Don Miguel Rojo, I want to talk to you. Don Miguel, I hear you’re hiring on men. Well, I might just be available. I gotta tell you before you hire me… I don’t work cheap. [A Fistful of Dollars] But trainees do. So cheap that they don’t have to wear hard hats on a construction […]Read Post ›
Just a quick post to people. Two new pages introduced – history and poetry. Available on the top bar thingy.
It has to be said we didn’t exactly do our best by our colonial friends in Australia and New Zealand at Gallipoli. Nor incidentally, did we do ourselves any favours. Depending on which sources you read, the British had 21,000 casualties, the French 10,000, somewhere between 8,000 and 9,000 from Australia, nearly 3,000 from NZ, […]Read Post ›
Another of those days. This time it’s Earth Day today. Given the greed and selfishness of a vast percentage of the world, I think more than one day a year is required. Apparently Friends of the Earth in Gib is asking everyone to make a simple pledge to do something positive to help the earth, […]Read Post ›
Juan Carlos may not have got a free pass for his recent travels outside Spain but it seems some Spaniards will be entitled to one. Spanish cross-border workers in Gib will be able to apply for a card entitling them to travel free on all local bus routes except for the one that runs from […]Read Post ›
I used to think he hadn’t done a bad job restoring democracy to Spain after Franco. His Greek wife Sofia is a perfect consort, and they had avoided most of the scandals and problems that have beset the British monarchy. It’s a Catholic state but it seemed it was ok for Prince Felipe (heir to […]Read Post ›
… hasn’t happened very much this winter at all in my part of Spain, and we are all moaning about how much we need the water. Normally the winter months ie Jan to March do see some decent rainfall, with snow on the mountains, but this year there has been muy poco (very little). Naturally, […]Read Post ›
Standing in the non-existant bank queue today (Gib not Spain) I glanced at the television screen. ‘Buy a £5 coin for only £5.’ Um, yes? What else would I pay? Me and a badminton participant in the 1970 something Commonwealth Games rolled our eyes at each other. I learned about his badminton history when we […]Read Post ›
Well the Easter Bunny didn’t bring us any choccy eggs which is just as well because we wouldn’t have eaten them. But we did get a rather nice freebie just before the holiday which will come in most useful. Doing a refurb always involves getting rid of stuff. The firm Partner is working for at […]Read Post ›
Gotta love an extra-long weekend. Hey we live in Gibraltar and Spain. The Mediterranean is our oyster. What to do?? And we both suddenly decide this is the right time to spring clean. It’s not even Spring (Clean) Bank Holiday. Something wrong there. Friday, Saturday, Sunday morning, clean the flat (just the usual, wash walls, […]Read Post ›
