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PASSPORT DAY IN THE USA on MARCH 10, 2012
My oh my passports have certainly changed in the past twenty years. The National Passport Center which is the largest passport processing center in the United States have seen a multitude of changes with forms, protocol, function, and staff; but the golden seal of the U.S. Passport has remained constant on the front of your passport. The National Passport Center was endearingly named the "pink palace" among many gvovernment employees as the primary function was to process passport renewals on a blatant pink, panther like form. The State Department created an ingenious plan to complete and handle all passport applications at one location. Annually, this location saw millions of renewal applications and was relatively short-staffed. A few years after the inception of a centralized processing hub, the State Department began to accept/issue passports for customers who submitted their application at the various non-Department acceptance facilities. In modern day time, the National Passport Center has around 800 employees which is a tremendous increase from the meager 50 employees they started with.
After 9/11, the National Passport center became the face of the Department's efforts to facilitate passports which adhered to national security protocol and did not cause tremendous delay to the consumer. Some of the enhanced security features included a digital printed photo inside the passport book instead of the glued on photo, issuing passports to U.S. citizens living abroad, and a secure chip contained within the passport.
Another big change came to the National Passport agency when the entrance to the center was reconfigured and now allows for three public windows. This was created with a simple goal in mind: to provide the most efficient in-person passport services for any residents in New England. Prior to this local residents had to drive to the Boston Passport Agency, if they intended to apply for a passport for urgent international travel; which is defined in 14 days or less.
This Saturday March 10 you can visit any passport processing center or any other acceptance facility and have your passport documents processed on the spot. There is no need for an appointment and it's a great family event.


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There are regular Police Drop-in sessions, here at the Centre and if you have an issue that you wish to raise with them, please feel free to drop in, no appointment required. Contact our receptionist for the date of the next sessions.
If you are interested in a 'Confidence in You' course, we have a waiting list until we can secure further funding and these help anyone who is suffering from low self-esteem and confidence, whether your problem is with finding work, getting that promotion or a family issue, please contact Chris on the number above.
Regular items on here at the Community Centre:
Mondays: Karate 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Everyone's Health Falls Prevention
Tuesdays: NHS Pulmonary Rehab
Craft & Chatter Group 9.30am - 11.30am
Yoga 1.30pm - 2.30pm
PHAB Club 7.30pm - 9.30pm (meet fortnightly)
Wednesdays: Age UK Day Centre
Job Club 10.00am-4.00pm
Healthy Walks 11am - 12 noon
Mobile Library (in the car park once a month)
Carers Hub 10.00am - 1.30pm ( Every 3rd Wednesday of the month except from May 23rd).
Weight Management 5.30pm - 8.30pm
Thursdays: NHS Pulmonary Rehab
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"I agree, Lord of Darkness, if you grant me the following wishes: First, I would like the nation to be hurled into an economic crisis caused by Wall Street greed and recklessness. This will discredit free-market fundamentalism once and for all." – David Brooks
I just read the David Brooks ode to liberalism article and I must say he makes a compelling case not for the decline of liberalism but for the decline of our shared consciousness. The problem with pundits is that everything happens in a vacuum in their world. According to him there are no connections between any of the events that he described except that they occurred while Mr. Obama was President. So the link is not the failed policies of the Right, but that liberals could not clean them up fast enough. So the future of our governance is not based on those who caused the disasters but on how quickly those elected to repair them can get them repaired.
Using that logic then if I start a fire in a building and then when the fire department gets there I cut the water pressure to the hoses and someone dies in the building then it is the firefighters fault for not putting out the blaze quicker. What Mr. Brooks and many of his talking head friends fail to realize is that very few of the upcoming midterm elections will be decided by national issues. So while they will be trumpeted as the beginning of the end for Obama what they fail to realize is that following the midterms in 1994 Bill Clinton won reelection handily. I suspect the same will be true for President Obama. It is one thing to win an election in South Carolina running on corporate largess and apologies it is a far different thing to win nationally running on those issues. It is amazing to me how quickly these clowns forget that when we had a national referendum of policies the country overwhelmingly chose the policies of the Dems. Are we to believe that after four years of Republican prostrations in front of the corporate gods that the majority of Americans will turn away from those who are at least trying to solve the gigantic problems facing this nation?
Are we also to believe that the majority of Americans will agree with the likes of Glenn Beck that this President is a racist? If I have any complaint towards Mr. Obama it is that he has been too cautious towards the issue of race in America. The reason we are not moving forward as a nation is precisely because we are so divided. As a nation we are not using all of our resources we continue to choose tribalism over nationalism. We will not be able to compete against the likes of China and India if we continue to be willing to marginalize large segments of our population. We are going to need every able body and mind if we are to overcome the problems of energy, climate change, and retooling America. I read that some black leaders are offended by Mr. Beck holding a rally at the Washington Mall on the day that Dr. King gave his dream speech. Their fear is that Mr. Back will somehow diminish the stature of Dr. King and what he accomplished. To me this is akin to worrying about Joseph McCarthy diminishing the legacy of FDR because he accused him of having Communist sympathies. The biggest challenge to blacks in America is not Glenn Beck it is our refusal to deal with the problem that we are allowing women to train up our boys and the outcomes are abysmal. Instead of holding a rally to combat Glenn Beck we need to be holding a rally to recommit to our children.
