A Busy Day

A hellishly busy time in the bar last night between about 9pm and 12pm saw most of the day's take taken with me being kept company until about 3am this morning, over a slowly savoured "wind-down" drink, by Hilde and Ward (the owner of the nearby Ship Inn who almost invariably calls in for his own wind-down after closing), while I cashed the till. Hellishly busy means (to me) that it was a 2 man bar throughout that time. Olivia came in, saw the crowd and took on the job of Pot Lady for a little while for which I was grateful, then Favio and Ana-Mary fought their way through the throng and he rolled his sleeves up as well, clearing a few tables and straightening chairs. David also called in with Crystal but opted not to stay because "it's too busy". Favio took Ana-Mary home at about midnight and then promptly came back and sat with me during the empty lull until 1am. A couple of Ladies (Mother & Daughter I think) came by looking to say goodbye to Beryl as they are leaving soon, saw Favio and came in. I've never met them before but Favio saw fit to use my camera to take a photo of me beside them and then, of course, one of himself in the same situation. I'm showing the one with me because I think that I have come out well for a change, usually I hate my own photo image. Anyway, all done now, I've had a few hours sleep and will be going shopping in a minute for some new "smellies" because it's my Day Off and I have a Dinner Date later. My local Supermarket, the Mercadona branch in Playamar has been closed for refurbishment for the last month or so, re-opening a few days ago so my trip to it shortly will be a new voyage of discovery as you might say - trying to find where everything is etc..

Back from the shops with, amongst other things, a new pair of shoes. Brown ones to replace my old pair that now leak and to complete my outfit for tonight. I'm feeling quite pleased with myself because I managed to haggle the price down from 35€ to 27€ although I suspect that the Moroccan Shopkeeper has still ripped me off!

I have managed to sew that missing button back on to my shirt but not before having quite a hard job working out how to use the needle threading gizmo in the kit I have. I was putting the thread into it before pushing through the needle's eye instead of pushing it through THEN threading the cotton and pulling it out. Easy when you know how of course.

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