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@ Friday, 02. Jan, 2009 – 11:33:15
I spied this lady sitting on a wall outside the market at Loule while I was on holiday in Portugal last year and couldn't help wondering whether she was coming or going with her wares...
Come on guys, put a little brain power into this and tell me what the lady has on her mind. 
kendersrule
Pro 
Usksider
Pro I guess she could be on the dog at that... 
sula36
I reckon she is wondering how she is going to get them home
Usksider
Pro She might be... maybe she needs to ask for help. 
technomist
She looks like she may have toothache.
Usksider
Pro Too many of those sweet cakes they sell in all the coffee shops...
Munzly
That's the last time she'll buy anything from Medusa at the Gorgon's Wholesale Cash'n'Carry. 
Usksider
Pro Their prices must've been really favourable! 
isadora101
She is neither coming nor going, simply just there
awaiting a customer, someone to buy her wares
in the meantime she daydreams,
about what?
Sorry she won't spill the beans
Usksider
Pro Probably best to keep the beans in her basket...
kiki2u
I know Loule'
Knowing well portuguese society, and lives of people of each area of this country i can tell you that i really dunno if she is smiling, but i have seens old ladies on that position, just like that and they were wondering about their lives...sadly most lost their husbands on the sea, they were fishermen and they need to sell something to feed her children/family at home...as indeed is a SHAME how this country still gives so little to its own peopl, see the payments/montly here and lots live with the minimum or even less!!!! ... plus Portugal doesn't help at all these poor people who are alone with kids!
Or yeah maybe she bought so much that she's wondering how she will get it home...though i doubt it as they know how life is tough, hard, and bcz so they are used to carry those heavy stuffs since their 6 years old! This is true.
kiki2u
I have spoken with ladies like these one, and i know what in hre mind:
- her life problems, her life or what rests of it! If all are already gone ..in most of her cases!
- how she will pay the pahtmacy bill,
- grocery bill, etc. etc. etc. bcz the government doesn't help none of us all here in Portugal! Especially cases like this lasy..i guess is one of them as i spoked with ladies alke her.
I tried to let here something funny coment, but wasn't able to it, bcz so i am sorry Usky; it's bcz i know these ladies so well, have spoken with them, seaside or mountains, and cz so i know how hard their lives were and still are!
That one yes is widow of a fisherman trying to sell something to buy something for feed her kids or her own..as well to pay her bills!
kiki2u
That's why i can't find a giggle or funny on some of the few comments here, though wow i'm used to it in about4years blogging here i learned it, as well to laugh about it and the unknowledgment of some people who jokes of others peoples lives!!!!!..not all yeah, just few as i mentinoned previosly; ... as if she is at the phone and so on blah blah blah....as if a lady as this one can afford one for Christ Sake!!!!! AH man! tssk tssk
Usksider
Pro Trust me, she's better off without a mobile 'phone... they can be a damn nuisance at times... 
Seriously, I do understand.
Usksider
Pro Please don't be sorry Kiki... life is very hard for those less fortunate. The people who still work the land by hand and just manage to scrape by deserve so much more than they get.
Usksider
Pro Society can be really cruel can't it? It was the same here years back and some would claim it's not much better now...
kiki2u
Hi Usky, sorry only now returning to this reply, but as you noticed, w/fever and under the effects of flu medicines i wasn't able of blogg much, just shortly...we can notice on wow the amount of written mistakes i did LOL i use to when i type fast but being ill i really wrote bad eh?
Yeah she can't afford a mobile phone as others things like a heating for the winter for ex.
And yes she must be thinking for sure if she did feed her chickens before come to the streets trying to sell what she plants and so, and for sure what she will cook for her dinner, what she will have to eat when home as till home is a lot of time yet from where she is!
Anyway yes is a great sculpture...all around the country they have been doing these sculptures.
She has a misterious smile maybe bcz she noticed you were there LOL watching her and probably she was a " mimo " she gotch'ya LOL
Usksider
Pro Oh yes the chickens... you've got to look after the chickens.
I saw some lovely sculptures in Portugal; it's great to see so many artefacts on display. 
ravingmad
She's just remembering.....all the lovely memories of days long gone....dreaming away in the warmth of the sun.....
Usksider
Pro We could do with some of that warmth here couldn't we?
MissyMouse
I think she is wondering what she can make for dinner tonight with all her shopping!
xx
Great mind's think alike...I was going to say that xx
Usksider
Pro I think maybe she's selling and hoping to make enough to buy some chickens.
kiki2u
More chickens LOL
Now seriously yes cz she needs the eggs to sell!
la_spice
She's remembering what her mum told her "if you want to get ahead get a hat"
Usksider
Pro Not much point getting a hat if you haven't got a head...
la_spice
True!
Usksider
Pro Hope your head is good this morning... birthday girl!
la_spice
Hello yes I'm fine thanks - just shared a bottle of champagne over a fine lunch with my daughter.
Usksider
Pro Sounds as though you had a lovely morning/day. Good for you... I'm really pleased.
la_spice
I've been spoilt rotten
Usksider
Pro No more than you deserve
la_spice
Aw
Usksider
Pro That's easy for you to say...
la_spice
Not after the next bottle of bubbly 
Usksider
Pro Headache tomorrow then is it?
la_spice
Change of plan - moved onto the Baileys
Usksider
Pro So that's why you didn't answer your door... Because you'd gone out!
la_spice
Have you been in the knife drawer already?
Usksider
Pro Aye, and slit the odd wrist!
la_spice
Not funny! 
Usksider
Pro No, you're right... sorry.
spiritbird
Pro I said don't put the coloureds in with the whites
Usksider
Pro Stripy washing, eh?
Neonjake
Rather Mona Lisaish to my mind.
Great art will always leave a question mark.
jake
Usksider
Pro It is a lovely piece of sculpture... at least, I think so.
antlady69
Pro She had seen you peeking from the bushes earlier, and recognized you again as you were taking her photo! 
Usksider
Pro My goose is well and truly cooked...
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She's on the phone.
And she is not going to find enough people to carry her goods when she's cast them in Bronze!