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2002 -- October's snippets What am I missing about Spain? As of yet, nothing. I'm reveling in the newness of being in my home. It's even been quite sunny here -- and I have spent so much time inside working over the last year, that it's hardly mattered anyway. Tuesday 8th October -- Morning has broken, like the first morning, blackbird has spoken, like the first word... Ah, how I love seeing the sun rise from my home! Well, I'm back in my house, with new cushions and everything. Women often buy new underwear or bedding when they make a significant move, but I bought cushions. They're lovely and hairy so it's like having 4 dogs. A bit. How do I feel? Surprisingly great, actually. There are some things that need doing in the house, but the agency are sorting that out. My bed is far too soft, the Spanish one is better, but they're no big deal. For the first time in a year, I have: Space No smoky smells No cooking smells -- especially no fish! No noisy families shouting at each other all the time Light An ambient temperature The right energy to complete my book No television sounds Jute carpets, instead of horrible hard tiles Phone calls that don't cost the earth! No scooter noises Ah, I do love my home -- it's so beautiful. I really had to write the above to read back when I start missing Fernando. I have to remember what it's like there. It did me no good, and my life is worth more to me than that suffering. Hmm! So jobs for today are to paint my front planter, move new crockery into kitchen, once cleaners have been. Do some work, and then relax. Tonight, it's write book, read, and plan tomorrow. Got Skippy coming round for dinner tomorrow which will be lovely. Then parents are coming over on Thursday, so I'll go foraging in my garden and get a green drink down my dad's neck. He loves them! Oh, the other day I went to see Karen's new baby, Luke. Aw, he's sooo fab. I held him for about 4 hours, and I think he got upset when I left -- I'm sure of it! I tried to sneak off with him, but they noticed. Good job, I suppose, as I don't have any mummy's milk and he needs that. Mmmm. And Karen got me a durian in. What a lovely welcome home pressie. I ate it yesterday, while moving boxes in my house. Gaping open, it was. Begging for it. How fab. Right, that's all for now as I must get on with my day. Thanks for being patient -- this update is a bit tardy, but what do you expect when I've driven from Southern Spain to the UK? Well, I did get the ferry from Bilbao, but that's not the point... Ah, much love to you -- enjoy your day. xxx Wednesday 9th October -- Phew. Am just about getting myself together now. Getting on with the book, the PR for it all, its web site, and all the other related stuff. Had a great weekend. It was Kazzie's birthday, so her, Pete and Joe came over for dinner. I made some very special food for them. The burger and cheezecake recipes are now on DetoxYourWorld.com. Oh, me and Joe were talking about exercise and I was trying to say "I want to start kick boxing" when the words "I want to start cock busting" came out of my mouth! I don't know how, women don't say works like "cock". Unless we're referring to male chickens. I was so shocked, and laughing so much, it took me a good 5 minutes to calm down enough to say what I was trying to say in the first place. Cock busting! How funny. I have a thought.... What do you reckon about this? I'm putting an online shopping cart on DetoxYourWorld.com to sell my products and some exciting new stuff, so I was thinking about removing all commercial stuff from this site -- make it more personal again. All the products that I continue selling can still be bought from that site, and of course I'll link to it. Mail us with "Keep your products on Shazzie" or "Take your products off Shazzie" if you care. I got an influx of Shazzie's detox delights orders over the weekend, as PayPal featured me. I could do with that all the time! Hannah came over on Sunday and we decided to do some yoga. I got my mat out and it was all wet and stinky from something. Ugh, I didn't enjoy my headstand... It's now in the washing machine, so it'll be blue again instead of black. But it's different when it's your own dirt, isn't it? I took some photos of my feet yesterday. They're lovely. Here's one with my toes spread out. Apparently not many people can do this. Don't know why. I was feeling quite lonely tonight. And wanting a cuddle, but that wasn't going to happen, so I rang Fernando and got a virtual hug instead. I felt better after that. People shouldn't live in isolation. Ah well, I've got a meeting on Friday, then I'm off to a friend's house on Friday night and am at the Doug and Rozi event in London on Saturday. I'll be all peopled out and glad to get back in my cave. It's rained for about 40 days and 40 nights. I'm waiting to get rescued by Noah and Nellie. I can't get my garden done in this rain, but I can get on with all my work. For a change. Well, that's the news from Casa De Shazzie today. Have a great one, wherever you are, whatever you're doing. Bless you! Thursday 24th October -- Oh, I've had a busy few -- my printer's broken, so has to go to the menders for a week. I think it's all the travelling it did -- it's started eating paper and some of its teeth have fallen out. Really. You have to see it to believe it. House still isn't back to normal. The insurance assessor is coming round to look at my ruined carpets next week. And, I can't believe what I found! I was vacuuming, and thought "how odd, I don't remember the cable being this short", but just unplugged it and moved it, so I could do the rest of the room. Then, the other day, I vacuumed again, and thought "It used to have a red sealed plug, now it's got a plain white one". Now, you know how much I love my Dyson!! The thought of someone chopping his tail off is too much to bear. Anyway, I got the tape measure out and it was 3.31 metres. I rang Dyson up and mentioned that I was about to ask them something odd. And so, I asked. The woman did admit that no-one had asked the length of the cable because they suspected a Russian-tenant electrical assassination attempt, and checked it out. It should have been 6 metres, and yes, she confirmed it would have had a sealed plug. I was flabbergasted that these vodka swilling monsters could have done that to my Dyson! And I'm not being stereotypical here, the cupboards in the house *stank* of vodka when I returned home. It really did. Anyway, a Dyson man came out yesterday and mended him, found some more things that the tenants had neglected on him, put him back together and patted him on the bottom. Aw, he's now happily sitting in my cupboard waiting for me to get something dirty. The Dyson, not the Dyson man. He's probably at someone else's house right now. So, this whole tenant business would be stressful if I'd let it. Ah! He even rang me up from Russia, wanting to negotiate his way out of paying for the damage he's done to my house. Erm, no. we'll use all his deposit, thanks -- coz then I still have to claim on my insurance, too. Blimey. Wouldn't do it again, this tenant lark. So what else is new? Oh yeah, I got my ISBN for my new book today. It felt like Christmas! Oh, how exciting. Must get it finished now. So close... Well, now I have all the official bits and bobs done it'll be easier. Red tape makes me go all stationary and wide eyed like a shop window doll. Am doing something really exciting tomorrow. Don't know if I can tell you. Ha ha. I'm not going to, you'll have to wait a few weeks. It'll be fun, though, and you'll love it! Blimey -- I knew there was something else. Broadband! Been trying to get it working now for 2 days, but it won't work on my machine (tech supp man says it's because IE6 is buggy -- what silly nonsense), and also NTL's registration database is broken so I can't even register and then get a techie out to sort it. 2 days! Now, these are big companies who should have the infrastructure to cope with these eventualities. So I'm still on £5 billion a minute dial up! Haven't been able to look at the web properly for about a month. Am not having withdrawal symptoms, honest. Oh, had durian last night, and today. And am just about to have some more! Didn't get spoiled like this by fruit when I was in Spain. I've found out that our local fruit shop sells wholesale, so have been getting like 40 oranges for about £6 etc. Kazzie and Pete have also started using them -- we get mangoes, avos, oranges, papayas, peaches etc, all at wholesale price. And we get our organic greens from a local farmer. I feel well and truly like I live in England again, now. Right, am off to eat some durian, take printer to hospital, and then prepare for the very exciting yet secret thing I'm doing tomorrow. Have a fab day, and smile at someone you don't know -- it'll make their day! Lots of love... Next

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