If the shoe fits…

I’ve just been to the exhibition of ‘Zapatos de Cine’ or ‘movie shoes’ at the
Santo Domingo Convent in La Laguna.
I admit to having had a nano-second shoe crisis before I left which is ridiculous really because who’s going to be looking at my shoes when they can gaze on James Dean’s or Marilyn Monroe’s?
Over two [...]

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I think I may have swallowed a fly

“I know an old woman who swallowed a fly.
I don’t know why…
She swallowed a fly…
Perhaps she’ll die.”
I have high blood pressure and take tablets to reduce it. I’ve been taking the same tablets for more years than I care to remember. In the UK, they were prescribed to me by the doctor but since moving [...]

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Tenerife Beach Time

You may imagine that living on a tropical island I must spend a great deal of my time lying on a beach topping up an all-year tan. You’d be mistaken.
For one thing, I’m desperately trying to make a living which is proving particularly difficult in these times of ‘economic crisis’ and for another, my standards [...]

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