The Andalucian - October 2013

This has been a testing month for our family, what with Claire’s hospital appointments and forthcoming operations — thank you to all who have expressed their concerns and sent get well wishes; they are much appreciated. However, despite all the distractions, we are pleased to have managed to get this issue to you full of articles, puzzles and advertisers!

During the month we often hear from our readers who take time to contact us and comment on the varied articles that we publish — we are glad that we can help and have often pointed you in the right direction for the services and advice you need. This has led to the inclusion of our new crossword puzzle which we hope you will enjoy on page 18 testing your knowledge of the month’s magazine content.

It is that time of year again to remember to put the clocks back — 27 October — and with Hallowe’en just around the corner, be sure to read all about ghoulish gourds on page 28. And why not try making the speedy soup we have featured?

For an alternative way to donate to the wonderful British Royal Legion poppy appeal this year, why not go and enjoy the next T.A.P.A.S. performance — We’ll meet Again. See page 17 for full details.

Thank you all again for your kind messages and whatever you do this month – enjoy!

Mike

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Are you taking the Michael - or just the surname?

Michael Keaton initially made his name — or as it transpires, someone else’s name – as a comedy actor, but is best remembered now for his two stints as the Caped Crusader in Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns movies. The pointy-eyebrowed performer was born Michael John Douglas in 1951, but is not related to the more famous actor of Fatal Attraction fame.

As his acting career gained momentum in the 1970s, the Batman-to-be realised he would have to change his name in order to join the Screen Actors Guild, who adopt a ‘unique professional names only’ rule, in common with many actors’ unions. The name Michael Douglas had already been bagged by the ageing star of The Streets of San Francisco, who later went on to win an Oscar for Wall Street, look up Sharon Stone’s (real name) skirt in Basic Instinct, and marry the young-enough-to-be-his-daughter Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones (they are now separated). Michael Douglas is his real name, but his father, Kirk Douglas, was born Issur Danielovitch Demsky – not quite as catchy!

Michael ‘Batman’ Douglas couldn’t even safely shorten his name to Mike Douglas, because of the popularity of the long-running Mike Douglas Show. (Incidentally, the real name of Mike ‘talk-show’ Douglas was Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr.)

So why Keaton? Legend has it that in 1977 he was inspired by a newspaper article mentioning the actress Diane Keaton. He may not have appreciated

the fact that Diane herself was not a Keaton as she was born Diane Hall. Diane ‘Annie Hall’ Hall took her mother’s maiden name of Keaton. Yes, you’ve guessed it, there was already a Diane Hall registered (played a minor role in The Ten Commandments).

Is anyone a Keaton? Yes, silent film legend Buster Keaton (no relation to impostor Michael or via any maternal link to Diane) was born a ‘real’ Keaton – Joseph Frank Keaton, Jr. however, his father changed his son’s middle name to the more formal Francis, before the boy was nicknamed Buster at the age of six months. Rumour has it that it was Harry Houdini who is said to have called Keaton this after he saw him falling down some stairs. As if the Keaton name wasn’t hard enough to follow, escapologist Houdini was born as Erik Weisz, later to be known as both Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss before settling on Houdini!

Do you recognise these renamed people?

Anne Bancroft – Anna ItalianoSusan Sarandon – Susan TomalinChubby Checker – Ernest EvansBono – Paul HewsonBobby Davro – Robert NankevilleFrankie Valli – Francis CastelluccioStewart Granger – James StewartJudy Garland – Ethel GummBruno Mars – Peter HernandezAudrey Hepburn – Audrey RustonFreddie Mercury – Farrokh BulsaraMeg Ryan – Margaret HyraStevie Wonder – Stevland Hardaway JudkinsHelen Mirran – Ilynea Lydia MironoffNicholas Cage – Nicholas Kim Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola’s cousin)David Tennant – David McDonaldJamie Foxx – Eric BishopMariah Carey – Maria NunezWhoopi Goldberg – Caryn JohnsonBill Clinton – William Jefferson Blythe

Then there’s Ralph Lauren (formerly Ralph Lifshitz) we’re just not sure he’d be as successful with that surname!

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1 "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’

2 'Vodka' is derived from the word voditchka, Russian for 'little water'.

3 Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter

4 Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.

5 Canada is an Indian word meaning 'big village'.

6 China has more English speakers than the United States.

7 Crayola is a French word that means 'oily chalk.'

8 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words and except for the author’s name, none of them with the letter E!

9 French was the official language of England for over 600 years.

10 In England, in the 1880s, ‘pants’ was considered a dirty word!

11 Pinocchio is Italian for pine eye

12 Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States

13 The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!

14 The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

15 The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. It is a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.

