Tickled Squirrel September 2015

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Front cover & page 3 photography show a different Spain to the more well known areas of the Costa Blanca. These photographs were taken in the areas of Gernika (Guernica) and Bermeo, Pais Vasco. Copyright: Iscah Photography (www.iscah.co.uk) amgornevadetonpnorwotjoeicttth'se.t.nim.exetto CLINICA DENTAL GEERLINGS BONALBA Dr Victoria Garbarino Dr Eric Geerlings English, Spanish and Dutch Spoken Telephone: 965 959 714 www.dentalbonalba.com Emails: [email protected] [email protected] Tickled Squirrel Magazine is published by Tickled Squirrel Ltd. UK Reg. No. 9244499 Tickled Squirrel Ltd. accepts no responsibility for the services, goods or work provided by any advertiser. Although we do our best to ensure the content is correct we accept no liability for errors or omissions. No part of this magazine, in part or whole, may be reproduced without 2 obtaining prior written permission.

As many readers may know, this is the final issue of El Campello’s only professionally published ex-pat magazine. It has always been a profitable and completely legal business, and we have been asked by several people if we'd be interested in selling it. However, we've decided that should anyone wish to take up the challenge and continue in our footsteps they should be able to do so with complete freedom; and, because of the fantastic feedback we've had, we hope someone will copy our style and start a new large format, full colour magazine with affordable advertising, verifiable distribution numbers, and great content. Hopefully that person, or those people are out there somewhere - you deserve to have a good, local publication! Last September (2014) we learned that Mellow Magazine (which we began in 2006 and ran profitably until 2012 when it was sold) had ended, and so we thought it would be great to come back to El Campello with a brand new magazine, back to the place where we first met and where we started the first successful English language ex-pat magazine! Tickled Squirrel was a hit from day one, and although profits from such a venture are never going to be very large, we made a comfortable living producing a magazine which many have said is the only one they read. We avoided pointless jokes and stuck to the successful format we had previously had with Mellow Magazine – interesting articles and puzzles, well designed low cost advertisements but this time with cheaper adverts and also no extra charge for full colour, or for premium advert position. El Campello is not the same though, and many of our old friends have moved on.The town itself has become dirtier (it's not just the summer rush), cut backs are obvious in many places, and our observations have even been echoed by some local businesses . . . in short, it’s no longer a place we wish to live. This was made even more apparent when we travelled to the north of Spain in April and then to Andalucía in May. We found both areas to be nicer, friendlier and cleaner than this part of the country. So we made the choice to leave here but to go where? Should we go north, south west, or to the other country we love, Scotland? Our final choice was for Scotland, a country where the people are friendly, the scenery is breath-taking and the peace and quiet is almost tangible. Hence we made the decision to make this, the September issue, the final one. We thank all our loyal advertisers who have stayed with us through to this final edition. We thank you, our readers, for your kind words, and for the fact that so many of you have kept every magazine we have ever produced. A big thank you also to our contributors past and present for their wonderful work producing articles that people asked for and enjoyed every month. Our very best wishes to you all and perhaps we'll see some of you when we return on holiday! 3

September Ads Asociación Emmanuel Alicante FOR SALE: BEHA 2000w Panel Heater. Fitted with on/off switch and electronic thermostat. A charity to Supplied with 1.5m of cable and wall bracket. Height: 40cm. Length: 142cms. Weight: 9.6kg. Feed The Hungry In excellent condition. €100 o.n.o. Telephone: 965 698 345 Busot area. We have a Charity Shop based in San Juan Town whose proceeds are FOR SALE: 2 drawer beech effect filing used to help feed the local poor of all cabinet. Almost new. 15€. Collect before nationalities. September 10th. Tel 634 327 682 We welcome donations of all kinds: Clothing, Food, Local Translator / Interpreter Electrical, Furniture, Financial Help, Personal and business meetings, phone & More calls, visits, letters, documents . . . Help with N.I.E. / Residency, Notaries, Schools, Doctors & Hospitals, Property, Police and Paperwork. Rates from 15€ / hour 7 cents / word Call Mark on 639 692 985 Live Music We are Every Saturday currently supporting over 30 familes with food. From 10pm Every purchase from our shop helps us do more, so come along and see us Free Salsa Lessons soon. Wednesdays New Furniture Shop Now Open from 7pm to 9pm Tel: 611338954 Open every day from 11am till close C/Pintor Baeza 12, Tel: 965 63 77 04 San Juan Pueblo Alicante website: www.aeasj.cu.cc Overlooking The Beach in El Campello 4

