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Category Archives: gibraltar
Do I really care who is King of Spain?
No. But it seems we have to live with monarchies, or presidents. And presidents are pretty dire, it has to be said. Monarchies may cost the tax-payer money, but who would really want the endless round of presidential elections? I … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, gibraltar, hunting, life
43 Comments
Views from a hospital bed
Spending weeks in hospital waiting for an op gives plenty of time for useless musing. So in no particular order … Staff Consultants are the same the world over. No more to be said there. Similarly porters and cleaners. Pretty … Continue reading
Posted in breakfast, drugs, gibraltar, health, life, musings, thoughts, vegan, WPlongform
Tagged Hospital, paracetamol, television
95 Comments
A blog is a minestrone, served up with Parmesan cheese
I should, of course, have called this Ten Top Tips for Blogging, or Ten Golden Blogging Rules. Except there aren’t any. One person’s view of the correct way to blog isn’t another’s. But as I have read a plethora of … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, gibraltar, journalism, vegetarian, wordpress, WPlongform, writing
Tagged parmesan, vegetarian cheese
50 Comments
Rainy day Monday
We all love the rain. It’s good for the ground, and we need it. It’s not so good for hanging out the washing, and it’s certainly not so good when inconsiderate drivers park illegally on the pavement forcing pedestrians into … Continue reading
Posted in consumerism, environmentalism, gibraltar, health, life, thoughts
Tagged fat, illegal parking
26 Comments
And do you have any experience in..?
Or how to vet your potential interviewer/s in an extremely short space of time. While interviews in Gib have been utterly beyond belief, experiences in the UK, have also been worth a smile. However, I’ll start with the best one … Continue reading
Posted in gibraltar, journalism, life, media, musings, work
Tagged civil service, CV, interviews, references
39 Comments
Slagging off WordPress – again
Yes. I know. You all wanted to read the ‘Wankers, seriously…’ post. Or at least those of you who spotted it in Reader and didn’t manage to get there fast enough before I took it down. I may tidy it … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, blogging, environmentalism, feminism, gibraltar, life, musings, spain, thoughts, vegetarianism
55 Comments
That virtual dinner party
So, you are all invited to roughseas virtual New Year Party. Tomorrow say, so you can get on with your own thing on NYE. And at lunchtime too, nothing better than Sunday lunch. Shall we say, 12 noon for 1pm … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, food, gibraltar, life, vegan, vegetarian
Tagged agua de valencia, cava, new year, sacarellos
29 Comments
Irrelevant rants
Gah!! What is it with people who are not vegetarian and think they know everything about it because they only eat chicken or fish a few days a week? I’ve been doing this for 25 years or something like that. … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, consumerism, food, gibraltar, journalism, musings, vegetarian, work
Tagged christian, greig
15 Comments
Jury Service – Part 2
What to wear? Men always have this dilemma. So to all you sexists out there who go on about women faffing around with their appearance, I tell you men are much worse. No matter whether it was my father in … Continue reading
Posted in feminism, gibraltar, life, thoughts, writing
Tagged jury service, supreme court
14 Comments
Summonsed!
‘I don’t know what this crap is,’ he said, as he walked in, and chucked a couple of brown On Her Majesty’s Service envelopes at me. Which, I translated to mean, you can open that crap and tell me. I … Continue reading
The LCD
As the whole world seems to like talking and writing about dog crap, I thought I would add my two penn’orth. Last month, Gibraltar introduced a campaign against dog fouling. Or rather against people who do not pick up after … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, animals, dogs, environment, feminism, gibraltar, life, poverty, thoughts
Tagged picking up after your dog
22 Comments
Remembrance Day
Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day coincide this year, as they did in 2007. While Armistice Day, the anniversary commemorating the end of World War 1 falls on 11 November, Remembrance Sunday is on the second Sunday in November. I’ve written … Continue reading
Posted in gibraltar, photography, poetry, War
Tagged armistice day, remembrance sunday, wilfred owen
16 Comments
Aftermath of a royal visit….
‘Phone conversation: MR: ‘Buenos dÃas Cristina (de Kirchner – president of Argentina), how are you?’ CK: ‘Buenos dÃas Mariana (Rajoy – prime minister of Spain), bien, all things considering.’ MR: ‘I see you didn’t have much success getting the Brit … Continue reading
Posted in gibraltar, history, politics, spain
Tagged colonialism, Falklands, kirchner, rajoy, UN C24
21 Comments
Royalty?
‘Hello, you’ll be fans of Chuck and Di then?’ said some strange Canadians. We shared a room together in a Sydney youth hostel. The Canadians, not Chuck, Di and I. Next up, they cleared off around Aus and the next … Continue reading
Posted in gibraltar, history, life, musings, thoughts
Tagged diamond jubilee, elizabeth II, monarchy, royalty
24 Comments
Having a laugh
A little light relief is called for in the form of my job interview. Little being the operative word, as in a very little time was spent on it. Some of you may remember my previous post on roughseas where … Continue reading
Posted in gibraltar, journalism, life, media, music, musings, public relations, thoughts, work, writing
Tagged health and safety executive, jlo, print journalism
25 Comments
Compromises?
What do you do when faced with a dilemma involving your principles? Choose one principle above another? Or try and find that compromise in the middle, that isn’t one or the other? Life is made up of compromises of so … Continue reading
Posted in animal rights, animals, consumerism, death, environment, environmentalism, europe, feminism, gibraltar, health, life, media, musings, nature, news, public relations, shopping, social media, spain, vegan, vegetarian, vegetarianism, writing
Tagged animal testing, campaign, environment, ethical shopping, HSI, lush
28 Comments
Commonwealth day, colonialism, and imperialism
So, what does Commonwealth Day mean to anyone British? If you even know when it is (helpful hint – today). Is Commonwealth Day a remnant of colonialism? Doubt it. Doesn’t seem like anything in particular at all. Back in school, … Continue reading
Posted in gibraltar, history, musings, politics, War, writing
Tagged commonwealth day, empire day, politics
7 Comments
Voracious Spaniards
Spanish men do have voracious eyes. Or to be rather more accurate, the look in their eyes is voracious. Wandering down to the site where Partner is working, I passed a couple of Spanish workers walking in the other direction. … Continue reading
Posted in gibraltar, life, musings, spain
Tagged andalucian, fifty years old, pigeon-holed, spanish men, women
4 Comments
Does your vote count?
Well, not much of a surprise but Spain seems to have gone for another right-wing government, yet again the Partido Popular (PP) is in power. When we first moved to Spain, the PP was in charge under Jose Maria Aznar. … Continue reading
Posted in gibraltar, politics, spain
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