It’s always handy to know a top, German surgeon, and an equally beautiful German, top surgeon, surgeon’s wife – especially when you’re throwing a Thai dinner party and you need something rather unsavoury cut away from the lower part of your leg! It gives one a chance to  show off one’s more exotic knife skills  – whilst they perform theirs – without anaesthetic ! After the starter, the cutlery was almost cleared, and I was sitting in the kitchen like an extra from M.A.S.H. Minus the Hollywood lighting. At one moment , […]

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This week we returned to our old stomping ground of Sabinillas, the ‘wild west’ of the Costa Del Sol. A place we describe, with tongue firmly in cheek, as ‘Scabinillas.’ and we are reminded once again why we made the joke in the first place. This was the little town where we once had our ‘Lola’s Showbar’. An experimental concept that failed in almost everyway, due to many factors beyond our control, including a European financial crisis, a volcanic ashcloud and not to mention a rent more akin to a […]

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‘The unexamined life is not worth living’. Socrates I believe – or was it Oprah? So hard to recall, amid these times of endless self-examination, to remember just who said what. No, I do believe it was the famous Greek philosopher who made this observation. True to some degree, but were he around now, he may elect to re-examine his theory, as it seems that almost every event in a person’s life is worthy of such artful scrutiny – in picture form, at least.  A ‘selfie’ for every occasion. Be […]

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