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sled strikes again…

18 Tuesday May 2010

Posted by azahar in friends, health & happiness

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dr dave, health

Remember back in January when Sledpress sent me a fabulous birthday care package full of wonderful things to help make me feel better? Well, she’s gone and done it again, except this time even more so … and it isn’t even my birthday!

I’d just spent most of yesterday morning (after getting home from yoga class) dealing with landlord Pepe and the 100-year-old carpenter he’d brought over to “fix the doors and windows that don’t close properly”. Which are, well, all of them. And I felt so sorry for the old carpenter, who told me that if he’d known the state of things beforehand he’d never have accepted the job – he could see that all the doors and windows in the building were beyond repair and he didn’t like doing work that was “futile”. Anyhow, he managed to get the livingroom balcony doors so that they won’t fly open with every gust of wind, but there are still huge gaps that he said are impossible to repair because the doors are totally warped. He’s coming back on Thursday to tackle the rest of the doors. And in the middle of all this the postman rang up and said he had a package for me…

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4th blog anniversary

01 Saturday May 2010

Posted by azahar in blogging, friends, internet

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blogoversary


Really so glad I’m still here!
And that you guys are all still here with me.

A glass of bubbly … ?

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pain in the ash

19 Monday Apr 2010

Posted by azahar in friends, holidays, travel, trips

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ash cloud, volcano


Yes it is awesome and quite breathtakingly beautiful, but…

It has also screwed up the travel plans of thousands of people, including my friends Teuchter and her husband J, who should have arrived in Spain last Saturday. For months they’ve been planning their tour of Andalucía, which would’ve also included a couple of days in Sevilla. We’ve been emailing back and forth with different plans and ideas. It was all very exciting because the last time T&J were here was five years ago and we were so looking forward to getting together again. Bum.

Been following the stories on Twitter, of people who are either stranded elsewhere or stuck at home. It really is unprecidented and in a way quite fascinating. But what a mess.

Anyone you know get stuck or stranded?

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punctuality

19 Friday Mar 2010

Posted by azahar in friends, language, psychology, work

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manners, punctuality, respect

How important is punctuality to you?

I live in a country where you are still considered to be “on time” if you arrive up to 15 minutes after the appointed hour. To me that is late! But I try to go along with things like this and don’t let it bother me much … until it also starts happening in my working life. Because I do expect my students to show up on time (just like they expect me to be here waiting for them and prepared to give a class) and for the most part that works out. But yesterday was the third time my Spanish/English classes with María Paz went for a burton … and I just can’t function like that.

Twice she just didn’t show up (no call, no nuthin) and yesterday, after having asked me to move the class forward half an hour, she turned up twenty minutes late! And well, okay, not the end of the world or anything, and if it were just about getting together for lunch or to hang out it probably wouldn’t bother me [much!] … but I can’t *work* like that. And so the classes have now been postponed – probably indefinitely. On the other hand, María Paz is great for being spontaneous and coming out to the hospital with me at a moment’s notice. So we are trying to work out a way to keep seeing each other more often without any sort of rigid schedule.

But no classes. Just hanging out… well, maybe.

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birthday boy

03 Wednesday Mar 2010

Posted by azahar in birthdays, food & drink, friends, restaurants, sevilla, tapas

≈ 17 Comments

Yesterday was Nog’s 57th birthday!

And this is what we did. Because this is what we do about birthdays here at casa az … celebrate the heck out of them! Had a wonderful lunch at La Azotea and then a pleasant evening at home watching films and snibbling cats.

You can see the food descriptions here…

La Azotea

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