How Was Your Week? Highs and Lows

If we were having coffee, I’d tell you I’ve had another busy week. There were many highs, and then came a jaw-dropping low.

Monday, I returned from my first pain hypnotherapy session on a high. With the right mindset, we can overcome certain pain and situations. Fortunately, I have found a doctor who thinks outside the box and whose first instinct, unlike many doctors, is not to dish out meds.

Lunch at Praia de Amoiera

Monday was a rare, still and sunny day so after the therapy I had a ‘Carpe Diem’ moment and persuaded Mr Piglet to abandon his job list and whisked him off to Praia de Amoriera for a snack at ‘Paraiso do Mar’. In hindsight, I should have seized another moment and walked along the deserted beach while we were there.

Yoga for Seniors

My teacher is still convinced she can coax me down onto the mat. I think: in your dreams. I say: Providing you can get me up. She smiles I love an optimist.

Portuguese – Blog

My Portuguese lessons are progressing slowly. SO slowly–I feel sorry for my teacher and frequently apologize for being SO stupid. I am stuck on prepositions. Like stuck in a bog stuck. Preps don’t literally translate into English.

I have decided to start a blog which I plan to write in Portuguese. I can barely string a comprehensible sentence together in English, let alone in Portuguese, so it will prove challenging.

Lunch with Friends

On Thursday, despite promising myself we would only eat out once this week, we lunched with friends at a local restaurant. I chose swordfish, fresh vegetables, and only one small boiled potato smothered in garlic and olive oil. For dessert (which is included in the price) I ordered a slither of sweet potato and orange cake. All the cakes there are home-baked, not from a packet so not ultra processed. Well, that’s my excuse and it was only a slither.

Recipes

I ticked off yet another recipe this week. Cooking 52 new recipes in 52 weeks is quite a challenge.

Food on Friday: Apple, Walnut and Cinnamon Oat Muffins and More!

Flooding

We’ve had so much heavy rain over the last few days that the rivers are bursting, and water rushes down from the mountain into the valley of our local town and beach. Naturally, there is flooding, and some roads are closed. Fortunately, we live on a cliff, and we have not been affected apart from dodging rain-filled potholes the size of moon craters.

Politics – Wow! What a supercilious bully!

We were blown away when we watched the news report on Trump and Zelensky‘s meeting at the Oval Office unravel. I bet Putin is rubbing his hands in glee! Mr T might have received an invite from King Charles, but the British people will not welcome him. I wish European leaders had enough cojoins and weapons to tell him to stick where the sun doesn’t shine.

Mr. T made history that day, and not in a good way.

I feel sorry for my American friends for the shame Mr. T and his sidekick Vance have brought on your once great country.

If we were having coffee, I’d tell you I promised myself at the beginning of the year to avoid the News and doom-scrolling, but sometimes it is unavoidable.

I wonder what highs and lows this week will bring…

How was your week and what was your reaction to the Trumps/Vance’s behaviour towards President Zelensky

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