Another missing component from Mr. Brook's fairytale is that the Dems are not a monolithic party like the Republicans. An example would be what is currently taking place within the Republican Party with the teabag crowd if this were a Democratic group the Dems would allow them to caucus but that would be the extent of it. No one would suggest and rightly so that the Dems should adopt the lunacy of the fringe but with the Republicans that is exactly what they are doing. I guess when you are void of ideas and critical thought then any ideas seems plausible. The election of 2008 demonstrated that the Republicans were bankrupt of ideas and I have seen nothing since then to make me think they have found any now. With the political landscape of today you will never be a majority party if you are appealing to a shrinking base of gun-toting, history revisionist, pseudo patriots. I don't know many Americans who want to see America returned to the "good ole" days of intolerance, bigotry, and robber barons. But I could be wrong and if I am then were all in trouble anyway.
Finally, the devil in the details that Mr. Brooks has mischaracterized is that leadership is what we elect President's to have, that and a vision. Sometimes when you are leading a ragtag mob like America you will appear unpopular because you have to make some unpopular decisions, but the alternative which the Republicans are offering is to continue to defer these difficult choices until they are no longer choices but we are left with imperatives. Prior to the spill in the Gulf we had choices about how to conduct deep water drilling, due to our refusal to stand up to corporations we now are left with an imperative. Plug the hole. My fear is that there are many who are willing to shy away from the difficult in search of the easy quick fix. However when it comes to the issues facing America (climate change, clean energy, unemployment, depression, etc.) there are no easy quick fixes. So if the Right wants to govern based on popularity I suggest the majority of us begin to prepare our tin roof shacks because we are not far from a banana republic.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. - Amelia Earhart
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Let's Make A Deal
"I agree, Lord of Darkness, if you grant me the following wishes: First, I would like the nation to be hurled into an economic crisis caused by Wall Street greed and recklessness. This will discredit free-market fundamentalism once and for all." – David Brooks
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Labels: Barack Obama, Conservatism, David Brooks, Glenn Beck, Liberalism, Republicans, Teabaggers
Risky Business
"The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning." - Charles Tremper
Is it just me or have we entered a stage in American business life where corporations and in some cases entire industries have thrown risk management out the window and have decided that all risk is acceptable? There was a time when companies did a series of calculations where risk was measured against not just the corporate good but the societal good, but that time has passed. It has passed because as we have allowed corporations to undermine our political and regulatory bodies their exposure to risk has been greatly reduced not because of better management techniques or greater technological advances but by the corresponding greed of our elected officials. As more money has been deposited into the already murky waters of Washington and state capitals the American public has seen its share of risk underwriting increase in direct relation to the reduction of underwriting by corporations.
As the disaster in the Gulf continues to play out instead of having a real national referendum on the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy technology we are treated to elected officials apologizing to corporations for their having to pay for the worst natural disaster in American history. The sad part is that this was not some natural disaster that no one could foresee it was a calculated series of premeditated violations and oversights for the sake of cost cutting and profits. Once again Mr. Paul with all of your teabagging cronies we see what happens when corporate America is left to its own devices. According to Mr. Paul the free market will protect us from these types of disasters because it was not in BP's interest to drill a hole in the bottom of the ocean that they could not plug up, just as it wasn't in Goldman Sachs interest to market and purchase credit swaps and derivatives. The crazy part about the smaller government crowd is that even despite the massiveness of this disaster their lesson from this is that government doesn't work because it can't plug up a hole in the bottom of the ocean? That's like the lesson from Vietnam was that we should have stayed longer.
What corporations have earned from all of that campaign cash and straight up bribes is that the new risk mitigation program is the American taxpayer. Bring the economy to the brink of another Great Depression, no problem the taxpayers will bail us out. Drill a giant hole in the bottom of the ocean, no problem the taxpayers will pay for it. Unless of course you have a gangster government from Chicago in charge that does shakedowns of poor innocent corporations who were just minding their own business when out of nowhere this giant hole appeared under their deep water drilling platform. So what does the Supreme Court decide? That we don't have enough corporate money in the process let's give them unlimited access to public officials.
The sad truth is that what we are watching is the same thing that other empires and cultures have witnessed during the days of their demise. It isn't the American people who will bring about the final demise of America (although in a sense it will be but through apathy) it will be the greedy and immoral political and economic leaders. The same leaders who are willing to risk our long term future not only as a nation but as a species on this planet for their short term profit. It has always been the corrupt rulers of an empire or culture that has brought about the destruction of that empire or culture. The role that we play as citizens is that we become so apathetic and jaded that we quietly sit with our heads between our legs while the plane is crashing. Where is the uproar? Mr. Barton should have been tarred and feathered and ran out of Washington on a rail. Unfortunately for America it is going to take some greater disaster than this for us to finally realize that the cheap oil party is over. It will take gas going up to 5.00 a gallon and electricity prices doubling before we will take clean energy serious and demand that our political leaders pass real energy reform legislation.
