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Adios

This is the last of my regular weekly postings
It's four in the morning. I've been binge-watching 'Mindhunter' and I just went to the kitchen to check on the sink, which has had problems draining. I boiled another five litres of water and poured it down with a litre of 6% wine vinegar which had been languishing at the back of the cupboard for years but it doesn't seem to make any difference. I'm at that stage in a non-practical man's life where I'm counting the times I buy the namby-pamby drain-cleaner solutions from the supermarket,... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, December 27, 2020 5:02:00 AM Categories: Andalusia Blogging Christmas Coronavirus Covid-19 Dystopia Poetry Spain Spanish Spanish culture
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Crappy Christmas

Is this the worst one ever?
Well thanks to Covid it looks like a crappy Christmas for all with most countries having some sort of restrictions against seasonal revelling. No office Christmas parties, no wassailing and no door to door carolling (every cloud on that last one I suppose)! I do miss office Christmas parties. One that sticks in the mind was back in the late 80's when a few dozen of us civil servants booked a Christmas dinner in the Novotel in Hammersmith, West London. Being the Civil Service, we'd... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, December 20, 2020 12:36:00 AM Categories: Christmas Covid-19 Family
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