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Great Spanish n and n..June 11th

Great Spanish N and N...June 11th.. I have nt wiritten for a few days , as a friend of mine died suddenly on Sunday , from a heart attack, and i did nt feel like writing about anything else , while at the same time not wishing to put a eulogy on facebook , as it s not a suitable medium.. Having completely forgotten my fake birthday date , which i must have chosen at random when setting up the page last year..it should have been 6 6 66..,as i ve always had a soft spot for Aleister Crowley..anyway , that aside, thanks everyone , and i wont put up my real birthday as that would be a bit like Alice as in Wonderland..and the Unbirthdays.. Yesterday was a day i d been awaiting with pent up amusement , as it was the day the minister of equality , Irene Montero, had to face questions in Parliament about why she went ahead with the Womens march when she knew full well it would jeopardise the lives and health of the very Women whose welfare she claims to hold so dear..and Dear oh Dear it was..We ve all seen Politicians lying before but this was a 10.. , Irene montero , who , needless to say i have googled and wiki ed, and have listened to various interviews,including a clip of her when she was an online Sexologist, giving a very informative and well put together online talk about how to give a good blow job.. entertaining stuff ,as it manages to avoid being either coy , or pornographic..no mean feat when talking , or writing about Sex ,She is highly educated and intelligent , and not a female Jeremy Corbyn at all..so it was very disheartening that she chose the Deny Everything defence , incorporating the If you dont agree with me youre a misogynist..reminiscent of chairman Maos widow , whose name escapes me.which simply does nt work in this context , when half the country had already seen her admitiing to the contrary in an informal , very informal , interview the next day.ie March 9th,.it s all on twitter and everywhere else , and had even been broadcast on the Sexta..which is a left wing Channel..anyway , probably nothing will happen as politicians in Spain , from both sides regularly lie to parliament , and the Spanish public know this , and are resigned to it , even if the word resign is unknown in the chamber itself.. The home secretary lied to parliament and nothing happened to him so.. its rather sad as this behaviour from the two extremes is debasing democracy and undermining the publics trust.. i would say making them more cynical , but that would be difficult..we were also subjected to listening to attacks from the Extreme right on the vice presidents father etc ..and both sides pretend they want to avoid Crispacion , as its known , while doing evreything to promote it, in the hope that more extremism will work to their advantage as they are the weaker parties in their respective coalitions.History tends to show that in the context of Extreme Right Wing Parties having coalitions with slightly more central Ones the moderates get pulled to the Right.all reminiscent of the antics of people hijacking BLM in the UK to grind their own ideological axes and rewrite the past as they would like it to have been..Orwellian , as many have pointed out , but sadly many of those respo

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Spanish lockdown..Day 18 Aurora s feeling a wee bit better, but cant eat anything , so cannot take Iboprufen, or whatever it is in English ..but says she could probably handle bread.. so..that means a trip to the heart of Fukushima, err..well ...on with the masks , gloves etc and to the shop in El Llano.. small village near here , a lot more isolated than Carboneras..I was feeling fairly confident as i trundled along the track , that the town hall had tarmacked before some election or other..anyway , rounding a corner there was a woman of un certain age in the road waving me down,.,. What to do?…You re are not allowed passengers , plus she was not wearing gloves or a mask.. Should i observe the Law, or basic good manners? i d vaguely recognised her.. and had she she been a total stranger i would have passed on by , but , hell , she was Local, so i had to pick her up.. She did nt recognise me.. obviously , as i was wearing a cap , two masks with a scarf on top, and polo neck unrolled over the bottom half of my face , like a character in the Bash Street Kids..an way i had the window down , and was almost sticking my head out as i drove.. @ Chilly out @.. she observed… i pretended not to understand this hint that i should close the window.. @ Do you think it s going to rain ? @ @ I think probably not @ @All these people with masks @ she observed ,as a car squeezes by us, going in the opposite direction . I began to wonder if she knew there was such a thing as Covid 19,and saw the driver studying us..I was hoping he would nt recognise me either.. and was weighing up whether what i was doing would meet with his approval. i.e. helping a distressed local, or would be considered a breach of community sprit. On coming into the village we received more enigmatic looks..and i felt uneasy as i got out in front of the shop and followed her to the door … pausing to read the safety notices outside.and thus give her a head start . i won’t reproduce them ..wherever you are you ve probably seen the equivalent..anyway ,no sooner did i enter the shop than she was next to me selecting suit and veg..and ignoring safe distancing, which i agree was academic , as we d just been in much too close proximity,..thus forcing me to leave the fruit and go and study the options in frozen fish..while she was having a conversation wi the owner @ Do you think it will rain?@ @ Its chilly out @ etc.. As we went about our purchasing i saw more and more foodstuffs i would nt normally consider..and soon had over a weeks supply..which , considering how much we already had at home made me hope this lockdown was going to go on for a while ..or otherwise id feel a fool .. no , i did nt really think that.. Much as i wanted to prolong my shopping experience there was queue forming outside , so felt obliged to go more quickly that i would have liked..especially as i hoped to delay long enough not to have to take the woman back to her house..vainly as it turned out as she was a quarter of a mile along the track when i was obliged to pick her up again.. We passed the garbage truck.in a lay-by. @ My nephew..@ she explained..I began to feel id made the right decision..as i doubted she d been more than a mile from her house in the past few months… nonetheless i observed full protocol on arriving home..even disinfecting the car having a shower and putting all my clothes in the machine.

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SPANISH LOCKDOWN …DAY14

Saturday night s all right for fighting.. on Facebook of course,

i was just casting my mind back to a Ninurta Night , as there called their Saturdays Night in Uruk, capital of Sunny Sumeria, and imagining what a great time they were probably having 5000 years ago , getting pissed on the local beer, because they invented that ,as well as the seven day week. Of course they did nt have Netflix, but they got to go out more..i don’t have Netflix either , yet , but have axs to lots of stuff including Music documentaries , which we are watching in order , chronological order that is..starting with The Birth of Country music .. and Mr Ralph Peers,from new York, who looked a little like Brian Epstein by the way , who set up a temporary recording studio above furniture shop, there you go agin , NEMs , well no, it was nt , but anyway I digress, and into this temporary Studio walked The Carter Family..3 of them .. and Jimmie Rogers.. yes.. that Jimmie Rogers , the Singing brakeman..i mean ,Okay , i can hear you mumbling about Sam Phillips, and the Chess brothers etc.. but this was Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia..a place no-one who doesn’t live round there has heard of..its like discovering the Beatles and the Rolling Stones..or rather signing them.. After that we watched a newish doc about the King , E.V. Presley..and it was mad by some guys driving round America in his Rolls royce..great stuff That led to the Fab Four , Eight days a Week.. which was about their touring years and the whole world has seen it except me… its absolutely.. the F word , second letter A..anyway this time 55 years ago they were filming Help. inSt Margarets..Twickenham..and taking photos for the infamous Butcher cover , in the Vale , Chelsea, where my first nursery school was located..ah well.. don’t want to get too carried away on Beatles Lore..or i ll bore you to death , because i don’t mind admitting i am well versed in that subject… The Beatles represented the 60s in the same way Elvis represented the 50 s…and someone told a story about how the disgusting Colonel Parker, in inverted commas,used to put a cover over Elvis Cadillac so the girls could nt see him when he drove on to the Movie lot in hollywood… well once the Beatles arrived the Colonel still put the cover on , so Elvis could nt see there were no longer any girls..A sad figure..but his mantle of loneliness was later to be worn by Michael jackson and especially Prince..Do these Royal titles always end with a solitary death on the loo or in a Lift