Just like every other monumental change in American history it is never from the top down that things get done, it is always from the bottom up. There will be no good guy riding in with the white hat on the white horse to save us. As long as we continue to accept that Chevron is in the human energy business, that banks are in the rebuilding America business, and that corporations are our benevolent friends whom we could never survive without then we will continue to have messes like this to clean-up. We have to understand and accept that it is not the President's job to get Mitch McConnell, Joe Barton, and the rest of the corporate apologists on board, it is our job. It's not like the President is the only one who is elected in this country. We have an opportunity to change the debate and the direction of this country forever and that thought is scaring the hell out of all of the energy companies. Will we demand the future or will we continue to cling to the past? The choice is ours.
If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. - Dan Quayle
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Labels: BP, Goldman Sachs, Joe Barton, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Risk Management
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Slippery When Wet
We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity. – Meg Whitman
As we enter the 60th day of the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico it has been amazing to me the outcry that has occurred from all camps concerning the responses to the crisis. The one which has troubled me the most has been the criticism which has been directed at the president. Let us be clear this disaster was masterminded and created by the profit seeking British Petroleum and they should be held responsible for all aspects of this disaster. My concern is with those who believe unrealistically that this or any president can somehow plug up a hole in the gulf that is 40 miles off-shore and a mile deep. Or that we have the technology to respond to such a disaster somewhere on a shelf somewhere and we are just not using it. The truth is that the majority of this country has been asleep on the possibility of a disaster like this because of our dependence on fossil fuels and the marketing of big oil.
Many of the critics have suggested the President institute special powers such as the war powers given during a state of attack by foreign powers or terrorists. The problem with these suggestions is that they ignore the reality of our current political state or the current state of our judiciary, specifically the Supreme Court which has shown recently its propensity for corporate bidding. Have these critics so easily forgotten the mantra of the right for the last two years that President Obama is a socialist looking to privatize all industry and undermine our way of life. Now they are suggesting that this same president seize BP to insure their compliance even temporarily is absurd. Not to mention the fallout from the oil industry lobbyists and their congressional minions. Does anyone think that this Supreme Court would allow such tactics without taking action to prevent it?
I understand that this is an environmental disaster of monumental proportions but let's not be naïve enough to believe that the criticism from the teabaggers stoked by their Astroturf benefactors would somehow be silent because this is a national disaster. While for most Americans this is a tragedy of historical proportions for these folks it is just another opportunity to fault the President and his administration for not safeguarding our country. Unfortunately when disasters of this magnitude occur many folks are unable to get their heads around it and so they become overwhelmed and desensitized to the suffering of others. As a nation we have become more regional and isolated from each other and so if these types of things don't directly affect us we tend to compartmentalize them as someone else problem and so it is difficult to craft national responses or national outrage. While those in the gulf and environmentalists understand the depth of the disaster there will be those who will attempt to minimize the human and environmental toll on this nation.
The tragedy in the gulf demonstrates our false reliance on technology or our belief in technology and how we have convinced ourselves that technology can and will solve all of our challenges. Many critics believe we have the technology to plug a hole in the ocean as if it were some hole in the bathtub to be plugged by so much silicone. Should we have had in place safety precautions to deal with this tragedy? Of course we should have been more vigilant in holding these corporations to higher safety standards, but let's not forget that for years we have allowed these corporations to skirt safety and write their own rules. The answer to this disaster is not to criticize this President but to put in place the regulatory mechanisms to prevent future disasters and to hold BP responsible for the entire restoration and financial liability for this one. But let's not kid ourselves into believing that those forces who want to keep us dependent on fossil fuels will go quietly into that good night.
Here are a few quotes that demonstrate willingness of these paid clowns to sacrifice the rest of us for their short-term gain.
"What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here." —Rush Limbaugh
"Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it." —Sarah Palin
"From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented." —Texas Gov. Rick Perry
If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Labels: British Petroleum, Gulf Oil Spill, President Obama, Rick Perry, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Blanche Lincoln's Victory
Blanche Lincoln's victory or as some are calling upset over Bill Halter I think gives some important lessons to those who think you can come in and decide local elections by trying to nationalize the election. For years I have argued that voters in one district or in one state do not value the same characteristics or gravitate to the same issues as other voters. The netroots community and labor spent a lot of political capital challenging the incumbent Senator Blanche Lincoln with many folks believing their own hype. The hype was that if the netroots community targeted a candidate then that candidate was in trouble. The problem is that with a big tent party like the Democrats you cannot conduct purity tests. They have never worked and they never will.
