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Laos – a Potted History
Laos is a landlocked country squeezed between China, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia; it has a small population of about seven million yet it’s almost the same size as the UK. A 50,000 year old skull was found recently; the oldest … Continue reading
Posted in Current affairs, Education, History, Politics, Travel, vacation, war
Tagged Albox, America, Andalucia, Asia, Beer Lao, CCM, cluster bombs, communist, Geneve Accord, Hmong, Ho Chi Minh, Laos, Mekong, million elephants, NVA, Pathet Lao, secret war, Vietnam
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Abandon hope all ye that enter here III
The futility of life or trying to buy an IKEA kitchen. On our last visit to IKEA we’d been given a rather expensive quote and told we couldn’t order a thing until the ‘measuring man’ had been. Going through the … Continue reading
Posted in Bureacracy, Communication, Personal, Spain, Transport, Uncategorized
Tagged bad service, builder, customer service, Dante Inferno, DIY, hell, IKEA, Kitchen, Malaga, shopping
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Abandon hope all ye that enter here II – IKEA
Clutching our cut out paper kitchen we returned to the big blue that’s IKEA,; they have the same layout the world over with the room designs and assembled furniture upstairs and then the Market Place below. There’s no escape as … Continue reading
Abandon hope all ye that enter here I
Recently we unintentionally acted on some sound property advice: always buy the cheapest house in the best street. Well not literally as it’s an apartment not a house and not in a street either but a harbour side development. Oh, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Spain, Technology, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged abandon hope, Andalucia, apartment, builder, computer, Dante, design, DIY, hell, IKEA, Kitchen, kitchen units, Malaga, pine furniture, property, property sector, reform, renovate
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Salad Days
It’s a Leo thing apparently; the trait I have of leaving some things to the last possible minute. At school even with all the holidays to do my homework, it would still be done Sunday night before term started again. … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Childhood, Education, Nature, Personal, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged catholic, caves, gollum, off license, school, special brew, St Peters and merrow grange
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The Secret Diary
Until the age of seven my life was a bit of a blur; I don’t mean I can’t’ remember much, it really was blurry as I was diagnosed with myopia, severe short sightedness of minus 6. Looking through photo albums … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Childhood, Current affairs, History, Personal, Politics, Sport, Thoughts
Tagged 96, Adrian Mole, Anfield, Boys from the black stuff, corruption, eighties, Grange Hill, Guildford, Harry Enfield, Hillsborough, Joe 90, Kop, Liverpool, Liverpool FC, Loadsamoney, Miners strike, NHS, Nottingham Forest, Phil Redmond, Steven Gerrard, Sue Townsend, thatcher, Todd Carty, tory, Trisha Yates, Tucker, YNWA
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King Leopold II of Belgium
Whilst much of Europe was busy colonising the rest of the world in the 19th century, Belgium was left out and their future King, Leopold II, surmised the key to wealth and influence was to annexe foreign lands. Leopold asked … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Current affairs, History, Politics
Tagged Africa, Belgium, CFS, Conference of Berlin, Congo, Congo Free State, Dunlop, Edmund Morel, Force Publique, FP, Henry Stanley, International Africa Society, Isabella of Spain, King Leopold, Leopold, Livingston, Lord Casement, rubber
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Jerez de la Frontera
As newlyweds last autumn we tried to explore Jerez de la Frontera; non-stop rain however meant that we only managed the Tio Pepe Bodega and a couple of tapas bars before soggily driving away. So a return visit was on … Continue reading
Posted in Film, History, Personal, Spain, Travel, vacation
Tagged A matter of life and death, Alcazar, Andalucia, Bodega, castle, David Niven, film, holiday, jerez, Jerez de la Frontera, movie, palace, Palacio Villavicencio, sherry, Tio Pepe, travel, vacation, wine producer, wor, World war 1 . World war 2
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The Cork Oak
The closest many people ever get to a Cork Oak tree will be when handling a cork from a newly opened bottle of wine or removing the stopper of an olive oil bottle. It’s amazing to think that these cork … Continue reading
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