<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460</id><updated>2009-12-09T06:52:38.894+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pippi Tetley</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>86</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8893977140376388429</id><published>2009-10-26T13:15:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-26T13:23:30.986+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Respuesta</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SuWTCGQ4xiI/AAAAAAAAAfY/CHytHuxY788/s1600-h/Blog+hand.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SuWTCGQ4xiI/AAAAAAAAAfY/CHytHuxY788/s400/Blog+hand.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396881392723871266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Guantes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Creo que había vivido en España unos meses cuando tuve mi primer trabajo. Era enseñando inglés en una academia de Utebo. Un día fui a trabajar demasiado pronto, la academia no estaba abierta. Aproveché la oportunidad para ir a comprar. Recuerdo que estaba cogiendo manzanas cuando una mujer de unos treinta años se acercó y dijo: “En mi país, usamos guantes cuando tocamos fruta y vegetales”. Me quedé sin palabras, no recuerdo si dije algo o no, mi español era muy básico en ese momento. No tenía ni idea de lo de los guantes, no me había fijado en ellos, que estaban junto a las bolsas de plástico.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Recuerdo que fui a trabajar enfadada y molesta. Mi jefa fue muy amable y dijo que no me preocupara, la mujer sólo era una xenófoba grosera. Durante un tiempo usé los guantes pero me parecían raros y difíciles de usar. Empecé a pensar en lo ridículo del guante en el supermercado. Las primeras dos cosas que pensé fueron que otra capa de plástico en el supermercado era excesiva y que la fruta debería lavarse antes de consumirse, al margen de como la compres.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Desde entonces he investigado un poco y he descubierto que la fruta, y las manzanas en particular, pasan al menos diez etapas de manipulación antes de que las seleccione una mano envuelta o no envuelta en guantes. Algunas de esas etapas son:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Recogida&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Almacenamiento en cajas en el campo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Selección/Evaluacion.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Extracción de las cajas.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Encerado/Tratamiento químico.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Empaquetado en nuevas cajas.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Carga/Descarga.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Distribución.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Exhibición.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Ahora dejo el tenedor y el cuchillo a y veinte y no a y media, a la hora de comer dejo las manos visibles en vez de tenerlas bajo la mesa, doy dos besos para saludar a la gente, digo adiós cuando me cruzo con un conocido por la calle. Todas estas cosas son diferencias culturales a las que me he adaptado. Pero me niego a usar un guante cuando compro fruta en un supermercado. Es una higiene falsa y es cara tanto del punto de vista económico como ecológico.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;Gloves&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I think I had been living in Spain for a few months when I got my first job. It was teaching English in an academy in Utebo. One day I got to work way too early, the academy wasn’t even open. I took the opportunity to do some grocery shopping. I remember choosing apples when a woman of around thirty years came up to me and said “in my country we use gloves when we touch fruit and vegetables”. I was left dumbstruck, I can’t remember if I said anything or not, my Spanish was very basic at that stage. I had no idea about wearing gloves, I hadn’t noticed them next to the plastic bags.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I remember going to work angry and upset. My boss was lovely and she said not to worry, the woman was just a rude xenophobe. For a while I used the gloves but I found them strange and clumsy to use. I began thinking about the ridiculousness of the glove at the supermarket. The first two things I thought were that another layer of plastic in the supermarket shopping experience was excessive and that fruit should be washed before consumption regardless of how you buy it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I have since done some research and have found that fruit, in concrete apples, go through at least ten types of handling before they get to be selected by a gloved or ungloved hand. Some of these stages are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;picking &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;field packing &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;sorting/grading&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;unpacking&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;w axing/chemical treatment &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;packaging&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;loading/unloading&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;distribution&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;display&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;I now leave my knife and fork at 20 past not half past, I have my hands visible at meal times and not quietly under the table, I kiss people hello, I say goodbye when I see some I know on the street. All these things are cultural differences that I have adapted to. But I refuse to use a glove when choosing fruit at the supermarket. It is false hygiene and expensive monetarily and environmentally.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8893977140376388429?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8893977140376388429/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8893977140376388429' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8893977140376388429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8893977140376388429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/10/respuesta.html' title='Respuesta'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SuWTCGQ4xiI/AAAAAAAAAfY/CHytHuxY788/s72-c/Blog+hand.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-5839919449871536565</id><published>2009-10-18T19:02:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T20:41:27.892+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Caza</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SttKmSle94I/AAAAAAAAAfQ/z3T458gTCBg/s1600-h/Frog+side+angle+cleaned.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SttKmSle94I/AAAAAAAAAfQ/z3T458gTCBg/s400/Frog+side+angle+cleaned.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393987000390842242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ranas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Cuando tenía catorce años cuidaba a los hijos de mi vecino. Normalmente había tres: una chica de cinco años y dos chicos, de seis y siete, y a veces otro de once. Empezaba a las 6 de la mañana y terminaba a las 12 del mediodía. Seis largas horas que ocupar. Si tenía suerte se quedaban en la cama hasta las 7, el desayuno llevaba en torno a una hora y media. Después veíamos la tele un par de horas, y a veces después hacíamos un proyecto de arte o jugaban en su PlayStation. Mi trabajo consistía básicamente en proporcionarles entretenimiento y asegurarme de que no destrozaban la casa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Los días que más me gustaban eran en los que sólo tenía a los dos chicos pequeños, eran los más divertidos y donde menos había que trabajar. A veces íbamos a pasear a las 7.30, en mañanas heladas de verano, cuando el sol salía. Buscábamos hojas o rocas o ramillas. Cosas para las jaulas de cualquier animal que tuvieran. Los niños conocen todas las cosas importantes, como los mejores jardines para encontrar grillos, o qué árbol está infestado de arañas. Muchas mañanas yo era más una observadora que una participante activa en las cacerías.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Dos años después, fuimos una mañana a atrapar ranas. Cogimos dos. Para entonces, mi hermana hacía de canguro y yo trabajaba en una heladería. No recuerdo por qué, pero ese día fui a cuidar a los niños como antes, a las 6 de la mañana. Estaba estudiando fotografía y tenía que entregar un trabajo. Llevé mi cámara por si acaso. Hice algunas fotos muy bonitas y contrastadas y superé la impresión que me impedía tocar a las ranas. En esa sesión fotográfica aprendí mucho sobre luz y composición. Todavía me gusta esta foto por su extrañeza y su luz cruda.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Desgraciadamente, las ranas no sobrevivieron a la sesión. También fue una lección sobre lo que puedes exigir a tus modelos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Frogs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;When I was 14 I used to babysit my next door neighbour’s children. There were usually three of them, a five year old girl and two boys aged six and seven and sometimes a boy of 11. I would start at 6am and finish at 12pm. Six long hours to kill. If I was lucky they would stay in bed until 7am, breakfast would take about half and hour. Then we would watch kids TV for a couple of hours, and perhaps later we would maybe do an art project, or they would play on their PlayStation. Basically my job was to provide entertainment and make sure they didn’t destroy the house.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The days I liked the best were when I had just the two young boys, they were the most fun and least hard work. Sometimes we would go for walks at 7.30 on frosty winter mornings when the sun was coming up. We would search for leaves, or rocks or twigs. Things for the cages of whatever animal that happened to have. Kids know all the important stuff, like the best garden for finding crickets, or the tree with the spider infestation. There were many mornings where I was more of an onlooker than an active participant in the hunts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;One morning two years later we went to catch frogs. We caught two. My sister had taken over babysitting and I now worked in an Ice cream shop. I can’t remember why but I went to babysit as before, at 6 in the morning. I was studying photography at school and had an assignment due, just in case I took my camera. I took some very nice contrasty photos and overcame my squeamishness at touching the frogs. I also learnt a lot from that photo session about composition and light. Still I like this photo for its strangeness and its stark lighting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Unfortunately the frogs didn’t survive the session. It was also a lesson in how far one can push one’s subjects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-5839919449871536565?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/5839919449871536565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=5839919449871536565' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5839919449871536565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5839919449871536565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/10/caza.html' title='Caza'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SttKmSle94I/AAAAAAAAAfQ/z3T458gTCBg/s72-c/Frog+side+angle+cleaned.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-6608845228875317839</id><published>2009-10-13T20:26:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T20:37:35.472+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Pohutakawa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/StTG_u2MuyI/AAAAAAAAAfA/tDcPvbCwLVM/s1600-h/nz+up+till+23+aug+2009+172.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/StTG_u2MuyI/AAAAAAAAAfA/tDcPvbCwLVM/s400/nz+up+till+23+aug+2009+172.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392153452078742306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pohutakawa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hice esta foto en Mission Bay, Auckland. La hoja es de Pohutakawa; también se llama el árbol de Navidad de Nueva Zelanda. En verano los árboles arden con flores rojas. Las hojas son muy fuertes y van desde el verde profundo hasta el rojo, el naranja y el amarillo. También pueden tener puntos y agujeros distintivos. Imperfecciones que las hacen diferentes y más hermosas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;En Nueva Zelanda el tiempo puede cambiar en un segundo. Especialmente en Auckland, que es un istmo, y por tanto tiende a repentinos cambios de tiempo. Hay días, como el que está capturado en esta imagen, en los que puede llover un poco y después hace sol el resto del día. La luz de Nueva Zelanda puede ser muy intensa y hay muchos días que tengo grabados en la memoria por su brillo brillante y su oscuridad oscura, no por el contexto o lo que sucedió, sino por sus colores, tonos y sombras.