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August in Andalusia is very hot. There's no point in attempting any hyperbolic description to convey how hot it gets. Every summer we would travel north, northeast, northwest anywhere to escape the heat - for at least a fortnight. If we went to the right place, it would be cool, but not wet. For a lot of years, Andalusia did feel like home. Image is of Galicia, destination for just one of our escapist excursions, but a picture of Cantabria, Asturias or Navarre would have done: source PXHere
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Guiris
This is some time before 2011, when I rescued the Hard drive from a kaput komputer, before chucking the rest in the bin. Around 2016 I bought a hard-drive docking station; there are now two old hard drives docked. Sometimes I look back at old stuff, luckily I don't post it all. Guiri is an insult, pretty much, in Andalucia. It used to mean Guardia Civil when they couldn't serve in their home town. Now it means any stranger/foreigner/ex-pat. There are, or used to be, both of these pubs at either end of Alhaurin El Grande's main street. Images: google maps.
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Broken Heartsong
image author's own made at canva.com
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Nursery Writes
There, I feel better now... Not for the easily offended. Image canva.com
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Their Man in Havana
Abortive attempt at novel... may use it somewhere, in something else, who knows? Image from PD elements at canva.com
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This is our Pick of the Day 1st September 2023
Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2023
A fine poem full of sad beauty. It's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
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Read full commentPosted in You Never Said
Terrific.
Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2023
Not to say beautiful.
Read full commentWell done.
Posted in You Never Said
Really evocative.
Posted on Thu, 31 Aug 2023
I had no idea where Rejerrah was, but I saw Morocco or Algiers in my mind's eye.
Read full commentAfter looking it up, I see you have conjured a great sense of place - and the fault is in my Geography, not in your poem.
Posted in The Hawk at Rejerrah
This is Today's Pick of the Day Aug 14th 2023
Posted on Mon, 14 Aug 2023
Thoughtful, evocative and moving; this is our thoroughly deserving pick of the day. Congratulations!
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Congratulations! This is today's Pick of the Day 4th Aug 2023
Posted on Fri, 04 Aug 2023
Well done, this is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day, well done.
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Read full commentPosted in A Slow Cooked Life
Good use of the IP...
Posted on Fri, 04 Aug 2023
I agree.
You have a typo at line 5 "neve" vice "never".
I wonder if "lay" in your third stanza might be better as "lie". Of course, if you're trying to indicate that - perhaps - the unknown...
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This is our Poem of the Week Aug 4th 2023
Posted on Wed, 02 Aug 2023
Congratulations, this is our Poem of the Week.
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Just like
Posted on Wed, 26 Jul 2023
3 Mustapha 3, only smashed on rakia...
https://youtu.be/wvf52QQwjmo
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This is Today's Pick of the Day July 26th 2023
Posted on Wed, 26 Jul 2023
Congratulations! This is today's Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
This laugh-out-loud description of Anglo-Bulgarian social interaction is a hoot.
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"I did what I did for Maria."
Posted on Wed, 26 Jul 2023
and doubtless you did it with no fee-ar.
You always cheer me up no end.
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