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Dead dog story

The tale of how I came to bury my canine friend
I mentioned in a previous post that I preferred cats to dogs. I have had several dogs in the past, one of whom, Leon, got a mention, so I thought I'd tell you a little about him here. Leon came with the Spanish country house my wife and I bought in Murcia in 2003. The sellers were elderly people downsizing into a townhouse and it was thought with Leon being an outdoor dog in the country that it would be unfair and frankly a bit of a gamble to expect him to adapt to life in the confines of... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, June 21, 2020 10:33:00 AM Categories: Pets Spain
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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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