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pohutakawa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I took this photo in Mission Bay, Auckland. The leaf is a Pohutakawa leaf, also known as the New Zealand Christmas tree. In summer time the trees are ablaze with red flowers. The leaves are very strong and they range from deep green through to red, orange and yellow. They can also get distinctive spots and holes in them. Imperfections that make them special and all the more beautiful.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In New Zealand the weather can change in a second. Particularly in Auckland which is an Isthmus, thus prone to sudden changes of weather. There are days, like the one that is captured in this image where it can rain a little and then be bright and sunny for the rest of the day. The light in NZ can be very intense and there are many days that are echoed in my memory for the bright brights and dark darks, not for context but for colours and tones and shadows.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-6608845228875317839?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/6608845228875317839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=6608845228875317839' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6608845228875317839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6608845228875317839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/10/pohutakawa.html' title='Pohutakawa'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/StTG_u2MuyI/AAAAAAAAAfA/tDcPvbCwLVM/s72-c/nz+up+till+23+aug+2009+172.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-1490976259657339945</id><published>2009-08-20T02:18:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T03:48:13.238+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Maleducado</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SoyW2naL3TI/AAAAAAAAAaA/8aZC9W-J84k/s1600-h/LOndon,+airoplane,+NZ+until+14th+of+August+2009+103.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371834320582073650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SoyW2naL3TI/AAAAAAAAAaA/8aZC9W-J84k/s400/LOndon,+airoplane,+NZ+until+14th+of+August+2009+103.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La semana pasada Daniel y yo cruzamos el mundo. Los tres tramos que hicimos (Londres-Dubai; Dubai-Brunei; Brunei-Auckland) nos llevaron 36,5 horas. Ahora he hecho ese vuelo unas cuantas veces. Es largo, tiene momentos muy aburridos pero cuando lo haces el viaje es soportable. Pero en este viaje me di cuenta de una cosa. En cada tramo, la persona que estaba en el asiento de detrás de mí se quitó los zapatos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quitarse los zapatos es normal y se recomienda en los viajes largos, los pies se hinchan, y a veces doblan su tamaño normal. En pocas palabras, llevar zapatos puede ser muy incómodo. Lo que no es normal, y es de hecho extremadamente maleducado, es no usar los calcetines que aporta la línea aérea y poner tus pies olorosos en el lugar donde la persona que va delante de ti tiene derecho a apoyar el brazo. Soy perfectamente consciente de que mis zapatos favoritos son viejos y uno no querría tener la nariz demasiado cerca de ellos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Antes de que el avión hubiera iniciado el despegue, en cada tramo, olisqueaba el aire preguntándome de dónde llegaba la peste. Afortunadamente nos dieron montones de mantas y tapaba el hueco con ellas y esperaba hasta acostumbrarme al olor. En el último tramo el tipo que había detrás de mí poseía los pies con peor olor que he tenido el disgusto de encontrar jamás. Afortunadamente el avión estaba medio vacío así que pudimos trasladarnos a un área donde la gente llevaba zapatos o tenía puestos los calcetines de la compañía aérea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una nota: si por casualidad estás en un viaje largo, por favor no olvides que otra gente está atrapada en el aire, durante muchas horas y sin escapatoria. Sé educado, coge un par de calcetines limpios y si te quitas los zapatos, mételos junto a los calcetines que has llevado durante horas en una bolsa de plástico y enfunda tus pies en los calcetines limpios que has llevado contigo cuidadosamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week Daniel and I crossed the world. The three legs we did (London – Dubai; Dubai – Brunei; Brunei – Auckland) took us 36.5 hours. I have done that flight a few times now. It is long, it has its very boring moments but when you are doing it the traveling is bearable.&lt;br /&gt;But on this trip I found one thing. On every leg of this journey the person in the seat behind me would take off their shoes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Removal of shoes is normal and recommended on long haul flights, your feet swell up, and sometimes double their normal size, in short wearing shoes can get very uncomfortable. What is not normal, and indeed is extremely impolite is not using the airline socks provided and propping your smelly foot up on the armrest of the person in front of you. I am perfectly aware that my favourite shoes are old and one would probably not want to have ones nose too close to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before the plane had even begun its taxi down the runway, on each leg, I was sniffing the air wondering where the stench was coming from. Luckily we were given lots of blankets so I would stuff the gap with those and wait to become accustomed to the smell. On the last leg the guy behind me had the worst smelling feet I think I have had the displeasure to encounter. Luckily the plane was half empty so we could move to an area where people were either shod or wearing the airline socks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A note, if you happen to go on a long haul flight, please don’t forget that other people are trapped in mid air with you for hours on end with no escape. Be polite, take a pair of clean socks and if you remove your shoes, put them and the socks you will have been wearing for hours in a plastic bag and enclose your feet in the clean socks you have thoughtfully bought along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-1490976259657339945?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/1490976259657339945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=1490976259657339945' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1490976259657339945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1490976259657339945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/08/maleducado.html' title='Maleducado'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SoyW2naL3TI/AAAAAAAAAaA/8aZC9W-J84k/s72-c/LOndon,+airoplane,+NZ+until+14th+of+August+2009+103.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-7182736953763673808</id><published>2009-08-06T15:32:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-27T12:01:18.367+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Not so hot</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SnrbkmJgrxI/AAAAAAAAAYc/NtcKLHl-ZtY/s1600-h/Dans+hairy+leg+and+egg+on+the+road+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366843327727578898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SnrbkmJgrxI/AAAAAAAAAYc/NtcKLHl-ZtY/s400/Dans+hairy+leg+and+egg+on+the+road+006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 10" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p 	{mso-margin-top-alt:auto; 	margin-right:0cm; 	mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; 	margin-left:0cm; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Huevos Fritos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: arial"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="FONT-FAMILY: arial"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“Hace tanto calor que podrías freír un huevo en la calle”. Todos hemos oído eso. El otro día, al volver a casa después de comer con Dan, decidí probarlo. El calor era intenso había una brisa ardiente. El termómetro del lado soleado de la carretera marcaba 39 ºC, y el del lado de sombra 36 ºC. Pensé que la calzada estaría un poco más caliente, después absorber el sol durante todo el día. Eran las 16:45. Fui a la carretera y rompí un huevo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Admito que estaba bastante ilusionada, me pregunté por qué había esperado tantos años para probarlo, mientras miraba mi huevo expectante. No pasó nada. Bueno, la yema se rompió sobre la superficie de la calzada y el huevo empezó a moverse lentamente hacia la alcantarilla. &lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;Decepción. Fui a Google y busqué “freír un huevo en la calzada”. &lt;/span&gt;No es posible. Un huevo necesita una temperatura constante de 70 ºC para experimentar el proceso celular que lo transforma de crudo a cocinado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tras pasar un par de horas buscando en Google la temperatura más alta a la que que puede sobrevivir un ser humano descubrí que un adulto puede soportar 150 ºC durante diez minutos, y que una temperatura de 38 º se considera el límite máximo para el cuerpo humano funcione correctamente (&lt;em&gt;The Biology of Human Survival&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Life and Death in Extreme Environments&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: normal"&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Claude A. Piantadosi). Por tanto, los humanos no podrían sobrevivir por periodos de tiempo lo suficientemente largos como para salir y freír un huevo en la calzada si eso supone vivir en temperaturas de 70 ºC, lo que significa que es completamente erróneo decir “hace tanto calor que podrías freír un huevo en la calle”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Fried Eggs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“It is so hot you could fry an egg on the footpath.” We have all heard that. The other day coming home from lunch with Dan I decided to try it out. The heat was intense and there was a hot breeze. The thermometer on the sunny side of the road said 39ºC on the shady side 36ºC. I figured the road would be a little hotter having absorbed the sun all day. The time was 16:45. I went out to the road and cracked my egg.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="FONT-FAMILY: arial"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I admit I was pretty excited, why had I waited so many years to try this out I wondered as I stood expectantly over my egg. Nothing happened. Well the yoke broke from the surface of the road and the whole egg started oozing slowly towards the gutter. Disappointment. I got on Google and looked up frying an egg on the road. It is not possible. An egg needs a steady temperature of 70ºC to undergo the cellular process that turns it from raw to cooked. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;After spending a couple of hours searching on Google for the highest temperatures in which humans can survive, I found that an adult can survive in an enclosed space at 150ºC for ten minutes and that a temperature of 38ºC is widely considered to be the safe upper limit for the human body to function correctly (&lt;em&gt;The Biology of Human Survival&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Life and Death in Extreme Environments&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: normal"&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Claude A. Piantadosi). Humans could not survive for long enough periods of time to go outside an fry an egg on the road if doing so entails living in ambient temperatures of 70ºC, which means it is completely erroneous to say “it is so hot you could fry an egg on the footpath.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-7182736953763673808?