The weather is still holding the trump cards as everyone waits to see where the Autumn rain will fall heaviest.
We have had a mixed day with some nice sunshine in the morning followed by rain in the afternoon.
Elsewhere heavy rain has caused problems around Spain.
Let´s have a very quick look at the weather for the next few days.
| Jueves | Viernes | Sábado | Domingo | Lunes |
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25° C | 16° C
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25° C | 16° C
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25° C | 16° C
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25° C | 16° C
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We are near the mountains and the Mediterranean and things can change quickly. However, it looks as though this unsettled pattern continues with heavy rain imminent at times.
I was just watching a very moving recount of twins, separated at a very early age, who were brought up as adopted children in Norway and California. The two young girls were reunited at a very young age and it was a very moving experience to witness nevermind experience. What was so special was that even without the common language these two girls easily showed a transparency of affection for one another the minute they met.
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I get all sorts of lettersw and invites sent over e-mails and the following is quite typical of my in-box…….
The Touchstone
By: Unknown Author
When the great library of Alexandria burned, as the story goes, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book; and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for a few coppers.
The book wasn’t very interesting, but between its pages there was something very interesting indeed. It was a thin strip of vellum on which was written the secret of the “Touchstone”!
The touchstone was a small pebble that could turn any common metal into pure gold. The writing explained that it was lying among thousands and thousands of other pebbles that looked exactly like it. But the secret was this: The real stone would feel warm, while ordinary pebbles are cold.
So the man sold his few belongings, bought some simple supplies, camped on the seashore, and began testing pebbles. He knew that if he picked up ordinary pebbles and threw them down again because they were cold, he might pick up the same pebble hundreds of times. So, when he felt one that was cold, he threw it into the sea. He spent a whole day doing this but none of them was the touchstone. Yet he
went on and on this way. Pick up a pebble. Cold – throw it into the sea. Pick up another. Throw it into the sea.
The days stretched into weeks and the weeks into months. One day, however, about midafternoon, he picked up a pebble and it was warm. He threw it into the sea before he realized what he had done. He had formed such a strong habit of throwing each pebble into the sea that when the one he wanted came along, he still threw it away.
So it is with opportunity. Unless we are vigilant, it’s easy to fail to recognize an opportunity when it is in
hand, and it’s just as easy to throw it away.
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You might well have wondered about the friend to whom I have alluded in the title of this blog. If it has intrigued you then the answer is in the podcast.
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Spain’s top energy official said on Monday the country had enough spare generating capacity to phase out nuclear power stations in the medium term, in line with government policy.
In recent years, Spain has subsidized renewable energy in order to cut its heavy dependence on fuel imports and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It is now the world’s third-biggest producer of wind power and the second-biggest of solar.
Nuclear power is unpopular in Spain and both major political parties ruled out building new plants in last year’s elections.
“Investing in nuclear energy makes sense when there are problems in ensuring supply. In ‘99 or 2000 that was the case with our energy margin,” Energy Secretary Pedro Marin told a conference on energy policy.
“We now have substantial spare generation capacity, a very broad demand structure, without any problem,” he added.
Spain has an installed generating capacity of some 90,000 megawatts and record demand of 43,000 MW, and has been a net exporter of power for several years.
A Citibank research note last week estimated Spanish electricity demand would grow by a slow 2 percent a year as of 2011, and power prices would be depressed for years by more renewables production and additional gas supplies.
Marin spoke in response to International Energy Agency chief Nobuo Tanaka, who said nuclear power helped boost energy independence and reduce carbon emissions.
“Phasing out may not help the current challenge that Spain is facing with energy security and climate change,” Tanaka said at the same conference.
STILL A MAJOR PRODUCER
Although Spain is bucking a trend amongst several European countries, which are mulling over building new nuclear plants, Marin noted Spain already had more nuclear capacity than most of its neighbors.
“Not only are we on top now, but will remain so for the next five or 10 years because long-term investments are needed to build up a broad nuclear infrastructure,” Marin told a conference at the Industry Ministry.
Spain’s eight remaining nuclear plants are designed to produce up to 7,800 megawatts of power between them. They generate about 54,000 gigawatt-hours a year, or some 20 percent of total demand for electricity.
The government has ordered the 38-year-old 460 MW Garona plant to close in 2013, but the rest will not reach the end of their working lives until 2021 at the earliest.
National grid operator REE has said it cannot yet balance intermittent supply from renewable sources without a steady baseload generated by nuclear plants.
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Word of the Day
Callarse kah-yarr’-seh (pronominal verb)
to keep quiet, to be silent, to stop talking
EXAMPLES
¿Te quieres callar? – Would you keep quiet?
Se calló del divorcio de sus padres. – She kept quiet about her parents’ divorce.
IDIOMS
¡Cállate! – Shut up!
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If anyone might be interested in a move to Galicia the following might be of interest
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