Best Laid Plans…
Posted: May 13, 2012 Filed under: General, Home, Life, Musings, Personal | Tags: Apathy, Blogging, Food, Free Time, Home, Laundry, Work, Workweek and weekend, Writing 2 Comments »Firstly, apologies to anyone who finds what I write interesting enough to read on a regular basis and has noticed my absence…I’ve been preoccupied. The days are flying by at an alarming rate and when I look back, I don’t seem to be doing very much with them – apart from working – which is a good thing and something I’m immensely grateful for. I guess it’s just all part of getting back into the rhythm of things again.
It’s strange how quickly my focus and priorities have changed around again…I’d previously started filling my days with grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning, washing and ironing – that kind of stuff (and writing of course!) - whereas my days are once again filled with the job (which is coming along fine – a steep learning curve as with anything new, but I’m getting there…), and evenings are trying to fit in grocery shopping and making our main meal, as well as ‘decompressing’ before going to bed. Cleaning has definitely taken a back seat – the vacuuming only gets done when it’s REALLY irritating me (and as I look at the carpet in front of me, that may be soon…), and laundry when we start to run out of key things – both are shameful I know, but hey…
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Barcelona Street Art…
Posted: April 25, 2012 Filed under: Art, Barcelona Posts, Photography, Travel | Tags: Barcelona, Graffiti, Photography, Spain, Street Art 8 Comments »Some may call it ‘graffiti’ or ‘tagging’ or maybe even an eye-sore, but we found some of the art work on the shop shutters eye-catching, striking, funny, beautiful and in some cases pretty stunning…
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Reclining Giraffe…Thinking Bull…
Posted: April 24, 2012 Filed under: Barcelona Posts, General, Travel | Tags: Avinguda Diagonal, Barcelona, L'Illa, Photography, Plaça de Catalunya Barcelona, Placa Catalunya, Sculpture, Street Art, Walks Leave a comment »Rambla Catalyuna stretches from Avinguda Diagonal to Placa Catalunya and is a beautiful (almost) traffic-free walk – except for crossing the main roads that bisect it as it meanders down – none of which were a hardship to cross. It’s full of cafes, bars, restaurants and shops, although it was a bit on the chilly side for sitting al-fresco, and some of the bars / restaurants became more ‘touristy’ (pictures of meals on boards so less language-adventurous customers can point at what they want)…
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La Vinya del Senyor, Barcelona
Posted: April 23, 2012 Filed under: Bar Posts, Barcelona Posts, Food, General, Photography, Travel | Tags: Barcelona, Cava, La Vinya del Senyor, Santa Maria Del Mar, Vacation, Wine 7 Comments »One of the most wonderful wine bars we’ve ever visited and somewhere we love to go back to, time and time again…especially on an afternoon when it’s almost entirely ours…
With over 300 wines to choose from, including a selection that changes every fortnight that’s available by the glass if you don’t want a bottle, the view of the amazing Santa Maria Del Mar is the icing on the cake – or rather the foam on the top of a perfect glass of cava…
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Barcelona…(two weeks and counting…)
Posted: April 1, 2012 Filed under: Barcelona Posts, Food, Posts, Travel | Tags: Barcelona, Born District, Castellano, Catalan, El Born, El Xampanyet, La Vinya del Senyor, Languages, Mercat de Santa Caterina, Packing, Preparation, Santa Maria Del Mar, Spain, Travel 4 Comments »Easter fortnight starts this coming Monday. Then it’s just two 4-day working weeks, with a nice 4-day weekend in between them, and it’s Barcelona here we come!
Not that we’re looking forwards to it of course, or that I’ve started my packing list already…Or that I’m doing my usual panic-stricken brushing-up on my incredibly rusty Castellano…
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Percy Thrower Eat Your Heart Out…!
Posted: March 28, 2012 Filed under: General, Home, Life | Tags: evergreen euonymus, Garden, Garden centre, Home, House, Lavender, Life, Lifestyle, nature, Peonies, Plants, Poppies, Spring, Summer 2 Comments »My list of things to do since going back to work is growing…
Not the daily chores type list – well sort of I suppose, as these things have a cause and effect relationship…
Such as the fact that I need to go the garden centre to get our bedding plants. We have a courtyard type garden – no grass, just nice paving which suits us fine – we had grass when we first moved in and hated mowing… Spring hadn’t quite ‘sprung’ that last month I was off – in fact it ‘exploded’ after I found I’d got an interview – typical huh! 
We’ve got a nice mature-ish raised bed which doesn’t really need anything more in there – apart from maybe a planter or two with some Read the rest of this entry »