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/7182736953763673808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=7182736953763673808' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7182736953763673808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7182736953763673808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/08/no-so-hot.html' title='Not so hot'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SnrbkmJgrxI/AAAAAAAAAYc/NtcKLHl-ZtY/s72-c/Dans+hairy+leg+and+egg+on+the+road+006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8598997926608725218</id><published>2009-07-25T15:49:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-25T16:17:56.766+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Slice of Heaven</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SmsNnDa1B6I/AAAAAAAAAYU/Ik9hTGqQUC0/s1600-h/slice+of+orange+on+window+pane+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SmsNnDa1B6I/AAAAAAAAAYU/Ik9hTGqQUC0/s400/slice+of+orange+on+window+pane+003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362394745898600354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Naranja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Durante las últimas cuatro semanas he estado trabajando en un campamento de verano. Ayer fue el último día. Ha sido muy divertido, si exceptuamos las horas de las comidas. La cafetería era grande y tenía eco y los cincuenta niños que había eran muy ruidosos. Mis compañeros de trabajo españoles decían que era como la comida del comedor escolar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;En la escuela siempre llevábamos nuestra comida. Normalmente un sándwich y algo de fruta y algún tipo de zumo de frutas. Podíamos sentarnos donde queríamos fuera, bajo los árboles, en mesas, en verano era estupendo en invierno no tanto, si hacía mucho frío o llovía podíamos comer en el aula. Una experiencia auditiva muy diferente a la de los españoles. En el campamento, la mayoría de los días teníamos de postre de alguna empalagosa que de color amarillo brillante, rosa o marrón. Yo pasé en todas las ocasiones excepto el día en que nos dieron una naranja.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Recuerdo que la pelé y levanté un gajo a la luz y me maravilló la intricada belleza de la estructura de la naranja y cómo la luz se filtraba a través de ella. Pedí otra naranja para comerla después, con la idea de hacerle una foto. Para capturar su belleza pero también para recordar que, en momentos de caos, podemos encontrar la paz en las cosas más sencilla.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Orange&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;For the past four weeks I have been working in a summer camp. Yesterday was the last day. It was lots of fun, apart from meal times. The cafeteria room was big and echoey and the 50 children in our care were very loud. Few had decent table manners and the food was atrocious. My Spanish co workers said it was like school cafeteria food.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;We’d always take our own lunch to school. Usually a sandwich and some fruit and some type of fruit juice. We could sit where ever we liked outside, under the trees, at tables, in summer it was great in winter not so great, if it was very cold or rainy we could eat in our classroom. A very different auditory experience to the Spanish. At the camp, most days for dessert we were given a cup of some gooey substance that was either bright yellow, pink or brown. I passed on desert every day except the one day we were given an orange.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I remember pealing it and holding a segment up to the light and marveling at the intricate beauty of the structure of the orange and the way the light filtered through it. I asked for another orange to eat later, with the idea of photographing it in mind. To capture the beauty of it but also to remind myself that in moments of chaos, peace can be found in the simplest of things.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8598997926608725218?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8598997926608725218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8598997926608725218' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8598997926608725218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8598997926608725218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/07/slice-of-heaven.html' title='Slice of Heaven'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SmsNnDa1B6I/AAAAAAAAAYU/Ik9hTGqQUC0/s72-c/slice+of+orange+on+window+pane+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-6533537621016759653</id><published>2009-06-26T20:56:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T21:00:28.113+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Icon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SkUaEmp8YkI/AAAAAAAAAYM/vPT3HuBLiqU/s1600-h/Micheal+jackson+ipod+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SkUaEmp8YkI/AAAAAAAAAYM/vPT3HuBLiqU/s400/Micheal+jackson+ipod+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351712398597972546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Blame it on the boogie...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dan me ha informado a las 6.20 de la mañana de que Michael Jackson había muerto. Como parte de su eficiente rutina matinal mira los titulares en Internet. Creo que he gruñido algo como respuesta o quizás incluso un articulado “¿Ah?” (no soy una persona de mañanas). Cuando he comprado los periódicos unas horas después he recordado la noticia porque &lt;i style=""&gt;Thriller&lt;/i&gt; estaba sonando en la radio. Tiendo a no mirar la portada del periódico hasta que no he llegado a casa, para evitar hacer algún comentario inoportuno (otro rasgo de mi personalidad).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Más tarde, en el taller de joyería hemos escuchado que la radio habla de las reacciones de la gente a su muerte, era la hora del café y creo que estábamos más concentrados en la tarea de comer que en emocionarnos. Más tarde en el trabajo mi jefe ha hecho un comentario y he sentido algo. No creo que haya mucha gente de mi generación o la anterior en el mundo que no pueda nombrar o tararear una tonada de Michael Jackson. Recuerdo estar ante una pantalla de televisión con un montón de gente el sábado que el videoclip de Black and White se estrenó en Nueva Zelanda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Recuerdo que obligué a mi hermana a comprar el disco Bad cuando cumplió 9 años. Recuerdo ir al cine con mis padres para ver Moonwalker. Recuerdo la entrevista de Oprah, los escándalos, el bebé en el balcón, la nariz destrozada. Y hoy, ante la inundación de los medios, de las revelaciones, de los tributos, siento pena por un hombre cuya vida fue vivida de manera tan pública, crítica y confusa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Blame it on the boogie...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Dan informed me a 6.20 am this morning that Michael Jackson had died. As part of his very efficient morning routine he scans the headlines On-Line. I think I grunted something in reply or perhaps even an articulate ‘ah’? (I am not a morning person) When I bought the papers a few hours later I remembered the news because they were playing &lt;i&gt;Thriller&lt;/i&gt; on the radio. I tend not to look at the front page of the newspapers until I get home, least I make an inopportune comment (another personality trait)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;Later at the Jewellery workshop we listened to a radio report about people’s reactions to his death, this was at morning tea time and I think we were more concentrated on the eating at hand than emoting. Then later at work when my boss commented on it and I did kind of feel something. I don’t think many people in the world my generation and above have could not name or hum along to a Micheal Jackson tune. I remember standing around a T.V. screen with a bunch of people the Saturday that &lt;i&gt;the Black and White&lt;/i&gt; video clip first aired in New Zealand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I remember I made my sister buy the &lt;i&gt;BAD&lt;/i&gt; record for her 9&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; birthday. I remember going to see &lt;i&gt;Moonwalker&lt;/i&gt; at the movies with my parents. I remember the Oprah interview, the scandals, the baby out the window, the nose collapsing. And today, right now before the media onslaught, before the exposés, before the tributes I feel sorry for a man whose life was lived so publicly and critically and confusedly.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-6533537621016759653?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/6533537621016759653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=6533537621016759653' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6533537621016759653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/6533537621016759653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/06/icon.html' title='Icon'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SkUaEmp8YkI/AAAAAAAAAYM/vPT3HuBLiqU/s72-c/Micheal+jackson+ipod+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-2986806030187613811</id><published>2009-05-12T22:31:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-12T23:47:47.179+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Menú</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Sgnc3vGYy2I/AAAAAAAAAX8/jFYttcdxSmA/s1600-h/pigs+ears+020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Sgnc3vGYy2I/AAAAAAAAAX8/jFYttcdxSmA/s400/pigs+ears+020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335038083691236194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Trozos asquerosos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;El sábado no teníamos prácticamente nada comestible en la casa. Normalmente compro yo pero la semana pasada lo había hecho Dan. Me gusta que vaya a comprar, no sólo porque así no voy yo, sino también porque siempre compra cosas raras e interesantes. Una de ellas era una bolsa de orejas de cerdo en salsa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Sugerí que las tomáramos a la hora de comer. Dan pensó que yo sería demasiado anglosajona para disfrutarlas, o para que quisiera comerlas. Así que estaba en la cocina haciéndolas, intentando apartarme cuando explotaban, y pensaba que tenían buena pinta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Primero tomamos gazpacho y luego llegaron las orejas de cerdo. Dos bocados fueron suficiente. No era lo bastante española como para comer un plato de oreja de cerdo al mediodía. Dan dijo que no me preocupara, que muchos españoles tienen inclinaciones anglosajonas a la hora de comer orejas de cerdo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Gross bits&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;On Saturday we had practically nothing edible in the house. I usually do the shopping but the week before Dan had done it. I like it when he goes shopping, not just because it means I don’t have to but also because he always buys strange and interesting things. One of these things was a bag of pigs ears in sauce.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;I suggested that we have those for lunch. Dan thought I would be too anglo saxon to really enjoy them, or want to eat them. So there I was in the kitchen cooking them, dodging out of the way when they exploded up at me and I was thinking that they looked all right.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;We had gazpacho first and then came the pigs ears. Two mouthfuls were enough. I was not Spanish enough to eat a plate of pigs ears for lunch. Dan said not to worry about it, a lot of Spanish people have anglo saxon leanings when it comes to eating pigs ears.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-2986806030187613811?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/2986806030187613811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=2986806030187613811' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2986806030187613811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2986806030187613811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/05/menu.html' title='Menú'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Sgnc3vGYy2I/AAAAAAAAAX8/jFYttcdxSmA/s72-c/pigs+ears+020.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4878668492897283540</id><published>2009-05-06T21:39:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-07T11:16:52.871+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Resurrección</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SgHoWbV9QAI/AAAAAAAAAX0/hzPxiNTYb4A/s1600-h/shoes+revival+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SgHoWbV9QAI/AAAAAAAAAX0/hzPxiNTYb4A/s400/shoes+revival+014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332798905777995778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;Último vals&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Esta última semana santa experimenté una resurrección. Mi par de zapatillas favorito recibió una nueva vida. La parte interior de los talones se había roto a finales de otoño pasado, y sólo podía llevarlos con dos pares de calcetines muy gordos, si no quería que los trozos de plástico me hicieran heridas en los talones. Era muy incómodo, así que unas botas se convirtieron en mi calzado para el invierno.