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Dear Lucky,
Thank you for your letter and welcome to letters to the editor. The Chronicat, The Munchie and me, are delighted that you still have the ability to find the paper through the haze of smoke, let alone actually read it. Though having said this, the print quality is [...]
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Hi ChroniCat, I have enjoyed reading your paper a lot since it’s arrival, good quality writing and some nice articles.
I did have a bit of a wonder about the Chronic Cat name and the stories of Munchie added to the suspicion that someone at your organization may well be fond of a [...]
2010-06-29 | Posted in
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BY ARANCHA COROMINA
THERE IS AN ever growing variety of processed and packaged foods, and it’s becoming more difficult to decide what to buy.
Packaged food labels provide useful information to consumers that allow them, besides knowing the main characteristics of the products they eat, to get a rough idea of the relationship between price and quality [...]
FIRST OF ALL, I had better explain the title I have chosen for my story; it, of course, refers to Perth in Scotland.
To those of you not acquainted with Scotland, Perth was always known as the Fair City. What is sometimes forgotten is that Perth was the original capital of Scotland. In Roman [...]
BY ROSIE REAY.
It never ceases to amaze me when I find a local, quietly spoken person who has such hidden depths in artistic skills literally living on my doorstep in the Lower Ebro Valley. An English gent that hails originally from Kent and then from Suffolk. Spent two interesting years, savouring the life as an [...]
Honey is one of the most remarkable foods that nature has developed. Simple sugars found in honey are easily absorbed into the body, therefore recognised by athletes and sports people as a source of instant energy. It is also beneficial in helping to reduce shock to the body when extremes of temperature [...]
FISHING MATCH REPORT – BY MIKE SMITH
OUR FIRST FISHING match was held on Thursday 10th June on one of the canals on the Delta, not far from Sant Carles de la Ràpita.
Unfortunately, it did not fish as well as it does normally, but a good day was had by all. First [...]
BY CHARLI ROWE
NOW I AM not really one for sunbathing or even the sun, I have come to a mutual agreement with Helios that avoids me getting burnt, toasted, roasted, blistered, and red, with all complexions in between.
I envy those who have come to a more beneficial arrangement, golden brown sun kissed skin full of [...]
THE ADVENT OF THE MOORS & THE CULTURAL CHANGING OF A NATION
In the last episode (part 3, June issue) we learnt of the times of the Visigoths and the ‘dark age’ of Spain. Dark age because of the dearth of information we have about this period, for the Visigoths lived off the achievements of the [...]
2010-06-29 | Posted in
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A question often asked by gardeners coming to Catalunya, is which plants and flowers are best suited to growing here with a limited water supply ?
SEVEN YEARS AGO in May 2003, we bought our lovely little finca near Camarles. Our first trip out in September of that year was spent working on the [...]