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This is only a test...hello from Spain!

Hi friends, does anyone out there still remember me? I haven't been able to even access this blog for yonks, even though I do use other Blogger pages regularly. And for awhile long ago, I could access but not post anything. Somehow I stumbled in here yesterday quite by accident, and now I can post!
We are doing well, the economic crisis has begun to bite hard here in Spain. Many of us have had to relearn the meaning of Christmas, and do our celebrating on a budget. DH has had a small carcinoma removed from his scalp but it appears to be fine. That was my best present this year, I can tell you!

After three years of struggle I finally left the Anglican church I attended for twelve years and joined a small local congregation. There are usually about 12 of us there, but they are a dynamic little group and do a lot with distributing clothing to those in need etc. I'm rather happy there (been there for about 18 mos) and even spoke last Sunday as the pastor was awaiting the birth of his first grandchild, a little girl. Of course you know she had a quilt!

I'm doing physically a lot better, no longer need to walk with a cane, and even the rotator cuff issue is much improved with the use of the gymball and physiotherapy exercises. I feel better than I have for over 3 years. And I've finally broken my addiction to OTC sleeping pills! Now if I could just get rid of the tinnitus, but I think I'm stuck with that.

There's a new way to raise funds for community help here, I wonder if you have it there? For every 3 dozen plastic tops from shampoo, soda bottles, margarine tubs etc, the recycling centre gives 1 Euro to the organisations (food banks, rehab centres, church outreach to the homeless etc). For  kilo of tops (and that's a lot of tops!) they give 200 or is it 300 Euros. It's a tax break for them, a plus for the organisations, and it teaches people to separate the tops from the bottles, as it's a different type of plastic. Then the recycling centres sell the tops on to be made into asphalt. So now I go everywhere with a plastic bag in my purse, picking up tops. Not when DH is along, he would call me a ragpicker, but when I'm on my own it's "eyes down!" Littering is rife here, so I can pick up a dozen tops easily just walking to the local fruit stand and back. (Yes,  I wear gloves to pick them up. I also wash them before I put them in the collection.)
"This has been only a test. In the case of a real post, you would be instructed where to tune in your area for news and official information. This is only a test." And boy did I just date myself!
Have a good day, y'all.
anna

posted by anna in spain @ 11:58 AM