While I did suggest yesterday that I would have little time just at the moment for silly pointless blog posts, as I am now engaged in much more portant work, there was the little matter of doing something interesting while eating my breakfast of porridge, three cups of tea and two rounds of toast with … More The Way of a Pilligrim
From backseat Covid-19 observer to engagement It is Wednesday, I think. Probably 11 days into lock-down during the coronavirus Estado de Alarma (State of Emergency) in Spain. I’m taking a quick lunch break. I don’t know quite how the transition happened because I don’t even remember having breakfast this morning… Yesterday I was working out … More Journal of the Virus Year: Chapter 6
In this special coronavirus cooking video, The Peasant explains the traditional method for making a full English paella. There are five stages. En este video especial de cocina coronavirus, El Campesino explica el método tradicional para hacer una paella inglesa completa. Hay cinco etapas. Part 1: Pour a gin & tonic and wash your hands … More How to cook coronavirus Brexit paella
I had a non-news day today. Laetare Sunday, the 4th Sunday in Lent is traditionally “Take a break Sunday!” when people following some kind of Lent discipline would have a relaxation of the rules: maybe a nice lunch with a bottle of wine. In some traditions the priest wears rose-coloured vestments at Mass instead of … More Oh no! Morris tramples the Spanish flag
Hello and welcome to the blog: this is the end of the first week of Covid-19 coronavirus lock-down in Spain. And if you are still bothered, it is the end of the Third Week in Lent; so hands off those cream cakes! Tomorrow is Laetare Sunday, the day when there is traditionally a relaxation of … More Journal of the Virus Year: Chapter 5
I want to start off the blog with some simple practical points today, so that those who may find the information useful get it straight away. Others with a more leisurely approach, in these times of lock-down might read the less urgent and more general ramblings, or nobody might read them. But no worries: it … More Journal of the Virus Year: Chapter 4
Aitana donkey begins her new role as the fashion correspondent for the blog. After Rubí made a rood comment in her Tuesday blog, Aitana rose to the challenge and asked the Peasant if she could write a trial article for the blog. (See her comments under Journal of the Virus Year: Chapter 3). I agreed. … More Coronavirus Spring Holiday Fashion Supplement
We are now in the fourth day since the lock down was announced by Pedro Sánchez on 14 March, the Estado de Alarma, similar to a “state of emergency” but a lower degree within the Constitución. I had intended to shortly publish today’s blog post but I am going to reserve today’s piece – including … More Journal of the Virus Year: Chapter 3
Hello, I’m Rubí and this is my Rubí Tuesday blog, because I writs it on Tuesdays mostly but sometimes mostly not, according to whim. I do the writting but not the reading, and Morris donkey does the reading, as he doesn’t do writting at all. Spain announces a State of Pandemonium The first thing you … More How to Disinfect your Peasant
In the opening of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year[1] he sets the scene in London in 1665 “in Long Acre, or rather at the upper end of Drury Lane,” and it is striking how he focuses on the discourse of local people as they gradually learn about the first two deaths of … More Journal of the Virus Year: Chapter 2