Sam’s Now Open Sundays 10 - 2 supermarket 965 63 44 45 Open Monday to Friday 9 - 4:30, Saturdays 9 - 3, Sunday 10 - 2 All Your Quality English Products In Stock Wide range of Quality Bakeware Available John Smith’s and Guinness Warburton’s Bread Agents for TV Choice Baz Traditional English Butcher Open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 to 3 Quality meats including roasting beef, steaks, home cured gammon, pork with crackling, home made beef and lamb burgers, and much more. Hair & Beauty Christmas & Festive Season Salon Diary OPEN for booking! Already fi lling up quickly so don’t be late & BOOK THAT DATE! For all your Hair & Beauty Needs call to book your appointment Appointments 965 63 44 45 5 Easy to find on the N332 between La Font & El Campello Please tell our advertisers you saw them in Tickled Squirrel Magazine

MUSIC RAMBLINGS second target was the living legend Brenda Lee. The World of Podcasting After several weeks of negotiating a convenient time I eventually caught her as she was buying Around the time OCI Radio was finishing I read ice creams for her grand-daughters in Nashville. about podcasts. This was going to revolutionise Again, she was a really lovely person to the way radio operates. I don’t think it has interview. panned out exactly as was predicted, but it has altered people’s opportunities to work in radio. I I went from strength to strength with such great U WW W remember going to a technical expert who told names as Chubby Checker, Johnny Tillotson,S I.CV I NRC EAT RMA CBY L I me I would be wasting my time as it would be Tommy James, Len Barry, and Peter Sarstedt M far too technical for me. I sat up the next night to mention just a few. Each was proving to be burning the midnight oil and working out how to an absolute pleasure so I branched make podcasts. It was really just using modern out into the world of sport and technology to record programmes of whatever spoke with great legends - Sir length you choose to make them and then Henry Cooper, Sir Stirling loading them onto the internet and making them Moss and many giants of available for other people to access. various sports including Geoff Capes, Terry There is a small amount of technical ability Venables and many other involved but if I can manage it then most can do international figures. the same. With your own computer and a little enterprise you can easily make podcasts. There I looked at my own are even places on the internet where you can make your programmes online. It is a great way favourites over the years to get involved in broadcasting and it can open up a world of opportunities. and arranged interviews N G.C OSM with Coronation Street Since those first days when I was told it would stars Johnny Briggs, who be impossible for me, I have continued to find played Mike Baldwin, and ways to improve what I do and I now make daily Jean Alexander who was well podcast which are heard in many countries. I known as the character Hilda have regular weekly shows which are in place in America, Bangladesh the UK and other Ogden. In various conversations I locations. Instead of having to spend time and money on negotiating with others who have got leads to such people as Chesney different ideas on what is needed I can make my own decisions and talk to anyone. Hawkes; and then I turned my attention to It all began when I was in the radio station and motivational speakers and experts in other we had absolutely no money to spend on our part of the radio station. I thought I’d start trying fields of interest. My podcast site is an ongoing to contact the international hit-makers and my first interview was with Gary Puckett who had concern and I have now built in a podcast the big hit ‘Young Girl’. Gary was a perfect gentleman and a real pleasure to interview. My library. It is an unusual concept but once people 6 have popped in and clicked on something that is of interest there can be hours of interesting material ranging from language learning opportunities to listening to the celebrities. Please feel free to join me and all my guests at www.vincetracy.com Vince Tracy

INTERNATIONAL CONCERT 7 AND ART EXHIBITION (PROCEEDS BEING USED TO HELP PREVENT CHILD TRAFFICKING) 14 NOVEMBER 2015 AT 6.30PM HEAR SOME AMAZING MUSIC FROM UK ROCK BAND SPLIT CHIMP TALENTED LOCAL SPANISH MUSICIANS SINGERS FROM INDONESIA, SPAIN AND IRELAND SEE SOME FANTASTIC PAINTINGS & OTHER ARTWORK LOCATION: PUEBLO ESPANOL (Avenida Almadraba El Campello) Tickets €6 – call 661532260 Or email [email protected] Proceeds being donated to Tearfund to help prevent child trafficking Concert sponsored by El Campello Christian Community Please tell our advertisers you saw them in Tickled Squirrel Magazine

BONALBA BOWLS CLUB OPEN DAY ~ WITH RASTRO 10 am to 2.30 pm on Saturday 12 September 2015 Cake Stall, Tombola, Bric-a-Brac, Handmade cards, etc TO BOOK A TABLE for €5 - Telephone Sue on 695 440 697 COME AND TRY BOWLING (please bring some flat smooth soled shoes with no heel) Bowling is a reasonably priced sport We welcome new members with or without experience And offer 3 FREE LESSONS to beginners with qualified instructors Bar Open and Food Available For more information on Bonalba Bowls see: www.bonalbabowlsclub.wix.com/bonalbabowls Sat Nav Coords: 38° 26’ 47” N and 0° 26’ 16” W www.fwreurocars.com Import / Export Specialists Wide range of genuine vehicles Friendly service & Competitive prices Quality & Right Hand Drive Vehicles Bought and Sold Part exchange welcome UK and Spanish reg vehicles Saloons - Cabriolets - MPV 4x4 - Commercials Full warranties Sports Performance Spanish registrations arranged We are easily found near Alicante Airport at Carretera Elche, El Altet km 10,160 Next to the Shell Garage Supplying quality cars in Spain since 2004 Office: 965 687 976 Mobile: 600 726 221 Email: [email protected] 8

