Chicken Tonight

The great SYP chicken famine is over! Let the record show that at 14.45 today around one third of the Ses Paisses (near San Antonio, Ibiza) branch's meat shelves were just dripping with chicken. Whole ones, legs, thighs and breasts, there was something for everybody.


Here's the one I bought with its posterior preserved for posterity by digital wizardry.




It was such a shame that the other 60% (ish) of the shelves were uncontaminated by meat! Anything originating on a 4 legged beast was missing - no beef, no pork and no lamb. A bit of a treble whammy for me really as I'd gone to buy those very things for a BBQ mixed grill this evening.

Principles of English

I rarely brag about my 10 years trying to instill the principles of English into the unwilling and malodorous youth of Ibiza. My only success was that they could all mimic my most oft used expression - SHURRRRRRUP - in a perfect St. Helens accent.

However as this photo shows, the reward we devised for getting the past perfect continuous tense wrong also helped on the personal hygiene front.

Now, complete this sentence:

I had been waiting for 3 hours when.......................

Ibiza Sausage Fest

At ease, clubbers. It's not a review of Cream at Amnesia but our inaugural barbeque. May 1st being the official start of the bathing season we did some loungin' by the pool yesterday and followed it up with a packet of Lidl sausages and an enormnous chuleton steak from the local butchers.

Just listen to these sausages sizzling