Life in Culebrón

Maggie and I got married down in Gibraltar a couple of weeks ago. The chances that I won't blog about that are very slim so we'll le...

I wear contact lenses. Because my eyes are a funny shape they have to be "old fashioned" rigid contact lenses. Little plastic disc...

Antoni Gaudí, was a well known Catalan architect; he's the bloke who drew the original plans for the Sagrada Familia. He's well on t...

I typed the first draft of this when the lights were off - all over Spain. What a strange experience that was. We were fine but it did make ...

I once shook Desmond Tutu's hand. He didn't really shake mine back -  he was looking the other way and talking to someone over his s...

The Pinoso Pensioners’ Club has a WhatsApp group. At times I wonder if the the application is totally under the organiser's control but ...

I was going through my hat collection with a view to throwing a few away. I came across an obvious candidate; a fluorescent Caja Rural baseb...

Villena is a town forty minutes up the road from Pinoso. It's a town I like: there's often something going on there. The theatre is ...

I don't think I'm unusual in keeping my diary on Google calendar. It reminds me of the repetitive jobs, it reminds me of important a...

I went to the UK last weekend. I don't go very often but my mum moved, just before Christmas, into a care home and I felt nosey enough, ...

You may have noticed that the tagline at the top of this blog has changed. It used to say old, fat, white haired. Through absolutely no effo...

One nice thing about living in a small Spanish town is that it's pretty easy to be on nodding terms with most of the local councillors. ...

This was such an obvious blog, but one that had been published on the various Pinoso Town Hall websites, that I decided not to do it. Then, ...

On a Tunisian holiday we ate lots of carrots and lots of strawberries. They were in season, they were cheap, they were tasty so the hotels b...

Something in today's news about income tax completely flummoxed me. I think I've got it worked out now. I may be wrong so don't ...

Much to the amusement of Maggie, my partner, instead of resolving to go to the gym or to stop drinking alcohol in the New Year my resolution...

Being as how they're in season Walnuts are a common sight in Spanish supermarkets and homes around Christmas time. Apparently Britons an...

Maggie tells me I should be explicit and say that I have been given the cancer all clear. She tells me that a sentence built into the story ...

The food tasted horrid. It may really have been horrid but I think it was probably right enough given that it was mass catering. My recentis...