Back from Almeria. To be honest we’ve been back about a week now. But there is no way I was going to be back at early evening and doing a blog last week. Crazy I might be, insane I hope I’m not… I seem to have cracked getting the dictation tool to work. I’m not quite sure what I’m doing differently but whatever it is, it seems to be of benefit. Who are you? How was your time on Earth? Fut the wok, I just asked: “How was it in Almeria?” and the above is what it gave me. If nothing else it might even laugh. Actually I think i snort a little every time I think about it. I rather suspect with a couple…

San Isidro Labrador. Coo-ee, is there anybody there? That’s better. We’ve just had the normal 20 minutes trying to get the smegging dictation tool to work. I have a funny suspicion it’s one of the AVG offerings that is partially blocking it. Because every now and again it asks me whether to allow this app or not.  I then say yes, it says it will never ask again and 10 minutes later it asks again. Call it a hunch, this could have something to do with it. I think we can now go back to the bad joke I was going to ask originally. I may have already asked this but frankly I am too lazy to go back and find out. Why is it San…

Me duele la cabeza. My head hurts. It’s been a ‘funny’ old week. I seem to start posts with a similar theme quite frequently but this time it has been. Even more than usual… Right are we ready? I’ve just spent a good 10 minutes trying to work out how to get the dictation to work as usual. After another couple of minutes of getting the dictation to work, I’m now trying to get it to work in the screen I’m in. Hallelujah!!! This week, of course, started last Friday. Which was a día festivo in España. Which, considering Monday was a bank holiday in the UK, meant we could have had a very long weekend. Unfortunately I have yet to start considering both countries’…

A third of the year gone. Already. And as is becoming customary I’ve just spent half an hour trying to get the dictation tool to work. I think it’s a problem with AVG but I’m not entirely sure. Whatever. It’s a bit bloody annoying and I wish it would stop it. But it currently is working so let’s do the best we can in the time available. Before it goes wrong again. Mind you it might also have something to do with the fact that the screens appear to have decided they’re the wrong way round. And whatever I do in settings, nothing actually changes. Actually that’s a lie. What I had managed to do was to have to move apps to the right from…

Home office revisited. It’s at least a couple of years since I’ve revisited progress on our home office upgrade. Typically I start with a rabbit hole – a distraction. I cannot get the dictation tool to work today. Which means, in the absence of ideas from Die Tochter, I am back to typing for the while. I’ve tried rebooting, I’ve tried altering the settings, but all to no avail. So far… Let’s have another go. Well that was expletive deleted easy.  Pretty obvious really. Not. As you might have guessed from the title of today’s piece, we have been doing a little bit of re-organisation. And yesterday we found I had a funny noise coming from something towards the end of the day. Being unable to…

Socks. If you spell it out letter by letter you’ll have said something intelligible in Spanish. Eso sí que es. Don’t forget the accent on the ‘i’. Eso sí que es asombroso. That really is amazing. I’m being serious here. It really does mean that really is! Got it? I do hope so because otherwise my brain is going to explode. That was really bizarre. I pushed the normal keys down and instead of the above sentence turning up where I expected it to, it turned up at the bottom of one of my spreadsheets. Don’t want to know… I’m actually back to writing the blog on the usual day this week. Oh come on, this is having a laugh. Came out with a long,…

Rush, rush, rush… Fut the wok am I doing??? It’s just coming up to 3:00 local time. And if you remember, last week I said I was going to have to do the blog a day early again this week. However that was before the entire day tried to conspire to make it all go apeshit. What’s wrong with it being 3:00? is what you may be asking. Well if you’ve run out of morning, had a late lunch, and you’ve got to go out at 4:15, this rather compresses the day. And not in a good way. It all started with the delivery from Carrefour. Or rather the non-delivery until nearly an hour after the last possible time it should have arrived. Until then…

Feliz Pascua. That’s the equivalent of Happy Easter. Somehow after five years I’ve yet to use this title. Which makes it better than Semana Santa 2026 which it was going to be (I’ve only used that once before – without the date qualifier obviously. Well, not obviously but it would have been a little odd. Not?). Right that’s better. Remembered to turn the recording programme on now. Okay – five-minute rabbit hole to navigate – back in a moment.   Okay, less five minutes, more half an hour but I’m back. Oh poot, just remembered I haven’t done the second round of coffee. There we are. Back back. Really back, properly back and ready to go. Got very confused about this post as here the…

I had another good title… but the words fell off. It wouldn’t be quite so funny if it wasn’t quite so frequent. The number of times over the years I’ve come up with a decent title only to not be able to remember it when I start writing. I’m pretty sure it had the word “bizarre” included but it might have been “bazaar”. Who can tell? The advantages of getting older… Actually some strange things have happened to me these last few days. All I need to do now is try and remember what they were. Oh yes the beer order. Because what can be more important than ordering beer? And the advantage of the priority and increase in years is that if I want…

Yet another, another last storm. I do not believe it, says the Victor Meldrew in me. Storm Therese. It’s hit Tenerife and the Canary Islands quite badly. Here not so bad so far luckily but yet another, another last storm? And something tells me that, since the one before was Regina, we’ve missed one as well. While that’s very helpful, a certain well-known search engine can tell me the names allocated to the hurricanes in the year 2030 but will not tell me what came between Regina and Therese. Bless… Suffice to say we’ve only been having 30 mph winds here compared with 100 mph winds in the Canary Islands. And one thing at least: at least it’s a bit warmer than the last one.…