At last I may try some relaxation
5 Weeks Ago
Eventually seem to have convinced others that my electricity supply has a problem which originates outside of my house. The trouble with Spanish houses is that they exist in communities, with shared stuff like outdoor lights, and in my case a shared earth *spike* ( literally a spike) between mine and about 10 more houses. So, somewhere along the line a fault has occurred and I get nearly 400volts of power entering my wires every evening.  is not the word. So, my circuit breakers all trip and I am powerless. Such a word, no pun intended. Of course, in the day when the chaps from the power company came to test, my system was perfect and they gave me looks like this  I could see them thinking 'mujer inglesa estúpida'
In the first instance we blamed my old refrigerator, and since it was probably very inefficient I have sent it to the recycling depot and ordered a new one. So as well as in the dark, I am without a means to keep my food fresh. It has really brought it home to me how life has changed and we have become so complacent over even a simple thing like not having melted butter due to refrigeration. ( Yesterday the temperature was over 30 degrees C in the daytime and about 25 at night.) Today is cooler, only 25 C, and a pleasant breeze from the sea.
I have ordered my new fridge, which is being delivered on Friday, and on Thursday the electricians are going to install my very own, personal Earth Spike, in my garden. Such a thing! I am impressed. I will take some photos to show you <haha>.
So now I have written this down and there is nothing else to do -so I can go and relax - I have been either waiting in for various electricians, who have been unable to locate this source of external volts, or out looking at fridges.
I might even start reading a new book.
...oh yes, I have all the vocabulary needed now for discussing electrical problems in Spanish. I struggled for ages with the word 'wire'  it's 'cable' pronounced cah -bleh.
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And Another Thing
Oct 12, 2009
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n4yrp
reminder to self to listen to this.
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I need to stop making lists...
Sep 25, 2009
and get on with doing something
So, a list
Buy Birthday present, card, paper, balloons etc
Make cake - nah, probably better to buy one from M&S
Cut the grass
Visit sister and daughter
Write these articles
History of the Staffordshire Potteries
a) Why the Potteries developed where they did and early history, including canals and beam engines, coal pits, clay mines.
b) How a Pottery manufactory functioned ( all the various roles etc)
especial mention of the bottle oven
c) What exactly is bone china - and porcelain and earthenware etc
d) China Flowermaking - a lost art
e) The rise of the Unions within the Potteries, riots, deportations, workhouses etc -
f) The Clean Air Act and its effect on The Potteries
g) Various notable family firms, Spode, Minton, Copeland, Wedgwood, Doulton
h) Collecting English China
i) oh there will be other things for sure...
Moving on
How to Make a Compost Heap
Topiary - and why you should be kind to your children for they will prune it in your old age
Collaborative articles to keep abreast of
Derbyshire
Autumn ( see Mala's journo)
Mosquitos and other biting creatures - ( this seems to have vanished but needs a prod)
....and now, am exhausted by all that thinking 
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At last I make 42
Sep 15, 2009
Well my user number does, at least!!  Thanks to Julzes!  Hurrah!
-10+(7-sqrt(9))*(0+8+0+5)
(thank you again Julzes) My brain does spelling without any problem and it remembers all sorts of stuff about ordinary things, but it just runs and hides in a corner where numbers are concerned. I can actually feel it cringing in pain. Poor brain cells.
time for a little nap
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Butterfly feeling
May 7, 2009
Oh, how strange, I haven't had this feeling for years. It's like waiting for an exam result. Why? Well I just put my first entry into Peer Review. I think I need some coffee now.
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