There are certain states where the electorate defies the talking heads, prognosticators, and any logical conclusions. The state that immediately comes to mind is Kentucky. Kentucky has continued to elect Mitch McConnell who is the poster child for receiving corporate largess and despite the media coverage of his unbiased defending of corporations he remains popular. Not only have they continued to elect Mr. McConnell they have now nominated Rand Paul as a senatorial candidate. Unfortunately in America people of like minds tend to live in close proximity to each other and thus they create these pockets of suspended disbelief and as a result we get elected officials that are not accountable to their voters.
What the netroots community did was to allow Blanche Lincoln to portray herself as a victim, a victim of outside agitators, corrupt unions, and special interests. She was able to present herself as a populist against not just corporations but also the unions. And in a right to work state like Arkansas unions are easy targets. Did everyone forget that Arkansas is the home of Wal-Mart public enemy number one for unions? Conservative or centrists Democrats will always be a part of the Democratic Party and as such the Democrats will continue to be a majority party while the Republicans continue to purify themselves in a bid to attract a shrinking electorate. The people of Arkansas have decided that they preferred Blanche Lincoln despite her shortcomings to the progressive community.
So what are the lessons to be taken from her victory by the netroots community? The first is the first law of politics and that is that all politics are local. They are local to the voters of whatever district or state that they are in. The second is that not all voters in all states share the same understanding or perceptions of the issues. The fact is that for all the talk of the intelligence of the American electorate the truth is that in many areas of the country the electorate is anything but intelligent. Too often we have seen voters who have been bamboozled by special interests to vote against their own interests. The third is that the friend of my enemy is not necessarily my enemy. There are some states or districts where a progressive candidate cannot win despite the best efforts of the netroots community. There are no moral victories in politics. Despite the ramblings of the talking heads on MSNBC tonight was a loss for the netroots community.
Poor Ed Shultz looked like the proverbial deer in the headlights following the election being called for Senator Lincoln. Ed Shultz was in Little Rock to celebrate the netroots victory of Bill Halter. The problem is that someone forgot to tell the voters of Arkansas. The public option was suppose to be her "Waterloo" and as with so many other Waterloo references in politics they were greatly exaggerated and unfounded. Once again we have to reexamine our current reliance on polls and how they really affect voters. The public option polled very well in Arkansas but when given the opportunity to punish a politician who voted against it the votes were just not there. So this tells me that it was not as great an issue with the voters of Arkansas as it was with the progressive community.
There will be a lot written about what happened in this election and what can be taken from it both in victory and in defeat. I don't know what this says about the current mood of the electorate or how this plays nationally, but I do know that when preparing to wage war one should always count the cost prior to taking on an enemy.
"The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bullshit." - Lars-Erik Nelson
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Is it possible to view the total kwh usage for the current date/time. Then when I take future readings I could calculate how many kwh of electricity were used for that given time period.
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Are you thinking about something like a "meter reading" ? There isn't anything like that today - Sense might be able to add an "Energy since install" number. Today if I want to look at a time period, I do one of three things:
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Exactly, a meter reading. Until that's available I will just reset all data on the device/account to set the start point.
My sense is running on a sub panel in my house, I'm not looking to compare it to my house meter but I would like to know how many kwh were used at the end of each day.
Then you should just use the weekly or monthly summaries for Usage, that both present a summary for each day. In the web app, you can do a mouse-over on the bar chart, and see the daily usage values. Or if you need more accuracy, you can use the associated export. Better than having to reset all the time.
Thank you @kevin1 I found the export button (kind of hidden). It's a shame there isn't an API that would allow me to automatically pull the data. Saving a CSV seems a little antiquated these days.
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ps: I can kind of see why Sense did a CSV interface first:
- much higher percentage of Excel literate users.
- allows them to optimize and manage CPU cycles on their end of AWS - they would have to pay for poorly written API access code that thrashed around in their huge datasets…
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Despite rolling dark, dark clouds, thunder and lightening the courageous few of the Lecrin Valley fell out of their beds on Sunday morning and found their way through the olive and citrus groves to La Finca.
The delicious brunch created by the Casa Amelia team disappeared, washed down by Bucks Fizz and a great deal of wine to the accompaniment of the Dr Swing Jazz band
The day ended with dancing to the band and glorious sunshine out on the terraces of La Finca – then back home for a late siesta!
TAPAS AND FLAMENCO GUITAR – the first event at La Finca
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We were delighted to see so many people from the valley and beyond supporting our first event.
Chef Peter Rathke and the Casa Amelia catering team produced over 600 individual portions of tapas and each tray disappeared in seconds after presentation – which was endorsement enough! Further reinforcement of how appreciated they were has arrived over the last couple of days in the many complimentary emails we have received.
Thanks to everyone for coming – we look forward to seeing you again at our next event….
…….the JAZZ BRUNCH on Sunday 23rd October at 12:00 Don't worry about making breakfast! Have a lie-in then come up to La Finca and wake up to the Dr Swing Jazz band and a reviving Bucks Fizz Brunch.