MJC Van Transport CLINICA DENTAL 965699100 07787745068 GEERLINGS 687672081 BONALBA Dr Victoria Garbarino * Regular trips from Spain to UK & back Dr Eric Geerlings * Buy in the UK. Delivered to your door by English, Spanish and Dutch Spoken us! * Removals - Part loads - Full loads Single Telephone: 965 959 714 Items www.dentalbonalba.com * Cars & Bikes Transported Man With A Van Phone or Email Colin & Mary for a Quote Long Wheel Base High Top Van [email protected] and Driver Available Ideal for Charities & Churches House removals Charities included in the listings MUST supply Office moves a valid registered charity number. Those extra large items APAC Animal Protection Charity in El Campello. Call Ian on 648 835 377 Dogs of all ages awaiting rehoming. Sterilisation or 627 703 521 scheme for feral cats. Charity shop at Av. Germanies, 20, El Campello. For information 9 about dogs, call Joy 965699460, and for feral cats call Janice 965638899, or Onny 965940763 (charity no. 3817) Bruised But Not Broken Cancer Care Charity. Our aim is to provide financial and emotional support, including respite breaks, to families living with cancer. Tel: Lorraine 608524896 (charity no. CV-01-049781-A) Church of the Good Shepherd San Juan. Services in English. Sundays11am. Calle Juan Sebastian El Cano 19. Everyone welcome. Please call Gordon on 965950231 or Sarah on 600714573 for more information El Campello Christian Community Meetings will be held on the second and fourth Sunday of the month in the Hall next to Meson Pueblo Español (Pepe´s Bar) at 10.30am. All welcome. For information email: [email protected] or telephone Sue Bishop on 965699991/693048200 MABS Cancer Support Group covering Costa Blanca area. Interpreters, Transport, Equipment, Support and nursing available for you and your family in your time of need. Tel: Sue 664266991 (charity no. 7261)

The Brain Drain Puzzle Pages Sudoku Easy/Medium/Hard On each day in September . . . 2 635 4 1st 1939 Germany invades which country? 2nd 1945 Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of 7615 which country? 49 3rd 1943 Allied forces invade which country? 4th 2006 Which television star is killed by a stingray? 6 379 4 5th 1666 This city's \"Great Fire\" comes to end. 6th 1995 This baseball player plays in his 2,131st 68 consecutive game. 9 423 6 7th 1986 Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican 23 archbishop in which country? 8th 1974 Who is pardoned by Gerald Ford? 3859 9th 1543 Who is crowned \"Queen of Scots\"? 10th 1967 The people of which territory vote to remain 4753 a British dependency, rather than revert to 21 Spain? 11th 2001 Terrorists destroy the World Trade Centre in 68 this city. 12th 1953 Who marries Jacqueline Bouvier? 7 26 13th 1996 Which rapper is killed in Las Vegas? 14th 1982 This actress, the Princess of Monaco, dies 412 8 in a car accident. 15th 1950 U.S. forces land at Inchon, during this war. 87 9 3 64 16th 1620 Which Pilgrim ship begins her voyage to America? 3 749 17th 2011 What movement begins in New York's Zucotti Park? 95 3 18th 1970 This guitarist dies in London, at age 27. 19th 1995 American newspapers print the \"Manifesto\" 51 of which terrorist? 20th 2011 This policy comes to an end. For the first 47 time, openly gay soldiers can serve in the US military. 1 324 96 21st 1937 Which J.R.R. Tolkien book is published? 22nd 1994 What well known sitcom debuts on NBC? 6 52 23rd 1973 Juan Perón returns to power in which country? 7 24th 1957 Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, opens in What city? 3 14 25th 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female member of which (American) body? 25 31 26th 1580 Which English sea captain finishes his circumnavigation of the globe? 65 9 27th 1996 Which militant Islamist faction captures Kabul? 2 28th 1928 Alexander Fleming discovers which miracle drug? 91 2 29th 1938 At a conference held in which city do European leaders agree to let Hitler annex 25 983 4 part of Czechoslovakia? 30th 1955 Which young movie star dies in a car crash? 10

