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Fatty Fortress Britain …
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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 […] -
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, 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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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 […] -
Expat, Tenerife
Common sense has left the building …
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 […] -
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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