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HALLELUJA – The Finca is finished and open for business
Apologies to our readers for leaving it so long to update the blog. Many thanks for all your emails of concern relating to the lack of news coming from the Finca. We have been on such a journey and have needed to put all admin and communication on the back burner and push and push to get the project finished. We have been flat out from early morning until late at night and have not had any uninterrupted time long enough to sit down and write anything! As a result we have lost weight and aged about 20 years!
We managed to persuade the builders to move from one area to another so we could follow with furnishings and finishing touches and we have finished the house almost at the same time as they finished the pool.
We are therefore delighted to officially announce that we are open for business. We have received out first guests, starting with press, then family and then clients. We have held several cookery classes and two Flamenco evenings – we are off!
In hindsight the construction work has gone relatively smoothly but has just taken much longer than it should have done. Any delays due to bad weather have been minimal and the main cause has been down to lack of direction and control over the builders by the contractor. His lack of attendance at the site has been marked and in the circumstances the men have done remarkably well – but very slowly – sometimes it has felt like pulling teeth!
Progress was not helped when the men left the finca – refusing to work because they had been asked to clean up the site. It was a real mess and becoming dangerous to everyone working there. A requirement of the contractors contract was to maintain the site in good, clean order. The architects reported every week in the official "Libro de Ordenes" that the site did not meet standards and health and safety were at risk. Scarlett then insisted that the men cleaned up. They refused and left even after it was pointed out to them that they were in breach of their contracts and that there were plenty of out of work builders who would be glad to replace them. We were required to give them 3 days to return to work but they returned the next day, apologised and cleaned the site before starting work again.
In June we hired two vans and with the help of our lovely Inma and three Spanish lads – Oscar and Angel and Inma's son Jonathan, plus two good friends Elaine and Lyn, we moved furniture and belongings from a garage we rented nearby. Before they saw the garage the boys asked how many trips we would do – one or two? Their faces were a picture when we opened the garage door! We had stored all the contents of our family home and barn in Oxfordshire , the house we rented in Albunuelas, the contents of Chris's laboratory plus boxes and furniture belonging to Scarlett's aunt and father. The garage was packed to the rafters and it took two days and 14 trips to move it all.
We had a few "moments" with one of the hire trucks whose breaks did not seem very good – particularly when the truck was full and on a slope. Hill starts were somewhat heart-stoppingly dangerous! Getting it round one very tight corner in the middle of the village was a challenge and Chris, having failed to get round, passed control to Oscar (who had no licence). He managed to get the vehicle round the corner beautifully, then in his excitement he hit a parked car just a few yards further up the street! The repair added 400 euros to the removals bill! Men!
Angel continued to work for us for some time after that. He must be about 6ft 8in tall and built like a bean pole. For short people like us he was a godsend. We called him the "living ladder as he could put things away on high shelves without the need of steps!
Boris our project manager has worked hard to keep a grip on things – even when they have not been part of his remit. His outrageous character has luckily been balanced by his determination to finish the project. There is no doubt in our minds that the project would have been far harder and far less hilarious without him.
Boris persuaded us to let him do the plumbing …. To say he persevered is an understatement. It was not all plain sailing! The outside tap on the terrace was connected to the hot water system (the plants we watered with it, before we realised, are just recovering) and he had to dig up a bathroom floor to find the connection and reconnect everything. Two of the toilets have been in and out faster than a fiddler's elbow and one still leaks. But practice makes perfect and the last toilets he fitted in the house went in at the first time attempt and are working perfectly. Fingers crossed!
Boris's desire to build motorways on the Finca has taken a bit of controlling. He has a way of waving his arms when talking to Eloy the digger driver that implies that large areas should be cleared completely and flattened. Scarlett woke up after siesta one day and was horrified to find Eloy removing a beautiful rock which she had planned to be the centre of a rockery. We really did not want to remove any more rocks – having had our fill of that exercise last year when we had to remove the giant in the middle of the planned area for the house.
We have been delighted with the work of Julio Reyes our carpenter from Lecrin. The doors and windows he has made for us have been superb and we are delighted with them. We have two huge arched windows in the entrance hall which have been glazed with temperature controlling glass to maintain the temperature inside the house. It took 6 men to carry each pane and put it in position. It was heartstopping to watch this happening as they were all moving along one plank of scaffolding – ugh!
Just wish he would come and finish the mosquito doors for the kitchen though…
Our grandson Jasper (5) made a wonderful addition to the cloakroom door…..
There has to be a balance and sadly Belfran the initial company we used for the metal work and railings on the house proved themselves not up to the job. The quality of their work was simply not up to contracted specifications and within one week of being installed the paint on the railings was peeling off and the iron was rusting. In addition they could not understand the need to adhere to the law which requires railings to be made 10cm apart. Their's was anything from 9-14 cms! Needless to say they were not used for the second phase of the work and we then found a wonderful man from Lanjaron called Jorge who has done a fantastic job – even making a prototype of the moving pergola he later installed over the main terrace.
Miguel our painter and decorator has to be the most patient man in the world. He has painted the whole of the interior and all the railings with only occasional help from his son. He works steadily and quietly from early morning until sundown and has done a fantastic job.
