Life is full of disappointments.

Hello everyone. Now that is just completely weird. I didn’t say that. It just went bleep-blop and did it itself.

Not that I am too concerned given that, for reasons that will become apparent, I’ve left myself insufficient time to do a full post at all.

The main disappointment I will mention now. The boat trip tonight and the onboarding?/offboarding? of the Virgen del Carmen has had to be cancelled because of the weather.

Not that it’s too cold or too hot but that the seas are too rough offshore. Although I suppose we should be pretty glad that the seas aren’t too rough onshore…

To be honest I was umming and ahhing a little earlier whether I wanted to go out at all but now that it’s been cancelled I feel really disappointed.

#FirstWorldProblems.

We have rearranged the evening to the extent of seeing the image leave the chapel in which it is kept and we’ll see it on its way to wherever it decides it will get to.

I don’t know whether they will take it down to the beach and just leave it there or whether any of the bigger vessels, for which this sea would not be too rough, may come up and then they’re going to join it. Who knows? Maybe next week I can tell you.

Football.

Well now we know who the World Cup Final Competitors will be. Although I have to say that even the Spaniards are less than happy that Argentina beat England.

As our cleaner put it earlier, it’s not so much whether they want to win or lose. It’s just that the Spanish team would probably prefer to lose to England because bizarrely it would invoke less obnoxious behaviour from the opponents.

From what our Spanish teacher was saying, the way the Spaniards look at the Argentinians is exactly the way the English men in World War II looked at the American troops.

The reopened senda litoral on opening day or the day after. Photo by author

But oddly enough the internet suggests the complete opposite.

I’m sure many English football fans will feel very disappointed that the ref was not cracking down more on the Argentinian tactics but hey we are where we are.

Unless the orange idiot calls in another favour from FIFA and Infantino (maybe it’s just me but I can’t imagine a more appropriate name for the man), I’m sure the result of the semi-final will stand.

And the only thing less likely than that is the USA welcoming the Iranians with open arms and comments about “hell freezing over” would seem to apply in this case…

One thing I ought to cover

is that some of the England supporters covered themselves with less than glory recently. There’s something unusual I hear you cry.

I was interested to hear our Spanish teacher’s boyfriend talk about the consecutive semi-final matches last week.

The one between Spain and Belgium was played and supported in what might be best described as the fairest of inter-country rivalry.

On the following night the Norwegians seem to be treating the Norway-England match in the same way but unfortunately a selection of the English supporters seem to take it as an affront.

Something about Boat Rowing? I’m not sure I understand but maybe you do.

I heard about a young girl who was in tears after being verbally assaulted by a chavvy woman with a baby, of all things.

Why do they do it?

Life is full of disappointments.

Now I have to do a long stream of short sentences to keep the SEO happy.

Either that or accept that the SEO being happy is not the be all and end all of life.

Actually that’s not too bad! That was a 15-word sentence then a 19-word sentence. Both of which were helped substantially to increase the SEO readability score.

My other bugbear is the passive voice problem. What’s wrong with having a passive voice problem?

Too many sentences beginning with I makes it sound like you’re trying to make yourself the centre of attention.

My like of the passive voice is that it makes you feel and seem like an observer.

At which point I was going to crack a joke about guardians but I’m not sure anybody who doesn’t read big newspapers would understand it…

Oh yes. Big positive news.

In the local sense anyway.

A section of the Paseo Maritimo near Carrefour Hiper has been shut for nearly a year.

Mainly because a section of the path was becoming alarmingly worrying when walking along it.

At this point the path is probably 10 to 15 m above the beach and is wooden planking in a metal framework.

It used to make you feel like you were drunk walking over it because all of a sudden it veered to one side and that wasn’t the side nearest the cliff.

What good news! Last Saturday it had reopened! We no longer have to walk up the road next to the hypermarket.

And they’ve also taken the opportunity of improving another small section a little further on. By widening it so that you don’t get killed when a pushbike comes in the opposite direction.

The Scandinavians are the worst we think. Admittedly the signs saying pedestrians have priority are generally in Spanish but they’re reasonably obvious even so.

A little bit short of an hour before we go out so let’s leave it at that for the day.

Viva la Virgen!