Spanish Shilling

Comments and essays about Life in Spain.

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Olive Weekend

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I had spent Thursday and Friday with my daughter and family, who live an hour down the motorway, celebrating first Thanksgiving (where one...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

Brexpat Day

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It’s time that those of us who are British by birth (or passport) and have the good fortune to live in Spain, with papers allowing us to s...
Sunday, November 07, 2021

Taking a Few Steps

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I was reading one of those noble and irritatingly pious posts that often seem to pop up on Facebook, tenderly placed there by someone who, w...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Sober, for a Month

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'Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus'. Ozzy Osbourne I haven't had a drink since last Sep...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Our Place in the Stats

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Facts Don't Lie  It's my pleasure here to write what I want, when I want. No advertiser tells me what to put and I don't produce...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Food and Drink en España

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 There's a mental gauge commonly employed by the British, who are used to their own starchy cooking, on Spanish food - as to how edible ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Tapas with the Police

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Working hard at the stables - there are always extra jobs need doing beyond the thrice-daily watering and feeding - we were pleased to be in...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

If You Want to be Appy for the Rest of Your Life

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Events in far-away Afghanistan are disturbing: an old-fashioned cult of fundamentalists, who are against women, abortion, euthanasia, homose...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Driving School

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I found my first driving-licence the other day, in a box in the room that passes for an attic in our house with a flat roof. It was green ...
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