Life in Culebrón

Luis Garcia Berlanga was a Valencian born, Spanish film director who made some 19 films between 1951 and 2002. He was born on 12 June 1921...

Pinoso has a pretty good theatre space and it gets a lot of use. Events are usually inexpensive or even free. The price being right I'...

Just outside our kitchen door the sun is shining. In fact Culebrón is bathed in glorious sunshine, as it has been for days, but it's j...

One of the things I've realised about being old is that my reference points are different to those of younger people. I know that very...

A Scottish pal who lives here in Pinoso commented on one of my photos the other day. He said something along the lines that he was beginni...

I was just on the phone to my mum. She told me her news. And what have you been up to she asked. Nothing much I said, a bit of gardening, a ...

Don't eat sunflower seeds. It was a little notice on the wall of what is now the Centre for Associations in Pinoso. It made me laugh. ...

I think that we do pretty well at getting out and about. In fact the last few days have been a bit of a culture fest. Just tonight w...

Every year, in Pinoso, we have fiestas the first days of August - a mixture of events, a funfair, stalls, parades, taunting young bulloc...

I used to use an English language exercise about the difference between must and could. You know the sort of thing; she must be delayed: s...

Maggie had an appointment in Elda today and naturally enough I got to drive. Elda and Petrer are our local  big town. Some towns are ...

As I drove home this evening I scanned the countryside for bonfires. I listened for the whistles and bangs of fireworks. There weren't...

I go to the flicks as often as I can. As with everything else I write in this blog I've mentioned it before. My life just isn't e...

The building is an old Victorian indoor market - all cast iron columns and glass ceiling. The air conditioning was going full blast produc...

I was going to say that we had a famous restaurant in Pinoso then I thought about it. Obama is famous and Shakira too but I don't thin...

To mark International Women's Day a local group - Pinoso against gender violence - organised a showing of a film,  La fuente de las mu...

I still watch TV more or less as I did in the 1960s. Not that I stare avidly at Zip Nolan or Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt but I do generally,...

It's not a complex idea. When I was a lad braziers were the natural complement to those little striped tents that workmen used to set ...

I thought he wasn't going to come. He didn't send me the message he'd promised yesterday and he didn't answer my text mess...

I write articles for a magazine called TIM . I was writing one this afternoon and I used a quote from the Bogart/Bacall film To Have and ...