Free fig drive thru

Or maybe it should be a drive by, but that implies I'm poppin' caps in people's asses and that's definitely not what I'm up to! On the same little road where I met the hopalong sheep the other day, there are numerous fig trees at the side of this little road that one can feast from, for free (just like hopalong, but she eats the ones on the floor). When I say it's a little road I mean it's just wide enough for my van. So today, driving from one villa to another I stopped, rolled down the window and sat for a few minutes picking and eating sun warmed figs, straight from the tree. It's like the best drive-thru ever! (BTW, I know how to spell through, just in case you were wondering.)

Today I read an article that I wanted to share with you, because it features my beautiful friend Miss L who came to visit a few weeks ago. Here is the link: http://anke.blogs.com/anke/2012/08/the-wonderful-pottery-of-lucy-charlton.html Meet Lucy and her charming pottery.

Off to the pool now, it's sunny, my work is done and I need to top up my tan.

sheep recognize faces

At one of the villas there is a garden next next door that contains two very friendly sheep. They come to the gate and baaabaaaa at you and you can pet them. I popped by the villa today and one of the sheep was enjoying the shade of the fig tree, we stood and looked at each other for a bit, they have such lovely faces. I was chatting away to the sheep and telling her about another sheep I met on my bread run the other morning. She was in the middle of a tiny little lane I drive down, she was feasting on fallen figs and hopping along. She was missing her front right hoof so even though I had bread and papers to deliver, I decided to just chill and not rush the little hopalong. She was stuffing her cute little face with yummy figs. It was a nice moment and made my bread run quite a bit more interesting. So, I wonder if the garden sheep now recognizes my face? Anyway, enough musing about sheep....

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/11/1107_TVsheep.html

Got a pleasant last minute visit from friends that we made earlier in the season. That is indeed a very welcome surprise!! Looking forward to the next week now, should be fun!

Hellos and goodbyes

The very nature of my job and my current lifestyle means that I spend an entire season, actually an entire year practically, saying hello and goodbye. Some are easier than others and some you don't want to say at all, goodbyes especially. Guests come and go every week, some you're sad to see leave because they were fun, nice, hassle free and others, well you're not that sad for whatever reason, to see them go. I've had friends come to visit all season and those hellos were awesome and the goodbyes were hard, because it's always tough to say goodbye to your nearest and dearest. Saying bye to my Dad was hard before I came out here, but he's doing well and we talk all the time so the distance doesn't seem insurmountable and hopefully soon we'll be saying hello again, I can't wait!

Some goodbyes you know are going to be hard, because in your heart of hearts you don't want to say them but you have to, for whatever reason. So today I'm feeling a bit down because I had to do just that yesterday. Of course I hope it's not goodbye forever but it has to be for now, because that's the way things are. How I'm feeling today has frankly taken me a bit by surprise, I knew I'd be sad, but didn't realise it'd be this bad. I hope I don't feel like this for long.

My furby is bringing me pancakes in bed to cheer me up. She's a star. She has a plan, it involves a bucket of whisky, karaoke and dancing....

the past month

Well wouldn't you know it, a whole month has passed. Time sure flies. In a stream of consciousness sort of way I'm going to tell you what I've been up to for all those weeks. Friends came out, Miss Lucy, Dan & Doro. Drove to cool places. Saw Europe's longest stalactite - in the coolest caves! If you ever get the chance you should go - Campanet caves, just down the road from me here in Mallorca. Watched a clusterfuck of cars at the Formentor lighthouse which could've amused me for hours. Ate some amazing food, tapas, paellas, fish, roast suckling pig. The best value "menu del dia" ever, where every course was the size of a main!! Met new people, made some friends. Kissed a plumber. Ended up in some funny situations with my furby Jamie-lee (she's a furby because when her and Becky sit down to talk it's like they're furbies, talking at each other in fast, incomprehensible gobbledygook, and sometimes I have to threaten to take their batteries out), situations that I should probably not broadcast on the internet! Took the other furby to a festival in Pollensa where she thought for a brief moment that she might get killed, Moros i Cristianos festival gets a bit rowdy, it involves all day drinking, swords and guns (health and safety - what's that?! And AMEN to that!!). Chivas, late night dancing, late night drinking. Buckets of whisky. Karaoke, karaoke and more karaoke, sometimes god and sometimes really bad. Pool time, beach time, work time. Interesting work requests - using plastic chicken wire and cable ties to baby proof a stair case. Satellites that interfere with remote control gates effectively keeping your guests hostage in their villa. Dogsitting for a small ewok called Tim. Horse riding with the furbies as a staff day out. Packing one furby off to France, we're down to just two team members now a nanny (who drives cars like she stole them and likes to drive too close to ditches) and me, supposedly a jack of all trades.

Yeah, I think that about sums it up. Let's see what the next few weeks hold in store.