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Dear Reader 

The summer atmosphere 

is fantastic and really 

pleasing to know that 

businesses are opening again 

and everyone can start to enjoy 

this season’s warm months. 

The sun is a fabulous source of 

vitamin D, it makes you feel happy and 

relaxed but too much of a good thing really 

can be dangerous! So always wear a hat, 

put on some sunscreen, sunglasses and sip 

that, yes, water! There are also wristbands 

you can wear, that helps keep your body 

from overheating and also pillows to 

cool you whilst sleeping. Also beware of 

the “downsides”; yes too much sun, not 

enough drinking water and too much 

alcohol, all can spoil your day. Although 

“al fresco” eating on the lovely summer 

days and evenings can be quite relaxing 

and enjoyable. 

What is special about the month of July is 

it was named by a Roman Senate in honour 

of the infamous Roman general, Julius 

Caesar as July is the month of his birth. 

Prior to this time, it was called Quintilis. 

July’s birthstone is the ruby, which 

symbolises contentment. Its birth flowers 

are the Larkspur or the Water Lily. 

July is a pretty unique month, being 

known for the month in which a grand total 

of seven US Presidents have died in – more 

than any other month – and also known 

for being the midway point of the year. 

However, July the 3rd is the year’s midway 

point, not July the 1st. 

The two zodiac signs associated with 

the month of July are Cancer and Leo. 

People born from July 1st to July 22nd are 

members of the Cancer zodiac sign and can 

DEAR READER 

be identified by their emotional 

and intimate nature. Cancer is 

a receptive and highly sensitive 

sign, capable of huge empathy 

giving oodles of love, care and 

reassurance when required. Leos are 

affectionate, warm and cheerful people 

and can be counted on to bring sunshine 

into other people’s lives. Dignified, playful, 

ambitious and loyal, they’re known for 

being exceptionally generous. 

Normally there are many fiestas locally in 

July but all has changed this year due to the 

Corona Virus. 

Out & About Costa Blanca magazine 

keeps modern and lively by introducing 

new ideas each month and keeping each 

edition interesting. We are privileged to 

have experienced journalists covering all 

interesting subjects and would like to take 

this opportunity of thanking our gifted 

writers for their welcomed expertise and 

I receive many compliments to this effect. 

The articles being so varied makes Out & 

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are. Glad I have such lovely friends. 

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Moraira, Benissa, Benitache 

Yes, you read that correctly, despite 

the current health situation, we’re 

back to selling properties just like 

yours and we have a growing list of 

enquiries from people to buy right 

here in the Northern Costa Blanca. In 

fact, its even been recently reported 

in the British Press that overseas 

enquiries are 30% up compared to 

last year with people wanting to get 

out of the UK before Brexit. 

Of course it’s been tough for 

businesses since March, but we’re 

taking this opportunity to look 

inwards and see how we can 

improve to meet our simple goal: 

to sell your property as quickly as 

possible whilst achieving the highest 

price. 

When it comes to Javea, we have 

decided to move offices and will 

soon be re-opening in an even 

better location to be able to serve 

buyers and sellers even better. So, 

yes, the port office is closed, but 

keep your eyes out for a new office 

opening soon! 

You might be wondering about 

pricing, and rightly so. We’re 

pleased to note that whilst we’re

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James Bond cars 25 Cars were used 

in over 50 years of the series 

Here is a list of most of the James Bond cars in 

chronological order, from over 50 years of the 

James Bond series. From the humble Sunbeam 

Alpine in Dr. No, through to the beautiful Aston Martin 

DB5 in Skyfall, to the latest Hybrid Jaguar supercar in 

Spectre. Due to space have listed the first 12 but in the 

next Out & About hopefully will complete the rest of 

these “special” cars. 

1 

. Series II (1962). James Bond’s first car was the 

modest Sunbeam Alpine Series II, in lake blue. After 

being invited to the mountain apartment, Bond drove the 

Sunbeam up the dusty road and into a trap. Like many 

Bond cars to follow, the Sunbeam was English made, 

manufactured just outside of Coventry. The iconic car 

had also featured in the novel Dr. No. It was rumoured 

that the producers had borrowed the Sunbeam from a 

local resident to avoid the cost of importing their own. 

2 

. Drop head 3.5 Litre (1935) From Russia With Love 

(1963). Bond’s car is an unusual one for the series, 

as the Bentley Mark IV was almost 30 years old at the 

time of the film’s release. In several of the Ian Fleming 

novels, Bond had driven a Bentley 4.5 litre, which 

predated the Mark IV by two years. This was likely the 

inspiration behind its inclusion in the film. 

3 

. Aston Martin DB5 – Goldfinger. (1963). Thunderball 

(1965). The Aston Martin DB5 is the quintessential 

James Bond car, and one of the most recognizable and 

famous cars in cinema history. In the novel, Bond had 

driven a DB Mark III, but the producers chose to use 

the newer DB5, which had been released only 3 months 

prior to shooting. The special effects team added a 

large array of gadgets to the car, including an ejector 

seat, machine guns, a smoke screen, and tyre slashers. 

The tie-in Corgi model of the DB5 became the bestselling 

toy of the year, and the producers brought the 

car back for the next film, Thunderball. Since then a 

DB5 has also featured in Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never 

Dies, Casino Royale and Skyfall. 

4 

. Toyota 2000GT - You Only Live Twice. (1967). 

Known as Japan’s first supercar, it was the obvious 

car of choice for “You Only Live Twice”, a Bond film set 

primarily in Japan. Only 351 models were produced, 

making the car rarer than a DB5. The 2000 GT was 

actually a hardtop coupé, but the low roof proved too 

restrictive for Sean Connery, who was too tall to sit 

comfortably in the car. At short notice, Toyota made 

modifications to produce a special open top version 

just for the film. 

5 

. Aston Martin DBS - On Her Majesty’s Secret Service 

(1969) introduced a new James Bond, George 

Lazenby, and it was only right to equip him with the 

latest Aston Martin. The Aston played a key part in the 

film’s shocking ending, as well as introducing the new 

lead actor. Bond is first shown driving along a winding 

Portugal road in the beautiful Aston Martin DBS. In the 

following Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever, the 

DBS was briefly shown being fitted with 

missiles in Q’s lab. 

6 

. Mercury - Cougar XR-7 

(1969) On Her Majesty’s 

Secret Service. When 

Bond is on the run 

without his Aston, 

he has to rely on 

a red Mercury 

Cougar. In order 

to lose the tail, 

enters a stock 

car race track, 

and after 

a few laps 

manages to 

escape. 

7 

. Ford 

Mustang. 

Mustang Mach 

1 (1971). While 

Diamonds Are 

Forever wasn’t the 

most well received 

Sean Connery Bond 

film, it did have one of 

the best car chases of 

the early series. While at the 

wheel of a Ford Mustang, Bond 

finds himself on the Sheriff’s radar, 

resulting in a high tension chase along the 

Las Vegas strip. Interestingly, the Vegas strip was so 

busy that for most of the chase scene, large crowds of 

tourists could be seen on the sidewalks, watching the 

action. The producers hoped that the chase would be 

so exciting that the audience wouldn’t notice. Another 

point of interest is that virtually all the cars destroyed 

during filming were Fords. That’s because Ford offered 

to supply as many cars as the producers wanted, if 

Bond drove a Mustang.

8 

. AMC Hornet X Hatchback (1974) In the Man with 

the Golden Gun. Mary Goodnight gets herself 

kidnapped by Scaramanga. With Scaramanga almost 

out of sight, Bond spots a car dealership, and steals an 

AMC Hornet, driving it right out through the showroom 

window. Live and Let Die’s Sheriff J.W. Pepper returns 

as a Bangkok tourist, who just so happened to be sitting 

in the passenger seat of the Hornet. The pair chase 

Scaramanga, with Pepper adding some comic relief to 

the tense action scene. 

9 

. Esprit 9. S1. The Spy Who Loved Me 1977. The 

producers wanted to out-do themselves and create 

the most spectacular film of the series. They 

equipped Bond with a white Lotus 

Esprit S1 in a chase sequence 

covering land, air and water. 

Bond is chased on 

land by a motorbike 

equipped with a 

jet-propulsion 

s i d e c a r 

rocket. After 

eliminating 

their land 

problems, 

they are 

attacked 

from the 

air by a 

helicopter. 

Unable to 

lose the 

tail, Bond 

drives off 

the edge of a 

peer. The Lotus 

transforms into a 

mini submarine, the 

enemy brings on their 

underwater assault. The 

Lotus handles them with ease 

and Bond transforms the vehicle 

back to a car and drives out of the sea onto 

a beach of unsuspecting tourists. 

. Essex Turbo (1981) . For Your Eyes Only 

10 (1981) Following the well received appearance in 

The Spy Who Loved Me, Lotus returned for a second and 

final time in For Your Eyes Only, with an upgraded Lotus 

Esprit Turbo. Bond drives the Esprit to the hideout but 

when it comes time to escape, the car meets with an ill 

fate. 

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Citroën 2CV. (1981) After his Lotus self-destructs, 

11 Bond is forced to escape in a Citroën 2CV, not quite 

the calibre of car Bond is used to. Some scenes were 

sped up, most noticeably during a backwards-forward 

stunt that the 2CV struggled to pull off. However, the 

scene was intended to be as humorous as it was tense. 

Bajaj RE (1983), Octopussy. The Bajaj RE is a 

12 model of auto rickshaw, also known as a Tuk Tuk 

taxi, that appeared in Octopussy. Bond leaves in a taxi 

with ally agent Vijay. He soon spots Khan’s henchman in 

the taxi behind, armed with a muzzled shotgun. Bond 

tells Vijay “we’ve got company”, to which Vijay replies 

“No problem, this is a company car.” It is outfitted with a 

powerful engine by Q-branch. 

by Carol Levey


AGONY UNCLE 

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Can our AGONY UNCLE help you 

Readers 

Letters 

Email to: relojdesol@mail.com 

Finances have hit rock bottom and I am going 

to have to return to the UK to live with my 

parents, after many years of living here in 

Spain. I am so concerned about the future 

and lie awake worrying about bills that I am 

going to have to pay. I feel so low and fearful 

of what comes next! 

Anita. Orba 

Anita, you have managed to live here in 

Spain for many years so please do not 

think that you are a failure in any way. It 

is harder than ever to live and work here 

and times are hard for so many right 

now. 

Look at this as moving on and not 

running away and open to what comes 

next for you. I believe in fate, and for 

some reason you have been directed to 

return to a new destination. There is not 

a bill that could ever be paid by stress 

and misery, and all will be sorted out. I 

sincerely hope that the change of location 

brings you some kind of reward because 

you have done nothing wrong. I would 

like to think too that life takes on a new 

meaning for you, and that you will 

return, one day soon, to see all who you 

leave behind.Good Luck! 

My son is seventeen and has not yet gone 

through the rebellious teenager phase, 

however, he has become very quiet and 

seems to have very few friends around him. 

I find it hard to talk to him, and he spends 

his evenings either studying or playing on 

his computer. He is moody and something 

is worrying him and I seem not to be the 

right person to talk to him. Have I failed as 

a Father? His Mother died two years ago 

and they were close. 

Henrik. Altea La Vieja. 

Henrik, your son sounds like he is a 

very typical teenager. He is developing 

his character and personality, and is 

making that transition from boy to 

man. Is it possible that he feels that 

he fits neither category right now? A 

child benefits from the wisdom and 

love and good parenting skills of his 

Father and Mother, but now you are 

a single parent you may be his sole 

adult family contact? I would suggest 

that you have a serious talk with 

him, but I would ask you not to talk 

to him in the family home. Choose a 

neutral territory and if you can go for 

a walk together that’s a great idea. The 

most important question to ask him 

right now is to be cleverly worded to 

accurately assess if he is happy or not.

AGONY UNCLE JULY 2021 | 11 

If he is quiet then there’s nothing 

wrong with that, and he may not be 

rebellious at this age; or indeed be a 

late developer. Knowing that he can 

talk to you about anything will serve 

to provoke a future conversation 

and make him feel that he may not 

have a Mother now but he does have 

a very concerned Father who loves 

him and only wants the best for 

him. You may not get an immediate 

response but establishing a new fully 

open relationship with your son will 

bring results for you both. Keep in 

touch please. 

