28 March 2009

Winston




I was looking through stuff I´d written for the Writers´Group and came across something I´d written about Winston ages ago. Winston was our English Springer Spaniel.We bought him in Sweden when he was 12 weeks old,and he came down to Spain when we moved here in 2002.He never really took well to the environment here and developed a dust allergy, which was miserable for him at times and very expensive and time-consuming for us to treat.

However, he remained throughout a loving, even-tempered and happy dog who gave us great pleasure and companionship. He died just before Christmas at nearly 12 years old. It took us ages to stop feeling intensely miserable and we miss him acutely still.

Reading some of the things I´d written about him led to looking at photos of him and the grief welled up again. I really miss him, much more than I ever thought possible.

I don´t know if we´ll ever get another dog. Maybe, one day. Till then, I treasure my writing and photos which bring back memories of lots of fun and happy times.

26 March 2009

Yipppeee!!! I´m Brilliant!!!

I decided to have one more go at getting back my profile before killing myself.

So I went into Edit profile and pressed items randomly.

One of them worked! ( Now which one could that have been?)

Anyway, I don´t give a damn, ´cos I´ve got it back - including the photo!

I´ll lick this technology stuff one of these fine days!

As I said before,Yipppeee!!! I´m brilliant!!!

24 March 2009

Doom! Help Needed!

I´ve made,for me,quite a lot of progress,technologically speaking.I used a digital camera in Granada for the first time and I impressed myself with the quality of the piccies I took.(Do I hear someone muttering that the quality of the camera might have had something to do with it? Shame on you,whoever you are!)

On returning home, I crouched feverishly at the computer and started to learn how to alter and improve the photos. Yippeee! I thought. I am becoming technologically literate!

Pride comes before a fall.

I should have left well-enough alone but my new-sprung confidence led me to the absurd belief that I could do anything.So I then tried to improve the blog,tinkered with it and have succeeded in removing my profile and picture, both of which took a great deal of effort to insert. Do another one,I hear someone cry. Well, I would except I seem to have deleted the profile bit from the layout template so however I try, I cannot put a profile on the blog.

DO NOT ASK ME HOW I DID IT!If I knew that, perhaps I´d be clever enough to sort this mess out.

Anyone out there who has half a heart and knows how I can put the profile back ( it IS there still, under View Profile), please contact me.

SOS! SOS! SOS!

5 March 2009

Granada - Olé!!


Have just come back from a trip to Granada - wonderful city! Full of life and bustle, lots going on, wonderful cafés and bars and of course all the monuments, not least the Alhambra.It looked magical illuminated by night and the day we visited it, the weather was warm and itwas very beautiful.

The downside was,of course,that the lions weren´t in the Lion Courtyard. This was a bit of a bummer, as it was one of the main things I was looking forward to. They were off being cleaned up, so I had to buy a postcard. It´s a bit like going to Paris and the Eiffel Tower is draped in tarpaulin whilst being painted!

Ho Hum! I suppose it gives me a good excuse for going back there again.A lone lion had been tarted up and sat in isolated splendour in a viewing room waiting for his mates and a return to his normal habitat. He was lovely but it wasn´t the same as having them sat around the fountain.

I consoled myself with tapas and wine at the flamenco show that evening. Olé!