Crossword Puzzle Across 34. Spouse (4) 16. Evade (5) 1. Suffocate (7) 35. Planetary model (11) 18. Flavour (5) 4. Transgression (7) 8. Amber-coloured sweetmeat 38. Illicit drug (7) 19. Bizarre (9) (6,5) 12. First man (4) 39. British rock group (7) 20. Exclamation of surprise (3) 13. Created (4) 14. Drive back (5) 21. Inquired (5) 15. Native of India (6) 17. Stalks (5) Down 26. Twist (4) 22. Sour (4) 23. Halts (5) 1. Crouch (5) 27. Concern (4) 24. Petty criminal (4) 2. Streetcar (4) 28. Individual facts (4) 25. Absorbent cloth (5) 3. Snake-like fish (3) 29. Wander (4) 28. Barren place (6) 5. Influenza (3) 31. Sturdy twilled trousers (5) 30. Dish of raw vegetables (5) 6. Examination (4) 33. Bloodsucking insect (4) 32. Ride a surfboard (4) 7. Entailing great expense (9) 34. Mongrel dog (4) 8. Building for storing hay (4) 36. Convent dweller (3) 9. Level (4) 37. Fish eggs (3) 10. Storage shelter (4) More puzzles over the 11. Speed contest (4) page. All solutions are on 14. Elevate (5) Pages 30 & 31. 11

A Little More Brain Drain AB C How many circles would it take to balance C? / + =7 Curl Up & Dye x ++ A saleslady and two other women x / = 12 have reached that tedious stage of hairdressing - the hour under the drier. -/ / Teresa (who is sitting in the middle) is + - =1 older than the redhead but younger than the programmer. Mavis is younger than === the blonde. Rachel is older than the 531 brunette. The programmer is sitting on the right hand side of secretary’s older Each of the nine empty boxes sister. contains a different digit from 1 to 9. Each calculation is to be treated Can you identify each lady and give her sequentially rather than according to hair colour and occupation? the ‘multiplication first’ rule. Can you fill in the empty boxes? (/ means divide) The answers to these and the previous pages of puzzles can be found on pages 30 & 31. 12

September Notices The Square Coveta Fuma Tickled Squirrel BAR We wish all advertisers past & present every Pool Table success in the future. Thank you for placing your advertising needs & your trust in Tickled Squirrel Live Music & previously in the Mellow Magazine when it was in our care from Dec 2006 - Oct 2012. International Menu Good Range Of Beers U3A Campello Cocktails & Snacks Join the U3A in Campello. Only €10 pa. Trips, Live Sport wine appreciation, gardening, books,music, petanque and sailing groups, and more. Open Every Day From 9:30 till Late For more information please call Karen on 603263973 or visit our website at www. Tel 965 639 018 u3acampellosanjuan.weebly.com/ www.facebook.com/barlosdos Rugby Beach Campaign has started. EveryTuesday and Thursday from 6.30pm until 8,30pm at Villajoyosa Main beach, near the Club Nautico. Everyone is welcome to play touch beach rugby (not tackles) -open for any age. If you are interested to join La Vila contact Jason Craig on 659674768 or Ignacio Davila 608068208 or send an email to oficina@ rugbylavila.net Bernie‛s 965 632 576 Friday Night Is Karaoke Night. Happy hour from 5 to 7pm Monday to Friday, Buy Two drinks get one free. Live Entertainment Sports At Bernie´s Multi Screen TVs means you can watch All Premiership Football Games Bernie´s Sports At Live Entertainment Plus Rugby - Tennis - Boxing - F1 If It‛s Sport, You Can See It Here At Bernie´s ** Live Outside Entertainment For September ** At Bernie´s Sat 5th September Richard‛s leaving party with Ray Croft (Elvis) on the terrace!! also appearing Comedian Micky Lewis Sat 12th September Live Band “Little Elvis and the Headbangers” on the terrace Open All Day Every Day From 10am 13

Some Strange Things That Have Been Banned in the World (although some laws may have changed and they might now be legal) The film Anna & The King Banned in Thailand as it was said to insult the royal family Kinder Eggs Banned in the USA as they are said to be a choking hazard Chewing Gum Banned in Singapore (looking at the streets of Campello I wish it was banned here as well) The actress Claire Danes Banned in Manila because of remarks she made about it being smelly, rat infested and weird, when filming there. Red Bull Banned in France for some years but was over-ruled by EU since the ingredient that worried France had not been ‘proved’ to be harmful. Flip Flops Banned in Capri, Italy – because of the noise they cause. Blue Jeans Banned in North Korea – other colours are ok Gambling Banned in Monaco – but only applies to local residents Ovaltine and Marmite Banned in Denmark because of infused vitamins and minerals Dying in Parliament Banned in the UK but anyone who does die there is entitled to a state funeral Samosa Banned in Somalia – said to be too Christian like Changing a light bulb Banned in Victoria, Australia – unless you are a qualified electrician Reincarnation without Banned in China Government Consent Group Jogging Banned in Burundi Banned in the USA Haggis Banned in South Korea Online Video Games after midnight Some hairstyles Banned in Iran Banned in India Advertising Alcohol Banned in China Time Travel Films 14

