Sunday, September 15, 2024

What's Yours is Mine (What's Mine is Mine, too)

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  It always seem to me strange that people, using old dusty stories, yearn to take your land, or your city, or your home… and make it thei...
Saturday, August 31, 2024

These Days, Fun can be Expensive, Inconvenient and a Fraction Drawn-Out

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  One of the questions now being asked, now the local fiestas, celebrations, concerts, rallies, expo sitions and sporting events are largely...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Editorial For Late August (the well was running dry)

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Each week I write Business over Tapas and send it out to subscribers. It comes with plenty of useful news about life in Spain, and a well...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

The Best-Kept Secrets in Publishing Aren't Secrets At All

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  Churning through the media articles every day to find material for my weekly bulletin about Spain, I often find pieces which are designed ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

A Little Dab Will Do Ya

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  Two things to know about me – I’m blind as a bat… and I like bats.Well, any critter really.  The bats come from finding eleven of them st...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

The Ice-cream Tart

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The Spanish have so many wonderful things going for them, that I can only lament that I spent the first thirteen years of my life living e...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Hot Summer Nights

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  Gosh, it ain’t half hot. It’s so hot I’ve got a towel wrapped around the pillow. The window is wide open and the screen has been checked...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Dodgy Phone Calls: Spam, Whistles and Con-artists

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For some reason, we are getting lots of telephone calls in these times from unknown numbers. My Android phone is good enough to say: ‘wat...