tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57082465721741643752024-03-08T03:32:18.902-08:00NOTES FROM ARAGONI AM SEQUESTERED IN A REMOTE ARAGONESE VACUUM BUT NOT ENTIRELY OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE WIDER WORLD BEYOND (SIC)-CONTEMPLATING BRITAIN AND SPAIN FROM THE FOOTHILLS OF THE PYRENEES (THE SUNNY SIDE) WHILE LIVING WITH ARAGONESE PERTINACITY AND INDISCRIMINATE THOUGHTS.ANAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13404101334561769011noreply@blogger.comBlogger629125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708246572174164375.post-70112450409866316652024-01-19T12:59:00.000-08:002024-01-19T12:59:21.395-08:00What if? What now? What next? ANAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13404101334561769011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708246572174164375.post-45990827566804266232023-09-30T13:44:00.001-07:002023-09-30T13:44:18.326-07:00Apparently no one reads blogs anymore. In fact most people don't even know how to read road signs so we shouldn't expect too much of the general public. I don't mean road signs that tell you to moderate your speed or what speed you should be doing. Hardly anyone obeys those, well at least not here. I mean road signs put up by the builders in front of where we live just after they have plonked down loads of cement that say NO PISAR! or if you need a translation, DO NOT WALK HERE ON THIS FRESHLY LAID CONCRETE! The barriers put in place to prevent people walking on it were removed, said sign was read with disbelief and scepticism, and citizens started gingerely walking up the road leaving footprints behind that I imagine in a thousands years time archaeologists will look at, scratch their heads and say, ''those 21st century folk were a bit soupy''. Talking of dense, the UK seems to to be throwing up quite a few folk who can be loosely described as numbskulls. Switch the television on, have a butcher's at Twitter and there they all are, ruffling feathers or making them fly, alternatively going straight for the jugular. How do they find the time? It's taken me months to write anything as I have been too busy trying to stay alive in summer temperatures that now seem like a frenzied dream, keep the wolf from the door, and just generally cope with my insane family. More about them when the time is ripe.......<script type="text/javascript">
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-You remember, Klaus Wunderlich.<br />- That's not him, he was a German easy listening organist.<br />
-Klaus Barbie? <div>-Nope. <div>-It's on the tip of my tongue, Klaus Kinski....</div><div>-Just stop it, he wasn't called Klaus.</div><div>-Nomi?</div><div>-It began with a K.<br />
-Klaus Waldheim?<br />
-No! Kurt for f#cks' sake!</div></div>ANAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13404101334561769011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708246572174164375.post-81374139514259938292022-09-16T04:29:00.000-07:002022-09-16T04:29:57.116-07:00To everyone who asks me how I'm feeling about the Queen and all that.....<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ifLqzLEB3E0" width="320" youtube-src-id="ifLqzLEB3E0"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /><script type="text/javascript">
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