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Happy holidays to you all! May this new year 2019 bring you happiness, health, success and peace! Winter music

Middle of December already. As I am not a fan of setting goals in January, it may be difficult for me now to draw some conclusions about achieving them or not. But I did achieve some unspoken goals indeed.  I visited Sweden for the first time in May. At last! The country had been waiting for me since 1980, much too long. And  I succeeded in reading "Häxan" (The Witch) by Camilla Läckberg and "Skumtimmen" (Echoes from the Dead) by Johan Theorin in the original version. Although everybody is talking about productivity and growth, I was glad to (try to) decelerate my life a bit, also because slowdown has to do with sustainability. I am always more conscious that little actions in everyday life are crucial.  This year, we discovered some parts of the province of Cordoba (Zuheros and Iznájar). We did not knew much of it except the capital (most foreign tourists in Spain will probably never seen anything else than its (wonderful) historic centre...). We found little...

In my post of February 22th , I was writing about the #Animaloons challenge on Twitter (@Animaloonies).  Now, almost 10 months later, I wanted to show you all inflated animals I have been drawing this year.  This challenge may sound a bit silly, I know, but I am in good company there and to relax, you need silly things sometimes. My favourite one are the doogloon, the penguinloon and the last one, the pigloon: And here is the collage with all twelve of them (one per month): I also participated to #pinchpunchpost, but unfortunately, I had no time to draw them all (Hope it will be different in 2019). I post my two favourites here, that are the bear and the giraffe. Enjoy!

It is incredible. December is already there, people are rushing to the shopping malls, maybe some of them will enjoy a long weekend next week (December 6 and 8 are legal holidays in Spain, but I will have to work: I am a foreigner working with foreigners). The last month of this year began with fantastic weather: blue sky, little wind. A bit cold perhaps, but we could eat outside though, like in March or April.  I enjoyed taking a picture of the coast from Benalmadena's harbour. You see a lot of concrete, but also our dear mountains that are a whole world and can be reached on foot.