From there we moved too the Seventies… and surely the quintessential Seventies hero is Bowie..well now it so alluringly sunny outside ill have to go and play guitar on the terrace .. and leave David for another time..

No i don’t want to see the News..

DAY 15..Sunday…

The clocks have gone on to sensible time..even in lockdown this is cheerful news.. I was wondering how long it will take for people with imaginary ailments to return to their plastic chairs in Hospital waiting rooms throughout the Western world.. these people presumably will be the ones most frightened of Covid 19..there s nothing imaginary about that..but if you have ME and you re lying on the sofa all day, and you feel depressed , and your bones are aching etc.. well how do feel different from everyone else..and as for food intolerance .. that should be interesting when the statistics come in about consumption in Supermarkets..i know there are allergies and allergies.. but the possibility of imminently drowning in ones own mucus does concentrate the mind wonderfully, and a lot of people will find themselves in the second category once shortages begin of certain previously essential items..suddenly one has to be tolerant of a whole raft of things one had previously considered unacceptable ..two weeks ago i could not have imagined four days without bread.. but its no big deal.. onions likewise..thats what happens when you shop with no list.. bit like going on stage without a playlist.. its a gamble … it can produce unexpected benefits in that you try stuff you had nt tried before.. but you often forget the best songs..

We watched the film about the Kursk, the Submarine which was on the seabed and owing to bureaucracy and politics the Crew were allowed to die..even though t5here was a foreign Ship with equipment nearby that could have saved them.. reminds me of something..are we the mariners or are we the mariners wives?

Does the Chinese government have a cure? are they just waiting for the US economy to completely collapse?..Will we ever know?

Day 16

Each day just goes so fast , i turn around , it s past..

One of my fave tracks from Revolver..anyway playing in E7 , as usual , in fact I’ve been stuck in E 7 since Lockdown started..Catfish , Smokestack lighting ,Good Morning Blues , Take Out Some Insurance..however now the time has come to expand ..and try Freight train..the classic finger picking song..so ,if i observe radio silence for a while you ll know why..

Saw the news…The government had adopted some economic measures which seemed very well thought out , in the sense they were are determined not to let the mistakes of the last crisis , where the poorest people got the rawest deal. I won’t go into details , its all online if you re interested..it was more a sensation than anything logical , but it made me feel a bit less pessimistic for the first time in a few weeks,i found i was nt thinking about Death quite as much , even in the abstract. that may sound overdramatic , but i think everybody is thinking about it subconsciously a great deal more than they were, say, last Christmas..well actually in our particular situation , where we had been frequenting cancer wards and the like , maybe i should go back to 2018…but the awarerness of death affects every facet of how you think about everything else..i don’t just mean concentrating the mind wonderfully..anyway its half past two, and tomorrow ill probably delete all this..The gist was that for some reason things don’t feel quite so bleak..

Day 17

Yesterday was a 3 own a scale of ten as far as ding anything worthwhile was concerned. After watching a film i unreservedly recommend..The vanishing.. about 3 men who disappeared from a Scottish island where they were repairing th elighthouse , i watched Tolkien , the movie about one of my heroes , but not one of Auroras heroes apparently as she fell asleep during the first reel, so to speak, anyway she s not huge Tolkien fan , having been made to sit through the fellowship of the ring seven times..be that as it may , the sofa is not designed for sleeping comfortably so she had a severely cricked neck the next morning and stayed in bed, leaving Tina and i to our own devices..this meant i ate a packet of chocolate biscuits for brunch and did nt eat again till midnight , which goes to show how lucky I am not to be on my own.

to entertain myself between bouts of fingerpicking i decided to9 look up on google what English people disliked the most.. while i did nt find the answer to this question i did get seriously sidetracked and found out the answers to several more pressing questions about Europe,and i m proud to say the british isles scored very highly

The Dirtriest City..Yay .. London The Ugliest people..The British and the irish and the Germans ..okay , so we cant beat the Germans but at least we drew The Rudest people..That was easy..The French win every time, when i lived in Paris i prided myself on becoming Parisian, and adopting local customs , but one day , in a moment of absent mindedness , and for a subconscious second imagining myself in Spain , i said Good Morning to my next door neighbour, a short fellow with a mop of dark hair and glasses, who i passed on my way to the metro in Boulevard St . Germain… i am not a Physiognomist.. he replied…i made a not e of that , hoping i could use the phrase Je ne suit pas Phisionome, myself on some future occasion..but sadly , said opportunity has not arisen. Most boring City..Brussels .. for the third year running…Hasve nt these people been to Oslo? Most Friendly Country..wait for it… Scotland..most friendly capital .. Dublin Worst Cuisine..Malta , tied with Kosovo Best ..Italy Most Beautiful Women ..Norway ..and Bulgaria..i would have voted for Madrid..but you cant argue with Norway Most ignorant Country in Europe ..italy. Most Rapes..Sweden..well that was no surprise..however i won’t analyse those statistics or Ill be done for Isamolophobia Most ignorant country in the World ..Indonesia Most depressed ..World..China , India, Brazil,..what??..USA.. and Bangladesh Most mental Illness..Estonia,Belarus , Russia Most Obese Europe..Yes We won agin .. Britain

And so on .. there was more , i could nt stop , but i did check the criteria..and obviously ruled out anything from the Daily Mail or the Independent.. which are not really newspapers at , but sheets of opinions conforming to the prejudices of their readers.

