Our journey to our new life. Part Four

Our kitchen is an American style one, very small with the floorspace in between the units about the width of two door's I would say. This is looking in from the front room. The glass cabinets can be opened from this side or inside the kitchen. Behind the stools is a marbled effect tinted mirror.

At the far end you can see the stainless steel sink, below it to the left is a cupboard and to the right of that a dishwasher. The unit to the right: doubled doored cupboard set of draws and then a doubled door cupboard again. The unit to the left: my fridge freezer and next to that the broken washing machine :O( above on the unit is my microwave, n ext to the washer is the oven

We used to live in a very quite part of Orihuela-Costa in Los Palmeros. Orihuela is full of culture, history, churches and a cathedral. There is 16 kilometres of pure almost white beach not far from us. When we first moved here our road was quite with beautiful views, not built up and we could see for miles across the road, it was all empty spaces. We never, ever heard a car or humans screeching at each other as we do now.


Orihuela is famous for the ‘palmeral’ a huge palm tree forest and the river Seguria, We almost went to see it with Paul and Kirstie, we just never quite made it. Once Dave’s pension kicks in we will be able to travel a bit to see these places.

We live about ten minute’s car ride from this beautiful beach. In our part of Spain (as I am sure they do in England) they keep the beaches immaculately clean. Each morning a big sand sweeper arrives and sweeps up any seaweed that may have been deposited on the beach during the night, each evening it returns to sweep the entire beach, collecting up as it goes any thing left by the tourists.

Dogs are not allowed on the beaches, they have beaches they are allowed on, and one is very near our home. It has sand dunes mostly with a small beach and forest towards the back, well a Spanish forest anyway he he. (I shall send photos when I take them)

We never hear Gizzy cry, you know whimper and yelp except when we are in the car and I say ‘Beach’ she gets so excited that she actually starts crying and whimpering. They both love the sand and the dunes; they sometimes even get their toes wet and paddle.

I did not know that Toffee was capable of making a crying sound until they both had a hysterectomy together. The vet made the mistake of taking little Gizzy down first, I phoned to see if they were alright and they told me all that noise that I could hear was Toffee! I was flabbergasted, it sounded like a pack of wolfs!

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They said they were both quite and cuddled up until they took Gizzy, Toff started crying that turned into wolf howls. I should have told them that Toff is the bigger dog but by far the baby; she depends on her Mum for everything. Giz is laid back and would not have cried if they had taken Toff first, she may have been frightened and sad but I do not think she would have made a noise.

Hope you liked the pictures of our stairs Leeta, he he, everyone will think I have gone off my head.

I am most happy to say that the letter is the only bad thing that has happened to us whilst living in Spain, many stupid or funny things, yes but nothing so bad. YET!

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Our New pastor Steve and his wife Irene Marie are settling in nicely, They have asked Dave and I to be the welcoming committee on the door, which we happily excepted. The only downside so far is the computer has gone out the window as far as the songs are concerned, we now hand out song books when we welcome people, the reason for this is that Irene Marie cannot play many tunes :O) perhaps one day we may get someone that can help out with the music ah.

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We also have just started a 'prayer chain' there is seven people (couples count as one) on it so far and Dave and I are one of them. If any of you need prayer, there is no prayer request too small or too unknown to us that we will not undertake. (i.e. Great Aunt Sophie in Iceland) no matter for what or how small please do not hesitate to ask. Leeta Arthur will be the first to go onto the chain.

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Who ever gets the request log the date, name, telephone no. and prayer request then pass it to the next on the list, all the rest need to know is the request of course and whom the prayer request started, that way it should finish in the right place with no 'round robins'.

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We have also put our name down for next Saturday to do the cleaning of the Church, there is four sets of couples that will do this months cleaning. It is the first time we have done it so I hope we will do it properly and find everything! There are lots of large windows to clean :O) Our Church will only need to do this once every two months as we share with another Church and they will take there turn. Hopefully other people will put there names down and it will not always be the same four who volunteer!

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Irene Marie has just phone to ask can we help them with some sort of cleaning job, not quite sure what it all is as I could not fully understand her accent :O) We of course said Yes, they have invited us to lunch first, that will be nice. We will go to there house at 1.30 this afternoon. Irene Marie said they will of course pay us, we said No.

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Hope all goes well with Arthur's results today Leeta.

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Tina x