A great deal of information is available on the Internet on the subject of donkey care, but my Rubí Tuesday blog today is about the less well-known topic of caring for your peasant. Our particular peasant was recently sacked from his part-time teaching job, so he is now a full-time peasant and spends more … More How to care for your peasant
It has seemed for the past few weeks as though my broad-ranging life has been crammed into a narrow funnel in which I have been stuck and struggling to squeeze through to the light at the end. A rather stupid metaphor illustrated in the photo by yet another piece of plastic which will end up … More Light at the end of the funnel
At last the rood norty weather has stopped. We have sunshine again in the Costa Blanca, which is what we expects. March and April have been a pain in the ass for donkeys. We spent most of it standing in the stable looking morose. We have a promble with the interweb thing and we cannot … More End of the rood weather
No not this one… geogcostablanca.blog is now finished. Please take a look at that blog to see why. This blog will resume on Tuesday with a blog post from Rubí.
We are coming to the end of the third week in Lent. It was International Women’s Day on Thursday and this became a point of reflection for me in my Lent spiritual reading because my text is the first book known to be written by an English woman. An element of humour has always been … More All shalle be wele, and alle maner of thynge shalle wele
I was going to write the Tuesday blog this week, but Rubí got in there first. So you get two Tuesday blogs this week. The nasty people who get their thrills by stressing a worried donkey, in the benighted village that the Refugio del Burrito brought to our attention, claim to be doing this because … More Goodbye to tradition
My Rubí Tuesday blog for today, Shrove Tuesday 2018, is given to publicise the story that the Refugio del Burrito has made public today. On the day before Lent begins, Spanish tradition (somehow linked with the Catholic religious cycle?) once again gives vent to the sickness in men, where they seem to delight in distressing … More Another cruel tradition
An Inspector Calls… Today at El Parral we had the ministry of agriculture official veterinary inspection. To keep equines, whether horses, mules or donkeys, requires a set of paperwork which is more complex than that needed to purchase a house. This is no exaggeration: in fact it is probably twice as much paperwork. Therefore there … More The Ministry of Silly Poos
I have been pruning all the trees at El Parral. I am into my second winter season here, and the trees have mostly been saved. Regular readers may remember the trees were in a poor state because the property had been long derelict. Now is the time to increase the yield by pruning back the … More Lord of the Files
