Random rants and miscellaneous mewsings on nothing, the internet, culture, food, cats and life in a foreign country … in three languages; English, Spanish and Rubbish.
Random rants and miscellaneous mewsings on nothing, the internet, culture, food, cats and life in a foreign country … in three languages; English, Spanish and Rubbish.
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New here? If you’d like to be notified of new content, simply subscribe to my RSS feed or sign up for email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Friday 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 […]
The 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 […]
There’s never anything bloody simple, is there?
Updates on the domestic situation. In a nutshell:
The toilet is fixed, for now. I don’t want to sound negative, but it’s an old cistern that’s had small repairs. They simply aren’t going to last forever.
The water pressure is crap and insufficient for the water heater again.
Plumbers inspected the leaking […]
Amongst the various things that are driving me absolutely round the bend at the moment, I’ve also recently had to renew my passport. Well, the application should be in Madrid, though I’m still waiting, with breath baited and crossed everything, for it to arrive.
Geez, I know you can’t go round giving British passports away to […]
But, don’t worry, I have every faith (if I did, it would be through sheer naivete, or some worse affliction) that we can carry on regardless, without it …
Twas on a Wednesday morning (with another nod to the famous musical tale of woe and a succession of workmen, as told by Flanders and Swann), the […]
Isn’t everything? Well, things are going from bad to worse really. Tuesday and the (piddling) toilet is still turned off at the stopcock, the water is still turned off to the (trickling) water heater and the (gushing) washing machine (I didn’t even try to use that today, because I couldn’t face the thought of cleaning […]
Drop from the exasperation at not being able to find anything suitable to eat, most likely, which is a drastic change from the situation on these islands 15 years ago. Back then, maybe the shops did look a bit barren, like Russian state supermarkets, but the mostly cheap, simple, local produce was probably among the […]
While I won’t expect anyone to admit to being old enough to remember the quiz show, Name that tune (UK version), I do seriously need help naming this nasty little critter … Hopefully in one!
More importantly, can anyone help me figure out how to eradicate a plague of them, preferably without killing either myself or […]
The council put these signs up after erecting the wire fence around the water tanks in our lane. The reason for the fence, I was told, was to prevent people deliberately contaminating the water and, it’s a testament to the scared, sick world we live in that the authorities even imagine someone might do that.
But […]
Is becoming a regular event and I just don’t know where to turn.
On Friday, I had to have a shower to go out and though the water heater worked (that, in my opinion, was a miracle: stories like this: The bane of my existence, again about a water heater saga in rented property in Spain, […]
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