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Category Archives: Nature
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 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
Still space to be amazed
With the world seemingly shrinking as communication and travel becomes easier and faster it’s refreshing to know we can still be amazed by this beautiful blue planet we inhabit. Only last week scientists announced the discovery of a canyon in … Continue reading
Posted in Current affairs, Education, natural world, Nature, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Alfred Russel Wallace, Annapurna, Borneo, Charles Darwin, Colombia, Ecuador, Global warming, Grand Canyon, Greenalnd, Herzog, Hilary, Himalaya, Lachenal, Mount Vosavi, Nepal, Olingo, Olinguito, Papua New Guinea, sea level, Spiny Boki Mekot, Tensing, volcano, Wallacea, wide mouth frog
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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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Boing Spring has Sprung
For many visitors to Almeria the baking hot summer months are the only time they experience this beautiful region. By then the sun has done its work and all the spring flowers and grasses have been scorched brown and other … Continue reading
Posted in Motors, Nature, Personal, Spain, Uncategorized
Tagged Almeria, almond, Arboleas, bank, Baza, climate, cortijo grande, environment, eucalyptus, Ferrari, fire, holiday, Mojacar, mountain, nature, New York, olive, sabadell, sierra, sleepy mountain, snow, spring, summer, taxi, water and fire, winter, yellow
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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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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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Curiosity may kill the cat
‘Man make fire’ is a favourite saying of mine when lighting the barbecue. 800,000 years ago early humans mastered the art of making fire by rubbing sticks together and cracking flints together. This kept them warm plus they could cook … Continue reading
Posted in Current affairs, Education, History, Nature, Technology, Uncategorized, war
Tagged atomic bomb, Bhagavad Gita, black hole, cern, chernobyl, climate, eden, Einstein, environment, fish, fossil fuel, gatherer, Hindu, hiroshima, hone, human, hunter, hunter gatherers, Isidor Rabi, Krishan, large hadron collider, leukaemia, livestock, man make fire, mankind, nagasaki, Oppenheimer, potato, power, president roosevelt, Roosevelt, sci-fi, science, south america, The gadget, three mile island, wheat, World war two, y, youtube
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Thanks for the pestilence – latest blog
The horsemen of the apocalypse enjoyed their recent holiday in Almeria. Such a pity their colleague War was stuck in Syria or Afghanistan and couldn’t make it! They organised fires locally and flooded the place a few days later. Then … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Spain, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged alien, apocalypse, centipede, environment, finca la fuente, four horseman, garden, midge, Mojacar, mosquito, nature, property sector, rabbit, Tiger mosquito
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