Amy. Benidorm 

There is only one word for what you 

are suffering and it is abuse. Anyone 

who really loved you would not treat 

you this way. I am sorry that I could 

not print your mail, but I urge you to 

seek help in any way that you can right 

now before things escalate. Please get 

back to me if you need any help in a 

referral, there is absolutely no shame 

in deserving the help that you need 

right now, and my heart goes out to 

you. 

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DR. M. ISABEL SIGNES-SOLER 

It is another way of saying “prescription 

sunglasses”. Rx sunglasses combine the sharp 

vision of prescription eyeglasses with the total 

protection of sunglasses. Before you can order 

prescription sunglasses, you’ll need an up-to-date 

vision prescription. An eye doctor can provide you 

with one as part of a comprehensive eye exam. 

Different types of Rx sunglass lenses 

The lenses in Rx sunglasses can feature 

a combination of different materials 

and coatings. Each has its own 

purpose, suiting certain 

lifestyles, personal habits 

and work environments. 

Materials and addons 

might seem 

overwhelming at first, 

but making informed 

choices can lead to safer, 

more comfortable lenses 

in the long run. 

Popular lens options 

include: 

• Polycarbonate lens material 

• Trivex lens material 

• High-index plastic lens material 

• Polarized lens coating 

• Photochromic (transition) lens coating 

• Gradient lens finish 

• Mirrored lens finish 

Lens materials 

Aside from standard plastic or glass materials, three 

of the most popular lens materials are polycarbonate, 

Trivex and high-index plastic. 

Polycarbonate lenses use a material that’s strong 

and resistant to impact, making them a good fit for 

sports and other physical activities. The lightweight 

lenses are also up to 30% thinner than regular lenses. 

Trivex, initially developed for military helicopter 

windshields, are also durable yet lightweight. 

What are Rx 

sunglasses? 

However, Trivex lenses have a little less virtual 

distortion than polycarbonate, resulting in a slightly 

sharper field of view. 

High-index lenses offer a thinner, lightweight 

alternative for people with a high degree of myopia, 

hyperopia or astigmatism. These lenses bend light 

in a different way and require less lens material to 

correct your vision. 

Lens coatings 

Choosing a lens material is far from 

the only way you can make a pair 

of Rx sunglasses your own. 

Polarized, photochromic 

and gradient coatings help 

you further customize the 

function of your frames. 

Polarized lenses are 

excellent at reducing 

glare, making them a 

solid option for those 

who spend a considerable 

amount of time near water, 

snow or other reflective 

surfaces. 

People who fish, participate in 

summer or winter sports, or simply 

want to drive more comfortably on a sunny 

day may all be able to benefit from polarized Rx 

sunglasses. 

As valuable as polarization can be, it’s important to 

keep their effect on digital screens in mind. Any type 

of polarized sunglasses can make it hard to see the 

backlit displays on devices like: 

• Cell phones 

• Smart watches 

• Laptops 

• ATMs 

• Digital car dashboard controls 

Photochromic lenses (also known as transition 

lenses) automatically get darker when they’re 

exposed to sunlight. In addition to offering the

DR. M. ISABEL SIGNES-SOLER JULY 2021 | 15 

convenience of a single pair of sunglasses instead 

of two separate frames, their Rx lenses ensure your 

eyes are never exposed to too much of the sun’s 

ultraviolet (UV) radiation. 

Gradient lens finishes usually have a darker shading 

at the top of the lens, compared to the bottom. This 

can also be called a “single gradient.” 

Rx sunglasses can also have a reflective mirrored 

finish — thin layers of metallic coating on regular 

lenses. These lenses reflect and reduce visible light, 

but still require full UV protection to safeguard your 

eyes from the sun. 

How Rx sunglasses protect your eyes from UV rays 

When you hear “sunglasses” and “UV,” you 

probably think of summer. But ultraviolet 

protection can be just as useful during other 

seasons, too. Under the right conditions, 

snow can reflect as much as 80% of sunlight, 

according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. 

UV protection is an important part of any 

pair of sunglasses — prescription or not. 

Overexposure to the sun’s UV radiation can 

increase your risk of developing certain eye 

conditions, including: 

• Cataracts 

• Eyelid melanoma (skin cancer) 

• Macular degeneration 

This month 

discounts on 

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up to 

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• Photokeratitis 

• Pterygium 

• Solar retinopathy 

These risks can be even more pronounced for 

children, since their eyes are more sensitive to 

UV and are exposed to about three times more 

radiation as the adult eye, according to the 

Vision Impact Institute. 

The optometrist will help you choose the best 

lenses for you. So, in the summer, protect your 

eyes with prescription sunglasses and enjoy life 

outside. I am sure there is one for you. 

Dra. Maria Isabel Signes-Soler, PhD, FAAO 

Tel: 965832080


JOHN CURTIS 

AFTERMATH BY THE ROLLING STONES 

Hello again and a warm welcome 

to July´s All Time Greats. As well 

as some general observations 

about The Stones this month´s article is 

specifically about their fine album from 

1966 Aftermath. This was the collective 

work in which the band came of age, every 

track on it written by the new creative force 

of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and 

much of it enriched by the talent of Brian 

Jones. He was soon to become the “enfant 

terrible” of the band and lost his life at just 

27 in 1969 in circumstances that are still 

debated. At this stage , losing interest at 

simply being a non singing guitarist, Brian 

was able to turn his considerable talents 

to playing a number of other instuments 

on the album which greatly enhances its 

quality. Far too little has been said about the 

remaining members of The Stones so I will 

add here that this album and many many 

other works by the band are laid on top of 

the rock solid foundations of their brilliant 

rhythm section of Bill Wyman on bass & 

Charlie Watts on drums. 

By 1966 the two leading bands of the beat 

era had hugely conflicting images that had 

the media telling people you could support 

one band or the other but not both. The 

Beatles were the good guys whose music 

was steadily mellowing and The Stones 

were the bad guys who would never leave 

their origins in blues and swamp rock. 

Aftermath WAS the first LP by The Stones 

which was entirely of their own creation 

and was a development from their previous 

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JULY 2021 | 17 

collections of odds and ends which 

had even hidden the “home 

made” tracks under the 

monniker of “Nanker 

Pheldge!” If you must 

draw comparison 

with The Beatles you 

could call Aftermath 

their equivalent 

of “A Hard Days 

Night.” Another, 

false, comparison is 

that no UK hits appear 

on the LP but it does 

start with the US single 

“Mother´s Little Helper” about 

the growing drug culture of the day 

and featuring Jones on Sitar. This track 

ends with a simple “Oi” which only The 

Stones could have got away with. Moving 

on through “Stupid Girl” (vintage Stones 

that was banned by some prudish radio 

stations) we come to the first shock. An 

Elizabethan madrigal like song called 

“Lady Jane” with Brian Jones on dulcimer. 

After the classic “Under My Thumb”, with 

Jones on Marimba for the first of 2 times, 

come a series of tracks that reminded their 

fans that The Stones were still a good old 

R & B band. If I might suggest you skip 

a good 7 minutes of the overlong jam 

“Coming Home” the original of Chris 

Farlowe´s no. 1 hit “Out Of Time” early on 

Side 2 is a 6 minute must. “I Am Waiting” 

is another surprise its overall gentleness 

invoving a dulcimer again interrupted by 

2 passionate middle eights of rage and 

frustration. Mick & Keith´s “Take It Or 

Leave it” (one of four hits for other acts, 

this time The Searchers, on Aftermath) 

lead to the final two tracks of The Stones at 

their raunchiest best. 

Aftermath , their best work to date, gave 

The Stones fans just what they wanted and 

was a massive success for them topping 

the album charts for a number of 

weeks. It was a silver disk in 

the UK and went platinum in 

America. As the beat boom 

ran out of steam to be 

replaced by , in a nutshell, 

more sophisticated music 

The Rolling Stones were 

now second only to The 

Beatles. Many saw them 

as, for them, the better of 

the two bands and certainly, 

in both cases, a golden era of 

creativity had started. 

My new show on Sunday mornings at 

Pure Gold FM has found its feet and I 

hope you are already regular listeners 

and contributors. May I also refer 

you to my “private” veture known as 

“JC´S PODCAST” which is a 2 hour 

show of 60s & 70s music (like Ready 

Steady Sunday) which I refresh with 

new features every Saturday. The 

edition which will run for 7 days from 

Saturday 7th August will include a 

complete play through of Aftermath so 

I hope you will join for that and every 

edition of my Podcast as well as my 

live radio show on Sunday mormings. 

I also invite readers to contact me via 

Email to “jcpodcast10@gmail.com” 

with any obsevations or requests you 

may wish to make. I look forward to 

being back here next month too so 

until then I close with my best wishes 

and my perennial exhortation as to 

“What To Do”. It is to, no matter what, 

KEEP ROCKING!!! JC 

by John Curtis


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KOSTA! 

R E S T A U R A N T 

C/Mulhacen 10 

On the Coast Road | Between Moraira and Calpe, 95 

03724 Moraira, 

Tel. 865 77 83 00 Mob. 608 733 584 

Every day 12:30 - 22:00 

Simply The Best – What More Could You Ask for! 

AT KOSTA everything is outstanding - beginning with the welcome from the 

owner Christian, who makes everyone feel welcome like a special and valued 

guest in his home along with the very attentive multi-lingual staff and 

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Enjoy a wonderful lunch time or evening meal with friends 

or celebrate a family birthday. 

Food is excellent quality and presented beautifully. 

This is a restaurant that you simply cannot fault for food quality, service and 

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What more can you ask it’s perfect


Magic Travel 

Moments 

Highlight those (many) travel moments in 

my life when things have ‘sparkled’. 

by John 

David 

Moorhouse 

DAVID MOORHOUSE. 

Meeting Face to Face 

Approaching The Rock from the 

Spanish Mainland is indeed 

an awe-inspiring experience. 

It looms large, its impressive Peak 

sometimes crowned by cloud (like a veil). 

Having watched a cricket match for 

a while, we make our way up from the 

Town. Near the Top of The Rock a Magic 

Moment presents itself.... 

a group of Barbary Apes (3 of them) 

are seated on rocks at the side of the path 

and react to our arrival with a degree of 

excitement (or is it in anticipation of a 

tidbit?) 

The 3 Apes (is this a family?) know the 

ropes better than we do. Cautious to a 

degree, one of them (the leader?) makes 

a move towards us without going so far 

as to hold out a begging hand. He (or 

she) mouths some kind of ape-greeting 

towards us. 

This is not a meeting between two 

families (although in reality it is). 

This is not a meeting between two 

cultures (although in reality it is). 

This is a confrontation between two 

species of animal, which somehow does 

not feel antagonistic; rather, there is 

mutual curiosity and recognition of rights 

to co-exist on this

DAVID MOORHOUSE. JULY 2021 | 21 

EMPTINESS 

They say nothing in the known Universe is 

totally void of matter, but there are places 

(look no further than our own Planet) that 

give me the appearance of being ‘empty’, 

e.g., The Sahara Desert, Easter Island and 

the Arctic Ice Cap (if this last does not melt 

away to nothing - or even if it does!). 

One such ‘appearance of being empty’ 

can be viewed from a ship sailing from 

Greece to Italy.... 

as the ship glided smoothly along the 

Albanian Coast, heading from Patras to 

Venice, we were intrigued by a stretch 

of the Coast that appeared to be totally 

empty of civilization - no seaside towns 

nestling in sheltered inlets, no hamlets 

crowning the high mountain ridges 

brooding over the sea, no fishing or other 

vessels in our vicinity, no visible signs of 

life. 

There was just one break in this empty 

panorama - the distant glimpse of a cluster 

of buildings close by the sea, wedged into 

a narrow ravine, a break in the mountain 

chain. But, other than that, nothing - 

emptiness ! 

The Spinning Wheel 

by John David Moorhouse. 

It keeps turning and turning, 

all control spurning, cutting and burning 

while I am learning.... to follow its lead, 

not to desire or need to feed on 

knowledge or wisdom, 

power or greed, 

youth or maturity, 

love or greed. 

Do any of these things matter? 

