Thursday, August 07, 2008

I am not alone!

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A kindred spirit! One of the people I have been writing to actually lives in Sitges and has been following the history of the School That Sa...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Time to be rich!

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Toni is busily using a program that he has downloaded from the internet to design his perfect house. He has to get his skates on because it ...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Always ask

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There are many ways in which a non native in Catalonia is at a disadvantage. Take, for example, trying to get a repeat prescription. In Cata...
Sunday, August 03, 2008

Holiday Times are Hard Work

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Our block of flats is now a living hell! August = Holiday = Family = Togetherness. As the smallest of these flats (i.e. ours) is three bedro...
Saturday, August 02, 2008

Sizzle!

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Today a sea breeze made joining the human joints cooking on the beach just a little more enjoyable. The sea is of a temperature where not ev...
Friday, August 01, 2008

The wind strings

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Pendine in West Wales in the middle to late ‘50’s of the last century. (God that makes me feel old!) That resort of early motor car speed re...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Fight the good fight

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The RACC has now taken over the management of my speeding charge. On the advice of Toni’s sister I phoned my motoring organization (the last...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Who knows?

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A day without a denunciation is a day lost. Well, my communication from my Union today gave me details of what I will have to do in the futu...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The finger points!

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‘Denunciation’ is so much more evocative than ‘accusation’ don’t you think? Whatever. The official process has now taken a step forward and ...
Monday, July 28, 2008

It's all wrong!

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One thing about having to go into Barcelona for an opera which starts at 5.00 pm on a Sunday is that you don’t have to cope with what I thou...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Only connect!

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Our telephone is suffering from Weekend Failure Syndrome. For two weeks running the advent of Friday evening produced only fuzzy interferenc...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Revelation!

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Cerepol. Never let it be said that all blogs were merely self indulgent opportunities for self opinionated persons to air their prejudices. ...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

The injustice of it all!

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I have been done for speeding. I was sent a peremptory demand today for vast sums of money for an infringement in March! I am sure that it c...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Vaulting ambition again!

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Tragedy! Behold! See how the mighty are undone. Those that seek dominion over all shall be brought down. Yea! Even the most powerful shall b...
Monday, July 21, 2008

3 under 3

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We all know that cold, tight knot of terror which forms in the pit of the stomach when confronted by the fear of the 'other', the ...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Expectation tickling skiting spirits

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Next week opens with the return salvo of The Owner’s lawyer to my union official’s assault last week. It could be that The Owner’s lawyer th...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

A noisy beach

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¡Fiesta! Today is the culmination of a few days of celebration for the major festival of Castelldefels’ year. We were woken by an inordinate...
Friday, July 18, 2008

Glory be to God for spiked things!

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I sing of the cactus! There is a clear winner in the IKEA ‘three in a plastic tube, all different’ cactus purchase. Having spent most of the...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Every day's significant!

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Yesterday was the Name Day for all Carmens. The concept of a Name Day when everyone with the same name can expect a reasonable haul of prese...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Making an effort!

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The search for a new job has taken another step towards reality. A reworked CV and covering notes to two likely prospects (actually in Caste...