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 year talking about the bloody weather. Which is why, as I’ve said in the past, it appears that the Spanish have much in common with the Brits as far as weather is concerned. It’s either too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, you name it. I’d be perfectly happy to have a nice summer thunderstorm just to clear the air a bit. But not at the moment so it…

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 about the ‘zeros’ birthdays but they always seem to come as a bit of a shock to the system (me anyway). And frankly what difference does one day make? BUT, when you get up in the morning and feel yourself thinking, “Well I’m never going to see my sixties again,” it makes you wonder. Seventy not out. I am extremely lucky that I have always looked young for my age.…

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 me just type a little bit,” I think I must be going barmy. Right let’s go and pour the coffee before I get tied up in everything else. Okay, done that successfully, I’m glad to say. Okay. After taking the coffee up to L I had to take it extremely carefully on the way back. Isabel is doing the cleaning and some of the floors are wet. When you’re not…

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,…