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August in Andalusia is very hot. There's no point in attempting any hyperbolic description to convey how hot it gets. Every summer we would travel north, northeast, northwest anywhere to escape the heat - for at least a fortnight. If we went to the right place, it would be cool, but not wet. For a lot of years, Andalusia did feel like home. Image is of Galicia, destination for just one of our escapist excursions, but a picture of Cantabria, Asturias or Navarre would have done: source PXHere
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Guiris
This is some time before 2011, when I rescued the Hard drive from a kaput komputer, before chucking the rest in the bin. Around 2016 I bought a hard-drive docking station; there are now two old hard drives docked. Sometimes I look back at old stuff, luckily I don't post it all. Guiri is an insult, pretty much, in Andalucia. It used to mean Guardia Civil when they couldn't serve in their home town. Now it means any stranger/foreigner/ex-pat. There are, or used to be, both of these pubs at either end of Alhaurin El Grande's main street. Images: google maps.
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Broken Heartsong
image author's own made at canva.com
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Nursery Writes
There, I feel better now... Not for the easily offended. Image canva.com
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Their Man in Havana
Abortive attempt at novel... may use it somewhere, in something else, who knows? Image from PD elements at canva.com
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I love rivers
Posted on Fri, 14 Jul 2023
We really should look after them better than we do, and show them the respect that they are due. All true beauty is dangerous too.
(Can't believe that rhymes, it WAS an accident, but I'll leave it anyway).
Thanks for reading and...
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As good as anything
Posted on Wed, 12 Jul 2023
I've read on here for a while. Marvellous. Well done.
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Congratulations! This is Today's Pick of the Day July 12th 2023
Posted on Wed, 12 Jul 2023
Strong narrative and imagery in this fine poem takes us along on the guided tour of the eponymous castle, that's why it's today's Pick of the Day.
Please spread the word on whatever is your social medium of choice, dear ABC-ers.
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I wonder if it is a corruption of another word,
Posted on Wed, 12 Jul 2023
that often happens over time. A candidate might be Cloch, which means bell, I believe. However, historians and archaelogists will have pored over such possibilities for years.
I only point it out, because - as you may very well know -...
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Congratulations, this is our Story of the Week 7th July 2023
Posted on Wed, 05 Jul 2023
Well done, this and the other three parts are jointly awarded Story of the Week.
Please share on social media, readers, if you can.
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Make
Posted on Fri, 07 Jul 2023
some jam...
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BTW
Posted on Fri, 07 Jul 2023
Loving the photographs. How great to still have them all.
Excellent.
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Fabulous
Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2023
only people who don't write are unaware of how difficult it is to be funny in writing.
Excellent.
Keep going.
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My brother took your
Posted on Wed, 05 Jul 2023
route into a sea-faring life. South Shields Marine College Navigational Officer cadet starting in 1972 and then did 35 years at sea with the same shipping company. Out of the real Newcastle, the old Newcastle, rather than the new New South Wales...
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Congratulations, this is our Pick of the Day 28th Jun 2023
Posted on Wed, 28 Jun 2023
An entertaining take on this weeks IP. Other ABC-ers please retweet/share do the social media thing so that others can enjoy this wryly amusing piece.
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