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Wrap up: What’s left to eat?
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So, if you’ve been waiting for the punch line of this joke, or the conclusion of this food series that says, look, here’s […] -
Single Life, Health, Cooking
Secondary meals: What’s left to eat?
“Secondary meals” because I mean the lighter meal of the day, which I eat at a rather British tea time (not because I’m British, heaven forbid, but to avoid eating too much, too late in the day.) If you go out to work, this may be your lunch.
And this, following Diamond Geezer’s plan, is […] -
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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Single Life, Expat, Tenerife
Locked out …
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 […] -
Single Life, Expat, Health, Tenerife
Everyone else’s fault …
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 […]
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Single Life, Expat, Health, Tenerife, Cooking
Shop till you drop: What’s left to eat?
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 […]
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Single Life, Expat, Health, Tenerife
Name that bug …
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 […] -
Single Life, Expat, Health, Tenerife
For Human Consumption?
Monday, April 14, 2008 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe 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.
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Single Life, Expat, Health, Tenerife
Friday Flooding …
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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