In the end, the Wheel will shatter all 

and scatter it around, 

laying down new ground from which 

New Life will abound !


MEMORY LANE 

MEMORY LANE 

LOS VILEROS WIN THE RC L´HOSPITALET AT THE 

BEGINNING OF THE SECOND RETURN 

July 2, 1964 - President Lyndon B. 

Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act 

of 1964, prohibiting discrimination 

on the basis of race in public 

accommodations, publicly owned 

or operated facilities, employment 

and union membership and in voter 

registration. The Act allowed for cut 

off of Federal funds in places where 

discrimination remained. 

Birthday - Promoter and showman 

P.T. Barnum (1810-1891) was born in 

Bethel, Connecticut. His American 

Museum opened in 1842, exhibiting 

unusual acts such as the Feejee 

Mermaid, Siamese Twins Chang and 

Eng, and General Tom Thumb. In 1871, 

Barnum opened “The Greatest Show 

on Earth” in Brooklyn, New York. He 

later merged with rival J.A. Bailey to 

form the Barnum and Bailey Circus. 

July 6, 1885 - Louis Pasteur gave the 

first successful anti-rabies inoculation 

to a boy who had been bitten by an 

infected dog. 

July 10, 1943 - The Allied invasion 

of Italy began with an attack on the 

island of Sicily. The British entry 

into Syracuse was the first Allied 

success in Europe. General Dwight 

D. Eisenhowerlabeled the invasion 

“the first page in the liberation of the 

European Continent.” 

July 10, 1973 - The Bahamas gained 

their independence after 250 years as a 

British Crown Colony. 

July 10, 1991 - Boris Yeltsin took the 

oath of office, becoming the first 

popularly elected president in Russia’s 

thousand-year history. 

Birthday - Tennis player Arthur Ashe 

(1943-1993) was born in Richmond, 

Virginia. He won a total of 33 titles 

including the U.S. men’s singles 

championship and U.S. Open in 1968 

and the men’s singles at Wimbledon 

in 1975. As a pioneering African 

American athlete, he fought against 

racism and stereotyping and was 

arrested numerous times while 

protesting. In 1992, he announced he 

had likely contracted HIV through a 

transfusion during heart surgery. He 

then began a $5 million fundraising 

effort on behalf of the Arthur Ashe 

Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS 

and campaigned for public awareness 

regarding the dreaded disease. He 

died from pneumonia in New York, 

February 6, 1993. 

July 15, 1918 - During the Battle of 

the Marne in World War I, German 

General Erich Ludendorff launched 

Germany’s fifth, and last, offensive to 

break through the Chateau-Thierry 

salient. However, the Germans were 

stopped by American, British and 

Italian divisions. On July 18, General 

Foch, Commander-in-Chief of the 

Allied troops, launched a massive 

counter-offensive. The Germans began 

a retreat lasting four months until they 

requested an armistice in November. 

July 16, 1769 - San Diego was founded 

as the mission San Diego de Alcala by 

Father Junipero Serra. 

July 16, 1945 - The experimental 

Atomic bomb “Fat Boy” was set off at 

5:30 a.m. in the desert of New Mexico 

desert, creating a mushroom cloud 

rising 41,000 ft. The bomb emitted 

heat three times the temperature of the 

interior of the sun and wiped out all 

plant and animal life within a mile. 

July 16, 1969 - The Apollo 11 Lunar 

landing mission began with a lift off 

from Kennedy Space Center at 9:37 

a.m. 

July 16, 1999 - A small plane piloted 

by John F. Kennedy Jr. took off at 

8:38 p.m. from Fairfield, New Jersey, 

heading toward Martha’s Vineyard, 

Massachusetts. His wife, Carolyn 

Bessette Kennedy, and her sister 

Lauren were passengers on the 200 

mile trip. The plane was expected to 

arrive about 10 p.m. but disappeared 

off radar at 9:40 p.m. Five days later, 

July 21, following an extensive search, 

the bodies were recovered from the 

plane wreckage in 116 feet of water 

roughly 7 miles off Martha’s Vineyard. 

The next day, following an autopsy, the 

cremated remains of John F. Kennedy, 

38, his wife Carolyn, 33, and her sister 

Lauren, 34, were scattered at sea from 

a U.S. Navy ship, with family members 

present, not far from where the plane 

had crashed. 

July 17, 1996 - TWA Flight 800 

departed Kennedy International 

Airport in New York bound for Paris 

but exploded in mid-air 12 minutes 

after take off, apparently the result of 

a mechanical failure. The Boeing 747 

jet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off 

the coast of Long Island about 8:45 

p.m. All 212 passengers and 17 crew 

members on board were killed. 

Birthday - Nelson Mandela was born 

the son of a Tembu tribal chieftain on 

July 18, 1918, at Qunu, near Umtata, 

in South Africa. He became a lawyer, 

joined the African National Congress

MEMORY LANE 

(ANC) in 1944, eventually becoming 

deputy national president in 1952. In 

1964, he was convicted for sabotage 

as a result of his participation in the 

struggle against apartheid. He spent 

the next 28 years in jail, but remained 

a symbol of hope to South Africa’s 

non-white majority. Released in 1990, 

he was elected was elected President of 

South Africa in 1994 in the first election 

in which all races participated. 

July 19-20, 1848 - A women’s rights 

convention was held at Seneca Falls, 

New York. Topics discussed included 

voting rights, property rights and 

divorce. The convention marked the 

beginning of an organized women’s 

rights movement in the U.S. 

July 19, 1863 - During the American 

Civil War, Union troops made a second 

attempt to capture Fort Wagner near 

Charleston, South Carolina. The attack 

was led by the 54th Massachusetts 

Colored Infantry, commanded by 

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who was 

killed along with half of the 600 men 

in the regiment. This battle marked 

the first use of black Union troops in 

the war. 

July 20, 1969 - A global audience 

watched on television as Apollo 11 

Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his 

first step onto the moon. As he stepped 

onto the moon’s surface he proclaimed, 

“That’s one small step for man, one 

giant leap for mankind” - inadvertently 

omitting an “a” before “man” and 

slightly changing the meaning. 

Birthday - Explorer Edmund Hillary 

was born in Auckland, New Zealand, 

July 20, 1919. In 1953, he became first 

to ascend Mount Everest, the highest 

mountain in the world at 29,023 ft. 

July 21, 1898 - Guam was ceded to the 

United States by Spain. 

July 22, 1934 - Bank robber John 

Dillinger (1902-1934) was shot 

and killed by FBI agents as he left 

Chicago’s Biograph Movie Theatre 

after watching the film Manhattan 

Melodrama starring Clark Gable and 

Myrna Loy. Dillinger was the first 

criminal labelled by the FBI as “Public 

Enemy No. 1.” After spending nine 

years (1924-1933) in prison, Dillinger 

went on a deadly crime spree, traveling 

through the states of Indiana, Illinois, 

Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. 

He was reportedly betrayed by the 

“Lady in Red.” 

July 24, 1943 - During World War 

II in Europe, the Royal Air Force 

conducted Operation Gomorrah, 

raiding Hamburg, while tossing bales 

of aluminium foil strips overboard to 

cause German radar screens to see a 

blizzard of false echoes. As a result, 

only twelve of 791 Allied bombers 

involved were shot down. 

July 24, 1945 - At the conclusion of 

the Potsdam Conference in Germany, 

Winston Churchill, Harry Truman 

and China’s representatives issued a 

demand for unconditional Japanese 

surrender. The Japanese, unaware 

the demand was backed up by an 

Atomic bomb, rejected the Potsdam 

Declaration on July 26. 

July 25, 1909 - The world’s first 

international overseas airplane flight 

was achieved by Louis Bleriot in 

a small monoplane. After asking, 

“Where is England?” he took off from 

France and landed in England near 

Dover, where he was greeted by British 

police. 

July 25, 1943 - Mussolini was deposed 

just two weeks after the Allied attack 

on Sicily. The Fascist Grand Council 

met for the first time since December 

of 1939 then took a confidence vote 

resulting in Mussolini being ousted 

from office and placed under arrest. 

King Victor Emmanuel of Italy then 

ordered Marshal Pietro Badoglio to 

form a new government. 

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July 25, 1956 - The Italian luxury liner 

Andrea Doria sank after colliding with 

the Swedish liner Stockholm on its way 

to New York. Nearby ships came to the 

rescue, saving 1,634 people, including 

the captain and the crew, before the 

ship went down. 

July 26, 1945 - The U.S. Cruiser 

Indianapolis arrived at Tinian Island 

in the Marianas with an unassembled 

Atomic bomb, met by scientists ready 

to complete the assembly. 

July 26, 1953 - The beginning of Fidel 

Castro’s revolutionary “26th of July 

Movement.” In 1959, Castro led the 

rebellion that drove out Dictator 

Fulgencio Batista. Although he once 

declared that Cuba would never 

again be ruled by a dictator, Castro’s 

government became a Communist 

dictatorship. 

Birthday - Irish playwright George 

Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in 

Dublin, Ireland. 

July 27, 1953 - The Korean War ended 

with the signing of an armistice by 

U.S. and North Korean delegates at 

Panmunjom, Korea. The war had 

lasted just over three years. 

July 28, 1943 - During World War II, 

a firestorm killed 42,000 civilians in 

Hamburg, Germany. The firestorm 

occurred after 2,326 tons of bombs 

and incendiaries were dropped by the 

Allies.


Jalon Valley Help Event Planning in Full Swing 

The proposed further 

release from covid 

restrictions has enabled 

the Jalon Valley Help Events 

Team to put together the 

actual details of an events 

programme for this summer. 

Two of the forthcoming 

events for July are: Wednesday 

7th July – OK Band performing 

at Los Arcos, Pedreguer 

starting at 19.00hrs. 

This is a Bring-Your-Own 

[BYO] food event with 

drinks to be purchased by 

waiter service from the bar, 

with tickets at Euro 10 each. 

Despite the latest relaxations, 

tables will be limited to 8 

persons with safe social 

distancing to assure a safe 

Night 

Market 

Sunday 25 July, 

19.00 - 22.00hrs 

at the 

Rastro Car Park, 

Xaló. 

For more information or to 

book a stall please contact 

634 310 415 or 

eventsjvh@gmail.com 

Lots of 

stalls and 

entertainment 

La Asociación esta inscrita en el Registro de Asociaciones Alicante No 7699 Y CIF G53546156 

feeling to what we expect to 

be another wonderful night 

of entertainment by the very 

popular band. 

Sunday 25th July – Night 

Market at the Rastro Car Park 

in Jalon, 19.00 – 22.00hrs. 

We all missed the May Fayre 

so the Night Market will give 

us all a chance to bring our 

families and friends out, in the 

cooler evening time, to enjoy 

shopping at the stalls and 

watching the entertainment. 

Friday 27th August – The 

Entertainers performing a new 

batch of songs at Los Arcos, 

Pedreguer starting at 19.00hrs. 

This is another of the 

popular BYO picnic events. 

For more information 

about JVH and their events to 

raise money to support their 

endeavours on your behalf, 

please check their website 

www.jalonvalleyhelp.com. 

SEPTIC TANK CLEANING 

VACIADOS DE FOSAS SEPTICAS 

@jalonvalleyhelp 

655 473 685 

SERVICO DE AGUA POTABLE (24 horas aviso) 

Email: carlcglover@hotmail.com 

FROM 

125€

JULY 2021 | 25 

Free Home Delivery 

Servicio a Domicilio Gratis 

Moraira & Surrounding Area 

FINE NEPALESE AND INDIAN CUISINE 

10% Discount On Take Away / Para Llevar 

Lunch menu 9,95€ Special menu 13,95€ 

Ctra. Moraira-Calpe, 253 | 03724 Moraira, Alicante | Tel. +34 965 748 298 

Mov. 632 87 24 08 | www.gurasrestaurant.com | 

12.00 - 15.30/ 18.00 - Late | Monday Lunch Closed 

10% 

discount on 

take away 

food 

Available 

for special 

occasion 

or private 

parties 

At Guras Curry House, we have a 

passion for making sure customers 

have an enjoyable time as well as 

eating delicious genuine Nepalese 

Indian Food. Guras combine a 

panoramic range of Nepalese and 

Indian food, cooking many of 

your favourite dishes including, 

Tikka Masala, Korma, Pasanda, 

Karahi, Bhuna, Saag as well as 

Special House Grilled dishes. 

