Pure as driven snow perhaps? That illegal white powdery snowy stuff? White Dove – Paloma Blanca – is an anthology of poetry and prose by Gibraltarian author Kailash Noguera. To add the context, I’ll quote from the intro in his own words, as that will sum it up pretty quickly: I remember my first sexual […]Read Post ›
In the queue. For the frontier of course. What else? Your on-the-spot reporter presents her personal in-depth report of queueing to get out of Gib and visit Spain over the weekend. We weren’t up early or late. A reasonable weekend sort of time around 7.30/8am. Just before 9am, Partner went down to fill up with […]Read Post ›
It’s like the cod wars revisited. [Cod wars not Cold War]. That’s for anyone who remembers the dispute between the UK and Iceland over cod fishing rights. Why anyone would fight over tasteless cod is beyond me, but there is no accounting for taste. Haddock wars I could have understood but cod? So, the territorial […]Read Post ›
I’ve slagged off Juan Carlos so I might as well have a go at Sofia. You know the one who is Greek-born and related (as with all European families) by birth rather than marriage, to just about everyone in the Brit royal family, eg Liz, Philip, and Chas. I really can’t decide which is the […]Read Post ›
‘This is the first stone of a work which I name the King’s Bastion: may it be as gallantly defended, as I know it will be ably executed’ Major General Robert Boyd, 1773. When the King’s Bastion was built, it was the most important defensive position of the Rock’s westerly defences. Its shape was based […]Read Post ›
What an appropriate film to be showing in the tobacco-smuggling hot-spot of Gibraltar. We’ve been fans of Mark Wahlberg since getting Shooter on DVD a few years ago. Seeing Contraband advertised recently and featuring Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale (who I always thought was brilliant in Shooting Fish – and – why doesn’t she look any […]Read Post ›
Where to start? Sandstorm – Henry Shukman. OK, an interesting book. Well written, and a recommended read. I did read it pretty fast which is always a good point. (I’ll just read to chapter ten, or fifteen or twenty etc and I was still reading). Reviews on the back compared him with Greene, Maugham and […]Read Post ›
…..stays mainly on the Costa del Sol and along the N340. Or at least it did at the weekend on our journey back there. Luckily it wasn’t chucking it down, just a few odd light showers. The good thing about grey overcast rainy skies is that you haven’t got brilliant blue skies and dazzing sunlight […]Read Post ›
Hoy Romería! When señoras get out their frilly frocks and men strut around in rather tight trousers on their horses. And the village is deserted as everyone takes to the road on some vague Catholic pilgrimage. What really happens is that, everyone starts drinking early. Spanish even get out of bed before mid-day for this […]Read Post ›
Not me, hardly at 5’9″ or is it 10″? Who cares. Although there are times when being amazingly tall for your age and your height being commented on isn’t much fun. But apparently it is much worse for small persons. So I hear. I really have no interest. But this post is not about my […]Read Post ›
