The usually sunny island of Lanzarote is just as miserable as London, or any other cold, wet place for that matter. The last two days have been grey grey grey and wet and just damp with a constant light rain and not a ray of sunshine in sight. You only realise how much you take the sunshine for granted living here when it´s gone for more than a ( Read more... )

Only two weeks into my new job and I´m ILL.

Yes, I have contracted some Lurgy from Hell which no doubt is due to some evil tourist spreading his/her disease to this island ( Read more... )

The Good1. I finally finally went to see my doctora after about a year of putting it off because I was too scared in case the problem I am talking about was cancerous. You can´t imagine my relief when she told me that it was NOT cancerous, but I still need to have an operation to have the growth removed, so she referred me to the hospital. I ( Read more... )

About the ColdThis must be the coldest night ever since I have lived here. I actually slept with my fleecy "Little Miss Naughty" robe over my vest top and longsleeved top and had it wrapped up right over my ears and the bottom half of my face. My oil radiator is taking the edge of the cold in the bedroom (and the living room/kitchen yesterday - ( Read more... )

About prezzies...Oh well, guess what I got for Christmas this morning ( Read more... )

Yolanda, a colleague from the Fibromyalgia Association last week invited me to come with her to 4 Star Hotel Beatriz in Costa Teguise today for an afternoon of relaxation and massages at their Thalasso Spa Centre. Just my luck to fall ill today with my first cold this year....

Last night I felt like I had something coming on with an itchy nose, ( Read more... )

And here's the 5 day weather forecast for Lanzarote ( Read more... )

Fuck it was cold last night. Had my warm quilt and thick wooly blanket plus wearing long sleeves, and even now it's still only 18C degrees inside the apartment. That's 3 degrees too cold for me (at least!).... brrrrrrrrr. I heard they had minus -11C in some parts of Britain, but even +11C with a strong wind makes it rather cold inside the house ( Read more... )

So, everybody, quit talking about snow. Let's talk about *rain* instead, ey ( Read more... )

Oh bloody hell, not again. Every fuckin year it´s the same. The emergency services saying that they´re prepared for the snow, but they didn´t think it would get this bad. Every single frickin time ( Read more... )