For most people it is the end of the year. For teachers, it is simply the end of the first term. An opportunity to relax at home with the inevitable illnesses you have caught from the children. It has always been a mystery to me, why we always have to finish the hardest, most tiring … More The Brexit bouquet
When the Peasant gave us our breakfast this morning he said, “Happy Boxing Day, donks!” We were a bit puzzled by this, and Morris didn’t have time to look it up on the Interweb thingy because he was too busy eating his breakfast. However, all was explained later. Boxing Day is the day when you … More Happy Boxes Day
I first put Santa hats on the donkeys in 2011 when the foals were only three months old and skipping around like mad goats. After that, it became an annual tradition for us. It is nice to get a line-up of donks in Santa hats, looking spontaneous, but it is not that easy. Just getting … More It’s Donkey Christmas hats time again
Plaza Torreta 17 Finestrat Alicante 03509 Spain garethomas@hotmail.com Nigel Farage MEP The Old Grain Store Church Lane Lyminster West Sussex BN17 7QJ nigel.farage@ep.europa.eu 14 December 2017 Dear Mr Farage, I was galvanised by your performance in the Brexit plenary in the European Parliament on Tuesday. You may remember I wrote to you before this plenary concerning my … More An Open Letter to Nigel Farage
So here we are on a cold afternoon in the notnice weather. It stopped raining an hour ago and we came out of the stable to stand here and stare at the house. If we stare at the house hard enough, the Peasant comes out and brings food. We know the Peasant is in the … More Tuesday in the notnice weather
I have been rather busy this past week, and fighting a cold at the same time. As part of the British in Europe lobbying group, I’ve been writing letters to MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) asking them not to agree a deal with the UK until our citizens’ rights are properly secured. As we … More Odd jobs
Rubí donkey is on Wordpress! … More Brayday, brayday!
Rubí has been writing the occasional Tuesday blog post for nearly three years now. She first suggested the idea in December 2014 in an inspired moment when she decided to address Pope Francis on the subject of global warming. Since then, she has written blogs about Big Things and little things and today’s blog is … More Humble and sweet poverty
This week I’m reviewing the exhibition, The Legacy of Our Mariners: Benidorm and the Merchant Navy, now in its last few days. (Open daily until 15 November in the Museo Boca del Calvari, Calle Tomas Ortuño, Benidorm.) A few years ago, while researching the development of tourism in Benidorm for Geography teaching, I first began to … More Popeye and olives
In today’s Rubí Tuesday blog post, Rubí continues (from last week’s post) the story of Morris’s father. You will remember that Ferdinand – on one of his many escapes from the enclosure in Parcent – had seen a film when he looked through a window of the Union Hall, with some scenes of a donkey … More Paternity and the Peasant (Part 2)
