luck with your own appointment too soop. We have had odd spells of sunshine this week but it’s another grey day today.
DD has just sent a message offering DGD up for rejoining! Apparently she decided sleep was not for her last night. They thought they were past that phase 🤣
It must be a relief for you. soop, to have MrSoop back home with you. I do hope his scalp heals well.
Best wishes for your own appointment.
We had to find a different to our usual hospital yesterday for my DH to have an MRI scan, not much further away to our normal one which takes a little over half an hour , but busy, multi lane roads & roundabouts, then the carpark was very full.
Shouldn't complain, we've been visiting my sister in our main county hospital (& they have busy multi-story carparks which I hate), the last time we went my DH, who was driving, told my to be quiet, (not that politely
!), & our daughter told me to close my eyes
! neither helped, I was really scared.
Sadly we won't be returning there as my dear sister died ten days ago, not entirely unexpected, but sooner than we had thought.
I'll tuck myself back in the quiet corner.
‘Evening All’
A sunny day here in Málaga believe it or not! I got towels and sheets dried before we set off for the airport. Here we are ◀️
No trains again today, understandably. Probably checking tracks & tunnels for debris & flooding. So a taxi here.
Oh soop your poor man’s scalp looks exquisitely tender. Bet you’re both relieved his ordeal is over. Perhaps a wee dram this evening to celebrate? 🥃
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