Today I had a very good meeting with a kind and helpful bureaucrat. In these times such a contradictory statement is like saying, “I had a pleasant encounter with a traffic policeman who stopped me on the motorway”; or “I just enjoyed afternoon tea with an amusing axe murderer.” The meeting was arranged for me … More Getting to grips with the manure
When I was a child, it was the family tradition to race across the room to turn off the radio during the first few bars of the theme tune to The Archers, and I still do the same today. For readers of this blog in the USA, I refer to a long-running BBC radio drama about country life … More Oh no! Not The Archers…
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
