In which I talk about Spain, Spanish and living away from ‘home’
This is my first entry to the Sticky Fingers Gallery. I couldn’t not respond to this week’s theme: Sky. You see we got a lot of sky up here in the mountains of Andalucía, and I am forever pointing the camera upwards trying to capture something special. More often than not the photo does not … [Read more…]
As you may know I have set myself a weekly blogging challenge with the serious objective of improving my Spanish. Some weeks have been more productive than others on the ‘learning’ front. So this week, to prove that I am serious in this business, I will face my bête noire. Yes, this week I will … [Read more…]
This week’s 7 Word Challenge was inspired by (plagiarism is such an ugly word don’t you think?) a ‘funny’ posted on the always amusing Mum’s Lounge Gschmacebook page entitled ‘Five deadly terms by a woman’. I have commandeered it, stretched it, twisted it and generally manipulated it for my own nefarious ends, namely the murdering … [Read more…]
¡Ya lo hagas! Just do it already! I have not been amazed to discover that by setting myself this weekly blogging challenge I have actually brought my blog to a near standstill. Oh dear, has my life as an expat mum in Spain become so unstructured that I cannot cope with one regular weekly task? … [Read more…]
This week’s challenge started out a little introspective, because that is how I am feeling. Recently I have been suffering from a severe case of expatitis, which, if you check in the Spanish/English Family Medical Encyclopedia, is an inflamation of the internal homing device otherwise known as the heart. ¡Vale ya! Bastante lástima de mi … [Read more…]
