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you lot must be really happy at the moment over the grand prix result, i tell you what if you think it got boring because schumi was winning all the time you must be really of your heads you probably sit there smoking spliffs all night laughing at world in action, if your the best at a  sport you get paid to win all the time not when you feel like it, so okay he's had a bad season but was the first to congratulate alonso unlike the guy who mumbles all the time who spent the whole afternoon sulking because montoya won and he came second, its all down to skill and being good at what you do. its the same as football.

i support chelsea, dont get all cobby on me now, they are only the best team because they play properly and professionaly and get paid no more than man something... oh i remembered now its utd... ferguson got booed as he left the pitch because his team lost, do you really think the chelsea players or manager want that, what must they do to stop people moaning all the time... oh i know play like school boys, if you want a taxi on time you phone the best company, if you want a house built you phone the best builder, if you want the best of anything you pay for professional people to get the job done you dont get john the gardener to build something or manuel the waiter to pick you up, so tough... schumis the best at what he does and chelsea is the best at what they do, your welcome to post a comment if you disagree but i doubt anyone will!!

 in memory of my great friends from birchgrove swansea wales 

ken allen

billy jackson

michael scott

missed by all, always remembered

sign we have outside our house.

noswaith dda,

ok, here we go again although you dont know i have typed this 3 times now! 

lucky i am a touch typist... the fox jumps over the lazy dog... i am not going to explain what this means, if your not computer literate learn from a book like i did.  anyway i am going to have a moan, my 10 worst gripes about living here... 1) spanish taxi drivers 2) spanish drivers 3) british drivers, you know the ones i mean taffys 4) british bar owners 5) people from liverpool when you can understand what they say to you 6) brits who brag about living in plonka land, aka marbella, get a life! 7) timshare touts... sorry holiday share, they still exist 8) brits who ask if there is a tesco store near 9) a bar full of northerners and last but no means least..10) english people who see my tattoo on my chest and call me taffy! i know a lot of you think i moan but if you dont like it tough.  to my friends in america i will think about that offer.

iedhyd da

franco

a photo of a very good friend of mine and simon, my mate from neath south wales hes got a long history behind ,having been brought back from australia by one of my mates neil ,  this  may get confusing he was a present for my good mate simon,  who drives a taxi in neath, anyway to cut a long story short i kidnapped him 6 yrs ago, i brought him to spain to see the sights,in fact hes been back to wales 4 times and still pines for simon a bit now and again,he loved vegas in fact we have photos of him on top of the stratosphere on our wedding day, sardinia was a bit boring for him as it was to cold he now watches over the lizards in the cave and soon leaves for new,york wiil send photos,anyway worked today and will be working tomorrow doing a bit of soundproofing in a apartment, i say dont live in one its a total nightmare with all the noise, a bit of news from spain only 5 women killed in the last 3 days they dont mess about here,really jealous the spanish ,the guardia civil our police force said today half the cars in malaga have got no mot or insurance about 70,000 cars. proves how busy they are booking british people for driving with a uk licence its a sixty euro fine the courts have said it is not illegal, i mean we have been in europe for 25 yrs ok film starting on itv now bye,

platamona beach ,well  well good news work tomorrow and sataurday not that i like working weekends ,we dont finish till about 6 or7 in the evening you can imagine the bloody heat,im seriously thinking of going back to bar work mind you how do you joke with half these plonkers out here, more sense and feeling in a flat bottle of pop ,i havent a lot to report today took the dog down the vet for her last injection  at least the vets are cheap here the bloody petrol innt anymore your looking at 1e13a litre now i know what your all saying ye but its only 70p but remember we earn euros so if i earn 300 im actualy earning 300 ,66ps, hope i havent confused you its just that when people come here they say its so cheap ,it is if youve got pounds. a pint down the coast now is 3.50 were a bit cheaper iits about 2.00 here ok back tomorrow

