Yes, we're back in miserable, dank Blighty, after a wonderful week in the blazing sunshine of Benalmadena. Great friends, great food, booze, totty-spotting, banter, booze, lots of laughs, nights out in the sleazy environs of La Nogilera in Torremolinos and booze - business as usual, really!
Our journey out was knackering: only a meagre amount of sleep, and a taxi at 2.30am to catch a flight from Gatwick at the crack'o'doom - so much so that we didn't even go out on Saturday night - and our journey home from Luton airport was marred by the fact that there were no trains to London, so we ended up on a coach transfer to some god-forsaken hole (Hitchin) to get a connection. At least that train got us straight to Finsbury Park (nearer home than Kings Cross) - but there was no Piccadilly Line either, so we had to get a cab... None of that matters, of course, when the bit in the middle was such a joy!
But - what did we miss while we were on our week of hedonism? Well, there was a massive furore over that plague ship that needed to be evacuated after several passengers died of a Medieval disease; and it was a local elections wipeout for Labour, which has put PM Kier Starmer at risk of being ousted. Then there was the glittering Met Gala (now sponsored by the Google mafia Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez), the important scientific discovery that beer is good for you as it contains vitamins, the departure of Ted Turner for that great 24-hour-television-channel-in-the-sky - and the man who pulled a car using his penis, while on fire [I'm not making this up, you know]!
We also missed celebrating the 90th birthday of Engelbert Humperdinck, the 85th of Earth, Wind and Fire co-founder Philip Bailey, the 80ths of Sir David Suchet and Thelma Houston (and what would have been the 80th of Lesley Gore), the - gulp - 65ths of Jay Aston from Bucks Fizz and George Clooney...
...and Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday!
But did we bring anything back for your delectation, dear reader?
This being a Tacky Music Monday, it could only be Spain's answer to Dame Shirl, the late, great Señorita Rocío Jurado, at her big-haired, OTT best!
Is it good to be back?
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Yes, we missed you!! Welcome home! Apologies for not solving the Great Blogroll Disaster of 2026, I am still puzzling over it.
ReplyDeleteLovely to have you back, though Mr Devine did a sterling impersonation of you!!
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P.S Lovely photo!
Thank you, Ms Scarlet! We both felt like we could have done with another week in Spain, but concluded that our livers probably couldn't stand it...
DeleteIt is so tiresome to have to second-guess when someone's posted stuff on Blogger and then resorting to manually checking, but hey ho - Google is only the richest company in the world, specialising in internet technology; why should we expect that they know how to fix it?
Yes, I am beginning to think I should start calling Mr DeVice "the Rory Bremner/Alistair McGowan/Jon Culshaw of the blogosphere". He did sterling work. Jx
Your right Scarlett. Hell, the way I see it, we can all take more vacations now, what with Mr. DeVice's near perfect impersonations. His Jon was uncanny.
DeleteScary, more like. Jx
DeleteNo! No more vacations! I'm exhausted. I don't know how you both, Jon and Maddie, do it every day.
DeleteIt's not a chore, it's solace for the mind, dear. Jx
DeleteThe too and fro sounds terrible... nothing like switching coaches and lines to nowhere to get where one is going....but I'm sure the in between bits you two made the most of. I know you did. Like booze!!!! I hope you both had a lovely time. And as of my current time at 8:30pm this post has yet shown an appearance in my reader.
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Indeed, we could have done without the tortuous journey home - we left our beloved Palm 5 beach bar around 2pm local time, but then we were delayed by an hour at Malaga airport, so landed at 7.40pm London time - and thanks to all that faff we only got through our front door at around 11.30pm. Hey ho. It was a wonderful holiday!
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PS As I write, it's nearly 2am in London, and this post is still not in the reader - that's seven-and-a-half-hours late! Shoddy.
The birdsong is incredible. Great sounds for my sleep spa (if I still had one). What a shame about the travel experience but glad your time in Spain made up for it. As for Rocio Jurado, what a performance in every way.
ReplyDeleteWe had blackbirds singing in the palm trees outside our balcony in Benalmadena. Beautiful. We don't have any singing in our neighbourhood - I imagine they've been scared off by the territorial robins (also a beautiful songbird) and wrens.
DeleteRocío Jurado was an incredibly talented singer - a perfect way to encapsulate our memories from holiday... Jx
Yes, your absence had been felt and you're back home in time for Eurovision, whenever that is. No notable deaths to report, there was a thrill of excitement when David Attenborough popped up in the news but it was just to celebrate his 100th birthday and I'm on Bonnie Tyler watch.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back!
Thanks, Mitzi. We'll be hosting our Eurovision party again this Saturday - it's the Gay World Cup!
DeleteBonnie Tyler appears to be "out of the woods" now, according to the BBC, but we shall see. I have my black armbands at the ready. Jx
First untimely blog posting in the readers ( this post is still not in my reader) and now they are letting bots and scammers asking for funds in the back door!!!!! Blogger is still a class joint, isn't it????
ReplyDeleteI killed off the spammer as soon as I spotted "her". As for the blog feed scandal, the date-stamp for when this post appeared in my Reader was around 1am. I was still up, and I couldn't see it then, only when I surfaced around 11. Sigh.
Delete"Whatever happened to class? Now nobody even says 'oops' when they're passing their gas." Jx
Welcome home! And thank gods you're back. I'm glad to hear you managed to squeeze a bit of booze into your hectic holiday schedule.
ReplyDeleteYour blouses are smashing - unless they're Primarni, of course - and you're both dressed to match the sky!
I've still got lots of David Attenborough programmes to catch up with, but I do remember that Lyre bird - the camera shutter and chainsaw are particularly remarkable.
We do like to co-ordinate with the weather 😎. And yes. a teensy-weeny smidge of booze may have passed our lips...
DeleteThe Lyre Bird is possibly my fave clip from any of his shows. Until I see the other ones, of course. What a career! Jx
It was the bit in the middle that counts
ReplyDeleteand Rocio Jurado now and forever !
She wasn't called La más grande for nothing!
DeleteYes - it was a splendid holiday. We need to win the Lottery, and we could have so many more! Jx