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From Wednesday May 8th:

"Mrs OFSO has bought some strange pot plants for our terrace. Big menacing things. Can't see a stinger (yet) but I think they are triffids. I shall avoid watching the next meteor shower..."

.......and possibly tonight's Aurora Borealis !

Many years ago a neighbour of a friend went round the bend and disappeared for weeks leaving her front door open. Nothing was ever stolen from the house.

I'm sure she has a Persilschein.

Interesting that HMRC has all my bank details for PAYMENTS on record, but having just informed me I'm due for a sizeable refund, they have no idea where to send it so I need to enter the same bank details.....
and tick the box for interest to be paid ....

According to the news one could see the Aurora Borealis from here last night, if there wasn't a whopping great 1500' mountain to the north of our yard.

Shopping after gym. Roads at near standstill as if it were July or August, not early May. France must be empty as blighters are all down here. Hot sun with cold wind.

Two Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested after smashing the case around the Magna Carta at the British Library. Reverend Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, 85, a retired biology teacher, targeted the glass enclosure around the historic document on Friday. The pair then held up a sign reading "T...

Search for drownded Frenchman continues here. Thought probably dead as 48 hrs have passed since post-party swim. Odd how stupid activités of youths leading to death vary by nation. With French it is drowning in sea or river. British leap from balcony to balcony and fall 15 stories. Germans rush into...

Is the oil radioactive ? From the Offshore Ayatollah, I've learned that disused and stacked pipes formerly used for raw oil have to be decontaminated if left to dry out as the contaminated residue in the pipe is radioactive.

Not a realistic depiction of a 737 on the box. It's all in one piece, undercarriage looks like it worked, and doesn't look like it's standing in mud or grass.

Good oh Hydro. Soon be all mended (and ready for prostate).

A clear dawn and 16° in upper Iberia. 24° forecast by midday. For second night running, only one (1) visit to the wc. Most welcome.

REECNEH from Girona https://fr24.com/REECNEH/352386f9

09 May 2024 The young man got into the water with two other friends in the early hours of the morning and did not come out again Three young people of French nationality were partying tonight on the seafront of Roses, specifically on the beach of Les Botxes, around the Cafè Si Us Plau. And they deci...

2 young adults went out swimming early hours this morning.. one waved a boat down and they pulled him in but they couldn't find his friend.. boats and helicopters been searching the Bay all day.. No wind, no waves/ swell.

A Leonardo AW139 is flying search patterns out in the Bay of Roses. I note from the media that the police are "unable to locate" the fugitive Catalan politician Carles Puigdemont who is expected to re-enter Spain Any Time Real Soon and take up the Presidential Throne of Catalunia. Perhaps he'll be d...

Talking to an acquaintance this morning. Laws in the UK brought in to protect tenants in the house they own have made it uneconomic to be a landlord any more. So much paperwork. Hence selling up and buying a holiday flat to rent out to tourists in Spain. No new licences being issued in our part of S...

Morning all. Summer has arrived. Laundry is on the line, steak in the cat, me off to the gym.

French air traffic controllers have been granted the right to turn up to work three hours late and leave three hours early. Under a new agreement between the National Union of Air Traffic Controllers, reported by French media, the country's government made a practice called "clearances" a legal righ...

Mrs OFSO has bought some strange pot plants for our terrace. Big menacing things. Can't see a stinger (yet) but I think they are triffids. I shall avoid watching the next meteor shower....