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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 APPEALS
CAR BOOT SALE NEWS
The 
car boot sale in aid of La Estrella is scheduled definitely for Sunday, June 8th, at the Saturday Pony Club.
If you want to have a space and haven’t booked yet, please contact Tanya at 627 649 320. This notice will be going soon to the Spanish blog, TioJimeno, and although we don’t expect an avalanche of bookings, you never know. Watch this site for more news as it comes in. (See previous postings and 32 (!) comments here)
HOW TO JOIN LA ESTRELLA
In our (seemingly) long-ago party piece on Jan Webster’s birthday, where we were asked to make a donation to the Handicapped Association of Jimena LA ESTRELLA, we suggested you became a member of the association (no, you don’t have to have a relative with difficulties, or have any yourself) at the measly sum of €3 per month. What we didn’t do is tell you how; our apologies! The picture is of the form you fill, so just click on it and print it up (if you can’t read it, you can pick one up La Tasca, or call the number below). If you need to know what it says Read the rest of this entry »
INCREASE IN CHILD ABUSE ON WEB
WARNING: THIS POST MAY BE DISTURBING TO MANY
LONDON (Reuters) – Images of child abuse posted and sold online are rapidly becoming more graphic and more sadistic and involving younger children, a British-based Internet monitoring group said on Tuesday.
In its annual report, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said in the last three years there had been a four-fold increase in the number of images involving severe abuse such as penetrative and sadistic sexual activity. Read the rest of this entry »
LAST PHOTOGRAPH
This is most probably the last photograph to appear on JimenaPulse using Prospero’s ancient little camera (See previous moans here). The reason? A FABULOUS DONATION FROM GOOD FRIENDS AND READERS! Two of them, in fact: MC donated the camera, the lens, the flash cards, the manual (much needed, this) and the CD, and JW gave Prospero an early birthday present of the neat case to put it all in. There is no way we can adequately express our thanks, except perhaps to say THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH! and that doesn’t seem enough, really. Read the rest of this entry »
PETITION FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN JIMENA
A petition is currently making its rounds for signatures in support of Public Libraries for Jimena and its main villages. Although the municipality was ‘recognised’ as a Parque Cultural (‘cultural park’??) several years ago – and there are the signs to prove it at the entrances to Estación and the upper village, which appear as the background to the sticker that illustrates this posting – there is no library in any of the villages. Read the rest of this entry »
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