When i got tired of this i got the Scythe out of the tree and cut the grass for half an hour .. feeling like a peasant woman in Quiet Flows The Don..its quite restful when you get in rhythm. Aurora was still ill so i made her some chicken soup.. well , packet chicken soup with some noodles and chicken added.. anyway , she did nt eat it .. so i had it saved for my supper.. I did nt watch TV..i could nt be bothered to work out how turn it on to be honest , thats how lazy i felt, and i just sat by the fire and went through all the fingerpicking songs again.

Spanish lockdown..Day 18

Aurora s feeling a wee bit better, but cant eat anything , so cannot take Iboprufen, or whatever it is in English ..but says she could probably handle bread.. so..that means a trip to the heart of Fukushima, err..well ...on with the masks , gloves etc and to the shop in El Llano.. small village near here , a lot more isolated than Carboneras..I was feeling fairly confident as i trundled along the track , that the town hall had tarmacked before some election or other..anyway , rounding a corner there was a woman of un certain age in the road waving me down,.,.

What to do?…You re are not allowed passengers , plus she was not wearing gloves or a mask..

Should i observe the Law, or basic good manners? i d vaguely recognised her.. and had she she been a total stranger i would have passed on by , but , hell , she was Local, so i had to pick her up..

She did nt recognise me.. obviously , as i was wearing a cap , two masks with a scarf on top, and polo neck unrolled over the bottom half of my face , like a character in the Bash Street Kids..an way i had the window down , and was almost sticking my head out as i drove..

@ Chilly out @.. she observed…

i pretended not to understand this hint that i should close the window..

@ Do you think it s going to rain ? @

@ I think probably not @

@All these people with masks @ she observed ,as a car squeezes by us, going in the opposite direction . I began to wonder if she knew there was such a thing as Covid 19,and saw the driver studying us..I was hoping he would nt recognise me either.. and was weighing up whether what i was doing would meet with his approval. i.e. helping a distressed local, or would be considered a breach of community sprit. On coming into the village we received more enigmatic looks..and i felt uneasy as i got out in front of the shop and followed her to the door … pausing to read the safety notices outside.and thus give her a head start . i won’t reproduce them ..wherever you are you ve probably seen the equivalent..anyway ,no sooner did i enter the shop than she was next to me selecting suit and veg..and ignoring safe distancing, which i agree was academic , as we d just been in much too close proximity,..thus forcing me to leave the fruit and go and study the options in frozen fish..while she was having a conversation wi the owner

@ Do you think it will rain?@ @ Its chilly out @ etc..

As we went about our purchasing i saw more and more foodstuffs i would nt normally consider..and soon had over a weeks supply..which , considering how much we already had at home made me hope this lockdown was going to go on for a while ..or otherwise id feel a fool .. no , i did nt really think that.. Much as i wanted to prolong my shopping experience there was queue forming outside , so felt obliged to go more quickly that i would have liked..especially as i hoped to delay long enough not to have to take the woman back to her house..vainly as it turned out as she was a quarter of a mile along the track when i was obliged to pick her up again..

We passed the garbage truck.in a lay-by. @ My nephew..@ she explained..I began to feel id made the right decision..as i doubted she d been more than a mile from her house in the past few months… nonetheless i observed full protocol on arriving home..even disinfecting the car having a shower and putting all my clothes in the machine.

