I have just created my first blog category all because of this story with the exclamation mark road sign. I was just looking around on the internet to see if I could find a suitable picture to go with the article, and I found this one.

How sweet is that?!

So I have created the category “Picture I came across” for just this purpose as I am hoping I will continue to come across some interesting photos.

Do point me in the right direction if you know any or have taken some yourself.

So I also found this one. I don’t quite know that to say about it. Maybe I could say that some people must have far too much spare time?

What thoughts went through the head of the creator of this piece of…um…art when he first got inspired?

Or maybe I just really don’t appreciate embroidery. I see it as something only elderly ladies might enjoy fiddling with (and this is really a motif I can imagine an old lady look at and go “Oh, golly. Look at that lovely little Bichon Frise (no it’s not a poodle) that would just look lovely on a pillow on my sofa ” )

If you like embroidery and you are NOT and elderly lady, please get in touch so I can get my stereotypes right.

Ok, so today it rained. Quite a bit admittedly, but not the torrential rain we had some weeks ago. And so it happens again, the same thing that always bloody happen when it rains…the power goes. That’s right, no power in the whole village. For about 4 hours (providing it stays on all night now) we have had nothing, nada.

So there I was again, this time trudging about in the dark with a whingy and tired baby on my arm, a cat and two dogs trying to obstruct my passage as I was trying to remember where the fuck I had put the candles the last time this happened. Because you see this is not a one off. I am getting quite experienced in these matters now as it happens almost every time we have something more than a bit of a drizzle.

And I find it bloody absurd, that for more than 4 years we have no power when it rains. And that is just the amount of time that I have lived in the village. I mean, come on, how difficult can it be? Just bloody fix it! Spain IS a part of the European union and it’s not and underdeveloped country (or so they will have us believe) and it IS the year 2007.

So come on, save me some bruises and general annoyance and DO something about it, because you know what? I am pretty sure it is going to rain again this year. And if I’m not mistaken next year as well. As it did last year. So by now it can hardly be s surprise every time it happens.