Moving to Andalusia

Hmmm, anyone got a nice old big domestic copper tank with a couple of coils
in for solar and backboiler?

 

<trundles downstairs and back up>

It contained Aerolite V and according to the label it's...

Mildy carcinogenic
Harmful to skin
May cause breathing difficulties
Will cause eye irritation
etc, etc.

But that's all right because the security bloke said so.

Actually, he told me there's a ready market for the empties for use in
milking parlours and the stuff is, in reality, fairly harmless. I just
hope the dopey fuckers clean them out properly.

 

Paul Carmichael wrote

Sounds like a very good reason for staying in the UK.

 

Ace ha escrito:

Er... I don't quite follow... does that "Italians" mean Romans?

 

<snort> Have I just been insulted or complimented?

Ali

 

Heh. It's a glorious climate. Mild in winter, pleasantly warm in summer,
mostly sunny all the time.

The only bad bit about the weather is what they call the "June Gloom."
There's a prevailing pattern of a maritime layer that brings cold fog at
that time of year. Go a mile inland and it's lovely.

I used to have a bumper sticker that said "There is no intelligent life East
of I-5.)

Ali

 

I was enticed here by Rusty, and liked the conversation.

Ali

 

I'll bet you and I can guess the answer, eh?

Ali

 

Of of the very few unique languages, yes? Along with Finnish, and I think
Hungarian. (Didn't we ginge this a few months back?)

Ali

 

I ain't promising you nuffink.

Ali

 

Had a lesson today. Got almost all the subjunctive stuff right!

Still can't speak or understand andalú.

Them lot in the Basque Country believe that their language is pure and
unaffected by others. It is *very* weird. Lots of Ks and Ws and Xs.

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
UKRMMA #30

 

I keep getting emails from people saying "boycott catalán products as
all the IVA goes to Cataluña". What's that all about then?

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
UKRMMA #30

 

Me encanta el senderismo. I might be your first Brit visitor.

Mind you, there's millions of miles of walking country around here.

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
UKRMMA #30

 

You saw some spanish in Álora? Blimey. That place is Brit City.

We researched taking that train to Málaga. There's only a couple per day
and the first one is in the afternoon FFS!

I'd rather go on the slow train anyway, as you get to see some lovely
scenery, including the entire Camino del Rey (and the inside of a lot of
tunnels).

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
UKRMMA #30

 

3000 brits in amongst the 40000 in the Alora area apparently

I took the train from Roda to El Chorro the other day and passed through
those very tunnels. Got some ok shots of the early morning light illuminating
the west side of the gorge. I've done the Caminito del Rey by the way, and
have the T-Shirt.

http://www.tallbloke.net/pics/caminito.jpg

 

Very welcome, I'll let you know when I'm sorted.

 

Stick in the mud "',"

 

I heard that it's pretty much unrelated to the romance languages or indeed
the indo european group. Some say it uses some of the same grammatical
patterns as Gaelic. One example was the way the irish might say:

"I'll be after going to the pub later"

I dunno much about etymology though, so it could be nonsense. Interesting
that Breton (based on old Brythonic) also uses K W and X though.

What's the alternative basque name for Irun? I seem to recall that starts
with a K.

 

Hungarian has a lot of Mongol influence. Or so I was told by a Hungarian
historian in Budapest recently.

 

tallbloke wrote

I quite like Billericay for what it is now and it is getting warmer here
every year, why should I move?