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Day 6 ..Friday Struggling .. which is why i did nt see the news or spend time on Social Media yesterday.. I thought it would be a breeze and after a little concentration id have it down .. but no , even the first part…known as lumpedy lump was proving tough , because of the triplet walk up from the V to the 1.. and i think thats the part Jimmy Reed himself is playing… If you ve read previous episodes you will know i refer to Honest I Do….the song. Im learning it on a You Tube lesson , now a lot of people who think of themselves as pros , seem to think there s some sort of stigma ro learning stuff on You Tube, but i know a French guy , of Spanish descent , who is a really hot Flamenco guitarist who has mastered nearly all the Palos , and all on You Tube They are right, if you dedicate yourself to different songs at the same time, but it s like working form home…you need time and discipline ..and take the lessons very slowly and don’t move on till you can play it 20 times with your eyes shut..preferably standing up .. then move on up. Yesterday was the first time i managed to do this. There is a different tone on Social media today .. angrier , more prone to blame others, more censorious…and on one group forum i saw they were going to ban Humour..well , i don’t personally know the Group leader.. but it does nt take much imagination to know she s not someone you d want to be quarantined with. The only thing to fear is fear itself.. well i certainly don’t think that applies in this situation, quite the reverse, the more frightened we are the less we will venture forth on errands that are not strictly necessary..i was on my way out the door , literally, when my mobile rang…it was the charming woman from the bank.. she d got my message .. id gone way over my limit.. which was why i could nt withdraw funds…She , and i won’t name her, is working from Home and sorted it all out on her laptop..no need for me to go to town.. Is nt that great?..well , I thought it was..and a good thing too,as she has not been provided with any masks..and we are talking about a Bank..if they cant get basic stuff like that no wonder the Government are nt testing people .. they don’t have the wherewithal…it is nt as though this has nt been on the News everyday since December the something. .I remember listening to Radio Four as i was driving through Slough, in December,… don’t ask … the M4 was closed..and i was listening to a woman in Wuhan describing how her parents were dying in the Street.. that really got my attention. It did nt seem to get the attention of the people in charge here however, as when the inevitable arrived nearly three months later , they had done nothing to prepare for it. The Spanish Disease is politics, it creeps into every corner of life and spreads its poison , a bit like you know what,..and in the past when people got fed up with their venal politicians there was a Military Coup , and then they realised maybe life was better before with democracy … and the cycle starts again. This model has been exported successfully to Latin America.. with the possible exception of Mexico. and Costa Rica Its all very well for us stodgy Northerners with our bad weather , to criticise, but Sun affects people,and when things are good they seem so much better in the Sunshine..but something about Sunny weather produces Volatility, and an @ i won’t fix the roof as its not raining @ World View… and Italys colossal death rate is the price to be paid .. not that it is nt sunny in China..or South Korea..but they do a lot more than just fix the roof..and to put it down to Confucianism .. well maybe best not to start on that. Australia will be interesting, they have lots of sun , but its a pretty organised place ..and i don’t see them making this sort of Balls up.. also they have the experience of natural disasters,,and pulling together, and will not let Politics interfere…any country that had leaders with names like Abbott and Costello doesn’t waste too energy on petty politics. The Current Classic example of petty minded, spiteful, pointless, negative ,oppurtunism , is the attempt on social media and what sup groups to denigrate the Royal Family organising people to rattle saucepans at a given time, because apparently the current King s father had a rather large amount of money in a Swiss Account..well, it was Saudi Money , not money stolen from the Spanish taxpayer, unlike the billions stolen by the previous administration , the PP .The idea for this stupidity was inspired by the Custom of applauding the Medical profession every night at eight o clock.. an excellent morale boosting , bringing everyone together kind of gesture..well everything has its opposite and this is an excellent way to breed more discontent and fracture an all ready pretty fractured society.. it beggars belief and you really have to have lived here to see these Barca Madrid idiocies at first hand. Barca Madrid is a term used to describe the divide and conquer ,us and them , attitudes that have stopped Spains progress since the collapse of their Empire, culminating in the most vicious Civil War in recent European History, and one would have hoped that after 40 plus years of Democracy it would have disappeared , but sadly, like in the USA and a lot of other democracies , it seems to be on the increase.The anger on Social Media which results from the claustrophobic frustration of a lockdown will hopefully not boil over into something with unpleasant political consequences, which would be very sad , as after Francos death and the adoption of constitution that is the envy of many countries, Spain was a beacon of hope in the last quarter of the 20 th century… how the mighty are fallen .. one hopes not.. SPANISH LOCKDOWN DAY 7 Slept really well , but then I remember reading that people on Death row sleep 16 hours a day so possibly not a good sign. Last Night i watched the Spanish news ,on the main channel and things are looking up , relatively speaking, in the sense that testing has arrived ..someone, or some country, has sent several thousand, or may be half a million test kits.. which is obviously excellent news , and testing in Galicia is going full steam ahead. There was the obligatory item about a vaccine..which I think one can take with a pinch of salt. .Military erecting field hospitals next to various main hospitals…the eight o clock applause of medical staff…all in all well put together not too desperately pessimistic, and generally not as disheartening as Facebook.. afterwards i felt like some light relief so we watched eleven episodes of 2 and half men, in Spanish ,to cheer ourselves up before going to bed. .. Today i decided to live a normal day .. if such a thing were possible , so , after taking Tina for a walk i got the Old TV and DVD working and put on Marty Schwarz s Intermediate Blues Guitar Course part one…and it started raining .. so that was encouraging as it took away any temptation to venture outside.. except for firewood that is. I worked through the course without rushing , but also without too much pausing , as i d done those lessons before, and all that repetition of Honest I do is paying off.. On going outside for firewood i could not ignore the noise of the generator that kicked in yesterday evening, as we ve had not Sun for several days, so i decided to fill it up with diesel, and see how much 15 hours constant running had used,only half the 20 litre can to fill up the tank…but was it full to begin with?..anyway it s very rare to have 4 days without sun , so even if it did use 13 euros of diesel Im not going to freak out as that was expensive diesel.. and I’m entitled to use the cheaper stuff .Of cause i spilled Diesel over my hands , and shoes , and when i spent a good 5 minutes trying to wash the smell out i realised this was the ultimate anti virus test.. so i will leave a bowl of Diesel outside every time i go to town and use that as first part of the disinfection process , yet another excuse not to go to town. My neighbour M. rang and suggested i look at his scheme on Facebook to institute Food Deliveries , so one does nt have to go to the Supermarket in person and infect and be infected… a good idea of course , but like so many , i don’t see it happening…I pointed out several objections , lack of drivers, expense, one would need a sort of Uber program which will probably not be ready for a year .. etc..and the Supermarkets are making so much money i doubt they need this sort of input.I promised to look at it later , which I will , as Lunch was ready. We ve run out of Bread ,Oranges and Chocolate, Aurora has broken a nail and the nail bars are closed till further notice…but otherwise we can probably get through till Monday without suffering too much ..on the other hand Monday is probably the worst day to go shopping..Im toying with the idea of going to the small Supermarket, at 8 am Sunday morning, and hopefully having it to myself , as i cant face the idea of a queue. I know English people are supposed to love queueing but i must be an exception, and queuing nowadays is a High Risk Activity. The Sun is out and i did one of the jobs from a month old to do list… pumping the water out the flooded pump room , it all went very well , and i felt very worthy , and now , with the Sunshine it s time for a walk , with Tina , of course. I return , feeling optimistic .. and the phone rings, i assume it s my neighbour asking if I’ve read his article.it isn’t , it s C another near neighbour, with some very bad news . The police are in Quarantine…and the Army will soon be here. No Tobacco..as they will close the Tobacconist. A completely different ball game I rang M, and gave him the news…I f he d had a kalashnikov he d have been checking the magazine I rang another neighbour F, whose office is next to the Police Station , to warn him. .When the Rumour , comes to your Town , It Grows and Grows, Where it Started No-one Knows…*Robbie Robertson I rang my source in the Town Hall G…no , it s only one cop , and he has nt got the results yet.. I rang M again…he had spoken to his friend who is a Guardia Civil .no , it was nt a Cop it was a Guardia Civil..he also told me the Cuban woman who cleans houses had been stopped, by the Police and they checked the receipt for her shopping I rang the first neighbour and corrected the original story I opened Facebook .. and there was the original story , which had started a firestorm of comments along the likes of whats your source? etc as though we were in the Watergate hearings, not only that, the people reading the story imagined it referred to Mojacar , not Carboneras , and were all frantically ringing the Police Staion , The Town Hall and each other to see if it were true. The tones of the respective comments went from shrill outrage that anyone should suggest such a story without due documentation , to fear , to I knew this would happen, all these irresponsible idiots .. blah blah It began to increasingly resemble an episode of Dads Army with a false alarm about a German Landing.., which Facebook does anyway There is the Captain Mainwaring..@While i was out today making sure everyone was behaving themselves i saw these irresponsible panic shoppers, and these people walking around without a good reason @ The Fraser .. We Re Doomed The Air raid Warden…Its all the fault of the Ruling Class, and rules are rules etc Jones ..Dont Panic... in a tone of complete hysteria Pikes mother…Be sure to wear your gloves , motorcycle helmet , hazchem suit, mask..galoshes, .Do you have your hand sanitiser , all clothes must be burnt on reentry etc By this time Auroras original alarm had been replaced by hilarity, as she was sitting by the fire hearing one side of these conversations.. I went out for some more wood and we relaxed by watching a Documentary about the Boeing 737 MAX..complete with simulation in the Pilots cockpit The best part was the CEO of Boeing trying to justify his 30 million Dollar salary at a Congressional hearing..…i wondered what the Shareholders thought about that , i know what the victims families thought , as they were being interviewed and did nt sound too impressed

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The Great Spanish Lockdown

Day 11 The Sun is Shining..but it s Raining in my Heart..

