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About Jimena de la Frontera, the province of Cadiz and Spain as a whole, focused on this small village in the mountainsArchive for FUNNIES
Have a laugh. It’s Sunday (isn’t it?)
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Thank you Ronnie, for sending this one in. Ronnie and Prospero are of an age, more or less, which is probably why they find it so funny. Hope you do, too, if you’re up there in the wrinklies stakes – and if not, this is what you can expect… or are you there already? So soon?
The fountain as it was to be
Jimena’s plethora of fountains has had to be curtailed, at least in terms of how they were to be built. We picked this photo off TioJimeno as an illustration, showing Mayor Pascual Collado having the plans explained to him by Councillor Fernando Gómez, while Manolo does his little dance in the background. (Photo by digital humorists Colectivo Moningote.)
Join the ‘Let’s Not Raise Pigs’ campaign
This may or may not be a real letter to an unreal Secretary of State but it illustrates the frustration of farmers throughout the EU – and the delight of plenty of others, lots of them in the Campo de Gibraltar, who get paid for not planting, raising, etc. all sorts of things. Meanwhile, we pay the extortionate prices at the supermarket, not to mention taxes. Let’s get on this bandwagon!> Read the rest of this entry »
It’s Sunday, innit?
We almost forgot to post our Sunday Funny but we found this in our inbox, so here it goes. Can anyone name each of these Men in Film? Read the rest of this entry »
Ashes? Wot ashes? And why would you want to bring them home? (It’s Sunday, you’ve got to laugh!)
(Prospero’s own) Okay, I confess it. I went up to the Oba Bar & Bistro on the day the Ashes came home – or that’s what Auntie Beeb said before I left. Almost my first words to a crowd of very pleased Brit TV watchers there were something like, “Cricket has got to be the most ridiculous game ever invented.” It may not have been the right place and time, but it did express my feelings about a game that, yes, I was obliged to play at school (played ’silly mid-on’ but that’s another, painful, story).> Read the rest of this entry »
