US Marines in Vietnam used to deal with the insanity around them by imagining that it wasn’t real life. It was an acid drenched
Category: Musings
With the reservoir now almost full after the recent, much needed rains, and the Casita finally dried out after flooding caused by the aforementioned
Although they couldn’t ‘bring it home’, the recent performance of Gareth Southgate’s team has been described as one of the greatest English sporting moments
‘Hello to Jason Issacs’. If you recognise that greeting then you are most probably a member of The Church of Wittertainment, aka the considerable
Believe it or not, I haven’t lived in Marbella all my life. Although some might say that I flopped onto a Marbella beach on
It was the last caller that did it. I was into the final three minutes of ‘Viewpoint’, the live radio show that I host
I’ve been wondering if we are all becoming ruder. The reason behind his came while shooting a promotional video on the beach in Fuengirola.
Fig season has just finished as I write, which means for the past couple of weeks I’ve been enjoying breakfast on my lakeside terrace
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks. Once again I managed to upset a number of cyclists who, after reading the reaction to my
How were things for you in the first weeks of the ‘new normal’? As I mentioned before, I was lucky enough during lockdown to
The coronavirus pandemic brought the entire tennis tour to a standstill in early March. Just like millions of other people around the world, the
As the coronavirus curve apparently flattens and children have finally been allowed out for an hour – although I’m writing this on late Saturday
How are you all doing out there? Now that this lockdown lark has turned from a quaint novelty to monotonous slog, how are you
So now we know that the the State of Emergency – or should I say Alarm, which is Level 1 – will continue to
If you didn’t know, an earworm is the term for a song or, more annoyingly, single verse or line from a song, which somehow
This February I decided that I had to tweak a few working habits. While most people complain that January in Spain drags on interminably,
It was my birthday last month. Not a milestone event like my Rock n Roll 50th two years ago – and if you are
Another week in Marbella, another gangland slaying. Local and national papers back in the UK ran lurid accounts of the death of Peter Andrew
I’m still recovering from last month’s tumble when I managed to jangle most of the nerves in my left ankle. The face long sprawl
Autumn is upon us. The season of ‘mists and mellow fruitfulness’ that comes as a welcome relief after the summer madness. Americans call this
Thus it came to pass that the Ziglet’s Big Day finally arrived. My Goddaughter Ziggy married Josh in August, and as “el padrino” I
The Goddaughter was back again this month, to spend some time out and catch up before her wedding in Glastonbury in August. And as
Is it just me, or are people getting ruder? Perhaps it’s just a sign of my approaching decrepitude that we seem to be a
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will know that I have a problem with San Pedro Alcantara. Before you all
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