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When you go on holiday

wish you'd tell me what things are important to you about the place where you stay Do you insist everything be five star, including your own priva...
1,508650Nov 2017Dec 2017May 15

No pressure

In UK and now in Spain, I can buy my groceries at an automated teller, with one human employee monitoring about 12 machines I can draw cash at an ATM...
1,718510Nov 2017Nov 2017May 17

Want to live to a ripe old age?

become a US president! George HW Bush 93 and counting Ronald Reagon was over 93 Gerald Ford was over 93 Jimmy Carter is over 93
783340Nov 2017Nov 2017May 9

Things Mum taught me

I taught my daughter many of the same. Mums, eh? Anatomy - Don't come running to me when you break both legs Religion - you'd better pray tha...
1,744531Nov 2017Nov 2017May 17

Halloween in Spain?

Quick question. Halloween stuff appearing in shops. In sa treat-or-treat very much to friends houses only. In Scotland guising was well escorted but e...
1,410440Oct 2017Nov 2017May 15

Old walls

These walls are built of stone, packed with clay, plastered, painted - and with time, the cracks show. Paint flakes off, plaster crumbles, cracks beco...
1,130250Oct 2017Oct 201717 hrs ago

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

and I missed you sooo much! Two months today since I packed my computer and although I got it back a week ago it took until today to get connected to...
1,450460Oct 2017Oct 2017May 13

Biff moving out of the van

*****breaking news ******** *****read all about it! ****** My offer has been accepted, the deposit has been...
1,478450Oct 2017Oct 201717 hrs ago

making the first move

So I know this shy guy, 40 or so, a fellow writer, who has been fantasizing about meeting a woman who will pick him up and make him happy. Now a w...
763320Oct 2017Oct 2017May 9

REVENGE

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold. I don't mind if it is hot or cold, but I want it. The person bringing my car from Scotland with me pay...
2,660950Sep 2017Sep 2017May 16

Man cave

So you have the chance to buy, pretty cheaply, a 600 sq m shed. Yes, that size is right. 600 square metres. Big enough to park, oh, 30 regular cars? I...
1,392580Sep 2017Sep 2017May 15

15 years and now this, ungrateful sod

I can't believe the change in him since we came to Spain - oh, he's never been what you'd call devoted. There was a lot of open space in this relation...
2,163840Sep 2017Sep 201711 hrs ago

One packing problem sorted

How long does bubbly last, anyway? I found six, count them, six, bottles (so far) waiting to be packed. I don't even remember who gave me the first fe...
1,719580Aug 2017Aug 20176 hrs ago

International Kissing Day

How did we miss this? Have you kissed someone today? This is a pretty iconic kiss.
2,247790Jul 2017Aug 2017May 13

When Hauggh met Sallhhg

(A caveman love story) (fun only) It was full moon and Sallhhg knew there had to be more to life than the village and picking a good hunter to coo...
1,478410Jun 2017Aug 2017May 17

Age and mileage, please

I’m looking for a specific kind of vehicle, and suddenly noticed a certain familiarity about my list. See if you can spot it. Not too young - the...
2,670790Jul 2017Jul 20173 hrs ago

The first teleport step taken At LAST

okay, only a photon but - the first manned flight was not particularly impressive. It would have been impossible to guess, watching the Wright brother...
5,7572210Jul 2017Jul 20174 hrs ago

Snoring - help

Most person in a relationship are convinced that it is just the other one who snores. You know how it goes. You poke the other one and they will roll...
1,437440Jul 2017Jul 201715 hrs ago

Settling for less than perfect

and yes I know I have been snooty about others putting up multiple blogs. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em This is in part inspired by Mimi...
1,343301Jul 2017Jul 2017May 9

Are you a Snapchatter? sooooooooo - did you know about Snapmaps?

If you are using Snapchat, you know it updates constantly. You may not know it recently added a new feature which activated automatically without...
973200Jul 2017Jul 2017May 16

I can't sleep .

starting to panic a little bit about it. Which of course makes it worse. Any suggestions other than pills, I really don't like taking pills? M...
2,688970Jun 2017Jun 201722 hrs ago

Conversations

Him: where you goin’, babe? Her: I want to clear my head, I’m going for a walk, won’t be long Him: a walk? It’s after midnight! Why on earth do yo...
962142Jun 2017Jun 2017May 15

Smartphones and blog comments - problem?

