Blogging at Eighty

 This is my third day and I decided that I must get away from hotel.  First I walk up passed the bus garage to find the Laundry.  I do hate doing washing on holiday.  Located it so tomorrow's task is to find it again, this time with laundry.  Got back and waited for bus to Bugibba.  Got to bus garage only to find it was the one I had passed in the morning.  Never mind the sun was shining so I went to an outdoor cafe.  They had delicious apple pie and custard and while I waited got talking to two elderly English ladies on the next table.  They had lived in Malta for 25 years and said how much things had changed, and not for the better.  They also told me that the buses were not running to Bugibba because all the roads had been dug up.  Sounded a bit like Ely only more so.  If good weather holds tomorrow will take laundry then catch bus to either Sliema or Valletta.  Last night met an English lady for the second time who had...

 First full day in windy and wet Malta.  Hotel is large and yesterday I explored from basement to the bar ect on floors 10 and 11.  Unfortunately because of bad  whether most of outside facilities were closed.  Hotel seemed busy with lots of small  children.  After a late breakfast went for a walk to the Aquarium and back.  Arrived at hotel just before a shower.  Sat in coffee shop which was soon filled with people arriving in wet jackets.  Have now retired to my room to write this before thinking of what I shall do for lunch.

 On Saturday I  got to Ely station early only to find my train had been cancelled.  Next one an hour later.  Got to the airport and from there to the Travelodge by taxi.  Not a great distance cost ten pounds.  Next morning coming out of bathroom to find it was 4 am and I  had ordered taxi for 3.45.  Olympian speed dressing and getting down to ring for another taxi.  Cost fifteen pounds 90.   Good flight but coming into land plane told pilot   the winds were wrong so we had to go round and come in again.  Other than that it was a good journey but I was so tired first thing I did was to have a nap.

 This is for Maggie who wants to read my blog of how I get on in Malta .  I leave for Birmingham Airport in four days time.  I will be staying in a hotel overnight and, all things being equal, I fly out at 6am the next morning.  I will send her details and hopefully she will be able to test if she can read this before I go. Adding this to test I can write my blog on my tablet 

 I have been settling into my new home which is one of the reasons I have made no posting of late.  However that was just an excuse I made to myself.  The real reason is that nobody is reading this blog and although I started with great enthusiasm it is defiantly wearing thin.  I feel I must soon make a decision I must either give up or find a way to put this blog out into the blogosphere.  If only I knew how.  Trouble is when you start a blog at my age you are not surrounded by other bloggers or people that know about such things.  Maybe I have to read the blogs of other older people and find out from them what to do.  Seems like a plan just have to do it.

When I was young I remember two of my mothers sayings.  Waste not want not and it might do them a turn .  In this throw away society it seems for a lot of people these sayings have been forgotten, which is a shame given the state of the planet.  Or is that too big a thought.  Then try this - on a website which allows people to give things away free there are postings like, I have just got my first place and I need so many things, I have baby clothes to give away, before I take this to the tip would anybody like it.  Before and since I've moved I have been giving things away like gardening tools now I don't have a garden, furniture I don't have room for in my smaller flat and the boxes and packing stuff from my move.  I am due to give that away to a couple who know they will be moving in the summer.  I'm not saying I'm a wonderful, caring person, after all I would've probably have had to pay somebody to take all my stuff to the tip if I hadn't given it...