A BRITISH tabloid recently featured a contestant for the Little Princess Prize in the Miss Mini Princess UK competition, an American-style children’s beauty pageant taking place in Leicester this month.

FOR many of us here in Andalucia it is not news that we are amongst some of the most spectacular and evocative historical sites in all of Europe, if not the world.

SO, this week the French became responsible for ousting the 11 political austerity victim since the European woes kicked in four years ago.

SPAIN’S unemployment rate is 5.6 million yet when I call at an internet provider they are short staffed; two assistants cannot cope.

I WAS driving through Magaluf when a man walked out in front of my car.

THE year was 1969 and we had survived a week living “down on the beach” before I could make the trek to acknowledge homage to the namesake of the area: the village of Mojacar.

IF you have to explain a joke, it isn’t funny. A little pearl of wisdom that fleetingly crossed my mind when the final curtain fell on the Javea Players latest production, ‘One Way Pendulum’ by N J Simpson.

‘Mummy?’ enquired my lovely, six and a half year old daughter. ‘Yes sweetheart,’ I murmured distractedly. ‘Am I fat?’ she asks with a concerned voice.

THE year was 1969. In the United States, we were all feelin’ groovy.

FOOTBALL – Chelsea (England) will play Bayern Munich (Germany) in the Champions League final later this month.