Instalaciones Durcal have installed the energy system which provides electricity and hot water. We have solar for electricity which is backed up for heavy usage by a massive biodiesel generator. The hot water is provided by two biomass burners that we feed with almond shells. After a few teething problems the system appears to by functioning well and Chris is developing a relationship with the various, somewhat temperamental, pieces of equipment in the "Boys Room". This is the building where everything relating to energy is housed . Every man who visits the Finca wants to see it! The guys of ID have come at a moments notice when things have gone awry and now its all working we rather miss them!
We have had a couple of problems with the electrical installation but Jose Luis and Viki have been quick, patient and hard working to resolve them. Things have settled down now and everything is working well. We wish they would come and put the plugs into the island in the kitchen and cover off the unused "emergency lighting" points though!
Mel and Phil of Telly Addicts have done a great job and installed HD TV and DVD facilities in every guest suite .
Keiprint from Granada have created an wi-fi network using Apple Extreme in the house so guests have easy and free access to the internet! We also have a laptop available for guest use.
Organic that is…! After 3 years of testing and form filling we have been certified organic and all our fruit and vegetables meet requirements, Hooray!
Giles and Terry have continued to maintain the fruit and vegetables and keep the finca tidy while we have battling with building the house. We have been able to use our own home grown ingredients for the cookery classes and meals we have had.
We are now working to landscape the areas around the house with paths and planted areas but we have decided we cannot plant anything else until the rain starts (usually October) and the temperatures drop. We took a risk and planted quite a lot of plants about a month ago but have lost some of them so we have decided to wait
We have been really lucky to meet Peter, a German with landscaping experience and particular skills with natural stone. As if that wasn't enough he is a trained chef! His apple strudel is fabulous… and he is living on the Finca in our caravan! His touch can already be seen everywhere. He quietly goes about bringing order to the chaos that was a building site. He has laid out flower beds around the house and edged them with stone from the land. He is now making the stone floor of the patio and water feature outside the guest kitchen. When we removed the rock to build the house we left some of it on the edge of what will be a shady patio. We have built a water tank at the base of it and are planning to make a water feature on one side of the patio. Peter is making a floor using black and white stones in the style of the work found all over Andalucia.
We are so fortunate to have Inma still with us. Her patience, flexibility and willingness are incredible. Over all this time she has cleaned after the builders (repeatedly), taken cement off the floor tiles, moved furniture, cooked meals, organised the lads and most importantly been there! Inma has worked with us for over 10 years now and we don't know what we would do without her. What a star!
While we were in Vietnam we spent a wonderful night on a junk in Halong Bay in the company of a wonderful couple Roselyn and Michel Billaud. We were so thrilled when they came to visit us here in Spain. We had a wonderful few days getting to know them better and can't wait to see them again….Roselyn's energy is breathtaking – they are both such fun!
Our first clients John and Angie Clifford came for a night and a cookery day . We felt very touched they would come to us as Angie herself is a cook! She has a wonderful blog at http://angieskitchen51.wordpress.com . We look forward to seeing them again.
We have also thoroughly enjoyed seeing daughter Louise and our grandsons Harry and Freddie who came for a week and (apart from exhausting us with their antics) were responsible for inaugurating the swimming pool which was finished during their stay!
We thoroughly enjoyed a week long visit by dentist friend Tony Caen, Helen Steel and their son John. We introduced them to Alex Swan, Jenni Richards and sons Charlie and Zak who have a house in Saleres and the children really hit it off. We all went sailing on our favourite yacht, the Ocean Kiss, with Michael Harwood for a wonderful day of sailing swimming, eating and drinking.
One Sunday morning we were attempting to clean up the site and Scarlet heard some very strange noises, that could only be described as stomach rumbling and burping, coming from one of the designated bathroom areas at the back of the lower floor. Convinced there was a drunk man coming round in there Scarlett ran to find Chris. When we went in together we found an old nanny goat – whom brave little Rocket managed to herd out of there and off the finca!
For about a month a beautiful grey dove lived on our window sill and pergola – we called it Paloma. Unbelievably Paloma allowed the cats to sit next to her and sat under a table on the patio while Chris was actually repairing the table with hammer and nails! It was wonderful to have this wild creature being so confident with us and made us feel that tranquility was at last returning to the Finca after all the upheaval we have put the land through. We were so shocked to walk into one of the suites and find blood and feathers everywhere – White Tail one of the cats was leaving and Paloma was huddled in a corner of the room still alive. We picked her up and stroked her and she cooed at us. We found and lined a basket to make a soft bed for her. She died within an instant of being laid in the basket. We were devastated. It took a lot to forgive White Tail – who we had to remember was only behaving naturally.
The dogs love living here and although all three are no longer in their prime they are doing well despite all the problems associated with old age – blood pressure, lumps and arthritis! Despite this they love having visitors here – particularly when they take them for walks!
