Thank you Steve
STEP AWAY!!
I just hope it's not Mrs Singh, as she can't even use her mobile phone!
Thanks a lot pal
It's always nice to see OTW Jer
Thanks Bill, but Steve put in the leg-work on that site

Nice pics
Cracking shot of your '19 Steve
Of course
I hope everyone is having a nice day. It's mid afternoon here, and I've just got home again

I got my tasks done in good time this morning, and headed down to Charlie's cafe, where I was delighted to see Sara was back from her trip to see her mom in Santa Domingo. She brought me some coffee back, and even met my Dominican girlfriend, Che!

It sounded like a bit of a nightmare getting there, but it is certainly a very beautiful place

On the way to the cafe, I had rung Tool Man, who was ill in bed after a dodgy pork-pie. He wouldn't take any advice, but reckoned he was too ill to get to the market tomorrow. I headed to the bank in town, but we've had so much rain, that branch had flooded, so I had to go to another branch. I had a nice chat with the girl on the bread stall, and then went for lunch at the Tunisian place I like. They were busy when I arrived, and I chatted briefly to a chap who was just waiting to pay. He was a Palestinian, but had grown up in Lebanon. When I went to pay myself later, it turned out he had bought me lunch, which touched me, but it is very typical of the hospitality I have always experienced in the Middle East

After hoofing it up to the other branch of my bank, I went to the optician's, which was the main reason for my trip to town. I had my eye-test before Christmas, but wanted to see their sole qualified dispensing optician when I purchased my new specs. I was told there was no need to book an appointment, but she was there every Wednesday. Wednesday is an awkward day for me, and today is the first chance I've had to get in. Turned out she was busy, but they have another dispensing optician, who is in on Fridays

I went to the bookshop opposite, bought myself a book, and had a hot chocolate in their cafe, before returning home. Just as I was walking in the door, Tool Man rang to say that he is hoping to get to the market afterall, so I'll call him before I set off in the morning. Going to make Spag Bol for tea I think