Posts by Colin Bielckus

Busy week. Seems that way anyway. And in lots of different ways. Changing from the bizarre to the even more bizarre and merely strange. Over the last few months or maybe even a year, L has been mentioning that a cat has been getting into our terraza. And then frequently doing its business in her…

A slight respite. After the heat wave upon heat wave of the last few weeks, we’ve had a day, while not being cold, has been definitely less hot. I am not really sure that 32 to 33°C can be described as cool but in the context of up to 40°C days it probably is, relatively.…

A Godzilla of an El Niño. I read this in one of my emails in the last few days. Because of its nature it’s almost certainly from The Conversation or The Guardian. I really do understand exactly what is meant by this. More firefighters have lost their lives in Crete and Greece, I read today.…

So the boat trip was cancelled. Like I alluded to last week. Which was a shame but watching the few vessels that were out tossing around in the waves, I was pretty glad we were on shore. However it was still a poniente. The hedge on a wing. That’s not what I said. The hairdryer…

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…

Feria time again. La gran feria de 2026. And we hope to walk up there tonight assuming things go right. It’s a funny old day. Again. Here I am, sitting in front of the computer, waiting for a beer delivery while I drown in my own sweat. It’s just bizarre at the moment. The humidity…

Hottest June on record. In the UK in any case. Over here funnily enough, it was last year. But honestly I can’t believe there would be much in it. And given that it’s only the second of July, July seems to have started off where June finished. I seem to have spent virtually the entire…

Seventy not out. That’s age I hasten to add and not IQ. If it were measuring IQ, it would be more like point-seven. The ‘not out’ is optional… I was thinking to use “What a difference a day makes” but it appears I’ve already beaten myself to that one. I’m not sure what it is…

That was the week it was. I can’t use that was the week that was because I’ve already used it and the SEO gets upset if I use things again. Right well, see if we can get the dictation tool to work this week. For some reason I started off thinking, “Oh I know, let…