Aitana donkey is the fashion correspondent for the blog and writes occasional articles on populist themes in order to boost the hit count for this blog amongst the stupid. She has an online journalism degree from Complutense University Madrid, where most Spanish politicians have plagiarised their MA dissertations. The popular idea that even a donkey … More QAsinus: the truth revealed. Part 1
If you have followed this blog for some time, none of this should be a surprise. I first wrote here on this blog about the future ending of EU passporting of UK bank accounts two years ago. It is one of the reasons we were fighting Brexit. The only reply from the stupid people who … More UK banks start closing accounts of EU residents
El Parral has finally become a hermitage I spent such a long time thinking about it, over the years and have written about it here regularly, but the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic was responsible for the final implementation. Now it’s official: El Parral is a hermitage. The gate is closed to the outside world except for … More Journal of the virus year: Chapter 12
When I was teaching English in Barcelona in the early 1990s, the most surprising challenge I found was overcoming the linguistic confusion of chicken and kitchen. When a beginner level student was asked in which room they would expect to find a fridge, they would typically respond, “The fridge is in the chicken.” Conversely, a … More The kitchens are coming home to roost
Rubí Donkey writes her Rubí Tuesday blogue. In today’s Rubí Tuesday blog it is September, as well as Tuesday, which came as a big surprise. We donkeys and the Peasant are divided on the question of whether September is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing, so we carried out a straw poll. As well also I … More It is September and our Peasant goes down the drain
As a geography teacher here in Alicante before I retired two years ago, I realized that on issues of local climate change, hydrology and historical patterns of local weather, there was only one reliable authority: Jorge Olcina, the professor of climatology at the University of Alicante. His regular articles on climate and weather in the … More Alicante climate has gone south
Rubí Donkey writes her Rubí Tuesday blogue. In today’s Rubí Tuesday blog I am going to consider magical thinkings, wot is similar to pooters that I wrottied about last week. These things affect all our lives and make things more complicated for people and donkeys. After today’s blogue you will know about the US election and why … More Magical thinkings
During the the first days of the lock down back in March when it was clear that a number of people in the locality were dying or had died as a result of Covid-19 our parish priest for the local villages asked us to pray to San Roque (Saint Roche in French or San Rocco … More Has Covid-19 shown that Spain has abandoned Catholicism?
Rubí Donkey writes her Rubí Tuesday blogue. Today I am going to consider the way pooters affect all our lives and how they make things more complicated for people and donkeys, but first we need to understand why pooter alrithmogs will never be a match for old proverbs. Yesterday evening Morris was braying for his supper and … More The Peasant has an e-dentity crisis
No, this is not an article about swordsmanship by Morris donkey! It is a response to a reader’s enquiry regarding donkey fences. Robin in the Algarve, commenting on Rubí’s earlier post, says he found the blog while searching for information about donkey fencing, “after yet another breakout by the three year olds in search of … More Donkey fencing
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