Gibraltar has started to become a sea of red and white, if one can have a sea of red and white. Gone is the red, white and blue bunting to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, and in its place is the red and white to symbolise Gibraltar in advance of National Day celebrations on Monday (September […]Read Post ›
The bunting has been up for a while, red, white and blue. Normally it is red and white – the Gib colours. But this weekend is a British celebration, and Gibraltar is British. Flags have been increasing day by day, the union flag, the Gib one, and my favourite, the Gib one superimposed on the […]Read Post ›
I am sick of this. Choose delivery address for each item Forget someone? Enter a new shipping address Important Message Stanley 1 Litre Classic Legendary Vacuum Bottle, Green cannot be shipped to the selected address. Type/Item/Price Qty. Send to: Stanley 1 Litre Classic Legendary Vacuum Bottle, Green £22.66 – In stock Condition: New Sold by: […]Read Post ›
Gibraltar may be a few thousand kilometres away from the UK but we managed a suitably traditional long damp weekend holiday. What a dutiful British Overseas Territory we are. Although, somewhat differently, we commemorated Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28 with a public holiday on May 30, followed by another holiday on May 1 – […]Read Post ›
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 ›
… 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 ›
Eeeh, they don’t make things like they used to, do they? The tumble dryer was working away this morning (it was raining again) and suddenly the noise changed. ‘Fan belt,’ muttered Partner. In pulling the tumbly out from its normal home, he decided to get rid of a vile glass cabinet that we inherited on […]Read Post ›
Some people celebrate new life this weekend. I don’t. I’m not religious. I’d like to celebrate it every day. But here is Amparanoia, (Ampara Sanchez), with her superb rendition of La vida te da. There’s no real translation in English, but ‘life gives to you’ will do. Brilliant Andalucían singer and musician. But I also […]Read Post ›
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