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JS-Mijas
Apr 6, 2024
As predicted
Well, why have I not been posting you might ask (or most likely not)? The answer is that we sold the house exactly as predicted - someone...

JS-Mijas
Dec 13, 2023
Exit to nowhere
Yesterday we embarked on a little adventure to the far side of Malaga - about 90km away - in order to get some replacement glass fitted...

JS-Mijas
Nov 25, 2023
Goat, mange and demarcation
Not a pleasant weekend in more ways than one - with the spanish community and services, once again, proving just how useless they can be....

JS-Mijas
Aug 21, 2023
I saw it coming
I had a dream the other night in which I had to sort out lots of stupid data in the middle of the road after a minor traffic accident. I...

JS-Mijas
Aug 3, 2023
July - running on rails
We are now into the early days of August - I know it is August as I just took G to Torremollinos and the traffic was unbelievable. August...

JS-Mijas
Jun 13, 2023
Much as expected
The election went off fairly smoothly from our point of view, but the Brit councillor (in opposition) for the past 4 years was crapped on...

JS-Mijas
May 12, 2023
Politics - always empty promises?
We attended a political rally this week - which although it sounds like a bunch of loonies waving placards in Trafalgar Square, was...

JS-Mijas
Jul 18, 2022
Phew, what a scorcher!
Twenty One years and one week after "the Great Fire of Mijas", we had a repeat - only the press generally missed the point that it was...

JS-Mijas
Mar 27, 2022
Calima Calamity
Well, that blood(y) rain has struck again and created yet another fine mess. It really is like mud and sticks to everything (walls,...

JS-Mijas
Feb 4, 2022
Powerless to resist
In the UK people are just waking up to the increses in costs of power, but here in Spain we are already taking the hit. Just last month,...

JS-Mijas
Dec 8, 2021
A bridge too far
I recently commented on how the Malaga authorities came up with the brilliant idea of not publishing the times of the light shows on Call...

JS-Mijas
Oct 31, 2021
Muy rapido x 2
For the last couple of years, we have been using a "local" internet provider - belonging to a company that happened to put a fibre-optic...

JS-Mijas
Oct 14, 2021
We need Frost here
We have been working through the garbage that is the current spanish customs charge for goods, without ever finding anything that...


JS-Mijas
Oct 2, 2021
Covid - cause & effect review(?)
Well, after all the deaths, sickness and general hassle, we finally find out what it was all about. Or so I thought when I saw an article...

JS-Mijas
Sep 29, 2021
As yet untested *
I have held forth before about the Lime Bearss trees and my love for them (ok, the fruit and the smell) and they are still getting...

JS-Mijas
Sep 19, 2021
Excited Visitor
A beautiful sunny day and I was looking down from the kitchen patio to check the clarity of G´s pool (what a cleaner I am!), when I...

JS-Mijas
Aug 20, 2021
Summer Visitors
The weather was cranked up to the max last weekend when we finally hit 100º and the pool water to 86º. Those figures finally got me into...


JS-Mijas
Aug 6, 2021
Power to the People!
No, not Woolfie Smith, but the spanish energy suppliers who are getting to me (actually all of us) at the moment. Quick backtrack. I saw...


JS-Mijas
Aug 6, 2021
You want documentation??
Further to the scenario of the specs (not) being delivered from the UK, I decided to play them at their own game. They had obviously...

Guiri
Jul 19, 2021
Do your duty ++
We have ordered one or two things from the UK since Brexit - with varied rates of success. Basically if things come from the family...
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