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;En mi cumpleaños me regalaron otro par de botas pero de vez en cuando me acordaba de mis Vans de color burdeos y suspiraba con tristeza y frustración, todavía incapaz de tirarlas a la basura. La mini ola de calor que llegó justo antes de semana santa me hizo pensar en un par de sandalias de verano que había comprado y había que ensanchar. Fui a una tienda de reparación de zapatos que hay en mi calle para ver si podían hacer algo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Las sandalias son de tela, no de cuero, así que los zapateros remendones –un matrimonio- dudaban a la hora de ensancharlas. Les dije que podía intentar lo que quisieran, porque en el estado en el que se encontraban no me servían de nada. Las calentaron. Creo que tuvieron que hacer cuatro intentos hasta que se volvieron cómodas. La última vez que las devolví reuní el coraje necesario para llevar mis Vans a la tienda.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Coraje porque tuve que prepararme mentalmente para lo peor. Pero afortunadamente no hacía falta. Me dijeron que podían arreglarlas: y lo hicieron, hermosamente, y con cuero de colores a juego. No sé cuántos meses o años nos quedan de pasear juntos por el mundo pero disfrutaré de cada vez que pueda meter mis pies en ellas. He decidido que cuando nuestro último vals termine haré que las cubran de bronce.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Last Waltz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;This Easter I experienced a resurrection. My favourite pair of shoes were given a new life. The inside heels broke at the end of last autumn and I could only wear them with two pairs of very thick socks if I didn’t want my heels to be lacerated by the shreds of  plastic that were exposed. This was very uncomfortable, so I took to wearing a pair of boots as my typical winter footwear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;I was given another pair of boots for my birthday but every now and then my burgundy Vans would catch my eye and I would sigh in sadness and frustration, not yet ready to throw them away. The mini heat wave that hit just before Easter made me think of a pair of summer espadrille's I had bought that needed stretching. I went to the shoe repair shop just down the road to see if they could do anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;The espadrille's are fabric not leather so they were hesitant about stretching them, I said they could try anything as they were useless to me in their too small state. They heat treated them. I think it took about three of four attempts until they were comfortable to wear. The last time I took them back I plucked up the courage to take in my vans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Courage because I had to mentally prepare myself for the worst. But fortunately that was unnecessary. They told me they could be fixed and they were, beautifully, with matching coloured leather! I don’t know how many months or years we have left passing through the world together but I will enjoy every single time I can slip my feet into them. I have decided when our last waltz is over I will get them bronzed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4878668492897283540?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4878668492897283540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4878668492897283540' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4878668492897283540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4878668492897283540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/05/resurreccion.html' title='Resurrección'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SgHoWbV9QAI/AAAAAAAAAX0/hzPxiNTYb4A/s72-c/shoes+revival+014.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8740194686336385771</id><published>2009-03-03T11:43:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-03T11:53:35.817+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Wagging their tails behind them</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Sa0Kn5vpH5I/AAAAAAAAAXs/IGgHOhrtmkY/s1600-h/pippi+%2830%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Sa0Kn5vpH5I/AAAAAAAAAXs/IGgHOhrtmkY/s400/pippi+%2830%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308911216371507090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pastor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Antes de llegar a España nunca había visto a un pastor. En Nueva Zelanda tenemos prados vallados para las ovejas que cuidan los granjeros. Hace unos fines de semana vi a dos pastores cuidando un gran rebaño de ovejas y unas cuantas cabras, una de las cuales estaba de pie sobre dos patas comiendo las hojas de un árbol joven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;El fin de semana vi a un pastor muy cerca de la casa de los padres de Daniel. No llevaba la cámara de fotos. Le pregunté a mi amigo gallego, que casualmente estaba allí, si podía dejarme la cámara y le expliqué para qué. Ofreció venir conmigo para hablar con el pastor, para presentarme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Acabamos pasando casi una hora con el pastor, que se presentó como Orlando pero de quien nos despedimos como Eduardo. Con las palabras y la investigación experimentada de mi amigo Eduardo se abrió como una flor y nos habló de su familia, de cómo pasa los días, de lo que hacen sus hijos. Mencioné que había visto a otros pastores con cabras y pregunté por qué Eduardo no tenían ninguna. Dijo que las cabras se lo comen todo y quitan la corteza de los árboles jóvenes. Tener cabras es un impedimento para acceder a las tierras porque los dueños no quieren que se coman sus árboles. Su manejo de sus ovejas y sus perros pastores era digno de verse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Me encanta observar a cualquier persona que tenga maestría, y este caso no fue una excepción: su rebaño le seguía y sus perros obedecían sus órdenes. Y como todo maestro parecía que lo que hacía fuera la cosa más fácil del mundo. Entre mi amigo y yo hicimos más de 300 fotos. Tengo la dirección de Eduardo, esta semana elegiré las mejores fotos y se las mandaré.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shepherd&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Before arriving in Spain I had never seen a Shepherd. In New Zealand we have fenced off sheep paddocks that are looked after by farmers. A few weekends ago I saw two shepherds together minding a large flock of sheep and a few goats, one of which was standing on two legs eating the leaves of a young tree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The other weekend I saw a shepherd very close to Dans’ parents house. I didn’t have my camera with me. I asked my Galician friend, who happened to be there, if I could borrow his camera and explained what for. He offered to come with me to talk to the shepherd, to introduce me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;We ended up spending nearly an hour with the Shepherd who introduced himself as Orlando but whom we bid farewell to as Eduardo. Under the experienced chatter and probing of my friend Eduardo opened up like a flower and told us about his family, how he passes his days, what his children do. I mentioned I had seen other Shepherds with goats and why Eduardo didn’t have any. He explained that goats eat everything and strip young trees. Having goats was an impediment in accessing land as landowners don’t want their trees stripped. His handling of his sheep and sheep dogs was a sight to behold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love watching anyone with mastery, and this was no exception, his flock followed him and his dogs did his bidding. And like every master it seemed that his was the easiest thing in the world to do. Between us my friend and I took over 300 photos. I have Eduardo’s address, this week I will choose the best photos and send them to him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8740194686336385771?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8740194686336385771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8740194686336385771' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8740194686336385771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8740194686336385771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/03/wagging-their-tails-behind-them.html' title='Wagging their tails behind them'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/Sa0Kn5vpH5I/AAAAAAAAAXs/IGgHOhrtmkY/s72-c/pippi+%2830%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8513992120841711154</id><published>2009-01-25T16:52:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-25T17:13:39.251+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Premio</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SXyOU_S9xII/AAAAAAAAAXU/U5xCbevBZN0/s1600-h/fur+photoshop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SXyOU_S9xII/AAAAAAAAAXU/U5xCbevBZN0/s400/fur+photoshop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295263753120367746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Piel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Tengo la teoría de que, cuando una mujer española alcanza cierta edad, el gobierno español le entrega un abrigo de piel. Esos abrigos varían en color, tipo de piel y longitud. Dichas variaciones dependen de ciertos detalles que aportan las mujeres. Creo que hay una hoja de información que cada mujer rellena: los resultados se procesan y se entrega el abrigo correspondiente.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hay un tono específico de abrigo de piel marrón, que debe venir con un pase que permite a quien lo lleva despreocuparse por completo de los que están a su alrededor, y obviar cualquier cortesía social a la hora de esperar en fila o echarse a un lado. Básicamente, se trata de un pase gratis que permite a la portadora seguir una trayectoria recta.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Fur&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I have a theory that once a Spanish woman reaches an age, the Spanish government awards her with a fur coat. These coats vary in colour, fur type and length. Said variations are dependant on certain details the women provide. I think there is an information sheet that is filled in by each woman, the results are processed and the respondent coat awarded.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;There is a specific shade of brown fur coat that must come with a pass that allows the wearer complete obliviousness to those around her and to disregard any social politeness of waiting in line or moving aside. Basically a free pass that allows the wearer to pursue a straight trajectory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8513992120841711154?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8513992120841711154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8513992120841711154' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8513992120841711154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8513992120841711154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/01/premio.html' title='Premio'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SXyOU_S9xII/AAAAAAAAAXU/U5xCbevBZN0/s72-c/fur+photoshop.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-1044153942751363436</id><published>2009-01-08T12:09:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-08T12:13:43.363+01:00</updated><title type='text'>There's something rotting in the state of Aragon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SWXfeWE3TDI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Pn7XeerNReo/s1600-h/undies+042+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SWXfeWE3TDI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Pn7XeerNReo/s400/undies+042+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288879049831566386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;Fruta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Me gusta la fruta que se pudre, a los 15 años tenía tres manzanas pudriéndose en mi mesa. Me preguntaba cómo sabían entrar los pequeños insectos que invadían mi habitación. Incluso me gustaba el olor extraño y pesado. En mitad del proceso de inmortalizar esas manzanas mi madre me mandó que las tirase a la basura. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Me negué. &lt;/span&gt;No recuerdo el castigo que habría recibido, pero fue lo bastante fuerte como para que obedeciera, a regañadientes. Me entristeció la marcha de mis frutas, sabía que perdía la oportunidad de ser una testigo privilegiada de su agonía.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Nunca he sido una gran fan de los kiwis (me parece que deja un sabor demasiado amargo), es decir, hasta que la fruta kiwi normal fue genéticamente modificada para hacer el kiwi amarillo. No tengo problemas con el sabor que deja el kiwi amarillo. También me hace gracia, porque cuando tenía diez años el ‘kiwi amarillo’ era una lotería semanal en Nueva Zelanda.