Life in Culebrón

When Spaniards talk about electricity, in the house, they talk about light or at least they use the word whose principal English/Spanish d...

My mum tends to get cross with people when there is no need to. I think I may have inherited some of her angry genes. I do get fed up, ...

I was asked if I'd ever written a post about learning Spanish. To be honest I wasn't sure. Normally my blogs complain about my in...

There's one of those professional looking videos that does the rounds on Facebook that I rather like. In it a succession of people wal...

Here are some ramblings from this weekend. Once upon a time Pizza Express used to serve really good pizzas in interesting buildings. The...

The other day I wrote an essay for my Spanish class. It was that essay which gave me the idea for the blog about trademarks and names. I g...

I signed up for a weekly Spanish course yesterday. I haven't quite given up on the language yet - despite what Maggie says, and what I...

Maggie thinks we should be greener. She fancied solar panels to provide at least some of our power. Good idea. After all it's pretty su...

I get pulled over fairly frequently by the police, usuallly the Guardia Civil. Normally it takes seconds - they see I'm wearing my sea...

One of my favourite ways to start any blog entry is a reference to the past - when I was a boy..... when I lived in Elland and what not. I...

I'm cool with a romería and with Elena gone on to her birthday party it was up to me to save the vermouth session. Last night we had t...

I'm not much of a dancer. I don't care for it anyway but then I hurt my hip dancing in 1973 so there was a bit of a hiatus till I ...

This is another in my series of moans about Spanish websites. We booked a couple of days away with the Castilla la Mancha tourist website....

Every so often in Culebrón a robot voice phones us offering better and cheaper telephone services. Yesterday evening, in a fit of something,...

I'd collected my new bank card, got the bath sealant, the potting compost and some pop so it was time for a coffee and a smoke. I popped...

Each year the Culebrón Neighbourhood Association arranges a meal. We eat under the pine trees in front of the village hall. That's whe...