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2 min read 2021-02-28 20:56:15

189 – Walking Through Lockdown

And so it goes on. Coming up to a year, now. Facebook “Memories” each morning highlight the last of those crowded events we went to back when

4 min read 2020-12-28 18:14:53

Their eyes widened as I tried to explain ‘salted caramel’. A flavour that has long been popular in the UK but is only just arriving in Spain

4 min read 2020-03-23 18:26:06

LOCKDOWN DAY TWO: Monday is the first “normal” day of the lockdown. I go to the surgery for routine blood tests. Everyone is maintaining

4 min read 2020-03-15 21:42:57

It’s just as well that the Spanish prime minister is easy on the eye. Guapo, we say in Spanish. Just as well, as we sit glued to the television

4 min read 2019-09-01 18:26:58

There was a nurse on my flight home to Málaga. A Spanish nurse, working in a GP surgery in Dorset. British husband, dual-nationality totally

5 min read 2019-08-25 17:57:08

Forty degrees and higher. Really, that is too much. The rhythm of the day changes to suit the temperature. At the hottest time, after a lazy

5 min read 2019-08-07 20:51:26

Back when I worked (oh how long ago it seems, now!) I was up with all the jargon. Words like social inclusion, stakeholders, outcomes and

5 min read 2019-02-17 17:20:02

Forty-four days. I go for my morning walk, my feet heading automatically to the Enchanted Place. The almond blossom is just finishing, and the

1 min read 2017-10-06 21:57:11

Officially, I’m not old. I’m too young to get a pension, and I’m not sixty yet. My pueblo organises events and trips for the “oldies”,

1 min read 2017-06-02 23:43:00

Poco a poco, paso a paso. I suppose it is a mark of how life here has become normal and familiar, that in recent months it has only been my

1 min read 2017-04-21 23:48:24

Another month, another “escapada”. This time to Cádiz, a city I had overlooked for far too long. Three nights in probably the best-located

1 min read 2016-12-29 01:04:31

My fifth Christmas in Spain. I thought that must be wrong, but it’s not. Four and a half years since I bought my house, three and a half years

1 min read 2016-12-01 00:59:34

First of all it was remiss of me not to thank you all for the lovely thoughts and messages you sent following my heart attack. I really did

1 min read 2016-09-28 22:12:20

Seriously. There are no words. When I walked (staggered) into the village health centre on Thursday morning I didn’t need any words. I stood

1 min read 2016-09-18 14:17:57

And finally the rain came. Not enough, but it rained. Across Andalucía farmers breathed a sigh of relief along with the bomberos