16 The longest word in the English language with no vowels is rhythms

17 The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.

18 The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

19 The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

20 The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'

21 Many believe the word 'News' is an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South, however the word originates from the plural of ‘new’ from Latin nova and French novels

22 The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

23 The word taxi is spelled the same in many languages including English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish, Romanian, Dutch and Portuguese. Taxi comes from the actual device used to measure rates in the cab; the taximeter, which in turn came from the French taxe (tariff) roughly translated to tax.

24 The word tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.

25 There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

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Getting to the heart of the matter

Angina, also called angina pectoris, is a recurring discomfort or pain in the chest that occurs when an inadequate supply of blood reaches the heart muscle. Angina is not a heart attack, though the symptoms are similar. Often if a person experiences an angina attack for the first time they are under the impression that they are having a heart attack. Angina is a warning symptom of a more serious condition — usually coronary heart disease — so it must not be ignored.

Angina is very common; it's more common in men than women, and the risk increases with age. The British Heart Foundation estimates that five per cent of men and three per cent of women have — or have had — angina. It is thought to affect 1.3 million people in the UK, with more than 20,000 new cases per year. Angina currently affects more than 10 million Americans, with 350,000 new cases diagnosed each year.

When to call for helpDo not hang about! Call an ambulance (112 – no area code is necessary) if you experience chest pain, even if there is no history of heart problems in your family and you believe that you are too young to have angina. Although an angina episode is not a heart attack, it does alert the doctor that a patient’s heart muscle is starved for blood and oxygen. Early treatment to improve the heart’s blood supply can avoid permanent, irreversible damage to the heart. If you are a known sufferer, write this phrase next to the phone? ‘ataque de angina de pecho’ to tell the emergency services.

SymptomsAngina is usually described as a pressing, burning or squeezing pain felt in the chest. Angina pain typically centres under the breastbone, but it may also spread to the throat, arms, jaws, between the shoulder blades or downward to the stomach. Other symptoms that may accompany angina include:NauseaDizziness or light-headednessDifficulty breathing or shortness of breathSweating

Based on the symptom pattern and predictability, doctors divide angina into two types:StableUnstable

When a patient experiences stable angina, chest pain adheres to a specific pattern, usually occurring after extreme emotion, over-exertion, a large meal, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking or exposure to extremely hot or cold temperatures. Symptoms usually disappear after a few minutes rest.

With unstable angina, the symptoms are less predictable and more serious. The discomfort and pain can last 20 minutes or more, even during sleep or at rest.

CausesAngina is not a disease but a symptom of a more serious condition — usually coronary heart disease. Coronary artery disease is an illness that produces a narrowing and blockage of the coronary arteries (blood vessels which supply blood to the heart muscle).

This is usually the result of atherosclerosis, a condition where fatty deposits (plaques) build up along the inside walls of blood vessels. In addition to CAD, angina can also occur because of heart rhythm disturbances, heart valve abnormalities, anaemia and some thyroid conditions.

PreventionYou can help prevent angina by controlling your risk factors for atherosclerosis — especially high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking and diabetes.

If you have high cholesterol, follow your doctor’s guidelines for a healthful diet low in fats and cholesterol and (if necessary) take medication to decrease your blood cholesterol level.

If you have high blood pressure, follow your doctor’s recommendations for modifying your diet and taking your medication.

If you smoke, try to quit.

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If you have diabetes, monitor your blood sugar level frequently, follow your diet and take your insulin or oral medication as your doctor has prescribed.It is also wise to exercise regularly and maintain an ideal weight. If you are a woman who is approaching menopause, ask your doctor about the need to begin HRT. If angina attacks are triggered by emotional stress, stress management or relaxation techniques may be helpful.

DiagnosisYour doctor may suspect that you have angina based on your medical history and the pattern of your symptoms. To confirm the diagnosis, you’ll need a physical examination, with special attention given to your chest wall and heart, together with diagnostic cardiac testing.

The physical examination will be followed by one or more diagnostic tests to either rule out angina or determine the presence and severity of any underlying coronary disease. Some of the possible tests will include an ECG, stress tests (normally light walking on a treadmill) or a series of X-rays called a coronary angiogram.

TreatmentWhen angina is caused by coronary artery disease, treatment usually includes lifestyle changes, taking

nitrates (these medications, including nitroglycerin, are vasodilators; they act to widen blood vessels), beta blockers to decrease the heart’s workload, calcium channel blockers to dilate the coronary arteries and often aspirin.

When drugs fail to ease angina, or when the risk of a heart attack is great, coronary artery bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty may be recommended.

If you are worried about any chest pains you may have, see your doctor as soon as possible as angina is Nature’s way of warning that something worse may be around the corner unless you act now. Listen to your body!

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October’s twenty teasers -

mixed bag of mind-blowing questions1 Former Prime Minister Tony Blair was born in which city?2 Which one of Henry VIII’s wives was Spanish-born?3 In physics, what N is the central core of the atom?4 Which star constellation is known as the ‘water bearer’?5 In what year did John Lennon marry Yoko Ono?6 What are a feline’s vibrissae more commonly known as?

