Tuesday, September 09, 2008

The cruel sun

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I would like to be able to say that as I lay on the beach this afternoon I was gently caressed by soft breezes and lulled into a comfortable...
Monday, September 08, 2008

Uniform?

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The School That Sacked Me is now trying to foster a sense of corporate identity by forcing male teachers to wear an official tie and female ...
Sunday, September 07, 2008

Everything is in the choice

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Who can resist a menu dish which describes itself as beef with ‘trumpets of death’? I suppose that the truth is that many people would hesit...
Saturday, September 06, 2008

Just to be different

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We are well used to visitors from Britain suddenly saying something like, “Oh my god! I’ve forgotten my toothpaste!” as though they are visi...
Friday, September 05, 2008

A little itch of possession

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Just when you feel at peace with the world something comes along to disrupt and discommode. Not for the first time Sony have discomforted me...
Thursday, September 04, 2008

Art at last!

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Returning from Barcelona by bus was made just that little bit more intolerable by the raucous accompaniment of a vocal child. Attention Defi...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Sun watch!

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There is a fine line between satisfaction and gloating. The pupils have not yet come back to The School That Sacked Me and one teacher has a...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Paint and Talk

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The mouse has taken the cheese! Part One of my master plan to get Ceri to paint Monserrat has achieved its objective: the book giving vivid ...
Monday, September 01, 2008

Is this date significant?

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Ploughing my lonely furrow in the pool as length succeeded length my thoughts turned to the vacuity of my morning’s activity: prone, passive...
Sunday, August 31, 2008

That is no beach for young men!

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As god does his usual pathetic fallacy thing at the end of the holiday season by providing lowering clouds and that colour-draining light w...
Saturday, August 30, 2008

Stand not upon the order of your going - but go at once!

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There is a palpable sense of ‘ending’ when you live in a seaside resort at the end of August. The resentful clang of shutting grilles and th...
Friday, August 29, 2008

A holiday within a holiday!

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The Costa Brava Wednesday 27th of August 2008 As I am now in the wilds of the Costa Brava and in a masia I will have no access to a network ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Unaccounted days!

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The fountains of Barcelona may be dry because of the incipient drought but we were provided by an impromptu aqueous display to compensate fo...
Friday, August 22, 2008

Calm before!

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A generally lazy day today so I can catch up with my writing. Although it takes an effort to find the time to do it. Another visit to Montse...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Ah! The Old Country!

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As soon as Emma had been initiated into the mysteries of Rioja and gaseosa it was through the little door behind the pool, onto the beach an...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Show you care!

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Where is the missing gold? I may sound like a character from The Ring but while returning to the BBC Olympic website, which has been my defa...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Floreat Beeb!

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Thank god for the BBC! Here in Spain it would be perfectly easy to assume that Great Britain was taking no part in the present Olympic Games...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Reading is life!

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I am a greedy reader. There are those that read and then re-read as they go along savouring intriguing passages and relishing felicitous tur...