Every week I write and article for the Euro Weekly News, an English-speaking newspaper covering all the major resorts of Spain and the Balearics. You can pick up a copy on a Thursday ... or read it here every week. |
Thursday 24 May 2007
Well, the various local election machines this week kicked into overdrive. Roundabouts are gleaming, workmen are everywhere and the mug shots of a multitude of candidates flutter from lampposts throughout the land. The other day members of one particular party were actually outside the twin's school distributing free sweets to the children. Wow that's a real vote catching exercise. Did they really believe a move like that would procure votes? The mind truly doth boggle. Ah well good luck to 'em all I say. As far as my own area of Calvia is concerned, to even consider any other party than the one that has completely transformed most of the constituency over the past four years would be total madness, but then politics is politics as they say. All we can do is stand up and be counted and hope for the best. At the time of writing, still no sign of little Madeleine McCann. I find it difficult to believe, and indeed somewhat ominous, that a reward of over two and a half million pounds has not produced some form of result. Her poor mother is beginning to look like a walking skeleton. Let us all pray for a favourable outcome, but the longer it all goes on the less the chances I fear. Still more carnage on the roads of Mallorca this week. More theories abounding as to why this should be. Well I'll tell you the reason. The main problem is that the standard of driving is appalling. Drivers have little consideration or respect for other road users. Many in fact do cause problems simply to chastise and have a go. Speeding up whilst you're overtaking is one such dangerous ploy. 'Course most of 'em can't stand to actually have another vehicle go past them, rather like severing their manhood. The majority have positively no idea whatsoever of lane positioning and because of this, cut you up on roundabouts and turnings with monotonous regularity, shaking their fists at you as they do so. Once again it's mainly the young drivers who are being cut down. The vast majority of them have learned to drive on machines in amusement arcades, where, after each horrendous crash the press of a button brings everything back to gleaming normality. Unfortunately this is not the case in real life and many are learning this lesson in the hardest way possible. Another fact that is also painfully clear is that a large number of accidents occur with no other vehicle involved. These are almost without exception young inexperienced drivers who simply lose control of their vehicles, generally trying to emulate Schumacher or the like. Personally I don't think any of them should be allowed on the roads unaccompanied by an experienced driver until they're at least twenty one. The problem is that any party bringing in a law like that would lose the votes of millions of youngsters, can't win can you. Many thanks this week to the gentleman, who on reading my royalty woes last week e mailed me to inform me he had browsed an American site that unearthed unclaimed royalties, and whose name popped up? Yep the old Leaper. Now that really would be a touch. Mind you being familiar with Leapy's law it'll probably turn out to be a dollar ninety five, I'll keep ya posted. And that just about brings this week's lacklustre jotting to a close. Promise to be back to my old rollicking and rucking self next week. Have to be in fact. In a couple of weeks I have been invited to a regular Tuesday phone in slot with Vince 'the prince' on radio OCI. Better give everyone something to have a go at me for. I understand some folk are actually beginning to like me. Well that'll never do will it? How about a little foretaste when I tell you I believe a woman's place is in the home? Whoa gals I can feel the bristling from here. Till the demise of the next seven, keep a smile on the 'boat'; keep a glint in the 'peepers'. And whatever ya do, always- Keep the faith. Love Leapy |
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