I am a donkey. I live with my donkey son Morris and my donkey friend Matilde (who has a daughter Aitana who is a bit of a silly horse) on a donkey farm called El Parral in the mountains near Benidorm, the capital of Spain. We have a Peasant who looks after us: he brings our food, sweeps up, does odd jobs, and helps put on our Santa hats for the annual Christmas photo (as we can't put them on ourselves.) Once every eight years I bray. The other donkeys bray too often: if you don't have anything new to say, I can't see the point.
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
The Peasant seems to be well into his Lent, which is all very well but we have to suffer his Taizé chants while he is sweeping out the stable and his voice is not so tuneful these days. Is he going tone deaf? I’ve no idea why the Peasant thinks the readers of this blog … More First Rubí Tuesday in Lent
Rubí Donkey writes her Rubí Tuesday blog. Two years ago I wrottied my first blog article about this subject, remarking that a great deal of information is available on the Interweb on the subject of donkey care, but not much about the less well-known topic of caring for your peasant. My 2018 article has since become … More How to care for your peasant, Part 2
Rubí Donkey writes her Rubí Tuesday blog. It is New Year’s Eve and the end of the second decade of the 21st century. Rubí reflects on the past ten years from a donkey’s point of view. A long time is often referred to as “donkeys years” as donkeys have remarkable longevity in the animal world, living … More Rubí donkey reviews the decade
Rubí Donkey writes her Rubí Tuesday blog. Here at El Parral we like to think of ourselves as being at the cutting edge. Indeed, while cutting ear-holes in newspapers to make our Halloween costumes last week, our Peasant cut his finger with a craft knife. It was the kind of personal sacrifice for … More Low-speed Internet arrives at El Parral
Rubí Donkey writes her Rubí Tuesday blog. Morris donkey has been reading again. Sometimes it is good that Morris does reading because he tells me clever things to write on my portant blog and I improve my reputation as a world-class interweb source of intelligent debate. And I’m only ten which Morris says … More Asinine culture wars
Rubí Donkey writes her Rubí Tuesday blog. Autumn te tum te tum, Hooray! bray bray! It’s a bark bray day, Bark bray bark, ho hum. The Rubí Autumn Song: copyright Mrs Rubí Barker-Bray (2019) The Peasant has worked hard through the summer to brush away the last of our thick winter coats. They … More Autumn te tum te tum, hooray! bray bray!
Rubí Donkey writes her Rubí Tuesday blog. Our Peasant has put a nice cooling fan in our stable. When he forgets to turn it on we have to go outside and bray at him. He is a bit slow to understand what the problem is. That’s a recognized trait in peasants. As long … More Of silly horses and unicorns
Rubí Donkey writes her Rubí Tuesday blog. Our Peasant is having a bad day. He spent a short time looking at his computer this morning then a long time swearing while sweeping up donkey manure before putting the shopping bags in the long-suffering Hyundai and swearing his way down the road to go … More The quality of straw
Rubí Donkey writes her Rubí Tuesday blog. Morris has been engrossed in the newspaper again. I should remind infrequent readers of my blog that Morris does the reading and I do the writting. Neither of us can do the other thing. While we were eating our evening straw, I asked him what he … More A burra explains the backstop