The cats couldn't believe their eyes when they arrived and, having been practically full-time house cats in Albunuelas, were only seen for breakfast (theirs) before they went off hunting. We received the gift of one mouse daily in front of the caravan.
Now that the house is quiet and the noise of cement mixers and jack hammers has abated they are all finding corners in the house in which to relax…
To see the Finca as it is now have a look at the Blog Post titled the Finca Slide Show .
- a tranquil place to retreat, relax, recover and revive from hectic and stressful lives in first class accommodation in spectacular surroundings
- a wonderful venue for special events, weddings, reunions and group gatherings providing everything required including:
- accommodation
- catering
- music and entertainment
- a convenient location from which to enjoy:
- the buzz and culture of Granada
- the ski slopes and facilities of the Sierra Nevada
- the unspoiled National Park beaches of the Costa Tropical
- help to plan your holiday:
- reservations to visit the Alhambra
- photography, language, painting and cookery courses at La Finca
- walking, horse riding and sailing days
- tapas tours
All rooms have comfort as the key priority and are decorated using textiles and artifacts bought in our travels all over the world.
We have three double family suites and one double disabled suite. Every suite has their own private terrace and all suites and terraces have uninterrupted views of the Lecrin Valley.
Two of the guest suites are suitable for families, each having one bedroom, a sitting-room with two double sofa beds, a dining area and en suite shower room
The other two suites are each open plan bed rooms with sitting and dining areas and en suite shower room shower room.
Each room has a television with integral DVD player
There is a fully equipped guest kitchen so guests can choose B&B, Half or Full Board or Self Catering with the option of additional meals as required.
All guests have access to a large paperback swopping library, free wi-fi, laundry service and fresh organic vegetables and fruit grown on La Finca.
Our professional kitchen is already producing delicious meals for guests and visitors.
In addition to the facilities in the house outside there is a large swimming pool with sunbathing areas, formal gardens and 10 acres of wild land bordering National Park to enjoy.
We are busy making plans for Christmas and New Year and will be advertising Christmas and New Year holiday break packages at the Finca as well as Special Christmas lunch Day and New Year's Eve Party.
Watch this space……….!
LA FINCA SLIDE SHOW SEPTEMBER 2011 – Retreat, relax, restore, revive
We are selling a property in Calle Zoraba, Albunuelas, Lecrin. Recently used as an artist studio it is a structurally sound building with all utilities and situated in the historical lower barrio. With a little work it will make a beautiful one bedroom property with sitting room (with open fire), bathroom, kitchen-diner and roof terrace and has all the benefits of the area including close proximity to the cultural activities of Granada, the ski slopes of the Sierra Nevada and the unspoiled beaches of the Costa Tropical.
For further information just call 659 142826 or 659 183880
After listening yet again to the endless arguments between builder, project manager and architects we decided to "do another runner".
We sneeked off in early November with our friends the Snellings to visit mutual friends Stuart Walton and Pauline Latham in N. Portugal. Many of you will remember them when they lived in the Lecrin Valley. They have just finished building a beautiful house in a stunning forested area near to the towns of Arganil and Coja – which has the additional benefit of wonderful views. It was great to see them again and to see a project well finished. We took our time and returned via Caceres and Merida – all of us visiting these fascinating towns for the first time. The whole trip was a very enjoyable and welcome breather and gave us hope. Apparently though projects like ours are a whole lot more straight forward in Portugal than Spain.
We were only back a couple of weeks before we realised that the prospect of staying in the Valley over Christmas and New Year and continuing to cope with the bickering at the finca was simply not an option so in mid December we left the valley, the finca, the project and our animals again and took off with one backpack between us to first visit friends and family in the UK – then on to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand for a month.
All our escapes since the project began have proved to be essential for our sanity but also the project has benefitted from our absence too. With us out of the way the project team have had to work together to make decisions within the limitations (ie budget!!) we have set – and without using us as referees.
Before we left we organized a formal time extension to the contract for the builder and then all the other contractors who are due to follow. The reason for this was that we felt that not all the delays were down to the builder. However poor man management and discipline and a resistance to taking on more men to finish the work on time has clearly also contributed to the problem.
Originally our builder had told us that he would finish Phase One by Christmas. We felt that it would be prudent to give him more time and insisted on a finish date for Phase One of the end of February 2011 in his original contract to allow for any delays other than those he should have allowed for (eg. poor weather). In December we extended this to the end of March 2011. He signed to confirm his agreement to this extension and we went away feeling that we could look forward to Phase One being finished at the end of March.
We had to live in hope – but its not looking likely……..!
We had a whirlwind trip to Southern England, landing at Bristol and first of all visiting Scarlett's Aunt Joyce for tea near Cirencester. This is the first time Scarlett has seen Joyce (who hates to be called Aunt as she is only 16 years older than Scarlett) in 40 years. In that time Joyce had had 6 children and moved around with her RAF husband. Scarlett had also married (twice) had her daughters and travelled with her (first) Army husband and then with Chris. It was wonderful to get together after so long and to talk about Scarlett's Nanna (Joyce's mother) and her father (Joyce's brother). The next time Scarlett really hopes to meet her six cousins!