I may have missed blogs on this change and apologies if so but it really is a little irritating. Used to be you could only see the first 30 commen...
1,646530Jun 2017Jun 2017May 15

Any man on this site could be getting as much as he can handle

And yes I’ll tell you how. I’m warning you right now it isn’t a two-minute click of the fingers, and you won’t end up with a drop-dead gorgeous Miss...
1,835510Jun 2017Jun 201713 hrs ago

Happiness is a soap bubble

we all have bubbles of happiness floating through our lives, perfect, beautiful, and lasting seconds. In the happiest lives there are lots of them but...
1,632510Jun 2017Jun 20179 hrs ago

Taking people out of boxes

Many of you will have seen this video already - for those who don't click in, or it doesn't show in your country, it is groups of people. Businessmen...
1,496440Jun 2017Jun 2017May 16

Books for 8 to 10 year olds?

I know this is an odd place to ask but a granny friend of mine was a little horrified to find her granddaughter has to read a school book which has to...
800200Jun 2017Jun 201717 hrs ago

Smelling like a rose

Years ago when I was young, Best Beloved, there was a series of ads for a deodorant called Impulse. If you used it, the ad promised, handsome men woul...
1,811510May 2017May 201720 mins ago

Petri dish

Petri dishes may be used to observe the behavior of microcosms under a microscope. Microcosms are defined as encapsulating in miniature the charac...
1,341460May 2017May 2017May 13

Best seat in the house

I've been thinking for a while it was time to upgrade the smallest room but it wasn't until I came across this catalogue that I got really fired with...
1,846560Jul 2016May 201713 hrs ago

Bike insurance

a friend of mine's husband does a lot of biking, with a club that does a lot in the community, particularly with kids, but that's a whole other blog....
596160May 2017May 2017May 6

Surveyor reporting for duty

I had a Spanish structural survey (finally!) on the Spanish property I want to buy and loved this wording - reúne las exigencias de carácter relativo...
617250May 2017May 2017May 16

Music to work to?

I like to have music in the background when I'm working but I get bored with the usuals. Anyone looked at the music offered for studying? Whale song,...
1,953760May 2017May 20172 mins ago

Would you, for money?

I'm not talking Robert Redford in a tux, offering a million bucks for a night, or Angelina Jolie saying she'd give you the same for a weekend away....
2,229811May 2017May 2017May 17

I want it all, and I want it now. But how?

Just been away on holiday with my daughter and at the airport she kept us in duty free for AGES finding something nice enough to take to her mother-in...
2,274940May 2017May 201716 hrs ago

Would you like a cup of tea?

and would you let me watch you making it? My office closed the other day and amongst the 'goodies' we shared out I got a large supply of office-ty...
2,231920May 2017May 2017May 13

I wish

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm int...
1,014380Apr 2017Apr 2017May 13

67 years married

there's a letter that an 87-year-old widow wrote in to a magazine saying that while her husband was dying, at 90, he told her he didn't love her and h...
1,195480Apr 2017Apr 20175 hrs ago

Advice given - lay them right, you can walk over them for 30 years

Now, is that true? I think I must have been laying them wrong. Or perhaps I didn’t get the best quality in the first place. I do find after a few year...
1,702750Apr 2017Apr 201713 hrs ago

living with a stranger

Picture it - I'm renting out my spare room because I need the extra cash right now, okay? Tenant scored a hat-trick this morning. Went out leaving...
775270Apr 2017Apr 2017May 8

Manipulation by social media, ha. Joke.

The latest conspiracy theory - the Russians, masters of disinformation, are feeding contradictory links into social media, sitting back and laughing t...
792140Apr 2017Apr 2017Apr 25

Where is the birthday boy?

I had a quick look down the blogs so I'm sorry if I missed the birthday blog but HEY it's only the trolley-botherer's birthday...
744310Mar 2017Mar 2017May 17

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