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Category Archives: Bureacracy
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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Guernica
The town of Gernika (Basque spelling) is strategically important as 2 main roads intersect there with links to the port town of Bermeo and the Basque capital Bilbao. The river also becomes deep enough for trading boats to navigate the … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Bureacracy, Current affairs, History, Politics, Spain, Travel, Uncategorized, war
Tagged Basque, Bilbao, Biscay, Blitzkreig, Condor, Franco, Germany, Gernika, Goering, Guernica, Italy, Luftwaffe, mobile, Mola, nazi, Nuremburg, Queipo de llano, Spanish Civil war, total war, war
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The Zombies of Spain
Believe it or not there are around 40,000 zombies walking the Spanish streets; they are mostly invisible as they hide in their flash cars and behind the high walls of their plush homes. These zombies once feasted off their shareholders, … Continue reading
Posted in Bureacracy, Current affairs, Politics, Spain, Uncategorized
Tagged Bale, banks, Bernabeu, building, construction, corruption, ECB, EU, eurozone, France, Gibraltar, Greece, loans, Madrid, Messi, property bubble, rajoy, Spain, UEFA, UK, unemployment, zombies
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The Pot and the Kettle
The Islas Chafarinas are three small islands located just 3.5km off the coast of Morocco, they have been occupied by the Spanish since 1847 with the only residents being a 190 strong military garrison. There used to be a colony … Continue reading
Posted in Bureacracy, Current affairs, Education, History, Politics, Spain, Travel, war
Tagged Alhucemas, Ceuta, Chafarinas, Dictator, environment, fascist, Franco, Gibraltar, King, Melilla, Mohamed VI, Morocco, parsley, Penon Velez de Gomera, Peoples Party, perejil, PP, Spain, Spanish Legion, war
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Important advice
How to plant a tree, civvy street version; in autumn dig a hole, putting compost or mulch at the bottom, carefully place the tree in the hole making sure the roots are untangled to enable them to grow to anchor … Continue reading
Posted in Bureacracy, Nature, Politics, Spain, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Albox, Almeria, Andalucia, Arboleas, Beachcomber, construction, corrupt, corruption, council, environment, Galasa, garden centre, gardening, holiday, how to, irrigation, Malaga, public, Spain, sun, travel, tree, waste, water, watering
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All Change
Some things seem to have been around for forever; The Queen, Steven Gerrard, Ryan Giggs, and of course old Fergie himself. I was just 20 when he first took over as manager of Manure, sorry Man Utd. Now 26 years … Continue reading
Posted in Bureacracy, Personal, Spain, Sport, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Amore, Android, Anfield, Beckham, Carra, Carragher, contract, Disneyland, dongle, Fergie, Ferguson, football, Gerrard, Giggs, holiday, Kop, Kylie, LFC, Liverpool, man utd, Manure, Minogue, mobile, Movistar, Owen, Paris, phone, piggy bank, Queen, Reina, Suarez, vacation, Vodaphone
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People Power
2012 ended with the Mayan prophecy luckily unfulfilled; yet just a few weeks later a meteorite the size of a double decker bus exploded above Siberia injuring hundreds. A few hours later and the spin of the Earth would have … Continue reading
Posted in Bureacracy, Current affairs, Education, Nature, Politics, Technology, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged afghanistan, Almeria, Andorra, asteroid, ATLAS, catastrophe, climate, Co-op, cucumber, drought, Ecuador, environment, facebook, fish farming, Fish Fight, Granada, greenhouse, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, kyoto, Mayan, Mercadona, meteorite, Morrisons, nature, plastic, Prawn, Safe havens, Siberia, Sperm whale, sudan, Tesco, UK, USA, vacation, Vatican, waste, water, whale
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Il Duce Part 2 – Mussolini
Mussolini and Hitler both believed that when Germany invaded Poland, Britain and other countries would remain neutral. Mussolini also thought that Britain and France were finished as players on the world stage and that any war would be short lived … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Bureacracy, Current affairs, Education, History, Politics, Spain, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Allies, Axis, Captain Corellis Mandolin, concentration camp, Egypt, Ethiopia, ethnic cleansing, fascism, fascist, gas chamber, Germany, Hitler, Italy, libya, Mersa Matruh, middle-east, Monte Cassino, murder, Mussolini, North Africa, politics, Risiera de San Sabba, Slovenia, Suez canal, war, World war 1 . World war 2
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A Parakeet in the Palm Tree
Chris Stewart’s works are known to many readers; Driving over Lemons was his first book and I read it back in 2004 whilst searching for a home in Andalucía. I still smile when fruit is lying on the road and … Continue reading
Posted in Bureacracy, Nature, Personal, Politics, Spain, Thoughts, Transport, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Almeria, Andalucia, bingo, builder, car, car thief, corruption, criminal, criminal. pensioner, Driving over Lemons, environment, fuel, gambling, health and safety, holiday, house, lawyer, Looky, Mojacar, parakeet. palm tree. Chris Stewart, pension, politician, property, Spain, travel, vacation. holiday, Zurgena
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