Slowlycatchymonkey

You don’t have to wear masks outside anymore, only inside so I won’t be to see that joy

Lol yep it isn’t great and they have normal PG tips and tetley but I just can’t pretend normal tea isn’t messing with my heart rate so decaf it is. Would probably be alright if I didn’t drink 10 cups a day Maybe Amazon has the solution or am I going to be one of those brits whose luggage is full of teabags?

I have know idea if these folk are legit so trust pilot Summink like this https://www.isaydingdong.co.uk/ourshop/prod_7121840-Speedo-Conversion-Sticker-Set-KPHMPH-for-Speed-Dial-8mm-12mm-or-16mm.html

The brevity of this statement is not to be underestimated. It’s impact is devastating and not something I can live with. The decaf tea is absolute shite. Doesn’t taste like tea at all, it’s extremely weak but has strong odd aftertaste, it also smells strange. Spain maybe over quicker than I thought

If you Google ‘speedo overlay stickers’ you’ll probably find what you’re looking for in a bigger print

and so it begins ….

Chinagraph pencil?

There you go, fixed.

Ooh did you go to Ireland and do you have pics?

Morning Bonio good to see you. Be warned this bunch of ragamuffins are unrefined piss takers, then again who doesn’t like a rough cut diamond in a smooth world Ah good to see before I’ve even finished typing that they’ve already demonstrated it

Recognising it’s pissing down and won’t be fun in wet gear is not wimping, out it’s acknowledging reality

just did a beer spit take

Mr Slowly said “uh right what have they used this clip for now?… snore” He has now laughed his arse off

I thought someone said Pete lived 150 miles away? I’m now confused. I couldn’t decipher this angry sign in front of the mushrooms. The f’in smart phone with its Google translate camera app sorted it out for me in no time. @XTreme when did you visit this supermarket ??

Can’t get into Facebook. Get locked out with password reset bollo everytime. I don’t think people understand that Ive genuinely gone the extra mile to wish them happy birthday on that vain shallow shitshow

My first proper boss was from Aberfan. She was friggin scary, completely bald, hunch backed, spindly with eyes like fire, intolerant of stupidity and sharp as a knife. For some reason I still can’t grasp we got on well and in one of her softer moments she told me about the tip sliding into the school. It’s still gives me goosebumps now. Her father had to go to London for work for a year and took his family with him so she survived because she wasn’t there when it happened but all her classmates were dead. They went back and she said the place never recovered. A black cloud hung over everything everyday. She was racked with guilt she survived, she’d bump into the parents of her friends who had all been killed and find it unbearable. It’s a historically shameful time. But as a result she turned into one of the most fearsome, unbeatable, powerhouses the NHS will ever see. So I suppose in a roundabout way she balanced out all that bad quite literally single handedly

‘Slag heap” that’s a real thing is it? Occasionally my dear ol’ pops would refer to a woman as a slag heap

Blimey you hammered through most of that! Great stuff.

Damn right. Feel like I’m observing yet another culture that make the British look just a tiny bit uptight…

Sounds like the ideal jaunt to Ireland. Lucky weather and good food and good hospitality. I’d say that’s another successful year.

I noticed the humidity very quickly. Everything dries in a fraction of UK time, had a shower and cup of tea, reached for the hairdryer, no need, hair is completely dry The air quality is probably better but in Blighty I live by the sea so it tends to be better than a lot of places. Currently grappling with the stupid address set up. It’s back to front to the way I understand addresses and apparently also the way Google maps understands addresses so I’ve ditched some of it and just typed the minimal bits that Google maps understands to bring someone to this location. @XTreme do you reckon that’s ok? Will the Amazon parcel turn up?! Stay tuned for exciting updates.

I can’t believe how fast we’ve acclimatised. Sweating buckets Friday to turning the aircon off today even though it says its 28c with a ‘feels like 35’ wtf? I would die at home in that heat. Loving the fact everything here is closed on sundays.. and maybe Monday or tuesday or any other day if that’s what’s suits Its a whole different culture grown up around sunshine and heat, that’s very different to home.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head there. I don’t have any expectations of Spain other than the notion it will be better weather for riding a motorbike. When I was about 10ish I wanted to know why my Dad never came on holiday, he explained that he didn’t go on holiday mainly because going on holiday was hassle and “you’re you where ever you are, if you’re unhappy it’s usually down to your expectations which is easy to fix, just change your expectations” and while I’ve gone in completely on the opposite direction of liking to travel about seeing different places and having new experiences his words stuck and for a lot of situations it works just dandy.

While I was reading up on the pitfalls of moving to Spain I read an article about how so many people move back to the UK within 3 years. The expert on expats didn’t mince words. He said there are a few reason. The main one being “a lot of them are losers.” They dont do any research so they don’t understand unemployment is high, they dont speak Spanish but assume that they will be given a job even though they can’t communicate but also consider themselves too good for cleaning villas or other unskilled work, they were losers back home who are running away from their mistakes but learnt nothing so come to Spain and repeat the same mistakes. He said the expansive safety nets the UK has to stop people reaching the very very bottom of poverty dont exist in Spain, if you fall there will be no-one to catch you. Brutal ay, made me laugh, as I read it I thought Pete would love this, Spanish expat losers