In retrospect.....

... I think my last post was, shall we say, a little venomous and so I have to apologise for that and promise to be more light hearted in future. I'm sure the heat has affected me to some degree because on my Veterans Message Board I launched into a very politically correct polemic about racism and bigotry... subjects not usually part of my oh so not politically correct persona. Anyway, I have recovered now and will only discuss the downside of sunbathing. I am unable to stay still for very long on a lounger with or without a parasol. First you have to strip off, I am doing nude these days it's so much easier than donning swimming shorts and easier to apply the lotion. That's another thing, when you put the lotion on it's almost impossible to get the stuff spread in the right places and no matter who you convince to disturb themselves and lather you up there is always a patch that gets burnt somehow. Then its you hands that become slick as an eel so that oily smudges are left on the pages of the book (possibly a rare 1st Edition that you were loaned and told "DON'T read it on the beach" or something) that no matter how much rubbing only get worse. OK, you slide into position, aim yourself at the sun and relax? No. First you find that your drink, book and sun hat (Baseball cap actually) are slightly too far away, there are ants crawling around you by the million and the flies have decided that the brand of lotion you are using is too good to pass with a good sniff and lick! We do have a number of wasps but unlike British wasps they are completely disinterested in us or our sweet sticky food and drinks, they live only to make elaborate nests and kill and eat other insects and eat figs - Thank Heavens!

Now that I am greased, positioned correctly, free from annoying insects and ready to read page 123 of the paperback (where all the pages have become unglued and have to be held together with both hands while reading) The cat arrives "Miiieeeoowwww", I suppose is Spanish cat speak for "hola", she wants attention! Up and down, backwards and forwards, under the lounger and then on it only to be ejected with a shove. Last time she did this she bit the back of my arm and when that only got her a reprimand she put her paws round my shoulders and nuzzled me behind on my neck!

I eventually give up, come in write some stuff for this blog and go back outside and start all over again. However by this time I am losing moisture faster than a leaking.... Oh I don't know.. but fast!

Right back to the lounger and another dose of sun....