IT was the phone call that you think that you will never get, and afterward pray that you never do again. Halfway through a nondescript working weekday my mobile buzzed into life.
JUST when you thought it was safe to go back to the last pages of the Olive Press. I’m back. A combination of pre and post Festive season and New Year commitments
IF the thought of all this Christmas cheer is getting too much for you, then here are a few failsafe tips to avoid all the ho, ho, hoing. Start early by volunteering
MARINES in Vietnam used to deal with the insanity around them by imagining that it wasn’t real life. It was an acid drenched inversion of reality and they would count down the
AS I write this gentle reader I am on the second day of my holiday. Now, before you all chime in, with me living in Marbella and working in the media it
THE busy start to the summer, as tourists arrive in significant numbers, has already shown some worrying signs. The first of these has been online videos of idiots sitting on the sunroofs
It has been noted more than once, but I have the face for radio. Except for May, when the unsuspecting viewing public of Marbella and then nationwide in the UK were treated
MAY is one of my favourite months in Spain. After the recent rains, the campo around the Casita has erupted into riotous full bloom. Naturalists such as Sir David Attenborough would no
WITH the reservoir now almost full after the recent, much needed rains, and the Casita finally dried out after flooding caused by the aforementioned downpour, my next pressing task was to collect
BE careful what you wish for. At the beginning of March, I was seriously concerned about the lack of rainfall in Spain. Specifically the lack of rainfall at the Casita as the
IN my previous column, I wrote about the continuing conflict in Ukraine. Last week, the war became a much more personal thing for me. Mainly because of the incredible bravery of the
A Marbella journalist’s life is normally deciding which restaurant, club or new development lauch I should grace with my presence. The nearest I ever come to danger is the threat of being
The HSBC International Rugby Sevens Series visited Spain for the first time in its history last month and, seeing as it was the weekend after my birthday, going to watch teams including
THERE is nothing quite like celebrating a birthday in mid-January. As the rest of Spain pledges never to touch a drop, go vegan, enroll at the nearest gym or posts life-affirming quotes
I HAVE always been keen on maintaining my Christmas traditions. Once again, I spent most of the Christmas and New Year period at the radio station, presenting ‘Best of Shows’, drinking far
I suppose that I should be getting into the spirit of the festive season by now. But as a famously frugal and splendidly single fifty-something with no children, my run up to
I HAVE always been a cat person. With a lifestyle that is best described as erratic, cats, with their independent outlook on life have always been my pet of choice. If I
THERE are mix ups and there are mix ups. And then there are the kind of mix ups that leave even yours truly, with several decades of dealing with customer service in
BRITISH Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s recent break to Marbella – or more accurately Benahavis – seems to have divided the Press and public back in the UK. His supporters said that he
WE take it for granted we are surrounded by some of the most stunning nature in Spain. But the recent devastating fires in the Sierra Bermeja (Costa del Sol) proved just how
Giles Brown muses on the end of summer, and admits a lost in translation moment. You can take a deep breath now. It’s September and they have all gone. It is fair
SUMMER has long been the time of year when driving niceties fly straight out of the near side window. The roads are full normally of Madrileños driving their Mercedes at five miles
SUMMER is here and like the much maligned and misunderstood lemmings of popular folklore most of Spain flocks to the shoreline every summer August is of course the high point and one
‘Hello to Jason Issacs’. If you recognise that greeting then you are most probably a member of The Church of Wittertainment, aka the considerable audience of Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review. Thanks
WHILE the boffins in the economic think tanks point to various trends, graphs and assorted factors that life in Spain is returning to normal, the clearest indication that the worst days of
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