Stravinsky is a little short sighted and often word blind so I'm sure he won't mind aa small 4 letter word once in a while.


What I was going to say yestreday was, I have a freind who was born in Cadiz in 1940 lived there until she was 21, could wait to get out of Spain and go to UK where she meet her hubby. Her mother was not a very happy bunny about the whole thing and told her he would divorce her in the end because that's what all English men do, they are still married.

Anyway point of this is they now live back here in Chiclana, a couple of weeks before Christmas we were in Cadiz and she spent hours talking about Cadiz when she was a child. It is now so highly populated it is like looking for a needle in a haystack when trying to find a single story building, she said she can remember the excitement caused by the first block of apartments being built. There is a growing expats community in the Cadiz area, nothing like that on the other costa's, hopefully it will be a good few years before it does get like that, if ever!

When you go back to the UK I am sure your girls will love the place, try and take them to the seaside, my girls are now well into their 20's/30's and they still love going to Dymchurch for the day. When they arrive they go straight to the amusements for the penny machines (that's a laugh in it's self, since when were they last a penny machine), after they have had a while in there they buy fish and chips and go and sit on the sea wall to eat them. After that a nice long walk along the beach, followed by another stint with the machines; by now they have pockets full of rubbish that they have won costing them an arm and a leg. On the way back to the car they stop and get their whippy ice-cream with a flake and eat it as they make tracks back to the car park, they drive back to London clutching their bag of candyfloss that was bought as a panic buy in case they never see a bag again.

This is just an edited version of what I wrote last night and I am not do a spell check as that is how I lost it the first time.