Showing posts with label Madrid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Madrid. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Where there's a will, there's an injury!

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      As domestic accidents go, being impaled by an electric toothbrush seems to combine triviality with impossibility.   And yet it drew bl...
Saturday, May 08, 2021

No more excuses - you've got to blame the people!

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  My full-time teaching career started with my going for interview in Kettering, a town in Northamptonshire of which I ...
Saturday, May 01, 2021

How to keep your sanity in world that is too right-wing for, well, sanity!

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        For the past few years, when the political situations in Catalonia, Spain and the UK got too much to bear, I turned to the antics of...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

What a legacy!

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  What people say can live after them.   From the self-consciously orotund phrases (with a cynical ear to history) of the ...
Monday, April 13, 2020

LOCKDOWN CASTELLDEFELS - DAY 29 – Easter Monday, 13th APRIL

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In the best traditions of British Bank Holiday Mondays, it is pouring with rain here in Catalonia.   The one differenc...
Thursday, April 09, 2020

LOCKDOWN CASTELLDEFELS - DAY 25 – Maundy Thursday in Holy Week, 9th APRIL

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Yesterday I was shown disturbing pictures of the build up of traffic in Madrid suggesting that numbers of people were taking adv...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Where are they now and what have they done?

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As Noel Coward never wrote, “It’s extraordinary how potent cheap cardboard is!” This seemingly nonsensical perversion of the original q...