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The other day, we squirted bug-spray under the desk in the office in case there were any fleas or spiders about and this morning I found a d...

I’ve never had much interest in gardening. My mother planted ours and would spend her time pruning, seeding and planting. She would want spe...

When does the run to Christmas start? In America it comes after Hallow'een, which apparently is the second biggest commercial earner in ...

It’s probably different in the big cities, but here in the sticks, it’s quite rare for a ‘son of the village’, who has done well with his li...

Times are hard. We have a beggar installed outside each of our supermarkets these days. Each one of them appears to have his patch and of co...

The Entertainer Online is eight years old. Mostly true, it's full of news from Mojácar ('a real nice place to bring your children u...

We were talking yesterday of some of the old times and I remembered this story about one of the many differences that exist between Spain an...

Years ago, some people from Murcia opened up a new bar on the beach. We got to know them – I think through their children knowing ours – and...

August is always the worst month in Mojácar, with the queues, the tourists, the controls, the not-very-clean seas, the heat, the morning-aft...

We went to the opening yesterday of this summer's Almería fair ('fiesta') which lasts the usual eight days. Give the Spanish the...

I think there used to be a sort of super-chicken on the cartoons, he would roll up the feathers on his arms and say something like: 'I m...

There was an article in the paper a few days back about how seventeen countries across the world have reported the hottest July on record (w...

I am reading an old book about the Barbary Pirates that used to terrify the coastal villages of Southern Spain. Mojácar, for example, was bu...

The narrow donkey track - the one that goes up to Tito's and a few other houses in Mojácar pueblo, has been widened to fit a car as seen...

The following essays which have appeared on this blog have been ordered to be removed or amended by an injunction from the Vera Court! Remov...

I remember an Iveco truck that used to drive around here years back with a sign painted on the roof air-spoiler which said 'Este camion ...

Hands up anyone who knows what that thing is picking lice out of my hair.

There has been a certain amount of excitement among the Northern European settlers in Spain after the head-on critical attack on President Z...

Our home is in sight of the Moviestar antenna on top of Mojácar’s hill, yet none of our mobile phones work inside the house. Some friend tel...

The Indalo is a straight-backed figure with open legs and extended arms holding a half-circle over his head. A totem that started out as a ...