Joan Rovira picked up the guitar at age 7, he had music lessons and went on to play the saxophone. I asked whether he comes from a musical family. “No”, he replied, “but my grandfather, whom I never knew, always played the harmonica”.
He formed a band, ARANGU, (very funky Latin) whilst studying [...]
Last month, we read about the honey bee and how without bees, there would be no flowers and therefore, ultimately, no food. Pollination is a vital part of the life cycle and our world would not be the same without it.
Bees need to be nurtured and we need to learn more about how [...]
When we see adverts that talk of the importance of sugar to our health, they are playing with words and are misleading.
They use terms like sugar and glucose as if they were the same. When they say that sugar is necessary because it gives us energy, they are actually saying that blood glucose (known colloquially [...]
CUCUMBERS CONTAIN MOST of the vitamins you need every day. The list is long: Vitamin B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, Folic Acid, Vit C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc!
The versatility of the humble cucumber is incredible. Here are just a few suggestions on what the cucumber can do for you!
If you´re [...]
BY ROSIE REAY
At last the rain has held off and deckchairs are now once again the order of the day. I have just been online to www.TortosaForum.com and am sat in the sun, but am still seething at the revelation that thieves are still about. I feel I need to share it for those [...]
I’m sure you’ll all recognise that moment of complete peace and relaxation, somewhere between dozing and wakefulness: silence, stillness, weightless contentment. O what bliss that must be. You can forget it when you share your home with a Munchie.
If I get the desire to relax, the Munchie assumes I’m lying there waiting to be jumped [...]
A CUCUMBER RELISH
An adaption of the recipe in Delia’s Summer Collection
This worked extremely well last year and helped diminish the glut of cucumbers that we had. It seems to keep very well, and we are just about to open our last jar, nearly a year later. Hope that you like it.
3 or 4 cucumbers3 or [...]
By Helen Rowe.
At the beginning of this saga of the monster house I said it had not been lived in for over twenty years, the contents of the house had not been touched in this period (by human hand).
On the day of purchasing the house we ask the daughter and family did they wish to [...]
Part two of the continuing adventures of Nigel and Arancha as they tackle the Camino de Santiago.
Day 4: 21st September Rabanal to Molinaseca (27Km)
Another early start. For a change we were the first to start the getting up process.. we didn´t stay in the municipal Albergue so I guess you can sleep in later.
But [...]
THE VANDALS, VISIGOTHS AND THEIR DARK AGE THE ADVENT OF THE MOORS
BY BRIAN HALL
In previous issues of ‘A Brief Moment’, we learnt of early Iberian history from the start of early man antecessor, through to the Phoenicians and Greeks and then the Carthaginian invasion of southern Spain with the arrival of Hamilcar and his [...]
