A fantastic 2009/2010 season saw our young Benjamin Team finish winners of their League having won 10 out of their 11 matches. A great achievement and fully deserved for all the hard work the team has put in. It was also the first time a Cómpetanian team has ever won the league. Following the end of the season, finals were held at the...

Recently a young man called at my house. He had a metal equipment box, a folder of papers and an i.d. card, saying he was from a gas equipment maintenance company.
He said that householders are obliged by law – he waved the paperwork – to have gas equipment checked and replaced every five years. The man of the house was shortly...

There were five lanes of traffic: the extreme right shortly filtered off just past the traffic lights; we were next to that; there was an over-taking lane, then two lanes of traffic coming the other way on the left. From one of these a moto-rider, the wind in his hair, veered right across the wide road, cutting up entire lanes as he wobbling...

The last place I lived in England was Oxford, that “City of Dreaming Spires” as the poet Mathew Arnold dubbed it; walking around the garden centre this last week, I was strangely reminded of those dreaming spires but these ones were all floral spires. It struck me how many of our late spring/early summer flowerers are spire-like....

 Nearly five years of running a business in Competa meant it was time to catch up with Debbie and Alick from Todo Papel. In this current climate it is really an achievement to have notched up five years of running a business. Success for them is not only down to a good business idea in the first place but also down to their personalities....

 If you are considering selling, or are already in the process of selling your property, then this could be the service you have been waiting for. We've all heard the negative comments made in the British press with tiresome regularity about the 'pitfalls' of buying property in Spain and how you might invest your life's...

So finally the terrible winter seems a distant memory. 3 months of rain, cold temperatures and all the festivities of the season are now over. The weather has broken and we have blue skies, long days, BBQs and temperatures in the high 20s. So what does that tell you? It's Panto Time! Oh no it isn't! Oh yes it is! If you live in...

Marcus Armytage was Grand National winning jockey on Mr. Frisk and is the Daily Telegraph racing correspondent. He has written a book ,“ Hot Cherry “, a light hearted tongue in cheek compilation of some of his racing articles. Marcus wrote “Corinthian Spirit “after Dr. Michael Mannish won the British amateur jockeys...