Raining referring to the local government s mirroring the irresponsibility of the national and regional ones. The rumour which i wrote about the other day , where someone had falsely, or not , suggested the local police were to be quarantined was firmly denied by the Town hall. OK so they don’t want people to get alarmed.. but one thing is not wishing to alarm people , another , and far more dangerous option is to put out a press release on Facebook and other media saying no-one in the whole municipality has been confirmed as having the Virus. A lot of people who may not be very well informed, and lets face it there is a pretty high rate of functional illiteracy round here, will take that to mean there is no danger of getting infected, and thus throw caution to the winds. Watching JFK last night made me think about conspiracy theories, and Governments lying, to people , i.e. The Warren Commission..and i went on to Wikipedia to check the history and background of the Movie out. i ve always loathed Jim Garrison ,the New Orleans DA, the Kevin Costner character, as he destroyed the essence of the French quarter in New Orleans, paving the way for the gentrified Disney theme park we see today, however it is hard not to admire his tenaciousness in the Kennedy affair…and i actually warmed to him during the Movie , though now, in the cold light in day my former feeling have been restored.There is someone prepared to speak the truth in every crisis, and someone prepared to point out the holes in the Governments version of events , and in this crisis , as I’ve pointed to before , it is the Doctor from Granada, Spiriman..but rather than just criticise he is organising crowd funding to get money to to enable health workers to protect themselves , as the Junta de Andalusia are not doing their job any better than Central government..reminiscent of what Jim Garrison did to raise money for the Kennedy investigation. As for Conspiracy theories, well , its not exactly a Conspiracy theory to suggest that the Virus was created in a lab in Wuhan, but to connect this with 5G as many do on Facebook does seem a little far fetched. Allowing Huawei to help out in Britains 5G network seems pretty good illustration of how completely ineffectual and hopeless we and other European Nations have become,and the Chinese government must be absolutely amazed by our gullible incompetence , oh yes , they are sending medical supplies etc… well of course they are..Would you seriously expect them to do otherwise? Time to go outside and play guitar on the terrace.. and muscle memory is an amazing phenomenon..you learn something on a Wednesday , get up on Thursday morning and play it, if you remember, if not just listen to it a couple of times , then go and do it , and..as long as you don’t concentrate too hard it just flows compared to where you left off the night before…its just a question of being like Jim Garrison, and no matter how old you are and how little natural talent you may have, just crack on , a little every day.. and wow.. you’ll get there.

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The Great Spanish Lockdown

DAY10 ?..MONDAY Another Moral Quandary..

Nightmares woke me early , as i d been foolish enough to watch the Spanish News…People lying in Hospital Corridors in Madrid.. effectively dying..

The day got off to a bad start .. and then i opened my e mails..and the day got much worse..id made a promise to someone before the Miley Cyrus arrived.. and semi forgotten about it..…now i have to keep my word… at great inconvenience …but i explained i could only communicate by phone and e mail, as we re in Quarantine..just in case he did nt know quite what was going on..so off to town again .. boots , gloves mask etc etc.. to leave the keys to his car in an emailed hiding place..lot more people with masks .. they must have seen the news last night… thats the way to bring it on home… show people dying ..no matter how grim its the only way apparently..of course the usual suspects were wandering around without a care.. but as they tend to spend all their time with each other its their funeral , so to speak .

Back to Business..Honest i Do.. well the Original, which i finally decided to listen to is in Ab…means tuning down…or finding another version.. and what a version .. Little Jimmy Reed , who i knew from Tabbys Blues Box in Baton Rouge , has the best cover ever..in fact i prefer it to the original as theres only one guitar and is thus easier to follow.. and has great piano ..Lessons on their own are not much use , but teaching yourself wrongly is equally fruitless…and the worst? I used to be guilty of it .. a really bad habit to get into .. and one thats hard to break is reading from Paper or a tablet…you will not get in the habit of developing your memory .. and the memory is like a muscle .. I ve just been reading a book about Memory..i cant remember the title .. had to get that in…seriously , if you practise certain techniques you can remember a whole pack of cards , or pi up to 20 numbers or whatever in a few months.. and lyrics are the same.. the more you do it t the easier..anyway ill take off my guitar teacher hat .. and try and work to Eddie Taylors parts from what Little Jimmy reed is doing in the video.

#corona virus/covid 19 /blues/music . lockdown

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The Great Spanish Lockdown

DAY 8 .EXPEDITION TO THE CORE OF THE REACTOR , part 1

After last night s Doc we watched what turned out to be a horror film about a Spa, in Germany or Austria where the patients are slowly being poisoned and fed to Eels . so woke up feeling even worse than usual .it was raining. Sunday s the day for shopping id reasoned last night, but now i did nt feel the same sense of urgency, but how much longer can i postpone it?, so , after gargling with Listerine and putting my hands in a bucket of Zotal before gloving up, i put on a polo neck sweater with a hoodie on top, ,tracksuit trousers with jeans on top, some safety shoes id once bought for building but never worn, a raincoat on top of everything,,and two masks , to be on the safe side..i felt i was going to deal with an accident at Porton Down, .I decided on Auroras car as i thought i t would be less likely to be stopped by the Police i did nt want them breathing on me, so i put all the forms of ID i could imagine them asking for , including the water bill , on the seat beside me.. and considered taking writing materials so i would nt have to speak directly with them, but they might take a dim view of one s not opening the window…better not..so after a deep breath of fresh air put the masks on and then rolled the polo neck on top.and set off. A car passed by with its lights on, but otherwise there was no-one on the road. *Windscreen wipers slahing time*…I sang to myself as i approached the first roundabout , expecting a group of amphetamine charged Soldiers ,Police and Guardia Civil waiting to pull me over, There was no one .i slowed down and as i came round the curve to the second roundabout … a man in an Anorak walking a labrador. I swallowed some Listerine flavoured saliva ,, *Stands to reason they ll be at the main one then..*i said to myself as i swished down the hill..not to slow and not too fast , well obviously not too fast as the Aixam won’t do over 30 mph. there was no one at the third roundabout either, I was so relieved i closed my eyes and almost ran over an old woman who was crossing the road I drove past the shop slowly , to check out the crowd, there did nt seem to be one , well , it was eight o clock on a Sunday morning,and pouring with rain., I did a U turn in the empty street ,parking outside the Farmacia, and putting all my paperwork in my backpack , and putting the backpack on on top of the raincoat.In the window of the farmacia was a sign saying ..

