Cardiff to Catalonia!

Having moved from Cardiff: these are the day to day thoughts, enthusiasms and detestations of someone coming to terms with his life in Catalonia and always finding much to wonder at!

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Reading and walking

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I am trying, without success, to wean myself from my dedication to my e-book reader. I am now fully addicted to obscure out of copyright pot...
Friday, January 30, 2009

It's not the giving . . .

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Some presents are clearly double edged. My mother made a clear distinction (which she explained very lucidly early in my life) between a ‘pr...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

Throw away!

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Grovelling about in refuse bins! A sad illustration of the true state of affairs during a crisis! Late last night at the end of our street s...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Power of Art!

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At a time of economic meltdown, galloping unemployment, social unrest and growing chaos around the world it is always pleasant to see that a...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Reflections

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My time in my present school has come to an end with the return to health of the teacher whose place I took short term. An early blood test ...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Turning and turning

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A colleague told me that she had a book confiscated by another colleague because he felt that what she was reading was morally corrupting an...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Blow winds!

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Yesterday the whole of Spain was issued with a bad weather warning. Most of the warnings were about gales with especially attention directed...
Friday, January 23, 2009

It's more than the food.

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I am now the proud possessor of a Watford football club scarf. I found the thing waiting on my desk when I came to take one of my classes to...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Another day?

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What a long week! I have rarely been as tired as I feel today and there is yet another day to go before the justified relaxation of the week...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Vaulting ambition!

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There is, I swear a built-in self-destruct button in the human animal. Having been in my present school for a lengthy two days and being sub...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The hardened worker!

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Two days and exhaustion has taken on a whole new meaning! Getting to the school in the mornings with all the rush hour traffic is, I have di...
Monday, January 19, 2009

You cannot be serious!

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Omens and portents are for the weak minded and credulous. However . . . Before the crack of dawn, in Stygian darkness I struggled out of bed...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Tomorrow and tomorrow

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My getting up at a reasonable hour had little bearing on my complete indolence for the rest of the day! Except, can it be called indolence i...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

It's all a question of food

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The prospect of a Galician themed lunch saw me tootling up to Terrassa this afternoon. The pulpo was the tastiest and the tenderest that I h...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Time moves slowly, so slowly!

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I am very disgruntled. I go to a school for an interview for a job which isn’t there on a Tuesday and I have to wait until Friday – the best...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Language conflicts

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A moment of true excitement in the Spanish class! Not a general outcry of spontaneous delight at the rules governing the pronunciation of th...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Grave thoughts

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Having dispatched a few incomprehensible emails in response to those I sent out yesterday, I settled down to my day’s work. I have managed t...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Lofty ambitions!

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I’ve been to visit money today. The non job interview was in a private school high on the hill overlooking Barcelona in a ghetto of private ...
Monday, January 12, 2009

It's a conspiracy!

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Never in the annals of human duplicity have I seen such a blatant example of disregard for a fellow human being. It Catalonia it is regarded...
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