Feliz Navidad

Well Christmas is nearly upon us and the fridge is full of Dia 3 for 2 cava. Excellent!

One challenge that we are facing is how to cook our traditional Xmas day lunch of Lentil Wellington and all the trimmings. We only have two gas rings and a paella pan. Ian has cooked a roast before successfully however not a Lentil Wellington. What a festive challenge!

We were looking forward to having our Xmas lunch outside however the weather yesterday was horrible - cold and cloudy. So far today there is frost outside but perhaps I can see the start of a blue sky which will hopefully mean that sun is on it's way.

Ankle update - I'm now on one crutch which is a big step forward (boom boom), although still having problems with my fingers, but as ankle is improving I should put less weight on hands so perhaps it will ease up a bit.

Anyway - Feliz Navidad!

I am saving the world

We have just launched our new website www.10000greatideas.com. On here we are collecting and sharing 10,000 Great Ideas and these will be catorgorised into different sections. Some ideas are proving quite difficult to categorise and one that was a particular challenge was my idea for making a decorations out of rubbish. I put it under saving the world!

So how, I hear you ask, does making an angel out of a yogurt tub help save the world? Good question!

One area where there are lots of good ideas which people want to share, is recycling and green issues in general. We are increasingly aware of the importance of looking for different ways of reusing or recycling items - providing the double benefit of saving money and reducing waste.

So in case you were wondering why I have been subjecting Ian to daily yogurt drinks and the house is full of rubbish angels (angels made of rubbish that is) - I am saving the world.

Olympic Gold Medal

Should charades ever become an Olympic event then the British Olympic Committee need look no further than the British abroad. Well let’s put a caveat on that – I obviously don’t mean those at either end of the language spectrum; those with good language skills – or those monolinguists without the slightest inclination to speak another language or indeed make any form of recognition that they are in a foreign country.

My Olympic charades team would be formed of people like me – lot’s of enthusiasm, limited volcab and a great deal of arm waving.

Today I had to mime ‘being still’ and this was jolly difficult. I am still attending physio (I can put limited weight on ankle now) and I wanted to raise the problem I am currently having with my fingers – my four fingers on both hands now are ‘locking’ in the morning and my left hand fingers lock during the day after periods of staying still. Unfortunately I had left my dictionary at home, so therefore to mime ‘being still’ I needed to mime activity first. It therefore appeared that my fingers locked after frantic activity which alternated between some form of break dancing and a nasty fit. After rather startling the doctor and several nursing staff someone eventually put me out of my misery – inmóvil… of course.

So, whilst I note that the moral of the story is to continue with the Spanish lessons and never go anywhere without my dictionary, in the meantime I will await my call up to the Olympic charade team.