The Dog House
We have been doing a lot of repair work on our cortijo recently, and had some materials left over, so decided to pull down the old dog shelter and make a new one. This is very smart and made out of local stone instead of concrete blocks. in fact, the quality of build is probably [...]
Nokia. Good phones but the worst software developers in the world!
Thought I’d upgrade my phone to one of these new smartphone things. “All singing, all dancing”, they said. “A few clicks of the mouse and your up and running”, they said. The reality is in fact very, very different.
I Justified the whole thing on the basis that I would need it for work and to [...]
The roof gets waterproofed 6 hours before the first rains arrive
Just in time! I guess we couldn’t have cut it much closer. Our leaky roof has been worked on for the last week and we managed to complete just a few hours before the first rains since 11th May fell on Lanjaron. Many thanks to Jorge and my daughter, Emma for helping us out.
Our new [...]
Ferrari mafia at it again in Belgium. Is this sport?
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 [...]
First attempt at stringing onions
Do you remember the old days when a onion sellers from France or Spain cycled through the UK carrying onions and wearing berets? Do they still do that or have Tesco’s put them out of business as well?
Anyway, I had a go at stringing onions, of which a wealth of information is found on the [...]