Private parking. 

Childrens 

menu available 

from Chicken 

Nuggets to 

Fish fingers 

6.50€ 

PETE FROST 

singing all your 

favourite songs. 

Sunday 18 July 

from 1.30pm. Plus 

India Tapas 16,95€ 

Including 1st drink of 

beer, wine or a 

soft drink 

Reserve your table telephone 

632 87 24 08 or 96 574 8298


LOOKING FOR ALL KINDS OF PROPERTIES 

SEA VIEW VILLA 

FOR SALE 

Ref. 3088 

Benissa La Fustera 

Plot 785m2 

Size 307m2 

3 bedrooms and 

3 bathrooms 

Escape to your private 

villa which offers a mature 

garden, a nice pool with 

ample terrace and covered 

BBQ area, parking and 

garage. 

On the ground level there is 

a covered terrace, a nearly 

developped bathroom and 

big bedroom for your guests. 

On the upper floor a cozy 

lounge with sea views, 

a well sized kitchen and 

spacious terrace with 

excellent sea views as well 

as 2 double bedrooms with 2 

bathrooms. 

Calpe, Benissa, Altea, Moraira 

Inmo COBAT welcomes you to the Costa Blanca. 

Since 2003 we are an “all-in” company 

when buying or selling property. 

www.cobatcostablanca.com 

Inmo Cobat 

Telephone: 

0034 620146993

The Kathmandu Nepali-Indian Restaurant 

Carretera Moraira-Calpe coast road No 144, 

(in front of Euro Gym), Moraira 

Tel: 96 649 2436 

Welcome to ‘The Kathmandu’ restaurant in Moraira 

where the food is prepared in the Nepalese style giving you 

fragrant and tasty dishes from India. 

Kathmandu Restaurant is a very popular Nepali-Indian 

Restaurant in Moraira. 

The restaurant serves quality Indian and Nepali dishes at 

reasonable prices or to Take Away with a 10% DISCOUNT. 

NOW OFFERING FREE HOME DELIVERY. 

There are special discounts for celebrations and parties. 

The Kathmandu has free parking directly outside the restaurant. 

The menu at The Kathmandu includes a wide selection of Indian 

and Nepalese dishes to choose from. There is a special set menu 

for 14.50€ per person, which includes a choice of starter, main 

course, rice or naan bread, side dish and ice-cream or coffee. 

Nepalese cuisine, is known for the flavours and textures of their 

curries. For those of you who enjoy a hotter curry, then just ask the 

Chef and he will certainly be able to accommodate. 

There is also a very well stocked bar to suit all tastes. Inside the 

restaurant is spacious and attractive in design. Outside has a 

stylish, also spacious semi covered lovely terraced area. 

Great Indian food, owner and members of the staff are really 

friendly and you will find it a pleasure eating there! There are other 

Kathmandu restaurants in Javea and Denia. 

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK. 

12.00 – 15.30/18.00 – late. For 

reservations call on 966 492 436. 

SPECIAL 

MENU 

14.50€

28 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA DEE’S TRAVELS 

DEE’S TRAVELS 

BOOKING A 

LOW-COST FLIGHT 

As I mentioned last month I love 

flying and I love airports. I guess 

if I thought about the distance 

between me and the ground below as we 

float above the clouds, I might change 

my mind. I forget that it’s a long, long 

way down and no one has laid out a nice, 

soft, landing mattress to catch me. 

Today, booking a flight especially on 

the low-cost airlines requires a pot of 

coffee; three Valium preferably Prozac; 

a magnifying glass; pizza slices and 

mountains of patience. It’s even advisable 

to send the rest of the family off to the 

beach to protect tender ears from the 

naughty words they might overhear. 

Departure and arrival destinations? 

Preferred time? Approximate price? 

Return or single? Number of suitcases? 

Insurance? Cancellation waiver? Seat 

preference (do you want to sit anywhere 

near the rest of the family?) Early or 

priority boarding? Carryon luggage; size, 

weight (will it fit into our little cages, the 

ones we shrink every couple of months?) 

Future thrilling and exciting emails from 

us right to your inbox? 

The list is endless. But here’s where 

they’re sneaky. See that little box in the 

corner, there, behind the pop-up advert 

that won’t go away? You didn’t tick the 

‘no’? Gottcha ya! We’ve just doubled the 

price. You thought you were going to fly 

for under £20 to Stanstead, didn’t you? 

We’ve now calculated the real cost and 

it’s a little over £300. But for that, we’ll 

throw in an extra case so your wife can 

also take clothes with her, how’s that for 

a bargain? 

We are your airline and we love you. 

Big warning. Never, ever check out 

flight times and prices and then go off for 

a sandwich and a drink to steady your 

nerves. The moment you log on to the 

site again, for of course your time will 

have expired, those little bots in there 

will go crazy, rubbing their bytes in glee 

we’ve hooked another victim here so 

let’s hike the price up guys. If you don’t 

believe me, try it for yourself. 

Now, this is the exciting part 

passengers. Should you have travelled 

to a foreign country, despite being 

warned it’s not a terribly good idea 

right now with Covid and all, should 

the powers at the top decide to go from 

green to amber, or, worse amber to red, 

then we will happily fly you home for 

only five times the original price of your 

fare. How generous is that? Or, if your 

flight is cancelled you can rebook for 

a date next year, but we can’t promise 

it won’t be diverted to Vladivostok or 

Minsk. You never know who you are 

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travelling with these days. 

Another piece of good advice. Try not 

to book a window seat. This is nothing 

to do with access to the small restrooms 

where you exit battered and bruised after 

being thrown around in the smallest 

space imaginable, fingers bloody from 

trying to turn on the various taps and 

levers. No, your window seat just might 

give you a view of the ground staff 

practicing for the World Cup Rugby as 

they fling your case across the tarmac and 

you are praying that the pot containing 

Aunt Edna’s ashes in the pottery urn so 

lovingly handled by you, doesn’t break 

and scatter the contents over your bikinis 

and thongs. Squashed into a seat built for 

midgets, you can only gaze helplessly at 

the commotion below and pray you and 

your suitcase are going to meet again, 

don’t know where, don’t know when… 

From the time you have left the house, 

arrived at the airport, parked the car; 

taken the free ride from the car park to 

the airport; checked in; spent several 

minutes sweating hoping the scales are 

out of order as you know you’re over 

weight; stripped to your underwear to 

whip through the little metal arch; spent 

extra uncomfortable moments being 

pawed in a secluded cabin by more 

airport staff; retrieved your belongings 

and sprinted to the farthest boarding gate 

reserved for the low-cost departures; you 

need that holiday. 

Would it be quicker to walk to Spain? 

Possibly, but then crossing the Channel 

might pose a problem. 

By Dee Tavener-Craig 

WE ARE NOW OPEN WITH OUR SUMMER COLLECTION, PLUS OUR USUAL 

STOCK OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. WE ALSO HAVE TRAVEL COTS, 

CAR SEATS AND PUSHCHAIRS FOR HIRE. 

All proceeds are for the needy animals of Calpe 

A difficult year for all of us but we still need to raise money for Calpe’s lost or abandoned dogs and cats. 

Our shop is an Aladdin’s cave of clothing, books, DVDs, bric-a-brac 

and household goods so come along and snap up a bargain. The shop is situated in the lower ground floor of 

Edificio Perlamar on the Gabriel Miro, Calpe and is open from 10am until 1pm Mondays to Fridays. 

The president, Elinor Gonzalez lives in Las Bassetes where she cares for 

Calpe’s abandoned and sick animals, bringing them back to health and 

finding new caring owners for them. Her telephone number is 

620 106 733 

and she also has a stall on the Wednesday and 

Saturday market in Calpe if you wish to offer help 

or Dog walk, or adopt one of the lovely dogs 

Elinor would be so pleased to hear from you.

30 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA SIMON RATCLIFFE 

PIRIFORMIS 

SYNDROME 

Piriformis syndrome is 

a condition in which a 

muscle we have called the 

piriformis, causes pain in the 

buttock area and on occasions 

can even irritate or compress the 

sciatic nerve. 

We have two piriformis 

muscles, these link the 

sacrum to the hip 

on either side. 

It is located 

underneath the 

gluteus muscle 

and the sciatic 

nerve runs 

underneath 

the muscle 

in most cases 

(although in 

some people 

the nerve runs 

through the 

muscle itself). 

So what happens 

to the muscle in 

order for it to cause 

problems? 

The piriformis muscle can become 

tight or can spasm, causing pain in the 

buttock area and/or affecting the sciatic 

nerve. 

• This can happen due to an overuse of 

the muscle (sporting injuries) 

• Also overstretching of the muscle can 

cause a spasm reaction. 

• As a protective measure to prevent 

lower back and hip movement because 

of an injury (herniated disc, locked 

sacroiliac joint,etc) 

• Sitting down incorrectly: crossing 

legs, sitting with wallet in back 

pocket… 

• Leg length or foot 

issues that affect our 

leg rotation. 

What are the 

symptoms? 

• Buttock 

pain. Can be 

worse sitting, 

walking/ 

running 

(especially 

uphill), may 

improve 

laying down. 

• 

Referred pain to 

lower back and 

down back of the 

thigh. 

• Sciatica symptoms if 

nerve is irritated which include 

pain and/or numbness that can travel 

all the way down to the foot. 

• On occasions can even cause coxis 

pain because of its insertions on the 

sacrum. 

Simon Ratcliffe is a licensed Physiotherapist and Certified Osteopath C.O. for the 

Family Medical Centre in Albir. Contact Simon on 966 865 072 for an appointment.

SIMON RATCLIFFE 

JULY 2021 | 31 

What can be done? 

First of all, a correct diagnosis is needed, 

it is important to exclude a possible 

herniated disc as the cause of our pain. 

With the correct questioning and manual 

tests applied by your therapist. 

Once the piriformis syndrome is 

confirmed there are three things that 

need treating: 

• The active trigger points associated 

with the muscle. 

• Any shortening of the muscle. 

• The assessment of what is causing it 

to spasm or shorten. 

With treatment we experience very 

good results, although recovery time 

varies due to several factors (longevity of 

injury, specific cause of injury, etc) 

As always it is best to be assessed by a 

professional to help get you on the mend 

as soon as possible. 

Carrer Móstoles 

MR YEN 

ASIAN BAR/RESTAURANT 

Calpe-Moraira Road No 223 

(Opposite Centro Comercial Moravit Moraira) 

Tel. 966 279 783/631 274 015 • Asia_ye@hotmail.com 

MR YEN BAR/ RESTAURANT IS THE PERFECT PLACE 

A warm welcome awaits you from the owner “Yen” at MR YEN Asian Bar/Restaurant in Moraira. 

You will immediately notice the pleasing atmosphere and the different areas where you can dine. From a front 

terrace to a well presented dining area inside, to a large covered back terrace. Thus plenty of space to choose where 

to dine, with comfortable seating. Everything is perfect. 

There is a variety of menus and diverse dishes, with delicious tasty food, all at 

excellent prices. There are set menus and a variety of meat dishes from Pork, 

Duck, Chicken, Beef and seafood with vegetables, rice or noodles. 

There is also a “Take Away Service”. Very attentive friendly 

family service. 

Perhaps you would like to relax just with a drink on the 

terrace. No problem. 

Parking available at the 

front of the restaurant. 

NOTHING IS TOO MUCH TROUBLE WHEN 

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34 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA WALSH’S WISDOM 

Walsh’s Wisdom 

Spanish Skipper who 

saved an armada 

Never forgotten was the drama as 

the Palm Line freighter Enugu 

Palm finally answered the wheel 

and skimmed by a metre or two a row 

of ocean-going freighters moored at an 

African port’s quays. 

A second’s delay on the part of Captain 

Inés would have led to one of the worst 

shipping disasters in African history. Had 

it not been for the quick thinking of the 

skipper several freighters moored at the 

Ivory’s Coast Port of Abidjan would have 

been devastated. 

This true story and others is waiting to 

be discovered in Costa author Michael 

Walsh book, Untold Sagas of the Seas 

Volume II from Amazon and Kindle. 