10 In a symphony orchestra, which is the only stringed instrument that is not played with a bow?11 Which US president ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb?12 What is the middle colour of the spectrum?13 In which James Bond film does the character Oddball appear?14 Who recorded The River and Tunnel of Love albums?15 Where in Europe is the world’s largest port?16 Which US state flag features a grizzly bear and a star?17 What are the leaves of ferns and palm trees called?18 Harvey Lee Yearly is the real name of which US actor?19 How many pounds are there in a kilogram?20 Which city was due to stage the cancelled Olympic Games of 1916?

Answers can be found on page 25.

7 Vendredi is French for which day of the week?8 Which seabird is also known as a sea-parrot?9 Which common Irish surname means ‘descendant of the sea warrior’?

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Who do I know you’re not? Or hanged, drawn and misinterpreted by John Sharrock Taylor

Leanne and I are both descended from Catherine Edwards, who was born in 1780 at Llanidan on the Isle of Anglesey in a house with the delightfully sinister name of Wrach Dhu (the Black Witch). Leanne lives in the USA and this month we will come face to face for the first time in the Ford Museum at Dearborn, Michigan. We first met on a website where thousands of genealogy fanatics keep our online family trees. One of the key features is that any member can see if another person’s tree overlaps with his own. Enter Sheila, messaging me from Melbourne: ‘Isn’t this bonza? We’re fifth cousins umpteen times removed!’

Not everyone is so fired with family history. Take my wife, for instance. (No! I’ll resist that old chestnut because I love her dearly and for a small woman, she does pack a surprisingly effective right hook). I sometimes get up as early as five o’clock to mine a promising genealogical seam and by the time I take Val her morning coffee at about eight, I often have a fresh chunk of ore to share.‘What do you think a puddler was?’‘Something to do with iron?’‘Yes!’ It seems that my great Aunt Polly’s first husband George’s father Bill was a puddler. In the Black Country, would you believe? They lived at Oldbury in Staffordshire at number seven Pig Lane. I bet that address hasn’t survived into the twenty-first century.’‘John...’‘Yes, darling?’ ‘Bugger off.’‘Not very parliamentary language. What would your mother think of that?’‘She’d know exactly where I got it from. Now go away and let me drink my coffee in peace.’

Loving spouses are supposed to tolerate one’s foibles for better or for worse but the Ancient Mariner approach (He holds him with his glittering eye…) is generally frowned upon at dinner parties. So I always hesitate before plunging in and revealing to a new acquaintance that I am President of the Antequera Klavern of the All-Too-Visible Empire of Genealogy Bores. But a surprising number of people

do find family history anything but tedious, and one of the standard questions (particularly appropriate in the year when the humble grave of Richard III was discovered) is ‘Have you dug up any skeletons?’ In both my wife’s case and mine the answer is ‘yes’ and some of the bodies lie a lot closer to home than King Richard’s Leicester car park.

I remember the audience’s shocked laughter 40 years ago when a contestant on a TV quiz show introduced himself as Fred Bastard.‘Isn’t that a rather unusual name?’ queried the quizmaster.‘Not where I live,’ was the stolid reply. ‘There’s hundreds of us Bastards down in Devon.’

Well, there were quite a few in Victorian Lancashire and if I had a family escutcheon it would probably include more bends sinister than the Anglezarke Pass. This takes me rather neatly to the other standard genealogical question: ‘Are you descended from anybody ‘important’? In my case, the answer appears to be a definite ‘not really’. I can muster at least 15 generations of farmers, a company of coalminers, a body of brass-finishers, several publicans, the odd draper and a stroppy excise officer turned schoolmaster, but I’m fairly sure I don’t share Shakespeare’s DNA. Thanks to an amazingly clever website, which includes my great, great grandfather, born in 1802, I can trace one of my lines of descent to the 12th century Corfields of Corfhull, a Shropshire village which disappeared during the later Middle Ages, perhaps as a result of the Black Death of 1349. The Sharrocks were minor Lancashire gentry in the same period and though my ‘cousin’ Brian says we are actually Chiracs who came over with the Conqueror, I have found no evidence to support that claim. Val, incidentally, is descended from Michael Jackson. No, not that one. Her MJ was an 18th century doctor in Upholland, Lancashire, and though he might not have been much of a singer, he probably did have a viable nose.

