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Happy Birthday Donald Trump

..but why are you so unpopular?
When Sting released "If I lose my faith in you" in 1993" no one could have imagined this line from the song would be so prescient: You could say I'd lost my belief in our politicians They all seemed like game show hosts to me Yet here we are in 2020 and there is both a game show host in the Whitehouse and in 10 Downing Street. (In the case of The Whitehouse, Donald Trump was the presenter of the US television reality TV show The Apprentice, that adjudged the... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, June 14, 2020 11:49:00 AM Categories: Politics Racism Sexism
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Views on Spanish Cuisine

What's the inside track on the food we eat in Spain
I'm on comfy ground writing about food. I like it. I eat some every day. In fact I'd struggle to live without it. So here I'm going to dispel a few myths about Spanish nosh and probably make myself unpopular with the tourist board into the bargain. Or maybe not. In the village in Murcia where I lived until 2009 there was a chap who worked in the tourist office called Santi, who was born and raised in the Basque country. While chatting one day I asked him what he missed about being... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, June 7, 2020 3:03:00 PM Categories: Cusine Spanish Spanish culture
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The Swimming Pool Saga

This is the story of a swimming pool. Moreover it illustrates how folk work together to get things done in Spain.
The missus and I bought an old farm house in the latter part of 2003. One of the things that drew us to the property was a walled courtyard of about 15 metres by 15 metres which afforded us the opportunity to sunbathe in the nuddy. Towards the end of the following spring it started to get really hot. By the end of May the wife got the unshakeable notion in her head that a swimming pool would be required to get us through the summer. We made enquiries and got the same answer... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, May 31, 2020 12:00:00 AM Categories: Spain Spanish Spanish culture
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