Palm Line, a British-owned shipping 

company, plied 5,000 miles West 

Africa’s seaboard. In the early 1960s, the 

company’s commodore was Spanish born 

Captain Inés, whose hands-on character 

was legendary. He never suffered fools so 

I got on perfectly well with him. 

Palm Line vessels were specially 

designed to negotiate the sand bars of 

the African creeks that excluded entry to 

liners that might otherwise bring 

trade to communities located to 

the Dark Continent’s interior. 

The Port of Abidjan on the 

Ivory Coast, however, is a modern port. 

Having picked up the pilot at the port’s 

approaches, Captain Inés, in accordance 

with the protocol, surrendered control 

of the Enugu Palm to the pilot. The local 

pilot’s knowledge of the port is essential 

for safe mooring. 

On this occasion, it soon became selfevident 

that all was not quite right. The 

recently boarded pilot was blind drunk 

and quite incapable of riding a bicycle 

let alone a fast-moving ocean liner in the 

narrow confines of a port. 

The Enugu Palm did successfully 

negotiate the port’s Vridi Canal without 

colliding with its palm thronged banks. 

As an 18-year-old Ordinary Seaman 

standing at the ship’s wheel, I was best 

placed to see the unfolding drama as the 

pilot inexplicably instructed the engine 

room to full ahead. After all, we were now 

approaching a lengthy quay along which 

several freighters were moored. 

Eyes and mind riveted, I watched the 

expression of growing alarm on the face 

of Captain Inés. Racing at full speed, 

about 18 kilometres per hour, the Enugu 

Palm’s bow was clearly destined to cleave 

the nearest moored freighter in two. I 

must have been the only British sailor 

ever to witness a port pilot being roughly 

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cursed and physically shouldered aside 

as a ship’s captain resumed control of his 

doomed laden ship. 

Rushing to the telegraph, bells clanged 

alarmingly as Captain Inés swung the 

JULY 2021 | 35 

lever to Full Astern. Simultaneously, he 

ordered me to swing the wheel hard to 

port. The rest was down to fate. Unlike a 

car, a ship can travel a long way before it 

responds to a change of command. 

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Homes in Spain 

Now and Then 

Everything changes except the memories. 

It was December 2000 when I took my 

sons for an all-inclusive hotel holiday in 

Benidorm. It was a chance choice as the travel 

agent had offered three breaks in different 

locations. 

‘Oh, boy, this’ll do me’ I thought to myself 

as whilst the UK suffered frozen pipes, I 

avoided sunburn. 

Sadly, I had no skills that were needed in 

Spain. Then at that moment of reflection on 

the beach, I read a news snippet that reported 

the high number of Brits buying retirement or 

second homes on the Spanish Riviera. 

‘Eureka!’ I whispered. ‘These buyers speak 

my language and I can sell.’ 

Arriving back in Blighty, I immediately 

picked up a copy of Homes Abroad magazine. 

By the day’s end, my artfully modified 

CV was on its way to several property 

sellers. Quick as a flash, Justo Quesada’s 

housebuilding company got back to me. 

I was invited to attend the Properties 

Abroad event at Birmingham’s National 

Exhibition Centre (NEC). Talk about hitting 

the ground running. Such were the high 

numbers of eager buyers overwhelming the 

stands I was told on arrival to ‘just get on with 

it’. 

Goodness, I couldn’t even pronounce Los 

Alcazares or even Torrevieja. But I made a 

good fist of it and was taken on and not once 


did I look back. 

Over the following years I set my stall out at 

hotels and exhibition centres all over Britain. 

I don’t think I was a gifted entrepreneur for 

during that time selling properties in Spain 

was as easy as taking sweets off a kid. 

Setting up my property’s abroad outlet 

near Liverpool’s city centre, I employed two 

staff and recall us arranging viewing trips 

for potential clients. My clients were so well 

qualified I was told my conversion rate was 

better than any others. 

In 2007 I ‘retired’ to Spain and taking up my 

pen I made a reasonable living. 

Recently, aware that interest in buying 

homes in Spain was on the rebound, I 

discovered how much the market had 

changed. It seemed that high-end apartments 

are now in vogue, perhaps because of their 

easier maintenance. Otherwise, prices of villas 

and standard apartments, quads and suchlike 

seem more or less as they were. 

Brexit hasn’t helped British buyers, 

Covid-19 put the dampers on EU buyers and 

sanctions drastically reduced the enormous 

potential of the Russian goldfields. But there 

is enormous optimism from developers and 

sellers. The market is in the recovery position. 

‘What killed the market in 2004 and will 

the old ways of doing things return,’ I asked 

a former colleague who stayed with the 

profession through the good years and bad. 








JULY 2021 | 37 

He smiled: ‘Greed killed the market.’ 

‘Are viewing trips back on,’ I asked. 

‘Yes, but many investors tend to purchase 

through video conference. Otherwise, buyers 

still like to press the flesh. People buy lifestyle 

so the viewing trips will return. This is the 

easy bit thanks to Spain being the best place in 

Europe to invest in or retire too.


ANNE RODGER 

VIRUS 

written during lockdown - May, 2020. 

BY 

ANNE RODGER 

Hello, dad. I was getting worried. This 

the third time I’ve phoned. Were you 

outside? 

- Spent a long time in the garden, watching 

the butterflies on the Wisteria. Think 

I must haver dozed off because I was 

suddenly quite chilly, so I’ve come back 

inside. 

- Did you see anyone while you were out 

there? 

- Yes. My cleaning lady came. 

- I hope you observed ‘social distancing’? 

- Of course. She only comes up to the gate. 

Shouts ‘Hello’ and asks if I’m OK. 

- So she doesn’t come in? 

No. I put her money in an envelope and 

sellotape it to the gate. She waves to me and 

shouts “Thank you”. See you next week.” 

She’s a nice lady. 

- I bet she is. Have you had supper yet? 

- No. I don’t know what to have. 

- What about the smoked ham I gave you? 

What don’t you make a sandwich? 

- Smoked ham? No, you didn’t give me 

smoked ham. I think I’ve got some cheese. 

But there’s no bread left. 

- Dad! I put a packet of soft bread rolls in the 

bag when I gave you the ham. Remember 

the blue bag, in the Car Park at Lidl on 

Tuesday? You put it on the passenger seat 

in your car. 

- Did !? Are you sure? I remember the blue 

bag and you watching me pick it up. It 

must still be in the car. 

- Dad! It’s Friday. You’ve had it 3 days. It 

won’t be fit to eat being in the car all that 

time - in this heat. 

- I’ll go and get it. I like smoked ham. 

- I know. That’s why I bought it. Don’t eat it 

if its gone off. 

- I’ll put some mustard on. 

- Every week I give you lovely fresh food - 

and I always say - “Put it in the fridge as 

soon as you get home”. 

I suppose you stopped for a drink on the 

way and then forgot you had food in the 

car. 

- Spencers is the only bar that’s open. But 

the barmaid was telling me there’s more 

opening next week. She said.... 

- Dad, you’re going to have to take more 

care of the food I give you - now that 

you’ve learned to use the fridge.

ANNE RODGER 

- It’s no use, that fridge. 

- What’s the matter with it? 

- It’s so full. I can’t get another thing in it. 

- You mean you haven’t used all the food I’ve 

been giving you? 

- I put it in the fridge, like you tell me - but it 

gets stocked up, and you wrap everything 

so it all looks the same. I don’t know what’s 

in there. 

- So what do you do when you want a meal? 

- I put a frozen one in the microwave. Like 

Spaghetti Bolognese. 

- That’s good. So you’ve still got frozen 

meals? 

- I think there’s 3 in the Cold Box. 

- Cold box? 

-Ah. You don’t remember the Cold Box, do 

you? It was in the garage. Blue and white. 

Big handle. We used to take it on picnics 

when you were little. And to the beach - 

full of cold drinks. That’s what it’s for - to 

keep things cold. 

- Yes, I know, dad. So you’re using the cold 

box. 

- I don’t use the fridge anymore. And the 

door of the freezer compartment is frozen 

shut, so I don’t know what’s in there. 

- So, how do you freeze the blue things? 

- What blue things? 

- The blue things with liquid in that you 

freeze before you them in the cold box. 

- You’re not listening to me, are you? It’s food 

I put in the Cool Box - not plastic things. 

I keep it on the stool in the kitchen, so it’s 

just the right height to reach into without 

me bending. 

- Whatever makes you happy, dad. 

- I would’ve thought you’d be 

congratulating me. This virus isn’t all 

negative, you know. Look at how well I’ve 

learned to look after myself while we’ve been 

in lockdown. 

- Well done, dad. Keep up the good work. 

Speak to you tomorrow. 

JULY 2021 | 39 

HAPPY 90th 

BIRTHDAY SAM 

Sam born in 1931 in Peterborough 

has 2 daughters Julie and Joanna 

did 2 years National Service but 

was a bit of a rebel. Played football for 

Peterborough been part of Masonic 

lodge for many years and a great golfer. 

Had pubs in England before coming to 

Calpe and buying a restaurant. 

However, I, Carol Levey, has 

personally known Sam for many years 

and he joined the Harlequin Group 

and was involved with comedy acts in 

the show with his friend Brian (the pie 

man). It was always a laugh a minute 

when Sam and Brian got together and 

their act, which was often made up 

on stage was hilarious. He was also 

involved with other group acts in the 

Harlequin shows. 

He has lived in Calpe for many years 

and his daughter Julie grew up with my 

daughter Lee. 

So from all your friends in Calpe, 

your daughters and of course from my 

daughter Lee that was in the shows 

with you and from me Carol and the 

Harlequin Group Happy 90th Birthday 

to young Sam.


RESTAURANTE EL NIDO 

PLAZA DE LA SORT 1 

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Tel. 96 574 5395 

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Opening hours. 

From 10.00 am 

every day. 

El Nido is a True Haven. Excellent 

restaurant in every way - It’s a must 

This restaurant is fantastic!!!! You will love the food 

and its location is in a top spot right opposite the 

beach. The staff are lovely and very efficient. It’s a 

must. 

Excellent variety of great food and if you need 

food to be gluten free they totally understand your 

requirements. 

The Chef at El Nido, Moraira is an artist, the meals 

are displayed with such talent and far beyond 

anyone’s expectations. Everything is presented 

with a clash of favours that complement each other 

brilliantly and each dish is displayed mouthwateringly 

beautiful. 

El Nido has a really good menu with a nice mix 

of local dishes and international style items. The 

Service is friendly and attentive and the food is of 

really high quality, it would bear comparison with 

some of the prestige places in the larger cities 

It is a real gem and you will look forward to eating 

there again and again, as the service is quick 

and friendly, food is tasty. Location is good. The 

whole place feels perfect and is worth trying. El 

Nido’s paella is also a must and is very tasty and 

good value plus an excellent house wine. There 

is so much variety in Paella choices from a mixed 

meat or fish, vegetable, Seafood, Mellow rice with 

Lobster, to Saffron and Squid and many more to 

think about. The tapas are mouth-watering from 

mixed fried fish, Clams in Marina sauce, Grilled 

cuttlefish to name but a few. A big variety of meat 

and fish menus such as Grilled Pork fillet, Rabbit 

cooked in garlic seasoning, Duck. Or Grilled 

Seabass, Lobster stew, Hake to grilled prawns 

and many more to choose from. Childrens’ menus 

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El Nido is a true haven to relax and enjoy an 

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42 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA A MEDIUM RARE 

O 

ften my clients come for an appointment hoping for 

a message from their dearly departed loved ones; 

and I am pleased to facilitate the great Spiritual 

Connection that allows the passing of messages from Earth 

to Spirit and Spirit to Earth. As the World becomes more 

accepting of Spirituality we are starting to develop faith in 

all connections that link our Planet with the holding station 

that is the territory of the Spirit World. No message is too 

long or too short, and such messages are always sent with 

much love in both directions. 