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Nueva Zelanda es famosa por sus kiwis, pero mucha gente no sabe que son originarios de China. Mi abuela siempre ha llamado a los kiwis ‘grosellas chinas’. Los kiwis fueron introducidos en el extremo norte (donde nacimos mi abuela, mi madre, mi hermana, mi cuñada y yo) por Mary Isabel Fraser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;El nombre viene de uno de los símbolos nacionales de Nueva Zelanda, el ‘kiwi’, un pájaro autóctono que no vuela. Kiwi también es una palabra que los neozelandeses emplean para identificarse como grupo. En Nueva Zelanda y en Australia llamamos a la fruta ‘fruta kiwi’; en el resto del mundo, ‘kiwi’.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;Fruit&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I like rotting fruit, when I was 15 I had three apples rotting on my desk. I liked the colours they turned, I wondered how the little insects that invaded my room knew how to come in. I even liked the strange heady smell. I was in the process of immortalising these apples in carbon when my mother gave me the order to throw them away. I refused. I can’t remember what the punishment would have been, but it was strong enough for me to obey, grudgingly. I was sad to see my fruit go, I knew I was missing out on being a privileged witness to their death throes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I have never been a huge Kiwi fruit fan (I find the aftertaste too astringent) that is until the normal Kiwi fruit was genetically modified into the golden kiwi. With the golden Kiwi I have no aftertaste problems. I also find it funny because until I was about ten years old ‘golden kiwi’ in New Zealand was a weekly lottery.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;New Zealand is famous for its Kiwi fruit but many people don’t know that it originates from China. My grandmother has always called Kiwi fruit ‘Chinese goosberries’. It was introduced to the far north (where my grandmother, my mother, my sister, my sister in law and I were born) by Mary Isabel Fraser.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;The name Kiwi Fruit comes from one of New Zealand’s national symbols, ‘the kiwi’, a native flightless bird. Kiwi is also one of the words that New Zealanders use to identify themselves as a group. In New Zealand and Australia we refer to the fruit as ‘Kiwi fruit’ in the rest of the world ‘kiwi’.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-1044153942751363436?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/1044153942751363436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=1044153942751363436' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1044153942751363436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/1044153942751363436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/01/theres-something-rotting-in-state-of_1355.html' title='There&apos;s something rotting in the state of Aragon'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SWXfeWE3TDI/AAAAAAAAAWA/Pn7XeerNReo/s72-c/undies+042+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8894326913142408082</id><published>2009-01-04T20:12:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-04T20:16:40.165+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sundays</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SWEKWFJcWqI/AAAAAAAAAVo/e2n9EQ8tzOU/s1600-h/u+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SWEKWFJcWqI/AAAAAAAAAVo/e2n9EQ8tzOU/s400/u+012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287518811964856994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pánico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;No me gustan los domingos, nunca me han gustado. Sin embargo me gusta reciclar y en Zaragoza es muy fácil. Me encanta poder poner el papel en el contenedor de papel, el plástico en el contenedor de plástico, etc. No me gusta el domingo porque es el peor día en este sentido. Compramos cuatro o cinco periódicos cada domingo y en casi todos hay revistas o anuncios envueltos en plástico.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Tengo que abrir cada uno de estos envoltorios de plástico, lo que no siempre es fácil, y separar una montaña de una montaña de papel que no necesitaba quedar envuelta o protegida en primer lugar. También creo que otra razón por la que me gusta el domingo es porque el fin de semana contiene una gran promesa. Decides hacer todas las cosas que no puedes hacer durante la semana y esperas que el fin de semana sea largo y divertido y lleno de productividad.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Generalmente siempre me han gustado la escuela y la mayoría de mis trabajos, así que no puedo entender por qué, desde que tengo memoria me he sentido desilusionada y algo decepcionada la mayoría de los domingos por la tarde. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Quizás por una promesa perdida.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;Panic&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I don’t like Sundays, I never have. I do however like recyling and in Saragossa it is very easy to recylce. I love the fact I can put the paper in the paper bin, the plastic in the plastic bin etc... I don’t like Sunday as it is the worst day for me in this respect. We buy four or five newspapers every Sunday and in almost all there are magazines or advertising sealed in plastic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I have to rip open each of these plastic seals, not always easy, and separate a mountain of plastic from a mountain of paper that didn’t really need to be wrapped or protected in the first place. Also I think another reason I don’t like Sunday is because the weekend holds so much promise. You mentally decided to do all the things you can’t fit in during the week and that the weekend will be long and fun and full of productivity and fun.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Generally I have always liked school and most of my jobs, so I can’t really understand why, since I can remember I have felt disallusioned and midly dissapoined most Sunday afternoons. Perhaps because of a promise gone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8894326913142408082?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8894326913142408082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8894326913142408082' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8894326913142408082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8894326913142408082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2009/01/sundays.html' title='Sundays'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SWEKWFJcWqI/AAAAAAAAAVo/e2n9EQ8tzOU/s72-c/u+012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-3646204487639655595</id><published>2008-12-27T16:17:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-27T17:55:46.784+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Changing rooms</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SVZHXloKEpI/AAAAAAAAAVY/RzQLDkB8i-w/s1600-h/undies+004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SVZHXloKEpI/AAAAAAAAAVY/RzQLDkB8i-w/s400/undies+004.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284489683328963218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C02%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p 	{mso-margin-top-alt:auto; 	margin-right:0cm; 	mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; 	margin-left:0cm; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Seda y lazos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquí en España me siento una amazona, las mujeres españolas son muy pequeñas. A menudo cuando voy por la calle me siento una giganta. Creo que los neozelandeses y los australianos están hechos en una escala más grande que la mayoría de los europeos. A veces es deprimente cuando voy a comprar ropa y una camiseta de manga larga sólo me llega a la mitad del brazo. Comprar lencería es lo peor, la ropa interior europea me parece muy incómoda. Era imposible encontrar sujetadores cómodos en Francia y he tenido el mismo problema en España. Hace algo más de dos años, cuando estuve por última vez en Nueva Zelanda, compré un montón de lencería en Bendon, para almacenar ropa interior cómoda. Bendon es una compañía australasiana y hace hermosos sujetadores y bragas que les valen a las mujeres australasianas (de Australia y Nueva Zelanda).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aparte de ser una necesidad, me encanta la ropa interior. Si ganase la lotería alguna vez, una de las primeras cosas que haría sería ir a comprar lencería con mi hermana, Wendy, que también comparte esta pasión y un gusto similar. Wendy estuvo en Nueva Zelanda hace poco para renovar su permiso de trabajo en Inglaterra. Puse 200 euros en su cuenta. Al cambio, eran 420 dólares neozelandeses. Un montón de dinero para comprar ropa interior. La caja llegó hace un tiempo, llena de ropa interior nueva y hermosa, hecha para alguien de mi lado del mundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Silk and lace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here in Spain I feel amazonian, Spanish women are very petite. Often when I am out and about walking in the street I feel like a giant. I think New Zealanders and Australians are built at a larger scale than most Europeans. Sometimes it is depressing when I go clothes shopping and a long sleeved T-shirt only reaches my mid-wrist. Lingerie shopping is the worst, I find European underwear very uncomfortable. It was impossible to find comfortable bras in France and I have encountered the same problem in Spain. Two and a bit years ago when I was last in New Zealand I bought a whole bunch of lingerie from the Bendon, to stockpile comfortable underwear. Bendon is an Australasian company that makes beautiful bras and underwear that fit Australasian woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aside from being a necessity, I love underwear. If I ever won the lottery one of the first things I would do would be to go lingerie shopping with my sister, Wendy, who shares with me this passion and a similar taste. Wendy was in New Zealand a short time ago to renew her English Working Visa. I put 200€ in her account. This turned into 420 NZ dollars. Lots of money to go underwear shopping with. The box arrived awhile ago, full of beautiful new, underwear, made for someone from my side of the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-3646204487639655595?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/3646204487639655595/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=3646204487639655595' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3646204487639655595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3646204487639655595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/12/changing-rooms.html' title='Changing rooms'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SVZHXloKEpI/AAAAAAAAAVY/RzQLDkB8i-w/s72-c/undies+004.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-3428715255567609292</id><published>2008-12-10T22:10:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T00:02:08.520+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fechas importantes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SUAwfko27iI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/hV8WK5qwhzw/s1600-h/egg,+morcia,+anto+article+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SUAwfko27iI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/hV8WK5qwhzw/s400/egg,+morcia,+anto+article+003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278272082247347746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Cumpleaños&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Recuerdo cuando era un óvulo y pasaba el tiempo con mis otros óvulos amigos. No había mucho que hacer y hablábamos de cosas. Política, quién creíamos que había matado a Kennedy, el tiempo, empezaba a hacer frío.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;En realidad no recuerdo eso, aún no tenía memoria. No tengo buena memoria. Especialmente para fechas y cumpleaños, aunque recuerdo algunos cumpleaños. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Por ejemplo el mío, que es el 30 de diciembre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Cuando voy de compras siempre compruebo la fecha de caducidad. Si esa fecha coincide con el cumpleaños de alguien me aseguro de enseñarle el producto y darle el objeto sellado, normalmente la tapa de un yogur o de un cartón de leche, a veces una pizza congelada, etc…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;La reacción habitual a mi extremada excitación por parte del que recibe esas cosas es sonreír educadamente, poner el objeto en algún sitio y cambiar de tema, o llamarme freak y tirar dicho objeto. No me importa, creo que es un detalle agradable pensar en alguien especial y recordarlo junto a lo cotidiano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Birthdays&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I remember being an egg, hanging out with my other egg friends. There wasn’t much to do or see so we would talk about things. Politics, who we thought had shot Kennedy, the weather, it was starting to get cold.