this is the street in alghero sardinia where our bed and breakfast was ,ok still no work today,so were going to have to have a boot sale on sunday till something comes up, anyway there was rain today, so i thought id go down to the coast  to see if i could see some aquaintances ,you dont have friends out here any  more ,few yrs ago it was great i met some really nice people but now its all im a hard nut,  ye  ye brag brag, its getting just like australia britain decided to ship them all over here,and tough on the rest of us ,well anyway lets have a moan, on the way to the coast this morning there were three lorries stuck on the hill, see when it rains here its like driving on ice so you normaly slow down well some do anyway, about five minutes into my journey which is mostly down hill on probably the worst road for accidents on the coast, there it is staring me in the face ,a yellow british registered fiat punto and three other cars all smashed i wish i had my camera with me , its hard to believe there can be so many idiots all driving on the same road ,next time im in the car ill take some photos,really it is unbelievable theres bits of cars everywhere you look ,oh ye i forgot to mention the tarmac that has been missing for the last year, you actually have to drive on the wrong side of the road,anyway worst to come i walked into the house and had the worst possible news i could wish for , a bill from telefonica thats spains answer to british telecom without the service,now they are not good news, even the spanish cant get anything done if they dont like your voice thats it no phone, how they got the nerve to advertise on formula one only god knows ,oh ye this you want believe a tourist collapsed in fuengerola a couple of weeks ago so a cop phoned for an ambulance  and what do you think the reply was, and this has been in all the papers, we cant be bothered to send one,not once but twice, well the poor guy died ,they reckon its not the first time its happened you can leave a comment at the bottom of the page if you want,ill be starting to write a few snippets from the local papers soon,well more tomorrow.

the beach in alghero sardinia, fantastic beaches out there,really clean and clear seas you should try it ,well no work again today so see what happens tomorrow or he,ll have to find someone else for next week, i hire a car so its been sitting there all week doing nothing,i watched gmtv this morning about people living in spain they dont show proper people ,they showed some nutter from marbella i mean have you been there ,its full of every ponse and dickhead you could wish to meet ,on about posers, anyway this bird lives in a big house probably illegaly built and she was moaning that she misses bacon and chocolates ,thats what im on about when i say theyre really thick, i mean we do have bacon out here i dont know why the brits ask if its danish bacon, dont they know their pigs are bred the same as battery chickens ,i havent been out today its to bloody hot so ive dug a bit of the cave again ,back to thick people the shops out here do sell british goods we have a dunnes store, example sugar puffs eng 421. spanish 240 .tate lyle sugar280. spanish sugar .080 .a lot of brits think that the stuff they   eat back home is better perhaps it would be but half of it is made in other countries ,a bit of news for you i dont know if i mentioned the driving out here but now i know why its so bad they checked a load of driving test centres and found that 20.000 people have passed their test without trying ,youll be suprised what money buys here,oh well go and play football with the dog now oh ,cheryll . simon  .tara .thanks for the e mails

a view of our road from our front balcony.

no work again today,the guy i work with has a bit of a cleansing problem, he stops to clean every 2 mins he say,s he was in the army a while, but i think he may have been institutionalised ,ive worked with a few people out here in the last 7 yrs, and havent met anyone who knows anything ,so i dont know if they have exams where they come from or perhaps no schools ,that must be why they all run bars or are builders, they dont actually think they need a skill to do these jobs, not that im skilled,i used to be one of the best tyre fitters in wales about 20 yrs ago, i loved that job,i worked with some really good people ,then i started driving taxis which wasnt a bad living at first, untill the council started getting in on the act for their own gains, anyway back to to where i am now, ill post some of the good and bad restaurants,the worst of the building and other cons in future scripts,if your a foriegner out here youve got no chance of driving taxis it really is a closed shop, mind you the amount of new housing being built a new street appears every couple of weeks must be a nightmare ,british people have actually been attacked for picking people up from the airport, only a couple of weeks ago a brit was attacked by ten spanish taxi drivers, he complained to the police and nothing was done about it because he runs a bed and breakfast and picks his guests up from the airport,, it seems they class this as illegal,it can test your patience out here sometimes, getting a lottery ticket is really hard work if the old bat behind the counter is knitting, because youve got to pick it up from the floor she actually chucks it at you .,its not the spain of a few yrs ago the eastern europeans dont care whose house they break into so i suppose you really cant blame the spanish for being a little aprehensive of us,  a brit was shot and killed a couple of weeks ago and his wife beaten up just down the road ,the police do all they can but they say most are ex kosovan army, what they do is look for open windows and gas the people then they can take what they like,we didnt report our break in our neighbours said its more hassle than its worth ,today has been really hot and windy so havent been able to do much outside, cant even get a tan its been so hot, i recently dug out another four foot of our cave ill have to stop now in case the road above collapses, found a few bones and a hole that people used to use as a cooker, you thought i was going  to say toilet, well what else can i write about oh ye thought id go down to a little supermarket down the road for some potatoes and pears 3 kilos of potatoes and six pears 1.70mind you i did wait 11mins to get them weighed the one thing you dont buy here from a supermarket are icecreams by the time you get anywhere near the till theyll be melted thats probably why spain has the lowest consumption of ice cream in europe,well thats all for now bye.