On the same day we had a super dinner with Scarlett's father's companion, Jill Francombe and her friend Judy Price at the Lords of the Manor restaurant in Upper Slaughter, near Stowe on the Wold. We all chose the wonderful tasting menu in this One Michelin Star restaurant. If you are ever in the vicinity include time in your itinerary to try it
The next day we went to London – always a treat these days when civilization seems a long way away from the Lecrin Valley. Here we met Scarlett's other Aunt June, her cousin Angela and husband Alan. We all went to the Royal Festival Hall to hear the Messiah by (electric) candlelight. The members of the orchestra were all in costume that was delightful – but nothing was more special for Scarlett than getting together with June and Angela. We spent our last day of this trip in our beloved Oxford where we stayed at the Old Parsonage and had a wonderful pre-Christmas day with three of our girls, their husbands and children. We enjoyed a great lunch there and a walk in the crisp December air. Much to the children's delight they were able to open presents early!
In the evening we drove to Maidwell Hall, Northampton, the prep school where our two grandson's Harry and Freddie are boarders. We attended evening service in the chapel and were so proud to see Harry in the choir and to hear Freddie say the Lord's prayer faultlessly. We were able to visit all the dormitories that had been decorated for the "Best Christmas decorated Dorm" competition by their residents.
The next morning we left from Luton for Madrid, Dubai, Bangkok, to Hanoi. It was a loooong journey! ASIA The next weeks are a blur of adventure, delight, awe, discomfort, exhaustion but overall wonderful experience. Having been brought up in Malaysia and lived in Singapore and Hong Kong Scarlett feels at home in Asia and we were both amazed and delighted, in particular, with the people and country of Vietnam. We had a great trip – we managed to experience
- The land of motorbikes – we have never seen so many in one place as in Hanoi. Gridlock took on a whole new meaning
- 3 classes in Vietnamese and Thai cuisine – all in lovely outdoor kitchens
- trekking bareback on elephants in the hills of N Thailand – we rode high into the hills – stunning scenery and gorgeous animals who live in an elephant rescue home
- a full body Thai massage for couples……you are never too old!
- the World Heritage sites of stunning Halong Bay and ancient Hoi An of Vietnam and then the amazing Hindu temples of Angkor Watt in Cambodia
- cruising the Mekong Delta – a fascinating insight into life in the rice bowl of asia
- the museums, galleries, markets and back streets of Hanoi, Saigon, Phnom Penh, Chiang Mai, and Bangkok
- walking miles and consuming loads of fabulous ultra fresh flavours and street food
Despite the great time we had away, we were ready to get home. Happily all was well with the family, friends and animals when we returned. The project had progressed but not nearly as much as it should have done but we did find it looked more like a house.
Since returning it has become clear that more needs to be done to move the project forward faster. Despite the fact that Phase one will not be finished at the end of March we have decided to move to our caravan on the site. Without the rented house in Albunuelas to maintain we can focus our own long "To Do" list for the finca and simultaneously ensure that the project does not get any later. We plan to move at the end of March.
Hopefully the weather will improve! It has been alternately wonderfully dry and sunny and then so disastrously wet it has turned the land around the project into a quagmire. Happily it only takes one dry day to restore it.
It is clear that we cannot go away again until we have seen the project finished so it was with great joy that we learned that Justine and Tom, Jasper and Ginny wanted to visit us here. We had a perfect week. The weather was so kind and we were able to organise a day at the beach with Bridget, Martin and their brood, a day in the snow in the Sierras, time at the Science Park and the Alhambra in Granada, time in the Valley, time at Bridget's home in the Alpujarras including horse riding and even a grown ups only dinner. Perfect – we can't wait for them to come again!
Its taking shape… all the smaller contractors have started and we are seeing window preframes, plaster, metal railings, and tiles appearing. Huge ditches have appeared between the house and the energy control casetta for the water and power connections. The colour we have chosen is gradually spreading across the external walls. We are now required to focus on features and detail internally which is both fun and reassuring.
It's fair to say that despite highlights with family and friends the progress of project has introduced an element of frustration, disappointment and annoyance which set in at the start of 2011! The need to get the project finished and to open the business obviously becomes more important the later we are. However busy we are with our "to do" list the delays are a cause for concern. POOP!
Is it only us who find the fact that despite being behind schedule, work stops at 12:00 on Fridays?
Is it only us who expect the professionals on the team to have regard to the budget?
Is it only us who finds a total disregard for keeping given and/or signed undertakings both deeply disappointing and insulting?


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The rapid developments on the field of engineering are one of the most characteristic
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instruments. The topic of my degree work is a device which helps the benchmark
testing, and testing of a patient-monitoring instrument. With the support of this new
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Tuition at private not-for-profit colleges and universities increased at the lowest rate in at least four decades for the 2012-2013 academic year, according to a survey released by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU).
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