Wow! Octobers been and gone!
Hi dear Friends and Relatives y Peregrinos
Maisie and I sent out an email after my birthday so photos of that were there for you to see. We had great fun and the paella turned out very good. One of my birthday presents was a magnificent book on the Camino, with superb photos and routes through France and Spain from Marian and Bill and the family, thank you all its wonderful. Almost all the other things were to get me painting again after 20 odd years chuckle!!! Thanks folks you all know an old man of seventy is supposed to sit around painting chuckle!!! Well it has worked thank you, the artist was awakened in me and I joined the local group that Josie goes to. (Have another look at the detail in Joisie's motorbike painting she did for us, she is good!).
I soon turned out two oil paintings and have started another.
The first was small test to see if I could remember how! A street in a village somewhere in the Leon mountains seen while on Camino last time.
The next was a little church set on an estuary which I had passed when walking the North Camino it had struck me with its beauty.
First I drew and coloured it in sepia then mostly with a pallet knife added the colours
Now I have drawn and coloured in sepia ready to paint, my next picture, The modern pilgrim!
It was taken from a photo sent to me by Holde a charming and excellent professional photographer from Germany. The chap on the bike is Christopher her partner, I hope to finish this next month. They are a lovely couple who I met on my last camino near the magical Castrojeriz.
They have just spent some time riding mountain bikes over the top of the Alps!!! and I thought I was crazy!!!!? chuckle!!!!
The Photo is Garda Lake Italy
Spring is here as you can see from the photos, the bottle brush trees have all turned a mass of red
and the pollen levels have been high and some days my hay fever has forced me to take pills and wear a mask! Small children and young ladies take a step to the side when they see this funny hunch back man with two sticks and dark glasses and a mask coming towards them!!!!!! The hunch being my small daypack!!!
The strange green and red Kangaroo paw has been splendid this year
and Maisie's roses have done well too.
There was a pair of swans on the river near here that had 8 little cygnets.
Yes ours are black chuckle, I got a few good photos of the Spoonbills too on my daily river walks this month.
Some colourful canoes
Well back to the early part of the month, my knee had been giving me problems when I walked, and I do that sometimes he he.
A dear friend from Denmark that I keep in contact with has been tapping for some time now and has often tried to get me to do it (You tap places on your body and if done correctly the pains go away!) Well I guess I was not convinced that such magic worked and never really tried it. Then one day she kindly asked if she could tap for me as she had just learnt a new technique. No harm in that I thought and replied.
"You tap and I'll walk and I carry a full rucksack and if my knee puts up with that I guess it WORKS ok"
Note I had carried 4 kilo before and had problems. Now I donned the rucksack and about 11kilo and carried it and I did so for two days walking by the river.
One day I did 25k without a twinge of pain!!
Now I ask you was it the warm weather that had arrived or her magic tapping? I didn't care as long as I had no pain! but I have walked the caminos and know there are strange things that happen to you out there, things that you can't reason out or understand! I believe the things that happened to me there were real so why not this? I'd like to say thank you to my dear witch that taps!
I haven't had any more problems but I admit I am not carrying the big rucksack now but still walk my 12 k almost every day. I am hoping that by carrying less weight till I need too, the knee will build up strength again and I can go and do a Camino next spring!
Having built the Ford Transit Van into a camper van we have found when we used it, it needed easy to get at storage space.
I set about cutting up a filing cabinet and then took out the bed-base from the van again and cut two holes to fit the draws and fitted the rails and the draws in it.
I wish I could have fitted it as quick as it took to write that!!! It was a big problem but in the end it has worked, see the photos. We now hope to get a weekend away to see if it is enough space!
Birthdays have kept us busy, first mine then Lizzy's and Maisie's this end of the month.
For Lizy's we were invited to a nice meal out and the birthday cake we ate was an Omelette surprise in the shape of Guinea pig! yummy baked ice cream!!!
Maisie played bowls on her birthday so
I cooked a birthday dinner for her when she got home. Fish soup with prawns, mussels and crab, followed by a main course of fish and chips with squid rings, we were too full for a sweet!
Yep! more witchcraft the prawns and mussels have disappeared from this photo chuckle!
It was a great success.
We have been to the cinema more times this month than we normally go in a year! We took Alex and Lizzy to see G-Force, the enjoyable Guinea pig film, then Maisie and I saw Julie and Julia a film worth going too, and yesterday eveing we went to see another one called The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. This I thought was a load of rubbish! But as us old folk get specials and big discounts we weren't much out of pocket chuckle.
Maisie has been playing more bowls recently because the Pennant Season has now started. You can read all about it on our web page on the Our News page.
I just had to stop writing this as my cousin Bob in England just came on Skype and we had a good long chat and it was great to see him as well! The reception from computer to computer is very good now and Maisie's sister Marion uses it too now, although at the moment her French computer is not working but by us ringing back on Skype Maisie was also able to have a nice chat to her and Bill on her birthday too.
When you think back I remember when we first emigrated to Spain shouting down the line so our relatives could hear us in England and I remember saying to the children "One day they will be able to see you too" chuckle!
The Caravan is still sitting there not used so come on folks we would love to see you.
