Thursday, 19 March 2015

Electrifying



Big Company Iberdrola   got a lot of   $$$$$$$$$$$$$, they own Scottish Power  from Madrid.


They provide just 3 kws  of electricity in general per household,  so no Blackpool illuminations here, that is 25 amps. You can upgrade, get re wired  for about 500 euros to 5kws  but its not worth it. Better to get a solar panel  connected to a water tank, free hot water and a gas oven.  I hate electricity companies. Greedy bast**ds.

Do Iberdrola  fit solar panels "NO",  simple answer.  They have large wind and solar farms in the interior on the mountain tops, but for  Joe Public  or lets say Manuel publico,  NO.  In fact the government tax you if you harness solar to your own grid, so what incentive is that  to climate change.  So estupido !!!!! And  users are limited in electric use, because they cannot generate  muchas.

Another thing  I notice,  not quite  electrifying is how the hombres like Pedro park their bum and sit and watch their wives, sweep, clean and weed the ground, then get the paella  dished up. Meanwhile Pedro will only break sweat if he sits in the sun. 

Its another midweek fiesta here. Everything shut, some saint or other, they have monthly bank holidays, always midweek so the whole week is disrupted,  good for productivity huh !! So less electrifying.  Poor pedro had to light his own cigarette. They all smoke here. How Pedro managed to raise his arm, I don't know,  it was a miracle, I thought he was a wax work !!!!!!!!!!




productivity !!!   rude word  in Spanish.27%  unemployment.  4 men and a lorry in the park  yesterday. In 15 minutes 3 chatted and stood motionless trying to grow roots like the pineapple palms one was pruning, 3 leaves on the truck in the 15 mins I was there watching  time and no motion study




Monday, 16 March 2015

An English Man abroad - Getting blood out of a stone

An English Man Abroad - getting  blood out for test, no my name is not Stone .
08.00 hours  turn up outside La Mata Clinic, a throng waiting outside the doors, no not my fan club,  and not exhibitionists in thongs, they were all ill (enfermo) and wanting to get in too.

Sit down in the waiting hall  alongwith about 30 other patients, after the stampede  when the doors were open.

A Nurse comes out with a table, and a lot of bar code stickers and a name list.

My name gets read out eventually, I hand over my documents from the doctor  a week before and my urine sample.  She bar codes my papers and I wait by the door of the blood testing room.

Analisis de sangre (not to be confused with sangria,  that would definitely be dodgy  in your veins !!)

In the room is one nurse on a computer and 3 nurses  taking blood  from patients sitting with one arm out stretched  in each booth of the partitioned table.

Mass productiion, division of labour, all over in 30 minutes, must say  impressed by efficiency, 3 phials of blood  lighter, not quite an arm full, and no cuppa tea !!! Quite (h)armless really !!!

See if my blood passed the test in a week.  Stay tuned to this channel.

Thats all for now folks, medical bulletin finished, next the weather.............. its raining.............makes a change !!!!