We do not stock hand sanitiser , masks or Alcohol

There was one old man in the shop apart from the owner , neither wearing gloves or mask.i began to feel a little warm. and i d forgotten the list, i started filling the tiny wheeled basket at random, and soon had to get another. An acquaintance came in , *Why are you dressed like that?* i thought of the obvious replies .*.Fancy Dress Party ,* *Just got back from Holiday in Chernobyl* etc … In the end just grunted *Hola Juan * through the three layers of material..by this time the sweat was running down my back, the inner mask was clammy , warm, and the middle part was soaked in dribble,, and the shoes were giving me a pain across the top of my feet as in my haste id laced them to tight and the socks were riding up. A good looking dark haired woman in her thirties ,who id seen around town but was not quite in on nodding terms with ,came in wearing purple leggings that must have been a size too small , or maybe she d put on weight in the confinement of her flat .I remembered i had to buy Bleach , she was looking at the Shampoo on the lower shelf of the aisle where the Bleach was, and her ample posterior precluded any possibility of passing without contravening the safe distance measure..i went into reverse with my two trolleys and knocked over a stack of tins of dogwood .On turning around to see the damage my backpack swished some bottles of shower gel into the aisle. i crawled around attempting to restore order , as her eyes burned into the back of my hoodie. More people came and went and i gave up calculating how long would it take to eat 16 tins of canned Tuna..and headed for the till , as there was a moment when there was no-one near the till. I started stacking stuff on the counter, and soon i could hardly see over the top , as some items , such as sacks of potatoes , and 8 litre bottles of water were quite bulky, the purple leggings woman was behind me , she looked dismayed, i would gladly have let her go ahead but by now the owner had started totting up my score on a calculator. *Seventy eight euros twenty one.* i realised i had put the wad of notes in the zip up pocket of my tracksuit bottom s, which were underneath my jeans, this would involve undoing the top buttons of the jeans and doing some serious rummaging…and all without taking the gloves off.There was always the chance that i would nt be recognisable in mask and hat.. yeah right.

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The Great Spanish Lockdown

..not quite . working from home..

Day 6 ..Friday

Struggling .. which is why i did nt see the news or spend time on Social Media yesterday..

I thought it would be a breeze and after a little concentration id have it down .. but no , even the first part…known as lumpedy lump was proving tough , because of the triplet walk up from the V to the 1.. and i think thats the part Jimmy Reed himself is playing… If you ve read previous episodes you will know i refer to Honest I Do….the song. Im learning it on a You Tube lesson , now a lot of people who think of themselves as pros , seem to think there s some sort of stigma ro learning stuff on You Tube, but i know a French guy , of Spanish descent , who is a really hot Flamenco guitarist who has mastered nearly all the Palos , and all on You Tube They are right, if you dedicate yourself to different songs at the same time, but it s like working form home…you need time and discipline ..and take the lessons very slowly and don’t move on till you can play it 20 times with your eyes shut..preferably standing up .. then move on up. Yesterday was the first time i managed to do this.

There is a different tone on Social media today .. angrier , more prone to blame others, more censorious…and on one group forum i saw they were going to ban Humour..well , i don’t personally know the Group leader.. but it does nt take much imagination to know she s not someone you d want to be quarantined with.

The only thing to fear is fear itself.. well i certainly don’t think that applies in this situation, quite the reverse, the more frightened we are the less we will venture forth on errands that are not strictly necessary..i was on my way out the door , literally, when my mobile rang…it was the charming woman from the bank.. she d got my message .. id gone way over my limit.. which was why i could nt withdraw funds…She , and i won’t name her, is working from Home and sorted it all out on her laptop..no need for me to go to town.. Is nt that great?..well , I thought it was..and a good thing too,as she has not been provided with any masks..and we are talking about a Bank..if they cant get basic stuff like that no wonder the Government are nt testing people .. they don’t have the wherewithal…it is nt as though this has nt been on the News everyday since December the something. .I remember listening to Radio Four as i was driving through Slough, in December,… don’t ask … the M4 was closed..and i was listening to a woman in Wuhan describing how her parents were dying in the Street.. that really got my attention. It did nt seem to get the attention of the people in charge here however, as when the inevitable arrived nearly three months later , they had done nothing to prepare for it. The Spanish Disease is politics, it creeps into every corner of life and spreads its poison , a bit like you know what,..and in the past when people got fed up with their venal politicians there was a Military Coup , and then they realised maybe life was better before with democracy … and the cycle starts again. This model has been exported successfully to Latin America.. with the possible exception of Mexico. and Costa Rica Its all very well for us stodgy Northerners with our bad weather , to criticise, but Sun affects people,and when things are good they seem so much better in the Sunshine..but something about Sunny weather produces Volatility, and an @ i won’t fix the roof as its not raining @ World View… and Italys colossal death rate is the price to be paid .. not that it is nt sunny in China..or South Korea..but they do a lot more than just fix the roof..and to put it down to Confucianism .. well maybe best not to start on that. Australia will be interesting, they have lots of sun , but its a pretty organised place ..and i don’t see them making this sort of Balls up.. also they have the experience of natural disasters,,and pulling together, and will not let Politics interfere…any country that had leaders with names like Abbott and Costello doesn’t waste too energy on petty politics. The Current Classic example of petty minded, spiteful, pointless, negative ,oppurtunism , is the attempt on social media and what sup groups to denigrate the Royal Family organising people to rattle saucepans at a given time, because apparently the current King s father had a rather large amount of money in a Swiss Account..well, it was Saudi Money , not money stolen from the Spanish taxpayer, unlike the billions stolen by the previous administration , the PP .The idea for this stupidity was inspired by the Custom of applauding the Medical profession every night at eight o clock.. an excellent morale boosting , bringing everyone together kind of gesture..well everything has its opposite and this is an excellent way to breed more discontent and fracture an all ready pretty fractured society.. it beggars belief and you really have to have lived here to see these Barca Madrid idiocies at first hand. Barca Madrid is a term used to describe the divide and conquer ,us and them , attitudes that have stopped Spain s progress since the collapse of their Empire, culminating in the most vicious Civil War in recent European History, and one would have hoped that after 40 plus years of Democracy it would have disappeared , but sadly, like in the USA and a lot of other democracies , it seems to be on the increase.The anger on Social Media which results from the claustrophobic frustration of a lockdown will hopefully not boil over into something with unpleasant political consequences, which would be very sad , as after Franco s death and the adoption of constitution that is the envy of many countries, Spain was a beacon of hope in the last quarter of the 20 th century… how the mighty are fallen .. one hopes not..

