new passport!

11 Wednesday Feb 2026

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This just arrived! The first passport since I moved to Spain without a photo taken at Enrique Fotografo. After 67 years at the same location in Calle Rioja they closed their doors THE DAY BEFORE I went to get my passport pic. I was desolate when I hobbled over and saw this sign in the window. Back in the day Enrique was the only place in the centre I could get a photo with the specifications required by Canada, and so I just kept going back every five years. It became a kind of ritual, going into a proper studio, first stopping into a small room with a mirror to “arreglarme” and then getting a professional photo taken. No more.

We’ve lost so many long time family businesses like this over the past couple of years and it’s always the same story… building bought for more tourist apartments, the rent skyrockets, the business closes. In this case they have relocated to Tomares, a village outside the city in the Aljarafe. Sadly a bit too far out for me. Oh well, the memories remain. When I left a comment on their Instagram mentioning getting my Canadian passport photos done there for years they wrote back saying…”yes, we remember you!” 🥲

tractors galore

10 Tuesday Feb 2026

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Today I had the cardiology revision appointment made last July after cutting Flecainide from my prescription (which immediately made me feel better). I wasn’t sure what they were actually going to do today other than the usual ECG and ask about the tachycardia. Then it turned out they didn’t do anything because I WAS WAYLAID BY HUNDREDS OF TRACTORS and couldn’t go. Well fuck.

Don’t get me wrong, I fully support the demonstration by the thousands of farmers and their hundreds of tractors that brought Sevilla to a standstill today. I just didn’t know it was happening. So if I hadn’t checked the Number 3 bus route for times I wouldn’t have seen the alert (the main tractor route is also my route to the hospital) I would have been so fucked. Now I’m just both relieved and disappointed.

I was able to put in an online request to change today’s appointment so, you know, whatever. It was a revision, hopefully nothing urgent, and now I am waiting to hear about about the new date. But I’d been kind of dreading today, and in a way am a bit annoyed now I couldn’t just get it over with (esp after all the build up over the past few days). But I have a warm purring Morcilla cuddled up on my shoulder as I type (she’s happy I stayed home!) and sossiges & spinach mash coming up for lunch. How was your Tuesday?