Over the years I have had a wealth of opportunity to 

pass on words of comfort to grieving people and I do 

this in a great variety of ways, to suit the client, and to 

hopefully enjoy a great connection. We are all Spirit living 

in a body, and one day our bodies die and what is released 

is the encrypted information etched onto our souls whilst 

we are living. Events long forgotten can come flooding 

back and they, in so doing, prove the survival of the soul of 

the departed as evidential matters. Often things that appear 

very odd or unessential are the keynotes of what is needed 

to prove to people in general that the soul never dies and 

that there are many there in the Spirit World either waiting 

to pass on a message to loved ones on Earth, or wishing to 

receive news of those that they had to leave behind after 

the finality of death separated them from loved ones and 

family. 

After any journey these days we pick up our phones 

and send a message or call to say that we have arrived 

safely at our destination. Our friends and family like to 

keep in touch, but they are very relieved to know that 

their loved ones are safe and happy and that all is well. So, 

imagine that you take the longest journey ever and that you 

crossover from Earth to Spirit. What happens when you 

need to inform your family or friends that you are safe? It 

takes time to find out how to send a message, so there may 

be a delay in such a communication ever leaving the Spirit 

World. So too, what happens if your friends and family are 

scared to make contact with you? Many fear the concept 

of what they wrongly call disturbing the dead, who are 

sleeping, or are maybe frightened by the concept that 

messaging is in any way possible. Such communication 

could be eerie or creepy, or wrong, or maybe all three. In 

the Spirit World there is often discouragement to contact 

Earth whilst we are awake. As such the protocol is to enter 

into our dreams, and many departed souls resort to this 

in an attempt just to say that they are alive and well and 

inhabiting within the greatest of holding stations for the 

interchange of communication between the dead and the 

living. If your family feels that anything Spiritual is wrong 

then it may be hard for anyone within it to receive the 

message from the Spirit World. Your own lack of faith can 

cause you not to see portents or understand the concept of 

silent messages or fully understand the slightest indication 

that the dead can, and do, communicate whenever they 

can. Spirit has broadcast through radios and television 

and even the odd flickering of light bulbs. Sometimes we 

see apparitions of our loved ones as creatures of Nature, 

or hear someone calling them by name. One client told 

me that her husband had not contacted her, and knowing 

him well and his sincere intention on death to fully 

communicate, I was very surprised. Then the same client 

said that there was a smell of his tobacco around the house, 

that his towel was hanging up wet though unused in the 

bathroom, and that she felt his body next to hers in bed at 

night. Three ways of communicating! Another client came 

to have a coffee with me to chat about the sad departure 

of her son. The music in the bar suddenly changed and his 

favourite song blasted out. In this case the message was so 

strong that he made sure, since it was his favourite song, 

that the volume would be turned up, just the way he liked 

to hear it. 

So send your message out loud and clear. If you need 

help with this then come to see me, my calling card gains 

priority access for me after my sixty years with Spirit, and 

I will use it to contact your loved ones on your behalf. 

It’s just what I do, amongst other things, and it’s such 

a comfort to be sure that loved ones are out there and 

are willing to prove their identity and well being by the 

passing of messages; that may be sent by a variety of ways, 

but which come directly from the heart and the soul. Be 

open to get answers in incoming messages, but do know 

that replies can be in many diverse and different ways. 

Love never ever dies. Our loved ones look down and see 

us and so lift the barriers, if there are any, and freely allow 

the communication to flow between you. Sometimes after 

passing there is a time when the soul is being received into 

Spirit and it could be some time before you get a response. 

If this is the case send the message anyway. Speak it out 

aloud if you need to because it will be heard and you will 

get a result. Be persistent and never give up. When you 

get the response it is evidence of eternal life in a pain free 

and loving World where the departed choose what comes 

next in the form of opportunities open to them; and your 

message won’t ever disturb, but it may gentle awaken 

those who are resting and show them that, no matter what, 

you will always love them. 

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44 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA WALSH’S WISDOM 

Despite it being the peak of the high season 

restaurants on the Costas find it difficult 

to make enough business to cover their 

overheads. Most are philosophical about the slump in 

business and a ‘stuff happens’ mentality is pervasive. 

I wonder if part of the problem is an unwillingness to 

adapt to societal changes. 

In Britain back in the 1960s and 1970s, restaurants 

were few and far between and mostly Chinese run. 

Otherwise, the best one could expect was a pint and a 

stale bap from a pub’s bar top display. 

Prosperity arrived, people wanted more and 

restaurant pioneers delivered. Despite considerable 

disadvantages compared to their Mediterranean 

counterparts, Britain’s restaurants flourished. 

Publicans resistant to change sold out to chains. Old 

pubs were gutted and turned into wonderful family 

restaurants often with indoor and outdoor play areas 

for the children. 

Properly trained friendly smartly attired in their 

tunics waiting on staff served customers. The food 

is fresh, well-cooked, healthy, tasty and priced 

reasonably. 

I recall the slogan: ‘We don’t serve fast food. We 

serve good food fast.’ 

England and for that matter, Dublin and Riga 

aren’t cheap so don’t have a price advantage over 

their Mediterranean rivals. Due to poor weather 

the outside terraces are few and far between. There 

is little or no tourist season. Yet, despite all, these 

eateries have no choice but to turn a good profit 

every week throughout the year. 

Before I retired to Spain and since when visiting 

the United Kingdom I find the British bars, bistros, 

pubs and conventional restaurants do a brisk trade. 

Why? Because the owners are restaurant 

entrepreneurs and a mainstay of their businesses 

are their imaginative makeovers. In Bristol and 

Liverpool, it is still necessary to book a restaurant 

table so be prepared to wait or be turned away 


You need more than a 

good climate to run a 

profitable restaurant 

because they offer real variety. 

There is a bigger and more varied choice of theme 

restaurants in any moderately sized English city than 

there is along Spain’s entire Mediterranean coast. 

Furthermore, the service tends to be better as is the 

quality of atmosphere and food. 

On the Costas, if you have seen any two 

restaurants you have seen them all. The choice of 

eateries tends to resemble Blackpool type 1960s era 

tin-table cafés or Spanish ambience restaurants; take 

it or leave it. 

Karaoke musical fare is as tediously unimaginative 

as is the fare on the plate. Despite my living in quite 

a well-heeled part of Costa Blanca and being also a 

regular in and around Marbella, I can think of only 

one atmospheric exotic restaurant, the expensive and 

classy Trocadero that invites a smart dress code. Yet 

in England, I was spoiled for choice. 

I seem to recall that in Bristol and Liverpool, 

two quite small cities compared to say London, 

Manchester or Birmingham, there was a lip-smacking 

choice of Mexican and Spanish, Russian, Indian 

and Chinese of course, Italian, Irish, German, even 

Jamaican and Trinidadian restaurants, oh, more than 

you could swing a table napkin at. 

Britain’s La Tasca chain of Spanish theme 

restaurants were so popular it was difficult to get 

a table even mid-week. My occasional Spanish 

guests would exclaim, ‘why can’t we have Spanish 

restaurants as good as these.’ 

Each themed pub truly dressed for the occasion 

and provided appropriate fare. For instance, if dining 

at a Mexican themed favourite it was easy to think 

one was in a remote Mexican cantina. Why travel? 

It seems to me that the sunshine in Spain needs 

a little help. I suggest we start by applying a really 

competitive restaurant and imaginative choice of 

eateries primarily to benefit the customers rather 

than the owner. Elsewhere, this approach results in a 

win-win situation for owners and diners. 







JULY 2021 | 45


Sunday 

8th August at 

4.00 pm. Live 

Music with 

PETE FROST 

PLUS Play Your 

Cards Right. 

Check Facebook for 

up and coming 

events 

Father Ted’s 

Camino del Pallero, 6, Moraira 

OPENING HOURS 

Mon 3 – 9 

Tues 3 – 9 

Weds 3 – 11 

Thurs CLOSED 

Fri 3 – 10 

Sat 2 – 10 

Sun 10 – 8 

Father Ted’s can be described as a “Jewel in a Crown” as 

it sparkles with personality and is a “gem” of a bar to visit 

with a warm welcome. 

In the Moraira area where there are plenty of fizzy beers, it’s a joy to get a decent 

pint of Guinness, properly served. The owner and staff are professional and friendly 

and the food is very good. It has a relaxed and civilized feel about it, everything 

a bar should be. Another big asset is the wide selection of “GUEST CRAFT ALES” 

available including “ADNAMS BROADSIDE” and “NEIPA” on draught. 

GUEST BEERS CHANGED REGULARLY. 

What a find! Great food and service and good value for money. Treat yourself to 

a traditional Sunday Lunch with a choice of starters, main courses of Roast Beef, 

Roast Chicken, Roast Lamb, or Roast Pork served with all the trimmings, starting 

from 10.95€. Spaces are limited though so give Gwen a ring on 966 490 277 or 630 

965 392 to book. Lunch will be served from 1.30. 

Staff very friendly and attentive. Home-made Specials from €6.95. 

Inside seating 52 people and on the terrace 20. Plenty of outside parking space. 

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QUIZ AND SPECIAL MEAL DEALS EVERY SATURDAY 

TRADITIONAL SUNDAY LUNCH from €11.95. 

Please check our Facebook page for revised times, capacity and 

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Including Punk IPA and 

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New beer arriving on draught. 

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SUNDAY LUNCH 

Available from 11.95€

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Father Ted’s 

Camino del Pallero, 6, Moraira 

A Gem of a Place 

One Course 11.95€ 

Two Courses 13.95€ 

Three Courses 15.95€ 

Normal Opening Hours 

Mon 3 - 9 , Tues 3 – 9, Weds 3- 11, Thurs Closed, Fri 3 – 

10, Sat 2 – 10, Sun 10 – 8 

Opening hours may vary and entertainment due to ongoing restrictions. 

Check our Facebook page or phone the bar on 966 490 277/630 965 392 

Booking advised: 966 490 277 / 630 965 392 

Camino Del Pallero 6, Moraira


CHANGE YOUR LIFE 

Have you a marriage 

in difficulties?? 

We have the idea that marriage would 

be a dream, that it would be sheer 

bliss to have a lifelong partner to share 

everything with and grow old with in harmony....... 

that is what some of us have, no doubt. However, 

more and more couples are finding the road to 

married bliss more difficult to stay on than they 

originally thought!! 

You may find that applying the 3As Bearing in 

mind that no one is very likely to marry someone 

they don’t want to........what goes wrong? What 

happens to change things?? If we marry someone 

because we think they are the best thing since 

sliced bread (!) where did it all change? More 

importantly WHY did it all change?? Are YOU 

still the same person? Is your partner still the same 

person? How come you are feeling differently 

about things nowadays........shouldn’t it all be 

getting better, the longer you are together? 

In a perfect world, maybe, but we don’t live in a 

perfect world do we? However, there are usually 

solutions we may not have thought of, so lets 

consider some of those things....yes? 

Ask yourself if there is anything worth working 

at...? Anything worth saving? If so, there are some 

things to explore. 

Marriage is about meeting each others needs...... 

are we doing that??? If not, why not? It must 

have been the pattern at one time if you ever felt 

fulfilled in the relationship, so why did we stop 

doing that? 

Do we realise that when we choose to behave 

in a particular way we are also choosing the 

consequences?? Cause and effect, BIG TIME!!!!!

CHANGE YOUR LIFE 

JULY 2021 | 49 

Marriage is not about being on an ego 

trip and it is not about a power struggle. 

If marriage has turned into that, ask 

yourself why? Marriage was all about 

love, companionship and sharing...... 

have those words disappeared from 

your relationship? Can you bring them 

back? The answer is YES, but you have to 

WANT to. 

Do you know what your needs are? Do 

you know what the needs of your partner 

are?? When you have the answers to that 

question, set goals and work towards 

meeting those needs....every one of those 

needs is a goal to meet. 

Sometimes in life to get what you need 

you have to give what you have. Read 

that again!! So many of us “shut up 

shop” and stop giving. What can be the 

only possible result there?? Frustration, 

resentment, withdrawal, closure........then 

we go on, living from day to day trapped 

in a relationship that is meaningless and 

unfulfilling. 

For those of you who have read my articles 

before you must know what I am going 

to say! .......YOU are in control! You can 

make or break any situation in your life 

by the way you handle it and by the way 

you react towards it. If something is not 

working the way you think it should, 

ask yourself if you are being realistic? If 

not, change the goalposts! Stop thinking 

its your way or the highway!!....there are 

TWO of you in this situation, not just one!! 

