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its been a really bad couple of weeks, no telly for a week, no internet for two weeks, and no phone,,marian was in america so me and pippa were really bored, i had a bit of bad news, my brother who lives a half hour away from me died in a accident after being hit by a car, so not really in the mood for any moaning at the moment, he,s been flown to the uk so have to fly home in the next few days well be back soon, bye

well this takes the biscuit,, a couple move to spain and go for a walk through the woods on a well known route,after a couple of hours they realise they are lost, so decide to phone the emergency services and give their rough location, so they can be rescued safely, after a half hour they spot their rescuers and decide to light a bonfire so they can be seen, the only problem was they burnt half the forest down which resulted in the firemen spending four days extinguishing the fire, they went to court and had to hand in their passports, the reason being they had to pay eighteen thousand euros to replant the trees they destroyed, were these germans; french; spanish; no as the title states they were brits, this was last week, the reason they gave for lighting the bonfire was that in the uk the ramblers club state when your lost and see your rescuers you should light a fire, well your not in the bloody uk; your in spain, where we have the most severe drought in history, thanks to these people families lost homes and their livelyhoods, when lost spanish people blow a whistle, anyway i havent finished yet, a new store has just opened selling british goods, cookers, fridges, and lots of other british electrical goods, the queues were massive full of brits but why, if you use a british electrical item in spain your electric bill will shoot through the roof, everything will work slower not faster and besides that youve got to have a endless supply of spanish plugs, another example of getting caught, is one of spains biggest english estate agents has the offer of a lifetime for us expats, argos catalouges, this is how it works, you go into one of their showrooms and pick up a catalouge, for this pleasure youre charged a euro, you can then order your goods, whch you pay about a third more for plus iva, vat, what a bloody rip off as the title suggests are we thick,

well she's gone the wife i mean, left me with pippa the dog and flew of to new york for a friends wedding, so its do the cleaning and everything else myself, lucky i'm quite independent i lived on my own for seven years so i can manage.

i lost the wheel trim of the car today so took pippa for a long walk to look for it, we just got back so she's knackered, sunday is so quiet here nothing really opens except garages and bars, so i've had a good rest and just watched football, man utd were lucky again, i think they will be playing in div one next season, mind you theyll have arsenal for company. chelsea were fantastic they really gave liverpool a good hiding, can you imagine running a bar there... unless you cant speak properly you'll really have a problem understanding them especialy when theyre all cying.

anyway i'm back to work tomorrow, i've got a years work, or so i'm told you really cant depend on many people here, so you grin and bear it.

i found a good site that you can watch a load of comedy's on, fools and horses and that type of thing its www.costaads.com look it up its good if theres nothing on telly, oh well footy is starting more tomorrow.