Thursday thriving

Here  is Thursdays market in full swing - and below, the bootmender in his van fixing my wallet which has been shedding money. Lovely delicate leather worker. I was thanking him (3 euros) when Mike hove up with his wallet, which our friend seems to have rebuilt.

 Forgot to photograph Filip and Lone yesterday: they are looking great but you'll just have to take my word for that. They'll be here for a week, between Barcelona and Copenhagen. Oh also forgot Phil and Ziggi today who came round and tried to help persuade Rico to go home. Rico is the most cage-loving parrot possible,  but he was determined to stomp about the place possibly because its spring and, as Phil put it, the sap is rising. It's fine if he wants to be out but food and water are inside his house - as he eventually realised.

It's an exciting life.