Two points of view, two personalities to 

take into consideration. 

Achieving change and success in this may 

be hard, but its not impossible! Its up to 

you to evaluate the situation you are in 

and do what you can to make a difference. 

Till the next time! Take care! 

Violet King 

OPENING TIMES 

Mon-Fri: 10.00-17.00 

Closed Sat & Sun


DAWN BLYTHE 

Does air quality on flights 

pose a Health Risk? 

How often do you ‘break out with 

a cold’ a few days after flying? 

In recent years aircraft 

have been designed to recirculate 

approximately 50% of the cabin air in 

order to increase fuel efficiency. 

Research now shows that contrary to 

common belief the increase in people 

getting colds following air travel is 

not actually due to the quality of air 

on board. It is more likely due to the 

confined space of the aircraft. 

Studies reveal that it doesn’t matter 

if you are breathing recirculated air or 

fresh air – if germs are present from other 

passengers or crew you’re going to be 

infected. 

Droplets in the air (following a sneeze) 

are a big cause. However direct contact 

by touching other items that people 

with colds have touched (trays, cups, 

magazines etc.) counts even more. Touch 

a cold virus germ then touch your face 

and you’ve exposed yourself to a virus. 

The risk of this is even greater where 

there are lots of people in a confined 

space such as an aircraft cabin. 

In addition, increased stress levels 

(often associated with travel) may lower 

a person’s immunity enough to make 

them more susceptible. 

At the altitude at which commercial 

jets fly, the air pressure does not allow 

humans to breathe independently.To 

overcome this, hot compressed air is

DAWN BLYTHE 

JULY 2021 | 51 

drawn from the plane’s engines and, once 

cooled, directed into the cabin to supply 

breathable air - known as bleed air. 

Theoretically this does not pose a 

health risk in itself. But some believe 

that potential faults in the engine 

seals can lead to heated engine 

oil, hydraulic fluids and harmful 

chemicals called organophosphates 

(used to lubricate the engine’s metal 

parts) contaminating the air. This is 

known as a fume event. 

How often do fume events take place? 

Not so often! According to the 

toxicology unit at Imperial College 

London it is estimated that fume events 

take place in 1 in 2,000 British flights. 

They add that the information available 

indicates even during potential fume 

events, levels of air contamination are 

low, and probably below those which 

would be affecting health in humans 

Does the risk of illness increase with 

time spent flying? 

Those at greatest risk are the crew who 

fly for a living rather than the passengers 

taking the occasional flight. 

Also those on long-haul flights are also 

more susceptible to illness, when taken 

regularly. 

What to look out for: 

Signs that something is wrong may 

include: 

• Migraines 

• Unexplained fatigue 

• Poor concentration 

• Difficulty thinking straight 

• Breathing problems 

• Digestive complaints 

• General aches and pains 

In Summary: 

The CAA said in a statement: “There is 

no positive evidence of a link between 

exposure to contaminants in cabin air 

and possible long-term health effects - 

although such a link cannot be excluded.” 

It is apparent that the possibility of 

long-term health effects from repeated 

exposure to fume events is an area that 

needs more research. 

· Article by Dawn Blythe S.R.N. R.M. 

· The Family Medical Centre, Albir. 966 865 072 

· www.albirfamilymedicalcentre.com

52 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA PUZZLE PAGE 

Firefox 

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ACROSS 

1 Island that I confused with another 

island (6) 

4 Making a cat sit still (6) 

8 Claim a gentleman is hiding a picture 

(5) 

9 Churchill gains weight (7) 

10 He swears he’s in the cavalry (7) 

11 Tree in river not cold at first (5) 

12 Come after break for stuffing (9) 

17 Possible means of identification? (5) 

19 Dash back with German article for 

part-exchange 

(5-2) 

21 Sibling rivalry’s beginning? Worry 

about it! (7) 

22 An animal arrived then left (5) 

23 Phrase translated for mountain guide 

(6) 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 

8 9 

10 11 

15 16 

17 18 19 20 

Sudoku Today 

Classic Sudoku 

12 13 14 

21 22 

Place a digit from 1 to 9 into each of the empty squares so that each digit appears 

exactly once in each of the rows, columns and the nine outlined 3x3 regions. 

23 24 

ACROSS 

24 Composer from Harlem (6) 

1 Island that I confused with another island (6) 

4 Making a cat sit still (6) 

DOWN 8 Claim a gentleman is hiding a picture (5) 

1 Oliver’s 

9 Churchill 

unforeseen 

gains weight 

developments 

(7) 

(6) 

10 He swears he's in the cavalry (7) 

2 Set out 11 Tree to forestall in river not principal cold at first on (5) 

vacation 12 Come (4,3) after break for stuffing (9) 

3 Belgian 17 Possible city getting means rid of of identification? an idiot (5) (5) 

19 Dash back with German article for part-exchange 

5 Metal (5-2) goods ruined in water (7) 

6 Toddler, 21 Sibling extremely rivalry's exhausted, beginning? has Worry to about it! (7) 

be carried 22 An animal (5) arrived then left (5) 

23 Phrase translated for mountain guide (6) 

7 Bird 24 seen Composer by wharf from in Harlem London (6) (6) 

9 Wodehouse DOWN character heard in city (9) 

13 Fruit 1 Oliver's became unforeseen more trendy developments (7) (6) 

14 Current 2 Set sort out to of forestall underwear? principal (7) on vacation (4,3) 

3 Belgian city getting rid of an idiot (5) 

15 Egyptian 5 Metal god goods transported ruined in water in a (7) bus (6) 

16 Sportsman 6 Toddler, showing extremely displeasure 

exhausted, has to be carried (5) 

when 7 Bird lake seen is by wharf in London (6) 

9 Wodehouse character heard in city (9) 

filled in 13 (6) Fruit became more trendy (7) 

18 American 14 Current elk sort Scottish of underwear? rodent? (7) (5) 

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JULY 2021 | 53 

Nanny M’s 

Mobility & E-Bike Rentals 

Alquiler de bicicletas electricas 

y movilidad reducida 

Please call for more information 

Por favor Llame para más información 

(+34) 623 395 569 

(+44) 7754995044 

865 815 206 

VILLA CLEANING IS ALSO AVAILABLE 

Multi Services 

Sylvias cleaning services. We provide two types of cleaning 

service: One-off spring cleans or a regular weekly (or fortnightly) 

cleaning service and are happy to cater for all your domestic 

cleaning needs. With services including ironging, dusting, 

polishing and vacuuming. We endeavour to provide you with a 

personal clean tailored to your home and at your convenience. 

Nanny M’s is a family run mobility 

scooter and E-Bike Rentals 

business which opened in July 

in Moraira. David Agacy, the 

owner will be there to assist you 

to choose which type of mobility 

scooter, wheelchair or electric 

E-Bike would suit you to hire. This 

is a unique business as they have 

designed their own type of electric 

bike, even down to the type of 

screws used. The model looks 

like a scooter but it is an electric 

E-Bike. A lot of thought, planning 

and care went into their unique 

design. 

The name of the Company 

is in recognition of their dear 

grandmother Marjory, who was 

the salt of the earth and was 

particularly active, respected, 

and influential member of her 

local social sphere. Marjory was 

long considered a pillar of the 

community in England. 

At Nanny M’s you are hiring 

reliable top-of-the-line mobility 

scooters to travel in style. Their 

scooters provide freedom and 

independence to people with 

disabilities and the elderly. 

Find out everything you need 

to know about hiring a mobility 

scooter, electric E-Bikes and 

wheelchairs from Nanny M’s. David 

and his team are knowledgeable 

about their trade as they also have 

businesses in England. They are 

very helpful and will give you good 

advice on what type of mobility 

scooter would suit you. 

Nanny M’s treat all their customers 

like an extended member of the 

family. They are here to help. Feel 

free to come in and have a chat or 

give David a call.

54 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA PAWS FOR THOUGHT 

Hi Folks 

Been having a yap with Alfie, he loves me 

to bits but he never leaves me alone. I had 

a few whispers in his ear and said he has to 

stop sleeping all the time pushed 

up next to me, as it is a bit 

warm. He cleans my face 

and ears and of course 

adores me, I enjoy 

being pampered. 

I put my paws in 

the air now and he 

cleans these. Yes 

I am spoilt. Our 

bossy little dog 

Bentley is getting 

a bit of a pain lately. 

He really is in charge 

and bosses us both all 

the time. However, since his 

birthday in April he has become 

bossier. Bentley has to have his food first and 

have all the toys or he gets annoyed with us, 

so we just give in. He gets grumpy and Alfie 

and I are placid. I had to bark to myself when 

he came in and took out of Alfie’s mouth his 

favourite toy and run downstairs with it and 

hid it. Afie is so placid he lets him do it and it 

never bothers me as I am so laid back. 

Bentley can run like a hare as he is small 

he nearly beats Alfie but I carry too much 

muscle to join in all the time so I stand and 

watch and bark occasionally. It’s all part of 

puppy fun and I always give in to Alfie and 

Bentley. My friends say that I am spoiling 

them too much. However, Alfie is so likeable 

and is such a kind loving dog and never 

gets upset. Bentley is a good little dog but 

his father is a Yorkie and he sometimes has 

that bossy aggression with us but we take no 

notice and let him be in charge. 

Tyson is wearing his blue cooling collar and resting 

on his favourite bed. 

Phone 650304746 for more info or email 

p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail.com 

I am having 

to wear my 

cooling collar 

and use my 

cooling 

mat as it is 

too warm 

for me 

to go out 

in the sun. 

I am even 

panting in the 

shade. Although 

I am feeling better on 

my new vitamins and do my 

daily walking exercise so have lost a little 

bit of weight. So I have to wear my cooling 

collar to keep me from overheating and a 

cooling mat and a magnetic collar that helps 

my rheumatism. I have just heard that I am 

getting a cooling jacket as my family are 

worried how this heat is affecting my health 

and they do not want me to be ill. So shortly 

I will be looking very smart in my favourite 

colour Blue cooling jacket. 

Alfie and Bentley are asleep now so I will 

have time for a quick nap myself…oh I do 

enjoy snoring and a good old stretch. On this 

happy note will say licks, paws and tail wags 

- until next month. Please keep supporting all 

the four legged furry friends. They need you, 

they cannot tell you so I will. Thank You!! 

Woof Woof. 

Tyson

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CELEBRITY PROFILE 

BRIAN WILSON 

Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is 

an American musician, singer, songwriter, 

and record producer who founded the Beach 

Boys. Often called a genius for his novel approaches 

to pop composition, extraordinary musical aptitude, 

and mastery of recording techniques, he is widely 

acknowledged as one of the most innovative and 

significant songwriters of the 20th century. Wilson 

is also known for his lifelong struggles with mental 

illness. 

Raised in Hawthorne, California, Wilson’s early 

influences included George Gershwin, the Four 

Freshmen, Phil Spector, and Burt Bacharach. In 

1961, he began his professional career as a member 

of the Beach Boys, serving as the band’s songwriter, 

producer, and co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, 

and de facto leader. After signing with 

Capitol Records in 1962, he became 

the first pop artist credited for 

writing, arranging, producing, 

and performing his own 

material. He also produced 

other acts, most notably the 

Honeys. By the mid-1960s, he 

had written or co-written more 

than two dozen U.S. Top 40 

hits, including the number-ones 

“Surf City” (1963), “I Get Around” 

(1964), “Help Me, Rhonda” (1965), 

and “Good Vibrations” (1966). 

In 1964, Wilson suffered a nervous 

breakdown and resigned from regular concert 

touring, which led to more refined work, such 

as the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and Wilson’s first 

credited solo release, “Caroline, No” (both 1966). 

As his mental health deteriorated in the late 1960s, 

his contributions to the band diminished, and he 

became much-mythologized for his lifestyle of 

seclusion, overeating, and drug abuse. In the 1980s, 

he formed a controversial creative and business 

partnership with his psychologist, Eugene Landy, 

and relaunched his solo career with the album 

Brian Wilson (1988). Following his disassociation 

from Landy in 1991, Wilson started receiving 

conventional medical treatment. Since the late 

1990s, he has recorded and performed consistently 

as a solo artist. 

