{"id":1696,"date":"2012-04-10T16:34:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T16:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2012-04-25T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T15:39:13","slug":"we-had-a-season-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"We had a season in the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to steal, and paraphrase, some lyrics from Terry Jacks ‘Seasons in the Sun’<\/em> to bring you some sad, if not wholly unsurprising news.<\/p>\n

‘Goodbye to you, my trusted friend.<\/em>
\nWe’ve known each other since we’re nine or ten.<\/em>
\nTogether we climbed hills and trees.<\/em>
\nLearned of love and ABC’s,<\/em>
\nskinned our hearts and skinned our knees.<\/em><\/p>\n

We had joy, we had fun, we had a season in the sun.<\/em>
\nBut the hills that we climbed<\/em>
\nwere just seasons out of time.<\/em><\/p>\n

With the flowers ev’rywhere.<\/em>
\nI wish that we could both be there.<\/em>
\nWe had joy, we had fun, we had a season in the sun.’<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s right, we’ve sold the Land Rover, I’ve parted with my travelling companion, I’ve terminated our relationship (volatile as it was).<\/p>\n

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Now with a new loving owner<\/p><\/div>\n

Despite behaving brilliantly in last weeks mini ice-age, the time had come for us to remove the unused agricultural vehicle from the road outside our house, and find the blue goddess a new home where she could be loved and cherished.<\/p>\n

Our neighbours are delighted.<\/p>\n

After several weeks of advertising in Auto Trader, and gradually reducing my expectations on asking price, a nice couple from Doncaster came to see her on Easter Sunday and liked her so much that they drove off in her.<\/p>\n

She is retiring to a life of dog walking, and if they are to be believed she’ll get a bit of a sprucing up with a pair of new doors, and her paintwork being revitalised. I did make a profit over what I paid back in September, but that’s only after ignoring the small fortune I sank into her to get her there and then keep her running and get me back from Galicia in January.<\/p>\n

I am sad to see her go, as Mr Jacks almost says, ‘We had joy, we had fun, we had a season in the sun.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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