Aaaah! Poor, ole Georgey Porgey. Had a bit of a Moody pulled on him last Friday. Stuck his thumb in the world financial pie and came out with nowt. Luck, eh? Couldn’t we all do with a bit in this crisis? Especially the British Chancellor of the Exchequer. With abject failure a constant feature of […]
Panic in Methodist Chapel as Butley residents fear for their lives Vetinarian, Dr Tania Mosely, issued a stark warning to the farming community of Butley last night about the dangers of contracting Mad Badger Disease. MBD, as the highly infectious plague is commonly known, is passed by badgers to cows and from there directly into the human food […]
Common sense says you had to be really starving to stuff something in your gob that dropped out of a chicken’s bum. But that’s what the bloke who first ate an egg must’ve done. And now we eat things that fall out of chicken’s bums all day long without giving it a thought. Brilliant thing, […]
The night the fuzz broke down our front door, after twenty years of telling social security I worked on the poetry section of The Butley Bugle for nowt, to make sure I got the dole, I knew it were time to make a break for it, and I were on the road to Marrekech. At last. […]
Strolling up from the harbour past the Moorish quarter, to post a letter, I saw the pillar-box on the corner of calle Cervantes wore a new coat of paint. So little changes in Santa Catalina it was unsettling. I liked it the way it was; the little rust bubbles, the scaling and flaking; the outdated […]
There’s little change to be had in Santa Catalina these days. Plonk a ten euro note on any counter in the pueblo and you’ll be lucky to get enough coins back to make a decent jangle. If you think you’re getting a lousy deal over in Blighty, it’s much worse in Andalucia. Talk about inflation, […]
So, yesterday was supposed to be the longest day in the year, eh? Well, I timed it on the Casio wristwatch my Uncle Oswald gave me for my tenth birthday. It’s a good one with little red numbers that light up when you press a button. I stayed up from twelve midnight on the 20th to […]
Nothing much happens over summer in Santa Catalina. Not if you don’t count the endless charabancs spewing crowds of dippy daytrippers from Seville and Cádiz at the bus stop each day. I hate daytrippers. Ten months of the year I recognise almost every face I see on the streets of the pueblo. Then June comes […]
However good I try to be, most days something goes wrong, driving me to drink. If nothing goes wrong I drink to celebrate. In Butley I used to blame the council for things going wrong. Everybody did. In Santa Catalina I blame Santa Rita, the patron saint of local administration. Everybody does. Yet, it doesn’t […]
How horrible to see so many of my hits come from sites like http://crum.pl/o1, http://qr.net/bndb and other idiot places. Sometimes more than ten a day, all offering stuff I don’t want want my name to be associated with. Makes me wonder what wordpress is about. I’m sure these sites aren’t interested in what I’m doing […]
