THERE´S NO SUCH THING AS THE "DOG POO FAIRY"

No hay Ratoncito Perez para las cacas de perro....

WAGES

Who should be paid more?

Those with physically demanding work? Yes.

Those with huge responsibility? No, they CHOOSE these jobs, and anyway, perks are common.

Those with temptation of stealing? No, no-one should steal.

Those few in specialised occupations? No, unless there is a dearth.

Those with more qualifications? No, they  CHOOSE to do these courses.

Those with more specialised experience? Yes.

Those under work-related stress? No, everyone has some sort of stress in their life.

Otherwise, I´d be on millions!

THE CRISIS

I remember when the crisis in its infancy was on everyone´s lips, scaremongering -  even ME... but it didn´t affect me till Oct 2010.

Who does it seriously affect?
Who should we feel sorry for?

Not the sensible rich (we don´t worry about the others),

not the funcionarios (with their job for life),

not subsidised companies,
not companies run by a single family,

not families with 2 incomes,

not those working black, who don´t contribute to the system...

No, only those who lose their jobs or businesses,

or have their hours or salaries cut, through no fault of their own, who gave no cause for complaint,

and those who have no savings,
or family to support them...

So what proportion of the population is this?

If the active working population consists of 20 million people, and those we DON´T feel sorry for are 15 million ..., we feel sorry for the remaining 5 million - out of 44 million!

Please tell me my figures are wrong!!!!!

LOVE AND HATE

Do you hate...
- civil servants who moan about wage cuts?

- middle class people who pretend to be anarchists?

- English people who can´t speak Spanish and complain about unemployment and the crisis?

- people who deny their own or partner´s alcoholism?

- hypocrites?

- slow drivers?

- weak people, who want a quiet life?

- lazy people?

- Spanish customer service?

- Spanish bureaucracy?

- hippies who pretend to not be part of society?

- musicians and other pretentious artists, who won´t take a job outside their "art"?

- people who can´t use a computer?

- people who don´t take their work seriously?

Don´t you just love...

- Spanish kids who like their parents´taste in music?

- Spanish boys that hold hands with their parents in public?

- baby animals by the roadside?

- generous people?

- strong people?

- friendly people?

- fruit trees in people´s gardens?

- people who want to talk about current events?

BRAVE or FOOLHARDY

Is being brave doing something extra-ordinarily risky?

Or is it doing it, knowing it is risky?
Or is it doing it knowingly, having weighed up the risks?

Or is it doing it ignorantly, not realising the risks?

Or is it doing it instinctively, not thinking about the risks?

Everyone thinks I come under the first or second category, but in reality I do stuff under the last
... moving to Spain, riding a motorbike, starting up business enterprises, helping drunks, stopping street fights, lending money, trusting unknown people...

For me, bravery is...

- criticising racist comments

- tolerating idiots

Move to Menorca 2007

Well, to make you all jealous... here are my first photos of where I moved to in Menorca.



 
Cats loved it, even Tiffy who was my adopted, aggressive, traumatized waif - 6 weeks and she qualified for Miss Congeniality!









 







My first flat here (yellow roof)     immortalized on a postcard!

 


<> <>Litter on the floor....

                       The view from my balcony...


 The 2 most famous features of Menorca: drystone walls and bougainvillea!