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Congrats and best of luck!

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Nice, take what you want and don't give anything back........

Bit selfish innit?


The FMD comment doesn't even sound funny, let alone make much sense.


Now my original comment was a genuine question and it is based on a theory I have about people who move to Spain.

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Ah, you mean like when I asked you plant related questions and you didn't bother to answer?

I didn't comment on your reply, because it didn't seem to make that much sense. I don't draw from the system, I pay into it, over and over and over again. I drew the dole for a month once, but then I contributed to the system, or I couldn't have had that. I have only ever had an in and out hernia op, so on the whole I think my account is well in the black.

What I have is down to luck, and damn hard work. My precious country at every step has seemed to do its best to screw me over.

I think your hypothesis (a theory requires evidence and proof, not hearsay) is less than impressive. Plus as I always say, if it's so great in the UK, how come so many are so desperate to leave?

Given what you posted elsewhere on the board, I think the FMD post was savagely accurate. :thumbup:

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Well I'm feeling positive!!!!

The last but one person to visit (only 4 so far) appears to have turned our house down only because she couldn't get her baby-grand piano in.

Shucks I would have chopped it up small enough if only she had asked!!!

I'm ready for the next one with that problem, I've hired a compactor!!!

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OK, that made me smile, so it's got to be worth karma.

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On that particular theme, the furniture people in Sevilla have special lifts to get furniture in the windows of many multi-storey blocks because very little would even go in the door and up the stairs. And when the street is only a couple of metres wide in the old part of Santa Cruz, the hotels have little powered buggies to haul the bags to where taxis pick up and drop off. In my house I bought a large bed (by Spanish standards) from IKEA and later found it would, luckily, just fit into the main bedroom but the doors of the other bedrooms were a fraction smaller at a few millimetres under 2 metres and the size of the corridor means that the bed cannot go through lengthwise. Living in Spain certainly promotes innovation.

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I love sitting out on our patio at night, watching the stars and listening to the frogs and the crickets, whilst I eat my supper at about midnight - wearing very little! ;) :D :p

Couldn't do that in Somerset!!! :eek:

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Not unless you dig hypothermia.

I love trying to locate a mole cricket /onion cricket (grillo cebollero) at night. They produce a sound out of all proportion to their size, and you can be a metre away and think they are in the next field.

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How interesting!
Maybe that's exactly what we heard only a couple of nights ago, and were desperately trying to work out where the sound was coming from!!

I also love to see the variety of small lizards that pop out of every nook and cranny in the garage, the outside kitchen, on the patio etc.
They're great for keeping the bug life down, and are fascinating to watch.
Last night we were watching one "stalking" a fly on the wall - but unfortunately it was a millisecond too late, and the fly lived to annoy for another day :sneaky:

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EH?

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If you find their burrow, look at it carefully. It is specially shaped to amplify the calls and 'throw' them. I had one in the garden, and I honestly thought it was 100 yards away. It wasn't until I walked past the burrow and realised that the sound direction changed suddenly that I twigged.

We also get the worm lizards, like pink slow worms in the garden, sadly the rotivator killed two. Psandromus lizards in the garden, moorish geckos on the walls, and the odd snake. There are eyed lizards in the village, but sadly a magnificent male got run over.

God, but I love it there!

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I shall look out for a burrow then bil; thanks for the input.

It certainly sounds like you have plenty of nature and wildlife around you; sounds lovely :thumbup:
Which region are you in (when in Spain, I mean - because obviously I know where Herts is! ;))

We had a snake sunbathing on our windscreen a couple of weeks ago!
It shot down inside a small hole in the wing............and we're not sure whether it's still there, or whether it's slithered off somewhere else now that it's been disturbed (hopefully the latter! :ohmy:)
It wasn't a venomous snake, but I still don't much like the idea of it sliding by while I'm on the sunlounger with my book!

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That could be fun, couldn't it??

We are near Vejer de la Frontera in the Cadiz region.

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Oops! Silly me; should read things a bit more closely :o

I've just noticed that you're in Cadiz; sounds wonderful :thumbsup:

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Yeah. It's a really nice area. We are between Gib and Cadiz, and about 20 mins from the sea.

The house is right down a dead end road, so the traffic is minimal, and at night it is as tho someone pulled a big soft duvet over the village. We love it in the evening, going into the garden to watch Vejer lighting up like a xmas tree as the evening slips over the countryside.

I wish to god we could both just go out there and disappear, but at least the next step means Jan will be out there full time while I commute. At least that way I get to spend half the year out there.