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Day 5

Remember the EU? No-one else does.. it took about a week to fall apart .. about the time it took Hitler to invade half of Europe.. Who is sending us emergency supplies? China and the USA..funny that..anyway lets avoid politics today and all that nasty stuff.. Another day has passed and i still have nt learnt the Guitar parts to Honest I Do..i don’t know where the time goes… well i do .. its wasted following events on line and messing about on Facebook ..i did plumb in the new washing machine…a Zanussi..i bought it for 150 euros.. in the Dodgy second hand place next to the enormous Whorehouse between Vera town and the A7 Motorway.. The Whorehouse has been closed for several years .. i bet the owners are glad now..can you imagine the overheads.with no customers ?.. it might make a good makeshift Hospital .However the Second hand place, which has the same owner apparently, will no doubt prosper in the uncertain times ahead as people flog their tellies to buy food… I also put a rack up to hang the ladders, and scythed some grass and weeds..while the grey clouds raced by overhead. .I sat on the bench on the top roof and looked at the sea.. well the triangle of sea you can spot between the mountains.it took awhile to screw the brackets to the wall , as all the Chinese and hardware shops are shut one has to make do with assorted screws and rawplugs , none of which were quite the right size, Make do... nice Second World War ring that phrase has..anyway i have lots of miscellaneous stuff hanging about to fix things with..in fact last week , before the Clampdown, sorry Lockdown ,someone filled a dustbin up at the bottom of the drive with assorted plumbing fixtures , and all sorts of hooks and brackets..the Senegalese Fishermen and i went through it all like kids under the Christmas tree..hoping it did nt belong to some recently deceased Virus victim.. I’m sure we d have been informed..

Tomorrow s resolution..the same as yesterdays resolution.. DONT GO TO TOWN…yes ,they are right.. DONT GO OUT…its easy to delude yourself that you need chocolate or Shampoo or lightbulbs..well i don’t need shampoo, come to think of it..but i could do with my looper pedal…BUT I will be strong.. i ve even put a chain across the drive to make coming in and going out a bit more awkward .. i am so glad my bike is nt here .. that would be too tempting ..it s trapped in a garage in Alicante. Meanwhile a friend sent me photos of Army lorries moving in England somewhere .. so we can guess whats coming..i suppose it ll be fairly easy to apply martial l;aw or whatever they call it nowadays .. The Northern Ireland troubles were nt so long ago.. i remember playing a great gig in Belfast with Henry Gray, and on the way we were stopped by some soldiers and a tank went by,it was all very polite , in fact they seem to be quite glad to see some new faces. Henry was very surprised, and as we moved on he asked me what was happening @ We re in Belfast Henry@ @ Belfast? i thought this was Belgium@ In a way he was taking a wise approach because sometimes the less one knows about unpleasant situations the more content and relaxed one is…as far as the current situation goes …well.. that s a tough one to answer.

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Spanish lockdown day 4.. Another day, another complete balls up by the political Class..THEY ARE NOT TESTING PEOPLE FOR CORONAVIRUS Yesterday I spent a lot more time than planned on the internet..and the guy who you have to listen to is Spiriman..a Doctor working in a Hospital in Granada who was on TV ,Canal 5 , otherwise known as the Morons channel where he pointed out just how catastrophically badly the Government is handling this..he was censored and booted off the program for speaking the truth , from the frontline , so to speak .He pointed out they are NOT TESTING PEOPLE. The truth is, for those who don’t already know, that instead of planning ahead the Government allowed a Feminist demonstration in Madrid on the 8th of march.. THIS WAS AGAINST THE ADVI8CE OF THE EU..however Political correctness comes before Human lives to the cretins on the extreme left of the Government Coalition who are sort of Corbynistas with University degrees…especially the Queen Moron herself Irene Montero…Minister of Equality…meanwhile on the extreme Right, not to be outdone in the Stupidity stakes had their outdoor meeting…where one of the principal Neo Nazi Numbskulls is an idiot by the name of Ortega Smith.. well guess what happened? Yes , I’m delighted to say both the Queen Moron and Ortega Goebbels HAVE COVID 19…Aint that something? Why am I delighted? Is nt that disgraceful , should nt i be sympathetic ? Should i be sympathetic to someone selling heroin outside a School ?… because morally we are talking about the same sort of mentality…no , damn them.. i am delighted because that was the point when the political Elite should have woken up.. and they did .. and they started talking about doing something…and I began to have a glimmer of hope they might do something intelligent instead of talking about Catalonia and feminism..Vain hope indeed They talked and they talked and the people in Madrid..or Wuhan European style…began to notice that as the EU had done nothing , the Government here had done nothing , and the Italians were not closing down Air Travel… on the contrary, people were pouring out of Milan and flying into Madrid UNTESTED..at that point the Madrid local government could have saved thousands of lives by locking down Madrid..City and Region… but they are a bunch of Right wing ideologues who don’t give a shit about the rest of the Spanish population… they let them flood into the Cities and resorts on the Mediterranean coast thus putting thousands more lives at risk. The people living on the Coast , of whom i am one , began to complain about being infected by these selfish arrogant superior Urbanites who thought they were on Holiday.. and complained on Social media… BUT BY THEN IT WAS TOO LATE. The Local Authorities decided then TO CLOSE THE BEACHES, ..YEAH RIGHT…that ll help , but still allowed these people to pour in.. The government had a series of cabinet meetings where they and their Coalition partners could nt agree on what measures to take… it was a series of meetings… that s how badly they could nt agree Eventually they took the radical Step of forcing everyone to stay in their houses in the whole country… right, everyone said oooh , is nt it wonderful , they re doing something… the fact that what they were doing IS NOT GOING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM , BUT ONLY GOING TO DESTROY AN ALREADY WEAK ECONOMY Is secondary ..they are seen to be doing something..and for once the Right Wing opposition decide to Unite behind the Government .. something absolutely unimaginable a few days ago. That brings us up to yesterday…when Spiriman ..the Doctor i mentioned earlier began to to become more of a Star on Social media.. where he pointed out how woefully ill equipped the Hospitals are..and once again , HOW THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE LIVES IS TO TEST PEOPLE AND SEGREGATE THE INFECTED FROM THE HEALTHY..Do the Authorities listen..Damn Right they don’t…They kicked him out of his job in the Hospital and now he has to make his you tube videos at home. Here we are today… waiting for nothing ..they don’t have plan , and if they do its the wrong plan… they are not following the Advice of the Chinese or the South Koreans..which can be summed up in one Word TEST... PART 2 …Rant over…Wednesday..one week ago we had the Jam Session..and the Champions League..both now firmly in the past. A week is a long time in Politics , and a lot of other things too, Boy , Did that escalate quickly..Storm Dana is here..its not really such a big deal , but giving it a name makes it sound more important… it seems like your average Levante , as these North Easterly Winds are known here .. where they usually blow for about three days and give one an excuse for staying inside… not that we need one these days. I went up on the roof as the Hot water is nt working and its not the same as the solar electricity.. well , no Sun .. and I d disconnected the fall back heater some time ago . and as I mentioned yesterday was planning to sort out some of the more shambolic wiring…anyway I did nt sort it out..but I did connect the heater about an hour ago.I did nt sort it out because i went to town , to get the charger , to buy gas for the heaters , to pick up some oranges, to drop by the Farmacia and see if they had any hand gel , no , obviously…I wore a mask.. well two to be exact ,one was your average medical mask as seen in any Hospital drama where beautiful nurses eyes peep over and exchange deep emotions with George Clooney, the other was a mask I was supposed to use when spraying pesticides on Cacti or Palm Trees or whatever plague is fashionable this year in the Plant World..these plagues being much more common because of Global Warming..anyway as opinions seem to differ about Effectiveness of masks i wore both..and got a few odd looks and the occasional ironic comment ..however it s too late for vanity. There were other people wearing masks , the Municipal gardeners , people driving trucks,i.e. people working in jobs where they use their hands and consequently probably have their feet more firmly on the ground than those in the shops , who despite being in a far more exposed environment, were still in the never never land of last week. Women were on the street shopping, a few were queuing up for a cash machine at the bank, too many for me to join them,not one was wearing a mask , but they probably saw on the internet that Masks don’t help..Who knows? if they stop one touching ones face then it s worth it. i saw a Police car driving slowly..and two traffic Cops bikes parked outside a bar..and i did nt put two and two together..a bar? I thought the bars were closed..anyway I ll investigate next time..I went to the BP station to get a couple of Gas Canisters filled and they were serious there..only one person at a time , employee masked.. etc..but i was the only customer..I did the usual illegal left turn out of the gas station and headed back to town to buy Jeyes Fluid, or Zotal as its known in Spain .. It actually is similar to Dettol and will kill Corona viruses..so i can use to disinfect gloves.. as there are no more disposable gloves around