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I didn’t really remember that, that was before I had memory. I don’t have a good memory. Especially not for dates or birthdays, but some birthdays I do retain. Like for example my own which is on the 30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup style="font-family: arial;"&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; of December.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;When I go shopping I always check the expiration dates. If that date happens to be someone’s birthday I make sure I show them and give them the date stamped object, usually a yogurt lid or a milk bottle top, some times a frozen pizza, etc...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The usual reaction to my extreme excitement by the receiver is to smile politely and gently place the object somewhere and change the subject, or to call me a freak and throw said object away. I don’t mind, I think it is a nice detail to think of someone special and remember them with the everyday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-3428715255567609292?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/3428715255567609292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=3428715255567609292' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3428715255567609292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/3428715255567609292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/12/fechas-importantes.html' title='Fechas importantes'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SUAwfko27iI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/hV8WK5qwhzw/s72-c/egg,+morcia,+anto+article+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-2177160205951442132</id><published>2008-12-08T17:51:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T18:03:35.716+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Where?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/ST1Qqi4Kv1I/AAAAAAAAAVI/T0EuNvO5B2w/s1600-h/map+fo+the+world+sans+NZ+010+photshopped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/ST1Qqi4Kv1I/AAAAAAAAAVI/T0EuNvO5B2w/s400/map+fo+the+world+sans+NZ+010+photshopped.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277463030195208018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.s, li.s, div.s 	{mso-style-name:s; 	mso-margin-top-alt:auto; 	margin-right:0cm; 	mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; 	margin-left:0cm; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Océano Pacífico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cada pocos días o semanas sufro una forma muy sutil de racismo, o quizás, mejor dicho, eurocentrismo. Me refiero a los casos en que Nueva Zelanda no sale en el mapa. Experimenté por primera vez el shock de no exisitir en mi primera semana en Europa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estaba de pie frente a un grupo de adolescentes franceses, respondiendo sus preguntas sobre mí y sobre Nueva Zelanda. Trabajaba como lectora de inglés en un instituto francés. El profesor, que conocía a sus estudiantes, sabía que la mitad no sabría dónde estaba Nueva Zelanda. Hizo que uno de ellos me preguntara en inglés en qué lugar del mundo se encontraba mi país. Me había dado cuenta de que tenían un mapa del mundo en su libro de texto. Agarré el libro más cercano, lo abrí y me quedé boquiabierta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuve que explicarle a ese grupo expectante que si Nueva Zelanda hubiera aparecido en el mapa habría estado a un centímetro, más menos, del punto más meridional de la costa este de Australia. Indiqué dónde, movimiento mi mano en el aire. Desde entonces he desarrollado mi habilidad para darme cuenta de si Nueva Zelanda aparece en el mapa en menos de un segundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nueva Zelanda está formada de dos islas principales (no una, como aparece en el mapa de Televisión Española). La capital, Wellington, la capital de país situada más al sur en todo el mundo, está a 41,3 grados de latitud sur, a 174.7833 grados de longitud este, y debería aparecer en cualquier mapa decente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pacific Ocean&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every few days or weeks I suffer a very subtle form of racism or perhaps better put Euro centralism. I am referring to New Zealand being left off the map. I first experienced the shock of not existing the very first week I was ever in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was standing in front of a group of French teenagers answering their questions about me and New Zealand. I was working as a English assistant in a French high school. The teacher, knowing his students, knew that half of them wouldn’t know where New Zealand was. He made one of them ask me in English where in the world my country was. I had noticed that they had world map in their textbooks. I grabbed the closest book, flipped it open and gasped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had to explain to that expectant group that if New Zealand &lt;i&gt;had&lt;/i&gt; been on the map it would have been a centimetre or so and off to the bottom of the east coast of Australia. I indicated where, waving my hand in the air. Since that day I have developed the skill of noticing if New Zealand makes the map in under a second.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Zealand is made up of two main Islands (not one Island as appears on the T.V One map of the world). The capital, Wellington, the southernmost capital city in the world is located at Latitude: -41.3º Longitude: 174.7833º, and should show up on any decent map&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-2177160205951442132?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/2177160205951442132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=2177160205951442132' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2177160205951442132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2177160205951442132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/12/where.html' title='Where?'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/ST1Qqi4Kv1I/AAAAAAAAAVI/T0EuNvO5B2w/s72-c/map+fo+the+world+sans+NZ+010+photshopped.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-2737941581813173005</id><published>2008-11-22T13:31:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-22T13:40:34.164+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Bonus feature</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SSf7_s2sPmI/AAAAAAAAAU4/av0LTP6QGIM/s1600-h/green+dress+ticket+and+leaves+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SSf7_s2sPmI/AAAAAAAAAU4/av0LTP6QGIM/s400/green+dress+ticket+and+leaves+009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271458960651337314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;¡Tiene bolsillos!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A veces la felicidad es una tarjeta de crédito caliente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;It has Pockets!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes happiness is a warm credit card.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-2737941581813173005?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/2737941581813173005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=2737941581813173005' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2737941581813173005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2737941581813173005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/11/bonus-feature.html' title='Bonus feature'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SSf7_s2sPmI/AAAAAAAAAU4/av0LTP6QGIM/s72-c/green+dress+ticket+and+leaves+009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-7563053514600147700</id><published>2008-11-11T00:05:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T00:21:58.889+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Daydream</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRjBwKOvkVI/AAAAAAAAAUw/QNZiKvJxuOQ/s1600-h/green+dress+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRjBwKOvkVI/AAAAAAAAAUw/QNZiKvJxuOQ/s400/green+dress+005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267172797333868882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt;&lt;/style&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;Deseo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hoy hace una semana que me enamoré. Sucedió así: entré en el supermercado chino que hay cerca de casa para comprar sopa de miso. Con mi misión cumplida y pensando en pedir sushi y llegar a casa para estar caliente, algo me llamó la atención. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Me sentí enamorada. Estoy enamorada de este vestido verde. &lt;/span&gt;Está en la ventana de una tienda que parece cara. Estoy demasiado asustada para entrar y probármelo. Sólo lo amaré desde lejos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;Desire&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;A week ago today I fell in love. It happened like this: I popped into the chinese supermarket that is near our place to buy some miso soup. Mision acomplished with my thoughts turning to ordering Sushi and getting home into the warmth, something caught my eye. I feel in love. I am in love with this green dress. It is in the window of an expensiveish shop. I am too scared to go in and try it on. I will just love it from afar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-7563053514600147700?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/7563053514600147700/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=7563053514600147700' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7563053514600147700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7563053514600147700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/11/daydream.html' title='Daydream'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRjBwKOvkVI/AAAAAAAAAUw/QNZiKvJxuOQ/s72-c/green+dress+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-7287727324648576322</id><published>2008-11-08T14:39:00.017+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-22T13:56:58.994+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Crystal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRXxEdv9NWI/AAAAAAAAAUY/r68zaGhFWzs/s1600-h/broken+glass+2+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRXxEdv9NWI/AAAAAAAAAUY/r68zaGhFWzs/s400/broken+glass+2+005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266380398287205730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Fragmentos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Esta mañana he roto una copa de vino. Estoy esperando a que desaparezcan las burbujas para recoger los cristales rotos. Compré un juego de seis copas de vino en IKEA hace un tiempo. Ahora sólo tenemos cinco. Puesto que nunca hemos tenido a un grupo de seis aquí, dudo que este cristal roto cause muchos problemas. Tenía el pie de la copa en la mano cuando se ha roto y he notado el estallido del cristal: era bastante satisfactorio. Lo que daba miedo era tener las manos en el agua sin saber lo que podía encontrarme. Ese horror me recordó una exquisita escena de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;"&gt;Pnin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;, de Nabokov.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Pnin recibe una hermosa ensaladera de cristal de manos del hijo de la mujer que le ha abandonado: “una gran ensaladera de cristal brillante de color aguamarina, decorado con espirales y nenúfares”. La ensaladera tiene un gran éxito en una fiesta que se celebra en la casa de Pnin. Más tarde, cuando Pnin está lavando los platos, Nabokov describe una de las escenas más estremecedoras que he leído.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;“Tanteó bajo las burbujas, alrededor de las copas, y bajo la melodiosa ensaladera, en busca de una pieza de plata olvidada –y recuperó un cascanueces. Pnin lo aclaró meticulosamente, cuando esa cosa de piernas largas se escurrió del trapo y cayó como un hombre desde un tejado. Estuvo a punto de cogerla –las yemas de sus dedos llegaron a tocarla en el aire-, pero eso sólo sirvió para lanzarla sobre la espuma que ocultaba los tesoros en el fregadero, donde un espantoso sonido de cristales rotos siguió a la zambullida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;"Pnin echó la toalla a un lado, y apartándose, se quedó mirando un momento la negrura de la puerta de atrás abierta. Un insecto verde y silencioso, con alas en forma de lazo, volaba en círculos en el resplandor de la bombilla desnuda que había sobre la cabeza calva y brillante de Pnin. Parecía muy viejo, con su boca sin dientes entreabierta y una película de lágrimas que oscurecía sus ojos, sin emoción y sin pestañear. Después, con un gemido de anticipación angustiada, volvió al fregadero, se preparó, y metió la mano en la espuma. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Se le clavó una astilla de cristal. Apartó suavemente una copa rota. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;La hermosa ensaladera estaba intacta. Cogió un trapo limpio y siguió con las tareas del hogar.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;Shards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;This morning I broke a wine glass. I am waiting for the bubbles to disappear so I can pick up the broken glass. I bought a set of six wine glasses from IKEA a while ago. Now we only have five. Given that we have never had a party of six here, I doubt that this broken glass is going to cause great problems. I had the stem in my hand when it broke and I felt the glass smash, it was quite satisfying. What was scary was having my hands in the water not knowing what they would encounter. That horror reminded me of an exquisite scene in Nabokov’s book &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;"&gt;Pnin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Pnin was given a beautiful glass bowl by the son of the woman who had left him. “...A large bowl of brilliant aquamarine glass with a decorative design of swirled ribbing and lily pads” The bowl is met with great success at a party held in Pnin’s house. Later when Pnin is doing the dishes, Nabokov paints one the most heart stopping scenes I have ever read.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;“He groped under the bubbles, around the goblets, and under the melodious bowl, for any piece of forgotten silver – and retrieved a nutcracker. Fastidiously Pnin rinsed it, and was wiping it, when the leggy thing somehow slipped out of the towel and fell like a man from a roof. He almost caught it – his fingertips actually came into contact with it in mid-air, but this only helped to propel it into the treasure-concealing foam of the sink, where an excruciating crack of broken glass followed upon the plunge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;"Pnin hurled the towel into a corner and, turning away, stood for a moment staring at the blackness beyond the threshold of the open back door. A quiet, lacy-winged little green insect circled in the glare of a strong naked lamp above Pnin’s glossy bald head. He looked very old, with his toothless mouth half open and a film of tears dimming his blank, unblinking eyes. Then, with a moan of anguished anticipation, he went back to the sink and, bracing himself, dipped his hand deep into the foam. A jagger of glass stung him. Gently he removed a broken goblet. The beautiful bowl was a intact. He took a fresh dish towel and went on with his household work”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-7287727324648576322?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/7287727324648576322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=7287727324648576322' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7287727324648576322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/7287727324648576322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/11/crystal.html' title='Crystal'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRXxEdv9NWI/AAAAAAAAAUY/r68zaGhFWzs/s72-c/broken+glass+2+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-407066736332486501</id><published>2008-11-07T22:37:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-07T23:54:14.937+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Nueve años despues</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRTEWyy5iEI/AAAAAAAAAUA/S7wZP-xiP_Y/s1600-h/elections+nz+006+photoshopped.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRTEWyy5iEI/AAAAAAAAAUA/S7wZP-xiP_Y/s400/elections+nz+006+photoshopped.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266049760174377026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Elecciones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Hoy hay elecciones en Nueva Zelanda. La votación ha empezado a las nueve, hace casi dos horas. Yo voté por correo hace casi dos semanas, no sé si ha llegado, pero espero que sí. Será la última vez que vote en ocho años, si no paso vivo más de seis meses en Nueva Zelanda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Tuve que registrarme desde España y enviar mi inscripción. Con los papeles que me mandaron estaba sobre con el franqueo pagado. Pagué por otro más porque dudaba de que cubriera el franqueo desde España. Pero no tengo dudas de que Nueva Zelanda no elegirá a Helen Clark por cuarta vez.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elections&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Today is Election day in New Zealand. Polls opened at nine am, nearly two hours ago. I posted my vote nearly two weeks ago, I don’t know if it got there, but I hope it did. It will be the last time I will be able to vote in eight years, if I don’t spend more than six months living in New Zealand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;I had to enrol from Spain and post off my enrolment. With the papers they send me was this postage paid envelope. I paid for another one as I have my doubts that it covered overseas postage. What I don’t doubt is that New Zealand will not vote for Helen Clark a fourth time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-407066736332486501?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/407066736332486501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=407066736332486501' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/407066736332486501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/407066736332486501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/11/nueve-aos-despues.html' title='Nueve años despues'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SRTEWyy5iEI/AAAAAAAAAUA/S7wZP-xiP_Y/s72-c/elections+nz+006+photoshopped.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-2043511839217052602</id><published>2008-11-03T23:28:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T00:19:06.446+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Cutreness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SQ98gnAROKI/AAAAAAAAATw/iTR8VAVM8y0/s1600-h/fridge+tape+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SQ98gnAROKI/AAAAAAAAATw/iTR8VAVM8y0/s400/fridge+tape+007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264563389087168674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Apaño&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Siempre me ha sorprendido lo fácil que es adaptarse a las situaciones nuevas y vivir con ellas indefinidamente. Me refiero a cuando las cosas se estropean en casa y para mantener su función se encuentra una solución temporal hasta que el problema se arregla de manera adecuada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo que ha ocurrido muchas veces en mi vida es que el problema no se arregla de manera adecuada hasta que alguien está a punto de tener un ataque de nervios años después o hasta que la vida de esos objetos domésticos expira por completo sin que nunca se hayan arreglado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hace un tiempo se rompió la manecilla del microondas, y como medida provisional puse unas pinzas de joyería junto al microondas. Se podía girar la ruedecilla y el microondas funcionaba; el tiempo era más o menos una estimación. Seis meses después, sigo empleando este método.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El otro día me di cuenta de que la puerta del congelador no estaba bien cerrada. Los cubitos seguían helados así que imaginé que no había estado abierta mucho tiempo. La volví a cerrar pero se abrió otra vez. Como soy una persona tozuda, jugué a este juego con el congelador durante un minuto. No funcionó. Como medida provisional lo cerré con cinta de enmascarar. Han pasado unos días y sigue funcionando. Mi proximo plan es comprar cinta aislante, que sujeta más.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Quick fix&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has always surprised me how remarkably easy it is to adapt to new situations and live with them indefinitely. I am referring to when things go wrong about the house and in order to maintain function,  a temporary solution is found until the problem can be properly fixed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What has happened in my life many times is that the problem doesn’t get properly fixed until someone nearly has a nervous breakdown a few years later or until the life of said household  object expires completely without having being fixed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A while ago the timer knob of the microwave broke, as an intermediary measure I put some jewellery pliers beside the microwave. The dial could be grasped between them and the microwave would work, the time was more or less an estimate.  Six months later I am still employing this method.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other day I happened to notice the freezer door wasn’t closed properly. The ice cubes were still frozen so I guessed it hadn’t been left open too long. I shut it but it sprang open again. Being  a stubborn person I played this game with the freezer door for about a minute. No deal. As an intermediary measure I closed it with masking tape. A few days later it is still working. My next plan is to buy some installation tape as it holds better.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-2043511839217052602?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/2043511839217052602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=2043511839217052602' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2043511839217052602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/2043511839217052602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/11/cutreness.html' title='Cutreness'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SQ98gnAROKI/AAAAAAAAATw/iTR8VAVM8y0/s72-c/fridge+tape+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-5798705704444218393</id><published>2008-10-28T22:00:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-28T22:59:49.399+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Out foul jelly</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SQd9zooEBII/AAAAAAAAATo/wG7wbQM4IWQ/s1600-h/fridge+stain+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SQd9zooEBII/AAAAAAAAATo/wG7wbQM4IWQ/s400/fridge+stain+023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262313015637968002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;Paraguas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Llueve desde anoche en Zaragoza. Me di cuenta justo antes de irme a la cama. No me molesta la lluvia. En Auckland el tiempo cambia rápidamente porque estamos en un istmo. Sales para casa estás preparado para cualquier cosa, metes en el coche el jersey y el paraguas por si acaso.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Lo que no me gusta de la lluvia en España, o, más exactamente, en Zaragoza, es la gente con paraguas. Como aquí llueve tan pocas veces, casi nadie respeta la etiqueta del paraguas. La etiqueta del paraguas consiste en mirar a tu alrededor antes de abrir tu paraguas, en levantarlo y apartarlo de la gente, especialmente del área de los ojos. He estado a punto de perder un ojo en muchas ocasiones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;La etiqueta del paraguas también consiste en usar el paraguas cuando la lluvia es moderada o fuerte, no cuando gotea, porque resulta innecesario. Y finalmente, si por casualidad llevas un paraguas, no debes caminar por las partes de la calle que están resguardadas: cuando llueve son para la gente que va sin paraguas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Umbrellas&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;It has been raining in Saragossa since last night. I noticed just before I went to bed. I don’t mind rainy weather. In Auckland the weather changes rapidly as we are on an isthmus. There when you leave the house you go prepared for anything, jumper and umbrella stashed in the car just in case.&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;What I don’t like about rainy weather in Spain, or more accurately Saragossa, is people with umbrellas. This is because it rains so infrequently here, hardly anybody has umbrella etiquette. Umbrella etiquette is looking around you before you open your umbrella, lifting it up and moving it out of people’s way, in particular their general eye area. I have nearly lost an eye on many occasions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;Umbrella etiquette also means only using your umbrella in moderate to heavy rain, not during light showers as it is unnecessary. And finally if you happen to have an umbrella, not walking in the sheltered bits of the street which when it is raining go to people without umbrellas.