Ladies that Lunch

Just Driftin' - Driftwood Creations

 

 

Our friends Annie & G had made an 8 foot driftwood xmas tree in Bude at their Shorebreak B&B - www.shorebreakbude.co.uk

 

With all the driftwood on the beaches here after the storms earlier in the year we decided to do our own Spanish version - here it is:

 

The first tree

 

We thought there might be a bit of a call for driftwood trees at the local markets so went along to a xmas fayre and mentioned it to someone - they said 'what do you make?'

 

Next thing we were invited to the Ladies that Lunch Xmas Lunch Club 'do' to display and sell our driftwood art!!!!  44 ladies coming to lunch....

 

EEK!! Better get down the beach and get making trees and deccies for our first sale in 3 days time!!

 

 Wood Wood and more Wood!!

 

Collecting the wood 

 

 

 In the 'workshop'

  

 

We are surrounded by Trees!

 

Ladies Lunch Club

 

We were introduced as the 'artistes' with our driftwood art!  We also made candle decorations, plaques and slate signs as well as the trees.  Dave says 'all sorts of shit'!

 

Driftwood Art displayed in the garden!

 

The Ladies that Lunch

 

 



Had a great afternoon with the ladies at Ann & Andy's - fab B&B over here http://www.lastresruinas.com/ - the wine was flowing, live music in the garden, sun shining and all our trees went and most of the other stuff - plus we had an order to make another big tree for 2 days time!!  There is a business in this we think.....if someone wants it!!

We are a bit driftwooded out now though and have given all the wood left over to our friends for their fire!  Maybe we will get inspired for another driftwood art collection for the easter markets....

It's now the Friday before Christmas - just spent the afternoon on the patio - 25 degrees and sunny - getting ready for our trip home for a week to flooded UK on Christmas Eve - can't wait to see family and friends but not looking forward to the rain!!

 

 

I Gotta Tatt

I didn't know it was Gonna Hurt!

D: Fuck me! It was painful - nobody told me it hurt and I didn't know what 'Stop' was in Spanish - stopio didn't work.

First of all I had my bag of bits - thought I'd take my phone with headphones to listen to music, my book for when I got bored, some chocolate and some sweets and a stress ball (just in case of pain).

FUCK ME I couldn't even touch the home button on my phone it hurt so much - I never even saw my bag of bits!!  It hurt so much mainly my toes because they were curled up round for 4 and a half hours.

But I am well pleased with my tatt - but not going again for a little while....

 

 

 

Oooooooooooooh!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Hand shaking too much to do the 'sign' properly - brain not working!

 

For Girls



D: Found some dodgy dealers in the market selling £150 Chanel for 15 euros - thought good buy, nice aftershave - Chanel Coco Noir. Got home went on internet - it was worth £150 - cool.

 

BUT - it's perfume for girls - fucking Spanish twat told me it was for hombres, hombres, hombres!!! Fucking Spanish twat!

 

But I do smell nice.......

 

 

To Do Lists

We are becoming like our friend Annie and have had to make lists to remember to do things - it feels so much better to tick boxes - here's our current list:

Get up before 11 am     TICK
Read book                    TICK
Play guitar                    TICK
Go for a run                  TICK
Drawing                        TICK
Bike to old town            TICK
Find a hairdresser         TICK
Food Shopping              Ongoing
Clean Vannie                 Not ticked yet

And now a bit of planning

Planning

Our Asci books/camping card arrived - discount camp sites...

We're starting to plan our route for next year - D says: 'Follow the F1' - M says: 'Where's the Marathons?'!!

So F1 tickets booked for Monaco on 26th May and Madrid Marathon booked for 28th April...Mogs is in training for the Marathon and buying ear plugs for the Grand Prix!

May have to come back to UK early May to get Vannie MOT'd and then head to Monte Carlo :)

Mogs has also entered the Alicante Half Marathon on 20 January so training started with Dave cycling - luckily we still have fab weather with blue skies and sun - cold in the evenings though - we've had to get socks out!!

Training Run on the cliff path in Mojacar near the beach

Can just spot Mogs running

 

 

D training with M

 

Tough Cycle to the Old Town

Lovely day for a bike ride - sea was well flat - went to Mojacar old town - pretty cobbled streets - but LONG way up on a bike!!!  We're getting thighs like Chris Hoy :)

View from the top

You've Got Mail....NOT!

When we first got to the apartment we bought a new postbox and put it up by the front door - MISTAKE!  We've since found out postmen in Spain don't walk upstairs and we are on the first floor!  So box now moved to corner of road at bottom of hill with a few others and we're hoping for mail.  If you want to try and send any our address is:

21 Jardines de Indalo
Calle Blasco Ibanez
Mojacar Playa
04638
Almeria
Spain

Ours is the posh one that stands out...of course!

Apres-Ski

We've found a bar that has live music on a Sunday late afternoon - fab singer - it's just like Apres-Ski without having to do the ski-ing beforehand (says Mogs who loved the apres-ski earlier this year but not the ski-ing!!)  Will try and put a video on here next time ....

Super Quiz Team!

We were making up a quiz for Mog's daughter Kerry's 21st birthday back in UK on 23 November - so we could be a part of the 'Ford Fun Day' the family were having.  So we headed to a local quiz with friends Fran, Steve, Kate, Sophie and Brigid to get some ideas - we won :)  Feeling confident we went again the next week but came bottom of everyone but the losers get a bottle of wine so not all bad!!  We all toasted Kez and wished her Happy Birthday from sunny Spain :)

Did the Earth Move for you this morning?

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=295596

M: "I thought it was Dave farting!"

Apparently we had an earthquake earlier this morning...


We have an exciting week coming up - D has just booked to have a tattoo done on his lower arm - EEEKKKKKK!!!  Apparently it will take about 5 hours - Mogs will be there to offer support of course but is more worried about driving Vannie home after as he probably won't be able to drive!!  Watch out for the next blog and a pic of the artwork...shall  we video it being done?!!