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Balearics Day

Mar 7, 2010 5:27am

I thought you might like to see this series of photos Significant Other took on Balearics Day in Palma. See, he has his uses. These are Castellers and they really aren't a Balearic tradition, but are deeply rooted in Catalonia. I think the Mallorcans imported the tradition because they saw...

Cheers, Ms H

Feb 28, 2010 8:34pm

I was musing on friendship today. It was a mixture of feeling like I needed a hip replacement and steeping the undies that did it.Well, there’s nothing so blooming aging as that thing oldies (including me) do when trying to get up or down out of a chair. You know,...

Ditherywothery

Feb 21, 2010 9:08pm

I make no excuses for dedicating most of this week’s post to emails written by some of my nearest and dearest because I have been ill, and the blood has rushed away from my brain, where the intelligent and insightful stuff is supposed to be, to my innards where it’s...

Into every day ...

Feb 14, 2010 9:32pm

It has been a week of pleasant little happenings. That will do me; waiting for pleasant big happenings is a waste of time when you’re 64. You might as well make the most of the small stuff, because, let’s face it, time is precious.Pleasant Happening 1.We got the sunburst mirror...

Sunburst

Feb 7, 2010 8:37pm

Alright, you can relax. Except those of you who are new visitors. You will have to read last week’s post to get the full flavour of my suffering. Anyway, you will be glad to hear that I have come through the miseries and am now feeling much more able...

Sod's Law

Jan 31, 2010 9:52pm

This week should have been good. Well, I’ve had over 5000 hits on my blog since I installed my little counter, so that’s nice. Perhaps there are 5000 people out there who have enjoyed the ramblings of Di. Hmm, if that’s the case why didn’t they visit...

St Sebastian

Jan 24, 2010 9:11pm

Normally on this, the Burns Night weekend, Significant Other would be fingering his sporran, bottom lip a’ tremble; well, Scottish, you see, and loves donning his posh frock as much as the next man. However, this year no invitation to address the haggis was forthcoming – yes, he can...

St Anthony. And Stan.

Jan 17, 2010 9:24pm

I don’t know if you know this, summer visitors, but Mallorca is great in the winter. All the Mallorcans come out of their hobbit holes, take a suspicious look around, breathe a sigh of relief and start on a series of fiestas safe in the knowledge that a passing tourist...

When I grow up ...

Jan 10, 2010 10:15pm

I swore I would never write about the people I have met on the island; I have to live here and gossip gets round ex-pats faster than a certain substance off a shovel. And then it hits the fan.However, I am going to make an exception in the case of...

Excused Boots

Jan 3, 2010 8:07pm

It was all Significant Other’s fault, really. Well it usually is.I am back from the UK and the tiny bosom of my family, which is surprising, given the journey to the UK we had on the day before Christmas Eve which took us to London. Via Bristol.This is what happened.We...

See you in 2010

Dec 20, 2009 9:09pm

Just a line this week, as I am busy trying to pack according to the rules of Significant Other (everything squared off like military bedding in a nissan hut), whereas my instinct is to swear blind it’s crease-proof and just bundle it in, then fill up the holes with knickers....

Watch out turkey, here comes momma

Dec 13, 2009 8:58pm

I am getting a bit overexcited because Christmas is coming. I know, I know – atheists shouldn’t really, should they? I admit that I am a bit of a contradiction. Don’t like religion, love churches. Listen to the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from Kings College, don’t believe a...

Life's too short...

Dec 6, 2009 8:12pm

It comes to something when the highlight of your week is cleaning out the pantry.This week has been a bit challenging, what with Christmas bearing down upon me sneering, and the fact that the bank seems to have mislaid the money I transferred from the UK last Monday. After some...

Common

Nov 29, 2009 7:53pm

This was a two bootsale weekend; gosh, what an amazing social whirl I exist in. At yesterday’s I picked up a hardback copy of Alan Bennett’s “Untold Stories”. Two euros. Bargain. I must admit to being a longtime fan of his wry and touching writing, (How about “Nothing excuses...

Hunting the mushroom

Nov 22, 2009 9:24pm

We just came back from a Mediaeval Fayre in Pollensa, one of the Brit-roosts on the island. Isn’t it strange that wherever two or more Brits are gathered together, a fete of some kind is the inevitable result? Mind you, I know this particular group of fund-raisers is a bit...

Glossy

Nov 15, 2009 10:27pm

I do like a glossy magazine. In the good old days, when I had disposable income, they were one of my little luxuries. I could sigh over beautiful clothes that would never fit me, wonder if the £100 moisturiser would indeed give me a new head and rub the scratchy...

All Souls

Nov 8, 2009 8:54pm

I love getting comments on my posts. Not that I’m needy or anything – well I am, actually - and I know I should just be writing for writing’s sake. Apparently. But I am ridiculously pleased if something I’ve written strikes a chord with a stranger, and they take the...

Winter draws on

Nov 1, 2009 9:46pm

Despite the fact that we are having the loveliest Indian Summer here, I am getting that slightly melancholic Autumn feeling. You know, the days keep drawing in, the clock’s gone back, I’ve swapped the summer fripperies for darker, warmer clothes. Mind you, it has been so balmy, I’ve had to...

Father Jack

Oct 25, 2009 9:46pm

The other day, on a certain notoriously narrow (and until recently, two-way) street we have to negotiate on the way to coffee and comfort in the square, Significant Other found himself not only flattening himself against the wall against the approach of the manic four-wheel drive monster bearing down on...

Purrfect Vision

Oct 19, 2009 6:53am

I’m not being immodest here, but I have interesting eyes. Check the profile photo if you don’t believe me. People are always commenting on them, which is slightly embarrassing, because I’m never quite sure what to say. “Oh, these old things”, maybe? One of the husbands never quite trusted me...

Crowded House

Oct 15, 2009 5:26am

The visitor-exchange has taken place (see last post), and all parties seem reasonably content. My Son, the Actor, and his friend Buggerlugs departed for the UK happily if itchily (the mosquitoes have been hell after the recent rain. What are mosquitoes for, for Pete’s sake?) leaving me a present...

Late delivery

Oct 11, 2009 9:15pm

I was so overwhelmed with dread regarding the arrival of Buggerlugs, the lactose-intolerant vegetarian (see last post), I neglected to mention that another set of friends was scheduled to arrive a couple of days later, and that there was to be a crossover day. Which is today. This...

Veggie Hell

Oct 4, 2009 10:10pm

I love having visitors, I really do. But I have one arriving this week who is teaching me the meaning of fear. What the hell do I feed a lactose-intolerant vegetarian on? (You know who you are, Buggerlugs). Even if he did airily inform me that goat and sheep milk...

A Grave Accident

Sep 27, 2009 10:26pm

We have just had to go to Ikea to buy another flokati rug. That was dreadful, as Significant Other regards Ikea as a four-letter word and insists on going in the opposite direction to the arrows (and the massed hordes of dead-eyed shoppers) because it apparently saves time. Pah. For...

Shopless

Sep 20, 2009 9:50pm

Christmas is coming. You can tell. Strictly Come Dancing is back.I love Strictly with its glittery eyeshadow, masses of bling and the promise of ducklings turning into swans. Although I do have reservations about Bruce Forsyth, who has been gifted with the role of National Treasure and seems to think...