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Spanish lockdown ..Day 3

Routine seems to set itself..animals and children need it ..i see holidaymakers develop a routine within 48 hours of arriving..and it seems getting up at 6 am is the new norm. How much time should one spend online?i keep pondering the answer to the question Tina , my dog , keeps posing me.. Why Cant we be more like South Korea, the answer , if you re a dog , is count your blessings.. however it does look horribly as though we re going to follow the path of Italy..and that is par for the course if you read the History of the Black death , or Bubonic Plague, in Wikipedia .. China to Venice etc I think we ll look back , those that survive that is, with a certain amount of nostalgia for these lazy days, because the other end of the tunnel will come out in a world a lot less agreeable than the one we left. One part of me almost wants this lockdown to go on indefinitely.i certainly don't feel like Sherlock Holmes , who , on taking on the new client in the Wisteria lodge mystery said to Watson.. ^We can thank our lucky fate that has rescued us for a few hours from the insufferable fatigue of Idleness...^ i suppose that is the sentiment that drives people to queue for petrol when they have almost a full tank.. and nowhere to go anyway...personally i dread going anywhere..i have to get my charger, this is true , but its taking on the proportions of a visit to a Police Staion or a Day in Court...and then there s the dilemma of the Chicken... is it worth risking one s health to buy a frozen Chicken and whatever else they may have in the deep freeze?..or am i just toying with this dilemma because i cleaned an old deep freeze the day before yesterday and now i want to try it out so to speak.. Of course thinking about these things keeps me from some of the bigger questions...like the fact that Las Vegas has shut down and i was due to go there to continue with the process of a Surrogate child.. this seems to have gone up the spout for a while , to use an unfortunate metaphor..a series of unfortunate twists of fate keep pushing fatherhood further over the horizon...as for the financial questions .. well i expect most of us are waking up in a cold sweat about that one... It does nt look now as though there will be a dystopian breakdown of Law and order in the immediate future , but i would feel more comfortable with an M16 in the back of the wardrobe..and a better excuse for some serious experimentation with banned substances would be hard to come by... but i don't have any...so No Fear and Loathing or Ken Kesey pranksterism. , i hate to use the word Kool Aid as its taken on a new meaning since the Halcyon days of the late 60 s... Todays project was to put up a rack to store the ladders in the patio..and to do something about the haphazard wiring in the Studio.. but first i need to learn the melody guitar part to Jimmy Reeds Honest I Do. Hasta Pronto, Si Dios Quiere , as they say round

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My Home Is A Prison..

Spanish lockdown..episode 2 Woke up ridiculously early again as I’d fallen asleep in front of the fire with a glass of wine in my hand,luckily I was wearing clothes from theOxfam shop,,and not even a West London Oxfam shop at that..anyway listening to the cocks crow from over the road and wondering that if this gets as serious as it looks like getting whether I should get some chickens myself I saw the shepherds pass by yesterday evening and wondered about that as well,wandering the mountainsides all day..occasionally napping under a bush..ideal situation for practicing harmonica,however some of them seem to have begun losing the power of speech and address their flocks in monosyllabic grunts and drawn out wails..no Miguel Hernandez s round here apparently.. my dog on the other hand is fluent inCastellano but seems to have little grasp of Engish..but then she is from a fairly obscure mountain village, Tijola,to be precise. wi fi does reach the Mac ,so I’m on the tablet..it’s awful..and I left the keyboard in town so I’ll have to make a clandestine visit..maybe carrying some conspicuous shopping.. It does nt seem to take long to realize how much stuff in life is of secondary importance,aTV would be nice but the satellite receiver got burned up in a power surge,and the electrical monopoly,Endesa,were rude and unsympathetic and basically racist,as they assumed I do nt speak Spanish and made some disparaging remarks which I overheard and decided then and there to tell them to fuck themselves,which is why I now have solar energy ,and fantastic it is too. The arrogance and incompetence of the Utility monopolies is like that of dictatorial governments...Think China,...ok.so we saw them build a hospital in a week etc, but if they had nt been so dishonest as to try to cover it up n the first place then this would nt be happening...let alone allowing the virus to escape from their germ warfare lab in Wuhan.?anyway we re alll tired of that ..of course Endesa and Galasa could nt build their respective equivalents of hospitals either..every single week,and I am not exaggerating,,there is a broken water main ..I am sure that does nt happen in Burkina Fasso or whatever country they based their business model on. I admit to being surprised by how quickly the Spanish Government got their act together,great press conference yesterday evening,nothing like a few.cases of covid19 affecting some of the more extremist elements to wake up those in charge in the centre. I particularly relished Margarita Robles putdown of the disgusting Quim Torra,a particularly foul specimen of arrogant political opportunism..and ugly as hell to boot..anyway I also forgot my charger so until my surreptitious raid on the house in town is completed I’ll have to sign off.

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