Life's about experiences. These are mine.
It can’t be a coincidence that on both the occasions I have visited Manchester a fight has broken out. I suppose some might see me as the catalyst but in both cases I was an innocent bystander. We had chosen a weekend in Manchester solely because it is equidistant between the homes of ourselves in …
So I awoke early on Friday morning and was disappointed to discover that leave had narrowly won and it seems we are out of the EU. I wasn’t the only one to be disappointed as the pound and the stock markets dropped significantly on the news. I’m glad that I’m not picking up my pension …
Continue reading “So Long and Thanks for all the Fish(ing Quotas)”
So tomorrow is the time for us all to vote on the future of the Conservative party. June 23rd is your opportunity to decide their fate once and for all as that is really what has triggered this vote – factions in the tories that have spent years arguing over Europe. In truth the conversation …
Anyone that has been paying attention will have noticed that I am back into vinyl in a big way – mainly because I like having a physical product and also the print on a record sleeve is large enough for me to be able to read without glasses! However, I am trying to be a …
So I have been getting back into vinyl in a big way. No, not like that, but vinyl records of the round black variety. I am trying to limit the amount I spend on records by only purchasing brand new releases and particularly if they are limited releases, special vinyl or signed. This isn’t working …
Like many people I have a bucket list of things that I want to do and this week I managed to tick another one off the list with a visit to the Chelsea Flower Show. I’m sure that if I could go back to my younger self and tell me that one day I’d have …
As ever we took lots and lots of pictures while in Spain so I have pulled out the best few here.
Our last day in Spain started at the bottom of the hill from were we are staying where there is the Presa De Béznar dam. We stood at the top of the dam looking down – it’s a very long way and enough to make my stomach curl. It is a curious thing in that …
Continue reading “Spain 2016 – Day 5 – Presa De Béznar And Orgiva”
After yesterday’s traipse around Granada we took it slower today starting with a walk up to the bakers to get some pain au chocolate. As described previously, like all shops, the baker here is carefully disguised as a house lest anyone find it and purchase something. To aid this further all shops also open as infrequently …
Continue reading “Spain 2016 – Day 4 – La Alpujurra and Lanjarón”
Today was the only day of the break where we had anything planned. One of the draws of being in this region was being able to visit Granada, somewhere that everyone who has been there seems to wax lyrical about. We had been warned about booking early for the Alhambra and when I did, a …