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-5798705704444218393?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/5798705704444218393/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=5798705704444218393' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5798705704444218393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/5798705704444218393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/10/out-foul-jelly.html' title='Out foul jelly'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SQd9zooEBII/AAAAAAAAATo/wG7wbQM4IWQ/s72-c/fridge+stain+023.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4577445269429139739</id><published>2008-10-10T02:40:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T02:53:09.619+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Housework</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SO6lDUun6EI/AAAAAAAAATg/V-24zJYmodI/s1600-h/fridge+stain+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SO6lDUun6EI/AAAAAAAAATg/V-24zJYmodI/s400/fridge+stain+012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255319291710400578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Misterio sin resolver&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Acababa de arreglar una persiana y abrí el frigorífico para comer algo, mentalmente preparada para relajarme. Esta deprimente mancha marrón atrajo mi ojo. Había limpiado toda la nevera hacía poco, sacando los estantes y frotándolos. Incluso conseguí sacar el cajón de los huevos y limpiarlo. Venían mis padres y quería tener una casa limpia y bonita para ellos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Todavía tengo que apagar el congelador, hay un polo centroeuropeo que crece allí dentro lentamente, pero aparte de eso pensé que me libraría del deber de limpiar el frigorífico por unos meses. Lo perturbador de esta mancha es que no llega del cajón de las verduras. Viene de algún sitio más alto. Eso significa que tengo que buscar cosas misteriosas que sangran una mugre marrón, lo que también estará en un lugar bastante alto en la escala de lo repulsivo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Unsolved Mystery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I had just finished repairing a shutter and opened the fridge to get something to eat, mentally prepared to relax. My eye was drawn down to this depressing brown stain. I had recently cleaned out the whole fridge, taking out the shelves and scrubbing them, cleaning the inside walls and the whole outside, I even worked out how to remove the egg compartment and cleaned it. My parents were coming and I wanted a nice clean house for them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I still have to defrost the freezer, there is a Central European Pole slowly growing in there, but aside from that I thought I would be relieved from fridge cleaning duty for at least a few months. The perturbing thing about this stain is that it isn’t coming from the vegetable drawer – it is coming from somewhere higher up. That means I have to go searching for mysterious things bleeding brown goo, which will be pretty high up on the disgusting scale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4577445269429139739?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4577445269429139739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4577445269429139739' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4577445269429139739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4577445269429139739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/10/housework.html' title='Housework'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SO6lDUun6EI/AAAAAAAAATg/V-24zJYmodI/s72-c/fridge+stain+012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-4255961298733529747</id><published>2008-09-09T20:10:00.015+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-17T10:27:36.005+02:00</updated><title type='text'>So Long</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMa8oJIQs0I/AAAAAAAAAPI/WX5b7KJie38/s1600-h/silver+fern+and+mermaid+020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMa8oJIQs0I/AAAAAAAAAPI/WX5b7KJie38/s400/silver+fern+and+mermaid+020.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244086213950878530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pequeño Hueco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;Hoy ha sido el último día de la vida de &lt;a href="http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/09/un-gato-llamado-lucky.html"&gt;Lucky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Ha aparecido muerto ahogado en la piscina (la misma a la que se acerca demasiado en la foto). &lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Sara me ha llamado para darme la noticia. &lt;/span&gt;Ha dicho que había gastado sus siete vidas. Yo le he dicho que en inglés los gatos tienen nueve vidas, ella ha dicho que en Francia también. Qué pena que fuera español, ha dicho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;La verdad es que el mundo me parece un poco más vacío sin ese &lt;a href="http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/08/lucky.html"&gt;pequeño gato &lt;/a&gt;con daños cerebrales y ojos azules del mismo tono del agua en la que ha encontrado su fin. Hice esta foto hace dos semanas, sin saber que sería la última. Mis padres llegan el sábado, y van a conocer a Daniel, mis amigos y su familia, pero también tenía ganas de presentarles a Lucky. Ahora no podré.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Adiós, Lucky. Te echo de menos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Little gap&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Today was the last day of &lt;a href="http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2007/09/un-gato-llamado-lucky.html"&gt;Lucky’s&lt;/a&gt; life. He was found drowned in the swimming pool (the very one he is sitting too close to in the photo). Sara called me to give me the news. She said he had used up his seven lives, I told her that in English cats have nine lives, she said that it is the same in France. What a shame he was Spanish she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;The truth is &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;I feel the world is a little emptier without this mentally damaged &lt;a href="http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/08/lucky.html"&gt;little cat&lt;/a&gt; with eyes the same shade of blue as the water in which he met his end. I took this photo two weeks ago, not knowing it was to be the last. My parents arrive on Saturday and as well as meeting Daniel, friends and his family, I also was looking forward to introducing them to Lucky. Now I cannot.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Goodbye Lucky. I miss you.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-4255961298733529747?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/4255961298733529747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=4255961298733529747' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4255961298733529747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/4255961298733529747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/09/so-long.html' title='So Long'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SMa8oJIQs0I/AAAAAAAAAPI/WX5b7KJie38/s72-c/silver+fern+and+mermaid+020.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5032956487931981460.post-8267701549185713296</id><published>2008-08-26T16:10:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-17T10:30:03.903+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Deportes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SLQPErAsdFI/AAAAAAAAANA/2pEroHmg8hs/s1600-h/silver+fern+and+mermaid+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SLQPErAsdFI/AAAAAAAAANA/2pEroHmg8hs/s400/silver+fern+and+mermaid+003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238828839478260818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: lucida grande;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"&gt;Amistad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDani%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;Mi amigo gallego me llamó por la tarde del 20 de agosto para decirme que el neozelandés Nick Willis había ganado una medalla de bronce en la final de 1500 de los Juegos Olímpicos. Le alegraba mucho hablarme de una victoria neozelandesa. Habíamos visto juntos la final femenina de 10000 metros juntos el sábado 16. Yo pensaba que la corredora neozelandesa Kimberley Smith iba en tercera posición, y todos la animamos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;El negro y el blanco son los colores deportivos de Nueva Zelanda. También se muestra el símbolo de un helecho plateado sobre el corazón. La corredora estadounidense Shalene Flanagan también iba vestida de blanco y negro, era rubia como Kimberley y yo confundí el símbolo de Nike con el helecho plateado. Me sentí triste cuando perdimos. Igual que el miércoles 13 cuando el equipo de chicos de hockey de Nueva Zelanda perdió contra España.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;Mi amigo gallego también fue testigo de otro brote de decepción nacional el 20 de mayo de 2007. Ese día el equipo de Nueva Zelanda perdió una carrera contra los españoles en la Copa América. Dan y mi amigo llegaron a casa mientras veía la carrera en Internet. Casi no los saludé y volví a la carrera, que íbamos perdiendo. Estaba enfadada y no tenía ganas de hablar. Cuando perdimos me eché a llorar. El nuestro era un equipo ganador que había venido a España a recuperar la Copa América. No tenía sentido que perdiéramos contra el inexperto equipo español.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;Así que a mi amigo gallego al que le encantan todos los deportes y tiene una memoria enciclopédica de nombres y partidos y resultados le alegraba mucho tener la oportunidad de felicitarme por la victoria de mi compatriota. Yo estaba encantada con la noticia, pero secretamente decepcionada porque la medalla no fuera de oro.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Friendship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;My Gallician friend called me in the afternoon on the 20th of August to tell me that the New Zealander Nick Willis had won bronze in the Olympic 1500m final. He was very happy to tell me of a New Zealand victory. We had watched the women's 10,000 meters together on Saturday the 16th. I thought NZ runner Kimberley Smith was in third place, so we were all cheering for her.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Back and white are the sporting colours of New Zealand. The symbol of the silver fern is displayed over the heart. The American runner Shalene Flanagan was also dressed in black and white, was blond like Kimberley and I mistook the Nike swoosh for the silver fern. I was upset when we lost. Just as I had been on Wednesday the 13th when the New Zealand men's hockey team lost to Spain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;My Gallician friend also witnessed another bout of national disappointment on 20th of May 2007. The day that the New Zealand team lost a race to the Spanish in the Americas Cup. Dan and my friend arrived home while I was watching the race on the Internet. I barely greeted them and went back to the race, which we were loosing. I was angry and not in the mood to talk. When we lost I started crying. Ours was a winning team who had come to Spain to reclaim the Americas cup. We had no business loosing to the inexperienced Spanish team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;u1:p&gt;&lt;/u1:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" &gt;So my Gallician friend who loves all sports and has an encyclopedic memory of names and games and scores, was very happy to finally have an opportunity to congratulate me on my fellow countrymans achievement. I was delighted at the notice, but secretly disappointed it wasn't gold.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5032956487931981460-8267701549185713296?l=pippi-tetley.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/feeds/8267701549185713296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5032956487931981460&amp;postID=8267701549185713296' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8267701549185713296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5032956487931981460/posts/default/8267701549185713296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pippi-tetley.blogspot.com/2008/08/colores-deportivos.html' title='Deportes'/><author><name>Pippi Tetley</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06579207786776978598'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ErXcDSEo48c/SLQPErAsdFI/AAAAAAAAANA/2pEroHmg8hs/s72-c/silver+fern+and+mermaid+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>