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SYLVIE'S BLOG from Spain

It's cold and raining here. I had to put the fire on again as temperatures dropped to 40 after days at 70-80. Torrential rain took out the power supply for 18 hours although there are wind turbines, hydro-electric dams, fields of solar panels and a nuclear power station all supposed to be supplying this area.

Meanwhile, the price of electricity has increased by 80% in 4 years, and cost 509 euros this winter. (A quarter of that is VAT).

I went to Tarragona yesterday to buy a new wood-burning stove for my little bungalow. I priced a very basic one called a salamander locally at over 1,000 euros, but got this lovely tall, narrow, corner model with glass door, top oven and all its flues and fittings for under 300. It is called the Dublin ! There really isn't anywhere to put it in my tiny Tardis, so it is now time for another bout of creative thinking, making holes in walls, moving furniture, and generally making a great mess all over again.

Meanwhile, there are tiny cucumbers and tomatoes growing in the garden with Sharon fruit, cherries, apricots, nectarines, peaches and my first Bramley apples. We are already eating this year's broad beans, spinach, lettuce, radish and spring onions.

[See front cover of our Nurturing Potential specimen issue for a brief Sylvia bio - click here]

JOE'S BLOG

Three times recently I have had to tell kind folk who have felt it necessary to apologise for criticism that "There is no such thing as negative feedback".

The only negative feedback is no feedback.

Please let us know what you don't like! While we enjoy praise, we learn far more from criticism than from puffery.

Went to see The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza at the Bromley Little Theatre. Was a bit disappointed that none of my family were apparently involved in production or performance. No need for worry. Daughter Caroline had provided the dessert (prop). It did unfortunately cause one of the players to vomit violently, almost spraying the front row. But I was assured this was part of the plot!

The play was hilarious, very well acted, and right up to the BLT standards I have come to expect. It resonated somewhat, for me, with Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in its demonstration of how shallow is civilized conduct when evidenced by couples facing a situation that lays bare a veneer of polished behaviour.

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