Market Days Wednesday El Campello Friday Alicante Thursday & Saturday Sunday Mutxamel Wednesday San Juan Saturday Villajoyosa Thursday Local Area Telephone Numbers El Campello 965636194/6491 Villajoyosa 965894250 Casa de Cultura Casa de Cultura Hospital San Juan 965938700 Post Office 965891230 Post Office (Correos) Health Centre 965630318 Library 965891698 965637106/965937480 / Town Hall 966851001 85 Municipal Police 965890050 Ad. Education Centre 965635808 Guardia Civil 965891143 Taxis 965101611/965101029/ Hospital Marina Baixa 966859800 Tourist Info 966851371 965252511 Taxis 965893343/902075073 Town hall 965637200 Railway Station 965262731/900720472 Jijona 965634606 Tourist Information 965630418/062 Town Hall 965610300 965637099/ 965634444 Guardia Civil 965610142 Guardia Civil 965292015 Health centre 965612400 Post Office 965612031 Policía Local Suma Office San Juan 965653245/965653324 Transport 965942222 Alicante Airport 913211000 Town Hall 965653232 902240202 Local Police Renfe 965130700 Guardia Civil 902422242 Alicante Bus Station Post Office 965653368 Alsa (Coaches) Health Centre 96 593 74 40 Suma Office 965292034 Other Numbers 1004 Movistar (client attention) 902109356 Busot 902225235 Health Centre 966908240 British Consulate 965989900 Casa de Cultura 965698072 Iberdrola (Electricity) Town Hall 965699092 Aguas de Alicante (Water) Police 965698181/607385522 Mutxamel 965956960 To the best of our knowledge these telephone numbers 965952777 are correct but they have been supplied to us and Town Hall 965653232 have not been verified. If you believe any number to Health Centre 965953500 be incorrect or if you feel there are essential numbers Guardia Civil 965953166 missing from the list I'm afraid there is nothing we can Local Police do about it now ... you should have let us know before Post Office the squirrel hibernated! 15

M Gediterranean ardens By Roald Goorman Fifty shades of Grey. Kalanchoe beharensis (Felt plant) With all the different tones of green in the garden, some other colours could be a refreshing change, literally so if these colours are grey/blueish, as these colours are generally perceived as cool. I will discuss grey leaved plants that are worth considering if you are looking for new additions to your garden. Lavandula sp. (Lavender) A strange looking shrub from Madagascar, most plants from Madagascar actually look different! These plants are easy to grow in pots or in the garden in open soil, but they need good drainage and full sun, otherwise they will rot. They produce large hairy felt-like grey leaves that are the attraction of the plant, the flowers are nothing special to mention. Artemisia (Wormwood) This well-known versatile shrub looks good in any setting, as solitary, in groups, interplanted with roses or in rows lining a pathway. The English lavender has the most clipped and neat look, but eventually all Lavenders need a hard pruning at the end of the summer to keep the plants from becoming leggy. Senecio mandraliscae (blue chalk sticks) An easy shrub that looks good in any plant border, combine with hot colours (red, orange) A great ground cover, the small white flowers for contrast. There are different species, some are rather insipid, but the refreshing blueish are thirstier than others so experiment with grey leaves and stems makes this a great several and find out which grows best on you. addition to any succulent garden to fill the space between larger cactus and other Tanacetum densum-(Partridge feather) succulent plants. 16 Another easy groundcover and also fairly drought tolerant. It grows on most soils, but needs full sun.

Metrosideros excelsa- (Christmas tree) Bismarckia nobilis- Bismarck palm A relative of the This is another plant from Madagascar. This Eucalyptus, this fan palm forms striking blue grey leaves and plant from New eventually grows huge. The crown diameter can Zealand flowers be up to 7-8 meters, so give it space to grow! with bright red flowers on grey Brahea armata-Mexican fan palm leaves, which makes a stunning contrast! The flowers appear midsummer (which is December on the Southern Hemisphere, hence its common name). If left unchecked it will grow into a small tree, but it can be pruned in almost any shape, pruning can be done anytime of the year but stop pruning from April onwards, when it starts making flower buds, else you will miss the bloom. Teucrium fruticans (Silver Germander) This timid If you don’t have enough space to grow the shrub with its Bismarck palm but still like the look of it, try the small leaves more modest sized Mexican fan palm. They and small blue are also extremely drought tolerant, do not flowers fits in overwater it, as it will easily succumb to rot, so everywhere. It keep on the dry side. can be shaped of left to grow wild, in more formal gardens they look great clipped neatly in balls, cubicles or low hedges. Echium candicans- Pride of Madeira A fast growing short living shrub, it puts on a huge show in spring with the bright blue flower spikes, the rest of the year it is a nice grey green shrub that needs no maintenance apart from raking the fallen leaves underneath. It grows large in less than 2 years, so give it some space to grow. 17

