Pause to prepare
Life’s been a bit interesting these past couple of weeks!
Concerned at our increasing age, our daughters, knowing the remoteness of our Spanish home, have been encouraging...
It’s time to call Theresa May undemocratic
THE debate over Brexit isn’t about Brexit anymore. It’s about democratic accountability and the limits of referenda in modern politics.
They are, bluntly, a fad. There is no...
What happened next #2
I LEFT the Farmacia of the sainted Felix and drove home, concentrating on how to remedy the slur on the House of Biggs.
As I went in the...
Votes for life must only be the beginning
WHEN proposing better voting rights for expats abroad one of the most common questions is ‘why?’
The argument follows that if someone has left the UK, there’s absolutely...
Why it’s time for overseas MPs
BRITS overseas are a curious bunch. For the folks back home it looks as if we’ve sailed away for sun, fortune and a better life. But that’s...
What happened next
THOSE who know me also know that I am more than dissatisfied by my experiences with the execution of the Funeral Plan and with the off-hand attitude...
Pause to confront our doubts
‘Seeing,’ they say, ‘is believing,’ yet how often do we also hear ‘I really couldn’t believe my eyes,’ indicating that at times, even seeing can leave us...
Ocular conundrum
PETER had once again thwarted the telly’s ambition of non-compliance with my wishes, even if I asked it ever so nicely.
He had returned from whence he...
Passports are a hint of things to come
WITH little surprise, it turns out the ‘new’ blue British passports are now to be made by a Franco-Dutch company.
The irony can’t hit hard enough.
Lord Palmerston once...
To streak or not to streak #2
Embarrassing does not adequately describe my predicament.
I was separated by the open hallway from modesty and my bathrobe and someone was at the door.
My choices were:...
Guns will stop the US government? Give me a break
EVERY schoolboy and schoolgirl across the world know these word. Well, the ones that haven’t been slain in one of the 18 school massacres this year in...
To streak or not to streak
IT was somewhat later than my usual showering hour, because I had done the fireplace first. Thus I was in my fireplace cleaning clothes, which are not...
Not always right
WE learn through life that some opinions are right and true, and some are disproved by the relentless march of time.
As a child I had to...
Pause for thought in Lent
WE do of course all like to be popular and therefore many of us are sometimes tempted to pull off some sort of stunt to grab attention....
A drive in the park they said
GO for it, it’ll be fun, they said. As my driving licence had expired I had little choice but to do so.’
What caused me anxiety was...
The dark side of the moon #3
I WAS still not confident that the English speaker, despite speaking very good English, had fully grasped the situation of our fire.
If her local knowledge, or even...
Pause for Lent
NOT having been brought up in a family that followed the religious calendar, I always thought Lent had something to do with borrowing and was quite puzzled...
The dark side of the moon #2
THE English speaker had grasped the bones of the situation - we had a fire in the campo, and we wanted the Bomberos.
‘Where is the fire?’
‘In...
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