NEWS FLASH: NEW FOREIGN SPECIES SPOTTED IN SPAIN!

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keep her on the road.

With that she was able to go back to work and continue earning.

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IT’s that time of year when you first really start to see them. Tourists, that is. They’re the pasty­looking white blobs on the beachunless it’s been unusually hot and they’re red as lobsters and being given the kiss of life by paramedics.

With all the Roman ruins ­ villas, roads, marketplaces ­ uncovered in Spain, the Romans could be considered the earliest tourist species. Just imagine them: charging along the carreteras to the nearest encampment in their horse­drawn chariots. Before advancing over the Alps into Italy, Hannibal first got the show on the road in Spain when he breezed in from Carthage with his, err, caravan of nose­to­tail elephants.

Give a final thought to Strabo, an unlucky general who not only took a pasting from the locals, but died of the plague during one catastrophic campaign. Just as he was about to expire, lightning struck his tent and reduced it to ashes. So, not a happy camper either...

Not to be outdone, though, the worst UK campaign was in 1216 when King John, marching about dealing with a rebellion and a couple of invasions, caught dysentery in Norfolk, lost the Crown Jewels in the Wash, and died in Nottinghamshire. Nuff said.

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Good luck with that LETTERS

THIS is just a precursor to fully‐fledged, no go zones for the police, which will mirror the goings on in ‘culturally rich’ Sweden.

Birmingham City Council’s website says that “Birmingham is one of the first ‘super di‐verse’ cities in the UK where citizens from ethnic minorities make up more than half the population.” The headline to the article is “Why Birmingham’s super ‐ diversity is a strength, and not a surprise.”

We’ll see how that strength plays out.

Schengen

David

I read in your April 20‐26 edition that the UK along with France are the big spenders in the Valencian region. I wonder if the authori‐ties are aware that thanks to Brexit and the Schengen 90‐day Agreement that they are missing out on even more UK income. Al‐though I own property here I am now not coming over as much as I did and there are many more like me.

Manuel de Falla Villamartin.

Alan Morgan MD

Hello again

Do you think you could write something about this?

I have just read an article which has re‐duced me to tears of laughter, and it is seri‐ous. I tell you, 100 years down the line peo‐ple are going to look back to now and very recent times as lunacy. Political correctness is like an Orwell novel, as is woke etc.

This article refers to ‘larger‐bodied’ people and ‘people of size’. How bloody ridiculous. By normalising fat people, who are fat be‐cause they eat too much or do not exercise, we make life uncomfortable and more ex‐pensive and (health) less efficient for ‘nor‐mal‐sized’ people.

Currently, it is always the norm, the major‐ity, who have to suffer and subjugate them‐selves to the will of any minority.

The article is about Australia charging for two seats for a fat person. My opinion is that if that person can produce a valid medical certificate as to why they cannot reduce their weight, they should not be charged for two seats; otherwise, fair play ‐ two or even three seats charged.

If these people were shamed, perhaps they would do something about it. Go back 100 years, were there so many huge people about? No!!! Mostly it’s nothing to do with a medical condition. It is eating too much and laziness.

I have struggled with weight during my life and, because it is ugly and unhealthy, I have always tried to diet, exercise and keep it down.

Nowadays we are forced to watch ex ‐ tremely fat, mostly plain women, on our TVs in varying states of undress; in dramas or ad‐vertisements etc. It is unpleasant.

I agree with acceptance, of any person, but why do we have to aggrandise absolute‐ly every deviation from the norm?

Once again, sorry for the rant.

Jane

PS. Oh, and don’t start me on this bullying rubbish!!

Help needed

Dear Sir

I have a problem that I hope you or your readers can help me with.

I am an 86‐year‐old woman and I travel quite a lot .

I am quite fit, I go bowling two or three times a week. I also work one day a week in a charity shop.

I have always had travel insurance when‐ever I go away.

Since Covid the travel companies will not insure a person of my age.

The one I usually use stops at 85 years.

I have tried other companies, some stop at an even earlier age.

I might add I have never had to make a claim with any company.

I hope you can help me. I do have the card which entitles me to emergency medical treatment in some countries.

I can’t be the only older person who likes to travel.

I am hoping you can help me .

Kind regards.

I believe

Gwendoline Ottley

I was very interested to read your column in EWN April 20‐26 as I also believe “what you think is what you get.”

My bracelet is engraved with my motto ‘Think it, feel it, have it, be it’.

I followed the Law of Attraction for years then spent a long time studying a book on quantum physics. I was even compiling data to write a book about it all, then discovered that Pam Grout had already done one ‐ E2 ‐that gives you nine experiments to prove your thoughts create your reality.

When I talk to friends about it and the way that I can do things “because I believe I can”, I do get some strange looks, so it was great when I learned that the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to the men who proved the key supposition of quantum the‐ory: that local realism is fake.

Thanks again for sharing the information so clearly ‐ I do hope others who read it will learn more and change their lives for the bet‐ter.

Kind regards,

Tricia Gabbitas