A belated HFF everyone! I MUST BE BATS!!

Thank you, Nicole!

I found the bat. :) Around my balcony I have also a few of them every day since spring if the weather is warm enough.
The view from your house to the valley and at least to the mountains is so wonderful, Andy!

Thank you, Angelika!
Yes, I had to move here from my flat as
1. teaching work dried up with Covid, and I could no longer pay my central Madrid rent..
2. I suddenly couldn't walk as my spine started to disentegrate from many years of steroid treatment for my leukaemia and I could no longer walk to classes, the bus stop, the metro station, etc. I had a serious back operation which is still needing physiotherapy to put right completely.
3. Luckily, my sister has a large house 40km north of Madrid with plenty of space!
My girlfriend has a full flat with lodgers and a 'no boyriend staying at night' rule, which is necessary, so I only had the one option.
4.Then, I got Covid in a big way last year and spent 5 months in hospital (2 of them in an induced coma which wasted my leg muscles completely away)! I have only now learned how to walk again and speak again (it also affected my vocal cords!). So I am receiving long term invalidity benefit, partly from the UK and partly from Spain.
Apart from that, all is well (although my sister currently has Covid and I really don't want it again as I have no immune system to speak of and was told that it could be equally serious if I catch it again! So I'm self-isolating even more so than usual!)
But yes the view is lovely, and I have already posted more than a few on ipernity in recent months!
Hope all s well with you!
Best wishes,
Andy

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