From an early age, Wilson demonstrated an 

extraordinary skill for learning by ear. Speaking of 

Wilson’s unusual musical abilities prior to his first 

birthday, his father said that, as a baby, he could 

repeat the melody from “When the Caissons Go 

Rolling Along” after only a few verses had been 

sung by the father. 

Brian liked nothing more than to gather his 

friends around the piano ... Most often he’d 

harmonize with ... friends from his senior class. 

Written for his Senior Problems course in October 

1959, Wilson submitted an essay, “My Philosophy”, 

in which he stated that his ambitions were to 

“make a name for myself ... in music 

Wilson, brothers Carl and Dennis, 

cousin Mike Love, and their 

friend Al Jardine first appeared 

as a music group in of 1961, 

initially under the name the 

Pendletones. After being 

prodded by Dennis to write 

a song about the local watersports 

craze, Wilson and 

Mike Love together created 

what became the first single for 

the band, “Surfin”. Around this 

time, the group rented an amplifier, 

a microphone, and a stand-up bass for 

Jardine to play. After the boys rehearsed for 

several weeks in the Wilsons’ music room, his 

parents returned home from a brief trip to Mexico. 

Eventually impressed, Murry Wilson proclaimed 

himself the group’s manager and the band 

embarked on serious rehearsals for a proper studio 

session. 

When Candix Records ran into money problems 

and sold the Beach Boys’ master recordings to 

another label, Wilson’s father terminated the 

contract. As “Surfin’” faded from the charts, Wilson, 

who had forged a song writing partnership with 

local musician Gary Usher, created several new

CELEBRITY PROFILE 

JULY 2021 | 57 

songs, including a car song, “409”, 

that Usher helped them write. 

Wilson and the Beach Boys cut 

new tracks at Western Recorders 

in Hollywood, including “Surfin’ 

Safari” and “409”. These songs 

the gas a little bit.” “I Get Around”, 

their first U.S. number one hit, 

as representing both a successful 

response by Wilson to the British 

Invasion, and the beginning of 

an unofficial rivalry between him 

convinced Capitol Records to 

and the Beatles, principally Paul 

release the demos as a single; they 

became a double-sided national 

McCartney. The B-side, “Don’t 

Worry Baby”, was cited by Wilson 

Throughout 1964, Wilson 

in a 1970 interview as “Probably the 

engaged in worldwide concert 

best record we’ve done”. 

tours with the Beach Boys while 

Wilson ceased writing surfingthemed 

continuing to write and produce 

material after “Don’t 

for the group, whose studio output 

Back Down” in April. During the 

for this year included the albums Wilson’s senior yearbook group’s first major European tour, 

Shut Down Volume 2 (March), All photo, June 1960 in late 1964, Wilson replied angrily to 

Summer Long (June), and The Beach 

a journalist when asked how he felt 

Boys’ Christmas Album (November). 

Following a particularly stressful Australasian tour 

in early 1964, it was agreed by the group to dismiss 

Wilson’s father Murry from his managerial duties. 

Murry still had a subsequent influence over the 

band’s activities and kept a direct correspondence 

with Brian, giving him thoughts about the group’s 

decisions; Wilson also periodically sought music 

opinions from his father. 

In February, Beatlemania swept the U.S., a 

development that deeply disturbed Wilson. In 

a 1966 interview, he commented, “The Beatles 

invasion shook me up a lot. They eclipsed a lot 

of what we’d worked for. ... The Beach Boys’ 

supremacy as the number one vocal group in 

America was being challenged. So we stepped on 

about originating the surfing sound: 

“We don’t play surfing music. We’re tired of being 

labelled as the originators of the surfing sound. We 

just produce a sound that teens dig, and that can be 

applied to any theme. The surfing theme has run its 

course. Cars are finished now, too. And even Hondas 

are over. We’re just gonna stay on the life of a social 

teenager.” While promoting Christmas Album, Jack 

Wagner remarked that Wilson’s decision to sing 

solo on a version of “Blue Christmas” could be 

“the start of a whole new career”, to which Wilson 

responded “I don’t know. It could and it couldn’t. I 

really don’t know.” 

The Pet Sounds tour played in Europe, with a 

sold-out four-night residency at the Royal Festival 

Hall in London. 

At age 11, Wilson was discovered to have 

significantly diminished hearing in his right ear. 

The cause is unclear; theories range from it being a 

birth defect to him being struck by either his father 

or a neighbourhood boy. In his memoir, the blame 

is given to a neighbourhood boy, he underwent 

corrective surgery that was unsuccessful in 

restoring his hearing. 

Wilson and Marilyn were married in December 

1964. Together, they had two daughters, Carnie and 

Wendy (born 1968 and 1969, respectively), who 

later had musical success of their own as two-thirds 

of the group Wilson Phillips . 

Wilson performing with the Beach Boys in 1983 

By Carol Levey

58 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA POEM PAGE / PUZZLE ANSWERS 

WHERE ZEPHYRS FLOW 

Close your eyes and open wide, 

The windows of your mind; 

Regret is for the wounded psyche, 

Best let your past unwind; 

Peer instead both far ahead, 

Then to your left and right; 

There’s more to see with open mind, 

Much more than black and white. 

Close your eyes and see instead, 

The world as you would wish, 

Picture scenes without what are, 

The things you’ll never miss. 

Imagination further sees, 

Illusions like the ocean breeze, 

Wanders where the zephyrs go, 

I hope they blow to me. 

Michael Walsh 

https://puzzles.bestforpuzzles.com/games/daily-cryptic-crossword?puzz... 

OUT AND ABOUT POET 

IS MAKING THE NEWS 

Out and About Magazine poet, Michael Walsh, has had his 

name and his art thrust into the limelight by a recent series of 

successes. 

Michael has been composing poetry for nearly fifty years. His 

first book collections have now been published on Amazon 

Books. 

His Diamonds Last Forever collection sells well on Kindle. 

However, our resident poet’s three volume anthologies, Heart to 

Heart Poetry Volumes 1, 2 and 3, are now available on Amazon as 

conventionally bound books. Each volume is colour illustrated 

and contains about 70 wonderful poems. 

He says, “What I find particularly encouraging is that my growing 

army of enthusiasts were never before inclined towards reading 

poetry. They thought it confusing and like a literary form of 

modernist art; beyond their understanding. My verse leaves 

readers with an itchy heart, not an itchy head.” 

His international acclaim as a poet is boosted by tributes paid 

to him by some of the world’s most respected figures in the arts, 

theatre, entertainment, the Church, politics and literature. His 

reputation has been further boosted by a You Tube 6-minute 

video that creates a stunning visual and musical landscape 

to one of Michael’s most loved poems: The Oldest Love Letter. 

If you would like to try some of Michael’s poetry simply visit 

www.michaelwalsh.es 

You can also access Amazon. In the book section type Michael 

Walsh Heart to Heart Poetry. If you would like to experience his 

stunning and crowning glory go to You Tube and type in Michael 

Walsh The Oldest Love Letter. 

Immortal 

Beloved: Sublime 

Poetry for 

Romantic Souls 

by Michael Walsh 

is now available on 

Amazon: 

http://amzn.to/2oqj52L 

Sudoku Today 

Classic Sudoku 

Place a digit from 1 to 9 into each of the empty squares so that each digit appears 

exactly once in each of the rows, columns and the nine outlined 3x3 regions. 

26-June-2021 

T A H I T I S T A T I C 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 

W E W I O A 

I M A G E W I N S T O N 

8 9 

S D R O W E A 

10 

T R O O P E R 

11 

A L D E R 

S F C R Y 

12 

F O 

13 

R C E M E A 

14 

T 

15 

A O S H 

16 

A 

17 

N A 

18 

M E S 

19 

T R 

20 

A D E I N 

U O E E C R G 

21 

B R O T H E R 

22 

C A M E L 

I S I R A E 

23 

S H E R P A 

24 

M A H L E R 

PUZZLE 

PAGE 

ANSWERS 

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JULY 2021 | 59 

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It’s time to stock up on 

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them well away!

60 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA

FABRIX 

An Amazing Material Shop 

Fabric is an amazing material wonderland shop. 

Displaying a selection of dress fabrics, curtain material, 

assorted furnishings cloths, quilting, upholstering, 

sequins, cottons, crafts and much more etc. 

All types of materials for that “special occasion 

outfit”, costumes for shows, or curtains, cushions, 

cushion covers, bedding, and tablecloths. Patchwork 

Fabrics, Sheetings, and Paper Patterns. 

Fabrix is stacked to the roof with fascinating materials 

and makes a great starting point. 

Ask Brian, the owner of Fabrix and an expert in his trade, 

for advice on the type of materials needed, how much is 

required etc. 

“Fabrix” can deal with all your sewing requirements. 

C/La Pinta 6, Calpe 03710, Alicante. 

Telephone 607 482 673 or call into Fabrix shop. 

You’ll Enjoy Your Visit 

JULY 2021 | 61 

OPENING 

HOURS 

9.30 am 

until 19.30 

Mondays to 

Thursdays 

Entertainment 

Sports 

Movies 

Video Club 

Box Sets 

Catch-up TV 

Tel: 965 584 097 

Mobile: 660 186 505 

For all your satellite or 

internet TV viewing 

Satellite or Internet Set 

Top Boxes 

Dish installations 

Dish Re-alignments 

info@ccsattv.com 

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62 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA HOROSCOPE 

ARIES MARCH 21 - APRIL 20: 

The mid month Chiron retrograde 

in Aries brings with it an intensity 

of power and energy. This will work 

wonders in healing old wounds and boosting 

much needed self-love too. 

TAURUS APRIL 22 - MAY 21: 

Mighty Uranus is ensconced in 

Taurus as a busy month kicks 

off. You have facts to face and the truth 

may hurt someone, but certainly not you. 

Remove all obstacles, because you can. 

GEMINI MAY 22 - JUNE 22: 

Walk away, and don’t think of lashing 

out! Mercury is in Cancer opposing 

Pluto in Capricorn and above all 

don’t let anyone rain on your parade. You have 

started, so you have to finish. 

CANCER JUNE 23 - JULY 23: 

With Mercury sliding into Cancer 

on the 20th, Uranus and Taurus 

allow the reveal of information that checks 

out right now, and changes a situation that 

seems to be veering out of control! 

LEO JULY 24 - AUG 23: 

The month starts with Mars in Leo 

squaring on Uranus in Taurus. 

Beware of elements of danger that 

could impede your sincere need to establish 

peace. A conflict borne of lies has had a 

devastating effect. 

VIRGO AUG 24 - SEPT 23: 

Awarded the maximum 5 star rating in the most recent poll by 

the American Federation of Certified Psychics and Mediums. 

Venus enters on the 21st and any 

hopes, wishes and desires are on 

the cards. Love will always find a way, so 

open your heart and know that faith is the 

flame of the fire of passions within. 

LIBRA SEPT 24 - OCT 23: 

Asteroid Vesta is the true Cosmic 

healer. Taking on Libra this month 

brings with it a focus on partnerships in all 

ways. Time to re-think and discuss a way 

forward that’s amicable for you both! 

SCORPIO OCT 24 - NOV 22: 

The conjunction with Taurus, 

your sibling Planet, and Uranus 

allows you to think big when you 

start future plans. You will have a second 

and final chance to complete a project close 

to your heart. 

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 - DEC 21: 

Lucky Jupiter enters Pisces mid 

month. This is a true time to be 

free and go with the flow. Have fun and 

know that you have worked very hard to 

allow joy to finally enter your heart. 

CAPRICORN DEC 22 - JAN 20: 

Pluto in Capricorn opposes the 

Sun in Cancer. As far as success 

and abundance are concerned, don’t allow 

your emotions to get the better of you. 

Focus, and what you seek can be yours now! 

AQUARIUS JAN 21 - FEB 19: 

The Full Moon in Aquarius on the 

23rd brings you to think rebellious 

thoughts, just as the Jupiter retrograde a few 

days later brings closure to something that 

has been a thorn in your side. 

PISCES FEB 20 - MAR 20: 

Pallas, Asteroid of wisdom, 

retrogrades in Pisces on the 14th 

and your emotions are honed 

to alleviate recent insecurities that beg to 

influence you. Walk away with your head 

held high and move on!

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