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Went with my lady to see 'Stolen', with Nicolas Cage starring, last night. For me he just doesn't make bad films. Great action entertainment. Only 2 other people in the cinema though. If people don't support English language films on the cinema here on the Costa del Sol, we may finish up with none...

Ryder Cup week. As a keen golfer I shall be armchair bound whenever its on. It's always exciting with a special edge that we have of producing good form against the Yanks.

My friend Kay Churchill's English Academy in the Arroyo is a stunning success, she now has a long waiting list. All this in spite of EVERY obstacle known to man put in her way by the idiot local legislators. She, and her team, deserve a medal just for getting it off the ground. Spain needs more 'start up' businesses, try telling that to the local offionados who are, or seem to be, intent on stopping new businesses by their obstructive red tape. The beaurocrats stick their heads in the sand like ostriches, thereby exposing their thinking parts !

I've often wondered, when I see aid commercials on TV like, "Little Amsedi has to walk ten miles a day to get water for his family'......Why don't the family move?

These days of course, celebrities jump ten feet in the air to endorse aid commercials and other products. On a pack of sausages once was an endorsement photo of Anthony Worral Thompson, the chef, underneath it said, 'Prick with a fork'.