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Expat
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Blasted Blighty, Expat, Cats
Pets on plane
New here? If you’d like to be notified the next time I write something, simply subscribe to my RSS feed or sign up for email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Well, I know that this blog has been turning into a right old Gripe site (it was always intended to be my personal sounding off board), […]
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Coffee, Blasted Blighty, Weather, Expat, Tenerife, Cats
Fatty Fortress Britain …
Gatwick airport may have just celebrated it’s 50th Birthday, but the airports authority should spend the next 50 years getting the place consolidated: it’s now so sprawling and disjointed, I felt like I’d walked to the UK from Tenerife.
Then there was the interminable wait to be sneered at by the grumpy staff in passport control. […] -
Expat, Tenerife
How landlords treat tenants in Tenerife …
This problem is about to get sorted, but, since I received an unpleasant, menacing phone call this morning, this is here “just for the record.”
Recent problems I’ve had to deal with; floods, every part of the plumbing breaking and the fact that I had to effect all the repairs (mostly through my insurance) and pay […] -
Expat, Politics
Paranoid police state
Quoting from one of the comments on this post at Boing Boing:
“To this outsider, the US appears to have become a paranoid, brutal, nasty, thuggish, selfish, war-loving police state little different from China or Russia except for wealth, and it seems like a majority of the people who live there either don’t particularly care as […] -
Expat
No Dogs or Romanians
Monday, May 12, 2008 | Permalink | 3 CommentsToday, I have really struggled not to let my sensibilities as a “politically correct” (actually, I’m not) Brit, nor as an “immigrant” cloud my judgement on this story, but this report has me absolutely hopping mad livid.
A large sign was seen outside a computer shop, of the franchise “Beep” (ironically relevant to censor any number […] -
Expat, Tenerife
Passport Security
Also last Wednesday, finally, my passport arrived although it took several phone calls to chase it up and two more to literally “coach” the courier up here to the valley - against more whining protestations about having to drive further.
Once she got here she thrust the thing in my hand, wouldn’t even look at me […] -
Expat, Tenerife
WTF Update?
The council plumbers, who were due to come last Tuesday, turned up at 7.50 a.m. last Wednesday morning. It’s a good thing Cat Balu has taken to waking me up early then, she says sarcastically. Anyway, the new regulator is fitted, even if they did fit more pipe, another stopcock and the whole thing ended […]
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Expat
Lies and disrespect …
Excuse me while the smoke fumes from my ears, but I almost cannot believe the telephone conversation I had this afternoon. Was talking to Jack on Sunday, who said their passports only took days to arrive, so I decided to check with my bank to see if the amount had been charged to my card. […]
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Single Life, Expat, Tenerife
Short lived results …
Saturday, April 26, 2008 | Permalink | 2 CommentsFriday marked the three week “anniversary” of having the house flooded out as a result of a serious surge in water pressure that managed to break; the toilet in two places, the pipe bringing water to the bidet, the tap to the kitchen sink, the water heater and buggered up a nearly-new washing machine. And, […]
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Single Life, Expat, Tenerife
Another leak …
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe company who sold me the washing machine don’t want to help, which is what I expected. It should be under guarantee and, the cause isn’t proven - don’t forget the Town Hall say they aren’t responsible and that the pressure did not go up and down - but they say they’ll charge for a […]
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