“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Anita, the Gibraltarian, taught me how to cook this dish. In the RMP office kitchen one day after I’d badgered her for the recipe. So. To me, it has always been a Spanish Dish – Not Italian or Italianish. Anyhoo…I’m drowning in our friends’ surplus chicken eggs and I have some cooked potatoes, a red […]
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OK. I’m a few days late but I don’t watch live news ! I’m loving the timing of this MAJOR NEW FIND. Can y’all feel the FAKE history panic vibe? P.S. I abseiled down the rock of Gibraltar…twice. Not bad for a girl who is soooo freaking scared of heights that she almost peed herself […]
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WRF The image above is a very bad picture of my front room. Shrug. I’m blaming my tools! The focus is the picture straight ahead. A William Russell Flint print that I’ve spent half a day trying to find on the internet. I started collecting his prints when I was in my late 20’s. This […]
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BFBS My boys were very young when we moved to Gibraltar. All we had on the TV was BFBS. Their FAVE programme was the one in the video below. We used to go to Bleak House aka the Gib Library to get out videos of this show. Day in and Day out! At least it […]
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I’ve spent half a day trying to find an internet picture of The Princess Royal Block, Europa Point, Gibraltar. But all images seem to have been scrubbed. Anyhoo. We lived there. On the second floor. A four bed flat with four balconies. The living room had windows looking onto La Linea, Spain and North Africa. […]
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