my sergio love bubble

i have a new crush - sergio contreras. he's pretty famous over here - a kind of rap/pop hybrid (yes it is as dire as it sounds!) and he was the special star at the end-of-fiesta concert on monday night. yours truly was down at the front with all the twelve year olds having the time of my life!! how sad. mostly caught him on video, but there are a couple of photos here for you to enjoy. the concert was actually really good - brilliant dancers, flame throwers, some great singers and of course the man himself. the only slightly surreal moment was half way through when sergio took himself off to the dj booth and started playing the prodigy's "smack my b*tch up" whilst two male dancers wearing nothing but tight trousers and big metal chains started chaining up a third guy. the bemused look on all the teenyboppers' faces was classic. not quite sure what their mums thought!! it all seemed a little out of place! once the concert was over, the festival ended with an amazing firework display which must've cost a fortune, all set to dramatic classical music - it was a really good night.

its that time again...

...fiesta time! yep, mojacar is party central for a 4 day weekend in honour of their patron saint San Augustin and it is LOUD! went out last night with the boys - meant to be saving ourselves for a biggie tonight as no work tomorrow, hooray! thing is, in order to get any sleep during fiestas you have to knock a few bevvies back so that you can go straight out when your head hits the pillow, and not care about the music and revellers and fireworks right outside the window!! so i did! took a few pics for your enjoyment - more to follow from tonight - could get messy! xxx

get well soon daddy

firstly apologies to all the many emails i still haven't replied to - i'm rubbish i know! i'm working through them slowly but surely so i promise i'll be in touch with you all soon. hope everyone is well. for those of you who don't know, i'm sad to report that my dad has been diagnosed with cancer. i was home in marlow last week (managed to get a last minute flight as i wanted to be with my family) and the good news is that a tumour has been successfully removed, so now dad just has to get through a course of chemotherapy. all these words are a bit scary if i'm honest, but dad seems relatively perky so we are all just staying positive. the last couple of weeks have been surreal and a bit stressful, hence no emails! there were lots of much worse photos i could have posted (tubes, scars, hospital stuff) but dad would kill me if they appeared in the public domain and besides, i thought these were nicer! so everybody send positive vibes my dad's way and hopefully by christmas we'll be well on the way to blasting the b*stard!! the cancer that is, not my dad ;o) get well soon daddy, love you xxx

it's been too long...

over a month since i updated this thing - and i couldn't even log in at first, had forgotten my username AND password! luckily i'm back to update you all on the various happenings in my life. well, alicia came to visit me for a week which was fab - we had a great time, lots of laughs as well as some very serious chats (we refer to them as doom and gloom chats as that seems to be how they ended up!). leece got a good tan, and i managed to wangle enough time off work to enjoy myself - especially in the last weekend. i don't think i've laughed that much in ages. it was just so nice to have a friend here to go out with, really talk with etc etc. i've got some hilarious videos on my camera but i'm not clever enough to post them on here! besides they're not really funny to anyone else - "had to be there" type stuff! found a great club that was still buzzing at 7am when we were too worn out to dance any longer, so god knows what time it goes on til! it's all outside too, so nice and cool, which is bliss considering how baking it is here at the moment!