Its been an odd week this week. Emotionally its been a roller coaster and the cheese has slipped. However today, it is back where it should be, well pretty much.
Let me start by explaining the title. Ant has been one of our locals for a good while now but sadly due to the situation we are all in he finds himself having to return to the UK. We hope its only temporary and that he will be back. Good luck Ant and stay safe.
So whats with the Pint"O"s? I hear you ask. Its something that has become a running joke with a few of our locals after telling them a story about something that happened to us many years ago when we lived in Mallorca.
Eddie and I worked in a bar called The Red Lion. It was frequented by mainly British tourists.
One Sunday, one of those said tourists came in, went to the bar and asked for a Sunday Dinnero with Gravyo and Yorkshire Puddingo. I kid you not, this is absolutely true, and said tourist generally thought that if you put an "O" on the end of everything then you were speaking the lingo.
"que" was the response from the Tomas the Spanish barman. Said tourist then repeated again, a Sunday Dinnero with Gravyo and Yorkshire Puddingo!!!
Having told this story to some friends in the bar, it is now a running joke, we serve pint"O"s, Whisky"O"s, Brandy"O"s, you name it, we've got them all.
I´m not going to lie to you, the cheese really did slide on one particular day this week, I lost my shit and I wasn't in a good place. It happens to us all, we have good days, bad days, it is what it is and we are all trying to deal with it as best we can. Most of the time I´m absolutely fine, but on the odd day.............the same as everyone else I would imagine, the cheese slips.
"Lets go out" Eddie said
"OK" I grunted back
We ended up in Santiago Del Teide at one of our favorite tapas bars. It was cold, it was windy and it was raining, not proper rain, just that drizzle that soaks you. Its amazing what a change of scenery, a change of weather, good coffee, good tapas and good music can do for ones well being. Thank you Ed!
We had some sad news this week. My brother and his family sadly had to say goodbye to their beloved English Bull Terrier this week and we are all upset. Rufus was with the family for thirteen years, he came as tiny puppy that would fit in your hand and grew to around 6 stone. He was an amazing dog, he loved to sunbathe and my sister in law used to have to put sun cream on him. He loved the family Xmas tree and every year he would bury his nose in it until it was red raw. He didn't have a bad bone in his body and he will be terribly missed by us all.
One last thing, I saw a post on Facebook this week regarding scones! how do you say it? is scone like bone and or is scone like gone? For me its a scone like gone! The question was cream or jam first? Simple, you start with a slice of butter, then the jam followed by the cream. During strict Lockdown our terrace would turn in to a tea shop and most Saturdays we would have afternoon tea on the terrace! how very civilized!
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Until next time
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H x
I used to work for a company that made fruit machines and we exported some to Spain. One of the game programmers had to write a 50/50 win / lose gamble but not knowing much Spanish he put 'winnero' and 'de nada' as place holders for the messages to be translated into Spanish later. However it got overlooked because English people in the company thought it had already been translated and the Spanish customer never question it.
ReplyDeleteIt was only later that we hired a programmer that happened to be Spanish and she said "what is winnero?". Too late because the machines were all on site by then.