Good Luck
Abrazos for you all
Mike and Maisie.
Maisie and I sent out an email after my birthday so photos of that were there for you to see. We had great fun and the paella turned out very good. One of my birthday presents was a magnificent book on the Camino, with superb photos and routes through France and Spain from Marian and Bill and the family, thank you all its wonderful. Almost all the other things were to get me painting again after 20 odd years chuckle!!! Thanks folks you all know an old man of seventy is supposed to sit around painting chuckle!!! Well it has worked thank you, the artist was awakened in me and I joined the local group that Josie goes to. (Have another look at the detail in Joisie's motorbike painting she did for us, she is good!).
I soon turned out two oil paintings and have started another.
The first was small test to see if I could remember how! A street in a village somewhere in the Leon mountains seen while on Camino last time.The next was a little church set on an estuary which I had passed when walking the North Camino it had struck me with its beauty.
First I drew and coloured it in sepia then mostly with a pallet knife added the coloursNow I have drawn and coloured in sepia ready to paint, my next picture, The modern pilgrim!
It was taken from a photo sent to me by Holde a charming and excellent professional photographer from Germany. The chap on the bike is Christopher her partner, I hope to finish this next month. They are a lovely couple who I met on my last camino near the magical Castrojeriz.
They have just spent some time riding mountain bikes over the top of the Alps!!! and I thought I was crazy!!!!? chuckle!!!!
The Photo is Garda Lake Italy
Spring is here as you can see from the photos, the bottle brush trees have all turned a mass of red
and the pollen levels have been high and some days my hay fever has forced me to take pills and wear a mask! Small children and young ladies take a step to the side when they see this funny hunch back man with two sticks and dark glasses and a mask coming towards them!!!!!! The hunch being my small daypack!!!
The strange green and red Kangaroo paw has been splendid this year
and Maisie's roses have done well too.
There was a pair of swans on the river near here that had 8 little cygnets.
Yes ours are black chuckle, I got a few good photos of the Spoonbills too on my daily river walks this month.
Some colourful canoes
Well back to the early part of the month, my knee had been giving me problems when I walked, and I do that sometimes he he.
A dear friend from Denmark that I keep in contact with has been tapping for some time now and has often tried to get me to do it (You tap places on your body and if done correctly the pains go away!) Well I guess I was not convinced that such magic worked and never really tried it. Then one day she kindly asked if she could tap for me as she had just learnt a new technique. No harm in that I thought and replied.
"You tap and I'll walk and I carry a full rucksack and if my knee puts up with that I guess it WORKS ok"
Note I had carried 4 kilo before and had problems. Now I donned the rucksack and about 11kilo and carried it and I did so for two days walking by the river.
One day I did 25k without a twinge of pain!!
Now I ask you was it the warm weather that had arrived or her magic tapping? I didn't care as long as I had no pain! but I have walked the caminos and know there are strange things that happen to you out there, things that you can't reason out or understand! I believe the things that happened to me there were real so why not this? I'd like to say thank you to my dear witch that taps!I haven't had any more problems but I admit I am not carrying the big rucksack now but still walk my 12 k almost every day. I am hoping that by carrying less weight till I need too, the knee will build up strength again and I can go and do a Camino next spring!
Having built the Ford Transit Van into a camper van we have found when we used it, it needed easy to get at storage space.
I set about cutting up a filing cabinet and then took out the bed-base from the van again and cut two holes to fit the draws and fitted the rails and the draws in it.
I wish I could have fitted it as quick as it took to write that!!! It was a big problem but in the end it has worked, see the photos. We now hope to get a weekend away to see if it is enough space!
Birthdays have kept us busy, first mine then Lizzy's and Maisie's this end of the month.
For Lizy's we were invited to a nice meal out and the birthday cake we ate was an Omelette surprise in the shape of Guinea pig! yummy baked ice cream!!!
Maisie played bowls on her birthday soI cooked a birthday dinner for her when she got home. Fish soup with prawns, mussels and crab, followed by a main course of fish and chips with squid rings, we were too full for a sweet!
Yep! more witchcraft the prawns and mussels have disappeared from this photo chuckle!It was a great success.
We have been to the cinema more times this month than we normally go in a year! We took Alex and Lizzy to see G-Force, the enjoyable Guinea pig film, then Maisie and I saw Julie and Julia a film worth going too, and yesterday eveing we went to see another one called The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. This I thought was a load of rubbish! But as us old folk get specials and big discounts we weren't much out of pocket chuckle.
Maisie has been playing more bowls recently because the Pennant Season has now started. You can read all about it on our web page on the Our News page.
I just had to stop writing this as my cousin Bob in England just came on Skype and we had a good long chat and it was great to see him as well! The reception from computer to computer is very good now and Maisie's sister Marion uses it too now, although at the moment her French computer is not working but by us ringing back on Skype Maisie was also able to have a nice chat to her and Bill on her birthday too.
When you think back I remember when we first emigrated to Spain shouting down the line so our relatives could hear us in England and I remember saying to the children "One day they will be able to see you too" chuckle!
The Caravan is still sitting there not used so come on folks we would love to see you.
Good Luck
Abrazos for you all
Mike and Maisie.
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