As the political situation becomes more absurd by the minute – and let’s say no more about that – we arrive at the end of the summer holidays. For those of us newly retired the thrill of NOT returning to work in the first week of September is still a novelty and I look forward … More A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
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
I am very curious to know why do donkeys burrow their heads deep down in straw when eating? I delivered this morning’s feed to the indoor stable manger because I thought it was about to rain. In fact the heavy dark clouds dispersed half an hour later. Once again I observed the donkeys very quickly … More Straw burrowing
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
El Parral is in a pine wooded valley under the Aitana ridge in the Costa Blanca. It was on Saturday 18 June 2016 – starting at 6 a.m. – that we walked the donkeys from the old field I had rented for six years in the valley below Finestrat to their new home here in … More El Parralel universe
It is the end of the school year, but after a year of retirement I have only noticed this because there seem to be more children in evidence when I go shopping. The daily physical work involved in the care of four very large animals keeps me very active but the mental challenges in such … More Bath time for Morris
One of the questions in the practice tests for the Spanish citizenship exam was: Uno de los principales puertos de España en transporte de viajeros es… a) Gran Canaria. b) Alicante. c) Algeciras. I opted for b) but the correct answer is c). The preparation was a good exercise in learning more about Spain. The … More How to be Spanish: Lesson 3
I came across this wonderful photo on an Ibiza photo archive site recently and it was captioned, “Ibiza 1970s”. That was quite wrong and I knew it immediately. The red Porsche in the photo was only there for a year and it was 1965, the year that I first started taking photos of interesting cars … More How to be Spanish: Lesson 2
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
It was on this day 20th June 66,038,000 years ago that the great extinction event occured – most probably a meteorite strike – which wiped out the dinosaurs. Some people are hoping for a repeat of this, which would be a fitting end to the creatures that replaced them.