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Are we weighed down? If we feel low, or depressed who do we blame? Others? We pay a great price for holding on to the pain of resentments and heavy negativity. Too often, we think of forgiveness as a gift to other people. It is clearly a gift to us! We achieve and have freedom from many bad feelings only when we release others from the prison of our minds. Carrying around resentments does not harm the people at whom we direct the resentments. These people cannot read our minds. They cannot pay the price we would like them to pay for things we think they have done wrong in life. Only WE pay the price for harbouring resentments that are logged into the past . . . yesterday has GONE! Resentments do not alter yesterday’s situations; they only harm the person who holds the resentments today. They steal the joy from this day - a day that we could fill with life and energy and happiness simply by letting go. So then, how can we unburden ourselves of heavy, negative resentments so that we can move forward, traveling light? We can begin by looking at our thoughts and emotions and refusing to identify with them. By realising that we are the only ones who can let go of these emotions and start seeing things differently. Imagine holding a rubber ball, and squeezing it tightly until your hand starts to burn. Like any thought, the ball is not actually part of you, and it is certainly not YOU. However, the harder you squeeze the ball, the more discomfort you feel, but if you open your hand, the ball will fall to the floor. You can also release your harmful, negative thoughts as quickly as an object held in the hand, if you choose to do so. Take a deep breath and mentally open your hand. Without judgment or resistance simply observe thoughts that hold no value for the future. Allow them to be, and allow them to go. Doing so sets you free to travel light. It grants the freedom and renewed vitality to live fully today. In the words of Lewis Smedes (1921-2002), “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” Does that all make sense to you? Does it explain how we can realise the control we have over our own lives, just by changing the way we think? Someone wrote an excellent book called, “We are what we think”, and I think that if we take that idea on board we may find that we can move on to live happier, more balanced lives. Is anyone on this planet really worth losing your quality of life over? Why allow anything to disturb your life to an extent that you are not happy? Deal with things that are not the way you want them to be. Even making mental adjustments if circumstances cannot be changed your attitude Violet King probably can be! Don’t allow yourself to be weighed down! Personal Confidential Counsellor Take care and thanks for reading. For information please ring 966928256 or 634312179. Violet King Alternatively send an email to: [email protected] 19

A nurse walks into a bank totally exhausted after working an 18 hour shift. She grabs a deposit slip, pulls a rectal thermometer out of her handbag and tries to write with it. When she realises her mistake she looks up at the flabbergasted cashier and, without missing a beat, shrugs her shoulders and says, \" Well, that's just great ... some asshole's got my pen.\" CLINICA DENTAL GEERLINGS BONALBA Dr Victoria Garbarino Dr Eric Geerlings English, Spanish and Dutch Spoken Telephone: 965 959 714 www.dentalbonalba.com Open Every Day from 5pm until 2am C/San Bartolomé 26 El Campello New Live Music Every Weekend - Call In For Details New Menu Home made food - Tapas - Burgers - Salads - Toasts Menu Probably The Best Hamburgers In Town - Home Made From 100% Beef International Beers - Draught Guiness - Cocktails Happy ‘Hour’ Monday to Friday from 5pm to 8pm 3 for the price of 2 RUGBY WORLD CUP Live Sports PREMIER LEAGUE Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/baredenbart 672 627 532 20

Christine and Steve welcome you to the Tel: 965 639 174 Bar El Poblet Snacks available - Breakfasts from 10am to noon Kitchen open from 9am to 3pm and 6pm to 10pm Thursdays Now Open from 17:30 Friday Night Saturday Night Is Fun Quiz Night Is Steak Night Come along and join in the fun. Gammon, Rump or Sunday Lunch Beef Fillet with all the trimmings and a small glass of house free wine 9.95€ Beef, Pork or Lamb - each comes with all the trimmings. Main Course on its own is just 6€. Two courses are 8€. Three courses just 10€ We wish Lorraine and Jerry ‘Bon Voyage’ We’re easy to find - turn off the N332 to El Poblet take the first right and we’re there Reservations 965 63 43 71 Overlooking the port in El Campello, La Cova offers a delightful place for a relaxing meal. A La Carte or Menu del Dia, both offer superb food at reasonable prices. We are Open Tues, Wed, Thu 13:30 to 16:00 & 19:30 to 22:30 Fri and Sat 13:30 to 16:00 & 19:30 to 23:00 Sunday 13:30 to 16:00 (Closed all day Monday) La Cova for superb food, perfect service and beautiful views over the marina Menu of the Day 17.50€ 21

