Life in Culebrón

The rolled R is essential to pronouncing Spanish well. I have trouble rolling Rs. I told you how I paid good money to a speech therapist...

Our neighbours have been putting up a new fence over the past couple of weeks. Facing each other across the footings for what would be the n...

I didn't do the 11 plus exam at school. It was just being phased out as I went from Junior to Secondary school but I was part of some su...

So I'd bought a couple of railway tickets to go up to Valencia for the Fallas. Covid 19 meant first the Fallas were postponed and th...

One of the films we've seen recently is called Legado en los huesos , Legacy in the bones. It's a Spanish film, the second in a se...

Our fridge went beep when the door was opened. It shouldn't. It still worked though. We could live with that. Then the handle came off...

So I'm in a restaurant. I have wine and rice in front of me, outside the sun is shining and I don't have to work. Someone passes w...

My dancing is terrible. In fact I don't dance. I can't clap in time, I can't keep rhythm, I can't sing. At junior school t...

It was just after ten and I was putting away my paperwork at the end of the class when a WhatsApp message pinged on my phone. It said that...

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...

Despite my best efforts none of my students would ever be confused with a native English speaker. It's the same for me. Try as I might...

I was listening to a learn Spanish podcast called Notes in Spanish today. The podcast is produced by an Anglo Spanish couple Ben and...

I've just been to the UK, to see my mum. I was feeling a bit guilty about not having seen her for about seventeen months. She was in ...

I've mentioned Azorín, the writer born in Monóvar a few kilometres from Pinoso, before. There's a lot going on about him because i...