Gallygirl's "A journey of 121,226.67 pounds begins with a single penny" diary

gallygirl

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

I just wanted to let you know that I was thinking of you this weekend, and most especially wanted to give a big 'Leeza Ta-buck' stylee *BIG UP* to the orange growers of your adopted homeland :T. Al-diddly-dee have bags of oranges in their S6 this fortnight, a bag of 5,6 or 7 fruits for 59p. They are absolutely LUSH. All the bags I have bought thus far have 6 good sized fruit in them, the oranges have been sweet, juicy and tasted of orange (I know that sounds daft, but I also know that folk will know what i mean). And no, I dunna work for this particular supermercado - but like to give credit where credit is due

A [STRIKE]lot[/STRIKE] little bit of sunshine has been brought into the Greying Homestead kitchen, and in a dank and dreary January, for that I am grateful If you have a 'Kiss an Orange Farmer Day' - or fiesta - I'll happily send mine virtually :kisses3:

Greying x

Well as I am an orange farmer myself :rotfl: I will get Mr GG to give me a kiss :kisses3: though I don't think my oranges will be appearing in Aldi any time soon (they have progressed from size though but not colour). I do have high hopes of getting a G&T from the lemon tree as 1/2 a lemon is now yellow .

No internet for another week :eek: and not sure how good a signal we will get so may be back to the drawing board (aka more time in the pub ). We are now also going to a local hotel and sitting in the foyer so it's not an alcohol fuelled frenzy .

It has been cold a few evenings so Mr GG thinks we should get a pellet stove. Am striking while the iron is hot (or should that be cold :rotfl:) so we're looking at them this week. Likely to get one that vent into our bedroom and hall and we can move existing heaters into 2nd & 3rd bedrooms so guests will be toasty (though nursing sore backs as still no beds :rotfl:). I have another friend coming out end of Feb so need to get beds sorted soon :eek:

'Cold' in the above post being relative and it is warmer outside than in at night time - the walk to the hotel is around 15 minutes and I had a top, lightweight jumper and gloves on and was toasty :T

Mr GG has been encouraging me to do lots of walking (dangling a G&T at the end of it :rotfl:) and I have managed to shift a few pounds :T, though still too busy to go out with walking group!

5 day trip to C!rdoba and Huelva planned for May and Malaga end of August so finally going to explore some of our new country :j.

As you can probably tell, loving our life right now :T, dare to dream everyone!

gallygirl

BTW, on iPad so can't really post links but google images for Malaga Barcelo slide to see how we'll get to the bar :rotfl:

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Huelva and Seville . One of our lodgers came from Huelva and every time I drive to Seville, I shout hello from the motorway :rotfl:

I'm thinking of taking a coach trip to Seville - takes two hours to drive and 3.5 by coach but I'd like to give it a go.

Hope all is going well.

Tilly x x

Karmacat

I love Spanish towns and cities, love the life there. I'm really glad you're having such a great time

Greying_Pilgrim

gallygirl wrote: »

Well as I am an orange farmer myself :rotfl: I will get Mr GG to give me a kiss :kisses3:

:rotfl::rotfl::T:T:T

Well tell 'im to pucker up good and proper, as we've bought some more bags and remain impressed :D:D:D:rotfl::rotfl:

And Bravo :T for a new life, well-lived Certainly what we should all aspire to :D

Greying x

gallygirl

gallygirl wrote: »

No internet for another week :eek: and not sure how good a signal we will get so may be back to the drawing board

Today I learned 'sus paredes son muy gruesas' which means 'your walls are very thick' :eek::eek::eek:. However we do have internet, and fast as well :j. We also now have beds in the spare rooms and one is even made up already. So that's a relief to all concerned :rotfl:.

Buying the beds was fun - because I said a few phrases in Spanish the assistant decided I was fluent so rabbited away with me nodding and saying 'vale, vale' (OK, OK) occasionally. Think I got away with it - the right beds turned up to the right place at the right time for the right price :rotfl:, though Mr GG ended up giving the details in the end.

Spanish lesson now, hasta luego :hello:.

apple_muncher

gallygirl wrote: »

Today I learned 'sus paredes son muy gruesas' which means 'your walls are very thick' :eek::eek::eek:. However we do have internet, and fast as well :j. We also now have beds in the spare rooms and one is even made up already. So that's a relief to all concerned :rotfl:.

Buying the beds was fun - because I said a few phrases in Spanish the assistant decided I was fluent so rabbited away with me nodding and saying 'vale, vale' (OK, OK) occasionally. Think I got away with it - the right beds turned up to the right place at the right time for the right price :rotfl:, though Mr GG ended up giving the details in the end.

Spanish lesson now, hasta luego :hello:.

What you do not want to hear is 'sus piernas son muy gruesas' cos that would deserve a clip round the earhole!


And Tilly - do the journey by coach - soooo much nicer than driving yourself.

gallygirl

apple_muncher wrote: »

What you do not want to hear is 'sus piernas son muy gruesas' cos that would deserve a clip round the earhole!

:rotfl:

Oh yes, forgot to mention, all being well (i.e. costume arriving on time :eek:) I will be taking part in the village Carnaval on Saturday. For which I need to learn the Macarena :rotfl:.

AlexLK

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Never a dull day in the world of Gally.

Are you learning Spanish?

gallygirl

AlexLK wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:Never a dull day in the world of Gally.

Wanna see what I'm going as :rotfl: - though obviously it will be jazzed up with extras - we're taking the them of 'New Orchard' so flowers, fruit, veg, bees, caterpillars etc .

AlexLK wrote: »

Are you learning Spanish?

Si senor . Espanol es un idioma muy dificil de aprender :eek: (Apple Muncher will be along in a mo to tell me it's not :rotfl:).