El Perro Negro

One of my spanish friends, Pepe, who has been sorting out the vagaries of our electrical systems for many years has started his own blog. It is based on and around the town of Lanjaron and has many interesting articles. It should be a good read and information source. You will, however, have to speak [...]

Some time ago I wrote about the control that Ferrari seems to have over the F1 motor sport world (See Ferrari Mafia at it again in Belgium). Today, unsurprisingly, we go to the last grand prix of the season in Brazil with the title race still undecided. What are the chances of every GP season [...]

Yes I know this sounds unbelievable but you can actually watch Rhinos here in sunny Spain!

OK. So the Rhinos in question have 2 legs,  there’s 13 of them and they charge into one another like the real thing. I am of course talking about the Leeds Rhinos, who won the Super League Grand Final last [...]

During the long hot summer months here in Andalucia, I’ve been watching the english BBC series, “Masterchef”. I am always surprised by the small amount of food these, “Masterchefs” seem to serve. Coming from a middle England, Yorkshire background in the 1960’s, we always got served meat and 2 veg. Stodge, whether it was mash, [...]

It’s not often I interupt the quiet life of Andalucia to get involved in the high power games of professional sport. This time however I make no excuses, so allow me the space here to be a bit of a “grumpy old man”!

The Belgium Grand Prix run today is one of the highlights for me [...]

Southern Spain in August, within sight of the African coastline, yet ……. “rather cold and windy for this time of year!”

Nice photo taken just as the sun was dipping over the horizon yesterday!

Great skies last night enabled me with my cheap digital camera and rather shaky hand (after too many vinos) to get these shots of the moon rising over the hill above our casa. See photo albums for more.

The photo below shows the moon rising. In the top right hand corner is a bright star. [...]

I’ve just discovered how to make cheese, well, Indian cheese actually. Called Paneer. It shows I’ve not got too much to do when all Ive got to worry about is either (a) will England manage to bowl out South Africa and win the 1st Test, or (b) will my newly made paneer cheese set properly!

Simple [...]

Yes, 44 years is a long time, as long suffering England fans will vouch for. They are not far behind, as its 42 years since they last won anything!

Anyway, Spain deservedly won Euro 2008 last night beating the dogged Germans 1-0. We were in our local bar in Lanjaron, the Flower Bar. As you can [...]