Living In Laos ~ The Life of an Ex-Pat Pachyderms, pachyderms, pachyderms! I hardly slept that night, waking early at around 5am I recall. All I wanted was to pack my bags and head to the pick-up venue but I had 3 hours to fill. Breakfast consisted of coffee and croissant which were hurriedly consumed before I ventured along the road to the offices of the Elephant Nature Park (ENP). This is a long standing conservation centre for the rehabilitation of elephants that have been rescued from a life of abuse, over-work and often as tourist attractions. About one hour north of the beautiful city of Chiang Mai is the secluded retreat where elephants can live out their days as they were intended, free to roam, free from work and able to socialise in their own herds. ENP is owned by a diminutive lady called Lek, who along with her husband founded this sanctuary over 17 years ago. Through her hard work and fundraising the park is now home to more than 50 elephants and is spread across more than 450 acres of jungle and natural clearings. With banana trees a plenty, a fresh water river running through the centre of the park and jungle encroaching on all sides with the rolling mountains as backdrop it is pretty easy to say this place is ‘heaven’. Elephants in Thailand, and most of South East Asia, have a bad record for treatment. Many are captured young and tortured into submission to their new lord and master, normally through a process called the ‘phajan’ which entails the elephant being chained in a cage day and night with no food or water and very little ability to move or lay down. This continues while the master beats and prods the elephant with hooks and sticks until it ‘learns to do’ what the master orders. Only after this process can an elephant be made to work; be offered as a tourist attraction offering rides to paying visitors. The phajan can last for over seven days before the elephant submits to the torture and obeys. Lek forbids any ill treatment of the rescued elephants on her park. The herds are free to roam, eat, play in the river or sleep, although each elephant has a ‘mahout’, a carer to ensure they are looked after and not put in danger. As a volunteer in the park I had paid to be able to help care for these huge animals for several days and nights. There is an instant sense of humility and awe when first standing alongside these beautiful creatures. In the park there were some elephants rescued from illegal logging companies, from being abused as tourist traps, and others who were rescued from owners who had blinded them, or they had suffered injury from landmine explosions in Laos or Myanmar. Every one of the elephants has a story, including those born on the park and free from having been put through the phajan. Between 4am and 5am each morning, the sound of heavy footsteps outside my simple but cosy accommodation is swiftly followed by the trumpeting call of the matriarchs as the herds head off to the river. Bathing time was amazing as I waded waist deep into the river alongside the elephants of all sizes and eagerly washed them of the parasites and mud which covered their skin. My journey through South East Asia was full of amazing and life changing experiences. From the Tigers and Elephants in Chiang Mai to crossing the famous Mekong River into Laos and an excursion into the wild jungle of Bokeo Province to live in the treetop canopy 50 metres above 22

Please tell our advertisers you saw them in Tickled Squirrel Magazine the ground and zip-lining 200m over the rain-forest covered ravines in search of the rare and near-extinct crested gibbons. It’s true SE Asia changed my life, but maybe I was looking for that something to convince me change was the only thing I wanted. The journey continued with a 2-day boat trip down the Mekong to the world-heritage city of Luang Prabang in Laos, a place where time has literally stood still. Laos opened my eyes to the wonders of culture and civilisation outside of the western capitalist system. In the sleepy capital city of Vientiane I could sense the history of covert CIA operatives sharing coffees with sympathetic Laos’ natives. Laos will capture your heart like it captured mine. In Cambodia I was woken up to the harshest forms of poverty I will probably see, mixed among the delights and mysteries of the stunning Angkor Wat temple complex, another world-heritage site, now preserved for all of mankind. This is a must see place to go on everyone’s bucket-list but never forget the atrocities the Khmer people suffered under their evil- masters of the Khmer Rouge in the mid to late 1970s. Extermination of anyone with intellect, education or aspiration led to the deaths of over a third of their population in 4yrs, reducing these kind hearted people from 6 million to under-4 million and effectively wiping out a generation. It’s been two years now since I migrated to Asia and for over 19 months I have lived and made my life in Laos. Do I miss the life of the UK? Not at all! I miss friends and family but never forget that this is a small world, we can reach the other side in about 24hrs. At the end of the day, all we are searching for is a place we can feel at home, a place we can truly call home. For me, an expat abroad, living in Laos is this place. This is home. Thank you for following my journey over the past few months. Written by John Nelson 23

