And to the beach...

So I was up and about and looked out of the window to see that the beach was empty and the water like a mill pond so I armed myself with bread for the fishes, that stupid hat and my crocs and went for a lovely stroll - and it wasn't even 7.30 a.m. - its the nicest time of day to me, not too hot, nobody about to laugh at the hat, fishes are hungry...

Little fairies come in the night and rake the beach, tidy the sun loungers and have it all pretty for the morning...
The building work in the background is going to be a restaurant, swimming pool, beauty parlour and bowling alley.... yay, way to go... go faster!! ;)
A walk along the beach edge early morning and late evening... bliss!!
OK, took this photo from the beach looking back at our villa... yep... its that close!!

Now I have made you all green like cabbages... I had better get on do something useful... like scrap!! LOL

Some things need no translation...

Shopping in foreign countries can be an interesting adventure at the best of times but I knew what this drink was as soon as I saw it on the shelf... now if only everything else were as easy to identify... ;)
No, there is no Tesco's and shopping is going to be a challenge because I am not allowed to drive. So to be able to go to the supermarket I need Chris and he is at work 6 days a week... and has Fridays off... which means the shops are closed!! All the shops close during prayers and as prayers happen at a different time every day it all becomes a bit of military operation...
Here is our plan for shopping tonight after Chris gets home from work...

5:00pm Leave work
5:25pm Prayers start
5:30pm Pick up Annette and drive to Petrol Station
5:45pm Prayers Finish
5:50pm Arrive at Petrol Station
6:05pm Complete Fueling
6:15pm Enter Restaurant
6:39pm Prayers Start
6:59pm Prayers Finish
7:25pm Leave Restaurant
7:30pm Start Shopping
8:40pm Finish Shopping
9:00pm Arrive back at house

Kinda takes the spontaneity out of it, don't you agree? ;)

Just to prove...

I am still here and scrapping... and because I can't show you the mini book I just finished yet!!

I have started to make little gifts ready for Christmas.... I know, I know, its ages away yet!! ;) So its notebooks for the moment and I like my little birdie!! :)

And I did try to get a photo of me in 'the hat' but it was awful.... so I will get Chris to take one this evening and you can have a laugh at my expense!! I'm sure it can be improved... I'm a scrapper, I have the tools, I have the stuff... I can make it better!!

Thoughts from the Persian Gulf...

or as they seem to call it here... the Arabian Gulf! I must be old... its always been the Persian Gulf to me but time moves on.... and today I am not paddling in my very own little spot in the Arabian Gulf but staying out of the sun and heat... my poor skin so used to the summers of Scotland when we cheer if it goes over 20 degrees is suffering from the heat and I have really horrid heat bumps all over my shoulders and arms, which to add insult to injury, are really itchie and sore. Chris and I ventured into a local pharmacy yesterday armed with my dwindling package of Piriton antihistimine tablets and voila, the wee mannie produced something off the shelf with the same ingredients immediately!! So its stay in the cool of the AC for a few days and let them the bumps settle and maybe take my doses of sunshine in smaller amounts from here on in!! ;)

We then went searching for a hat for me to wear in the sun... no hats... nothing, zilch. Presumably there isn't a huge market for women's sunhats in this country (I can't imagine why) ;) I figured I was doomed to heatstroke.... but in the mall we found a shop that was full of gorgeous handbags (I spotted a rather nice Fendi bag which called to me... till I saw the price tag when I figured it was actually calling to the rich sheik guy over the other side of the shop) and there in the bottom of a display were 2 sunhats... you could choose pink or orange, that was it... both the same size, same floppy idiot shape, you had the choice of pink flowers or orange flowers. I chose the orange and you will not be seeing photos of me wearing this thing as its not particularly flattering... but it will do the job.

Oh and I have to show you what Chris bought me, it is so tiny and so sweet.... its a memory stick!! Yes, and it holds 4 Gygs!! Isn't that the cutest little memory stick you could wish to see? LOL I recall the first memory sticks... we were in Jo'burg and I bought one for Chris and one for Christopher... Chris' was 120 Mb and cost me £80.00 whilst Christopher's was 60 Mb and cost me about £40.00 eeeek! This gorgeous little gem cost..... wait for it..... £8.00 !! Can you believe it???

Its all in the wording...

DH came home from work last night and asked me what I had been doing.... so I said "making coffins for next door's kids"..... so he raised his eyebrows and asked if they had upset me....

No, they hadn't... they are two of the cutest little guys and I was making them little coffins to hold Hershey Kisses for Halloween!! LOL

I used this template for the coffin.