Life in Culebrón

I'm sure you've heard my theory before that you don't learn popular culture; if you're born somewhere then the culture is yo...

It's odd what you stop noticing. Because of her job Maggie talks to lots of people who are new to the area. One of her clients, let...

There's an advert on the telly at the moment for el Corte Inglés, the big Spanish department store, which uses lots of Christmassy ima...

I talked to my mum on the phone today. She asked me how my birthday had gone on Wednesday. She apologised for only having sent a card and ...

The man on the phone asked me if he was speaking to don Christopher. I told him that he was but whatever he was selling I didn't want...

The advert that featured the line Coo-ee Mr Shifter was broadcast in 1971. In the Seventies PG, the tea people, not only abused their plan...

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 seem to have started to say uuf! when something goes wrong. This is a difficult word to spell. It's not the same as pah! or oops! It...

Sorry to be indelicate but imagine we are in the toilet. No, not we, you or I, separately, apart,  in different but similar toilets. Th...