Monthly Archives: November 2011

The blind leading the blind

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Paul

Our next door neighbours in Liñeiras are English, for the moment at least. The house which they bought a couple of months after we acquired our pile of stones is back on the market and they are renovating another house … Continue reading →

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I’ve named the donkey

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Paul

I’ve stopped thinking about the dead cat….damn! As promised, Dolores met me in Pontenova at nine o’clock this morning to assist me in trying to buy an angle grinder and a pipe terminator so that I can ensure that the … Continue reading →

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The shock of my life

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Paul

Today, I paid the price for getting myself out of bed at a reasonable time and tackling another of the jobs on my long list for the house.  The price that I paid was one of scaring myself half to … Continue reading →

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Lumbering up

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Paul

After just a fortnight in Galicia, I’m getting too used to this life. This morning I awoke at 9:45am, and tried to reconcile myself with the fact that it was only 8:45 in England. Excepting illness this was the latest … Continue reading →

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Gone topless

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Paul

A nice lady from Correos, the Spanish postal service, finally rang my doorbell just after 1pm. She was clutching in her hands my all important parcel of Landrover bits but wasn’t going to give them up without a fight. The … Continue reading →

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