Film Review PG 94 minutes Who’d have thought that one animation could provoke so much laughter, so many tears and such a vast array of splendid imagination? Inside Out is one of Pixar’s most creative inventions yet, engaging both the younger and older audiences alike. It tells the story of a world where minds are controlled by personified emotions; joy, sadness, anger, fear and disgust, and follows the emotional rollercoaster of a young, ordinary girl called Riley, whose life in the American Midwest is turned upside down when her dad announces he has a new job in San Francisco. These emotions decipher Riley’s own emotial state, with Joy doing everything in her positive power to make every memory a happy one. However, as nothing ever goes to plan, Sadness literally gets in the way of Joy, forcing the most significant and essential feelings to get lost in the depth of Riley’s mind, leaving anger, fear and disgust alone in the forefront. Inside Out is definitely the animation to watch this year and can be ranked alongside Pixar’s most loved films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Monsters, Inc. By Megan Parker 24

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Tech Tips This is the last of my Tech Tips pages in Tickled Squirrel. As you will have read in the editor’s page, this is the final issue. We are taking up new challenges in the UK. I hope that my comments and notes about technology as I find it have been of some interest and more importantly of some help to you. I have added a blog to my website at www.bydesignwebsites.com where I plan to add more comments as time goes by. I hope to see you there. Windows 10 - First Impressions on the 29th July It’s July the 29th and Windows 10 is finally here. My PC seemed as if it had been busy in the background last night and also this morning. Around 2pm (Spanish time) I clicked on the little Windows icon by the clock out of curiosity and found the “business” had been the download of Windows 10. “Would I like to install it now?” was the question. “It will take a little while to do.” I took the plunge and a little while turned into about 2 hours before the “Getting Started screen appeared. Another half an hour and all was up and running. So far I haven’t been able to find anything that isn’t running exactly as it was apart from noticing speed increases in various apps. Edge, the new browser from Microsoft works well and is extremely fast. It imported the bookmarks from my Chrome installation (I had to ask it to do this) and apart from rearranging all the links in the reverse order they still work as they do on Chrome. It’s a remarkable improvement over IE (Internet Explorer). I still don’t like the new mail app but have moved over to Mozilla Thunderbird anyway as I found it better than any of the others I have tried. All its settings remained after the upgrade and nothing has changed. The task bar is still there but more useable than before, with active apps having a white underline rather than a faint box outline. Clicking on the “Start” button brings up a screen with some tiles as well as recently used apps, settings and a few other options. These can all be configured using the Settings app. There has been some discussion about security issues with the new Windows. Microsoft does collect information about what you do – they say it’s to improve the service they give you, but I think that’s the nature of the “connected world” that we live in now. There is plenty of information on the web about security issues on Windows 10 if you wish to read them. Windows 10 Regular Updates Windows 10 has been made to frequently update itself and unlike previous versions you cannot choose when or if this is done. Microsoft’s reasoning is that users who do not keep their SKY SATELLITE SYSTEMS software up to date risk attacks from malware and Latest 1.45 mtr HD systems from 375Eu. so the option of whether to update or not has now been taken away. One problem that has hit some All sizes of dishes supplied and installed users because of this policy recently was caused Dish Re-alignment by a faulty update. After failing to install correctly, Windows rolled itself back to the version before. Cheap Sky Sports Packages But then realised there was an update so tried Second Hand systems also available to update itself again and so on and so on. Only some PCs were affected and hopefully such a All with 2 year warranty thing won’t happen again. Call Bob On 689 291 753 26 www.bydesignwebsites.com www.bydesignwebsites.com www.bydesignwebsites.com

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Damn Few And They're A' Deid! The average Englishman, in the home he calls his castle, slips into his national costume, a shabby raincoat, patented by chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland. En route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland. He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop of Dreghorn, Scotland, arrives at the station and boards a train, the forerunner of which was a steam engine, invented by James Watt of Greenock, Scotland. He then pours himself a cup of coffee from a thermos flask, the latter invented by Dewar, a Scotsman from Kincardine-on-Forth. At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by James Chalmers of Dundee, Scotland. During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, blacksmith of Dumfries, Scotland. He watches the news on his television, an invention of John Logie Baird of Helensburgh, Scotland, and hears an item about the U.S. Navy, founded by John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland. He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he picks up the Bible only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book is a Scot, King James VI, who authorised its translation. Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots. He could take to drink, but the Scots make the best in the world. He could take a rifle and end it all but the breech-loading rifle was invented by Captain Patrick of Pitfours, Scotland. If he escapes death, he might then find himself on an operating table injected with penicillin, which was discovered by Alexander Fleming of Darvel, Scotland, and given an anaesthetic, which was discovered by Sir James Young Simpson of Bathgate, Scotland. Out of the anaesthetic, he would find no comfort in learning he was as safe as the Bank of England founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland. Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask \"Wha’s Like Us\". 28

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