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The desire to be a ‘somebody’ rather than a ‘nobody’ does seem to be deeply rooted. Louise lives in Tasmania and we are both descended from Lizzie Lowe, born in Haigh, Lancashire, in 1846. My grandmother Annie Sharrock was Lizzie’s legitimate daughter. Louise’s grandfather George was Lizzie’s mistake, born before her happy marriage to my great grandfather James Sharrock. Now, as it happens, all our ancestors lived and worked on the estate of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, so Louise tells me solemnly, ‘George was fathered by Lord Crawford and of course, like all young aristocrats, he was privately educated.’ Complete tosh of course. George was fathered by A.N. Other (who, as we have noted, had a busy time throughout the 19th century) and went to the village school where they did such a good job of educating him that he found a responsible position at the technological cutting edge, riding round the Wigan area on a bike and delivering telegrams — the email messages of the late Victorian era.

So I’m not a ‘somebody’, but thanks to my son Richard’s marriage to Minnesota-born Christine, two of my grandchildren really are descended from characters who have fretted and strutted their brief hour upon the stage of history. Joseph and Claire’s maternal Axtell ancestors sailed for New England in

1660 after Colonel Daniel Axtell, Cromwell’s Deputy in Ireland, was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn for his part in the regicide of King Charles I. Among my grandchildren’s indirect forebears are Elihu Yale, a thumping crook but also the endower of the great Ivy League university, and Owain Gyndwr, that highly successful rebel against King Henry IV. How do I know all this? The answer is that in tracing their ancestry back a mere 200 years via the US national and state censuses (something of a doddle in genealogical terms as all these records are on the internet) I came across the all-important ‘gateway ancestor’ which links Joseph and Claire’s Merriman ancestry to the Axtells and Yales — gentry whose pedigree has been reliably ‘done’ by professional genealogists.

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Libraries and local archives are essential to the serious genealogist and there is also such a plethora of material online that one has to be very scrupulous about sifting it. Each entry on a Genes Reunited family tree has a ‘notes’ space and I am careful to record when one of my surmises ‘looks likely but needs confirmation’. Errors abound on the internet: for example, the website which lists one of my Barlow ancestors as his own grandfather. And some folk who are new to genealogy (and some who are not so new and should know better) arrive at daft conclusions. Re-enter Sheila, my Melbourne ‘cousin’.

‘We are both descended from Ellen Healey, born in Wigan in 1846,’ she gushes confidently. ‘I’ve traced Ellen’s emigration to Australia in 1894. She married my great, great grandfather Bruce in Melbourne and I’m descended from their third daughter Edna. Have a look at my tree.’

I had a look. So Bruce, aged 21, was bowled over by Ellen, aged 48 and they proceeded to have seven kids? I think not. Especially as I know for a fact that

Ellen married my engineer great, great grandfather Richard Clough and died in Wigan in 1885. Incidentally, Richard’s grandfather, another Richard, was connected with a major somebody, being employed at the Soho (Birmingham) ‘manufactory’of Matthew Boulton, one of the greatest figures of the second Industrial Revolution. And Matthew Boulton’s detested competitor was the ruthless ‘Copper King’, Thomas Williams of Llanidan, Anglesey. How’s that for full-circle?

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Bona fide bash or

crashes for cash? by Derek LavenderEver thought that at least the cash for crash scams don’t happen in Spain? This rip-off insurance claim scam which is big news in the UK has now arrived in Spain.

A friend of ours has just lost a court case and received a fine and a suspended jail sentence, plus a two and a half year driving ban — all through no fault of her own. And this could easily happen to any of us.

The police arrived almost immediately to the relief of our friend who had by now locked herself in her car. Her relief was very short-lived.

It came to light later that unknown to her, the three men in the other car were telling the police in Spanish that she had caused the accident and then driven off so they had followed her, caught up with her and called the police. As the lady spoke virtually no Spanish it seemed to her that they paid very little attention to what she had to say on the matter.

It took three years to get to court, by which time — without consulting our friend — the insurers had already paid the supposed five men in the car several thousand pounds for damages and invented injuries that obviously none of the three men had sustained.

The advice of her lawyer was: never leave the scene of an accident unless you can get a signed accident statement, call the police, try and get independent witnesses plus their details and take photos. I, for one, am going to fit a video camera to the car. When she said to her lawyer she no longer had faith in Spanish justice, he replied, ‘Neither do I!’

Whilst driving along a street at the coast, a parked car pulled out and rammed her vehicle in the side. As she was a woman driving alone she understandably felt threatened by the three men she saw in the much-dented old car. When the men suggested that they follow her to a car park just up the road, she agreed as they were obstructing the traffic in what was a busy street. As they got to the car park the men swerved in front of our friend’s car and called the police.

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After 10 years of living in Spain I realise that the passage of time has moved me into what I call the “Obituary Zone.” This is named because one day many years ago, I noticed that the first page my grandmother turned to in the local paper was the page containing the obituary column. When I asked her why, her response was a cheery, “Just looking to see if anyone I know has died!”

Well this year in particular many people we know here in Spain have passed away — usually quite unexpectedly. Owing to my wife’s work as an interpreter, we have been involved with several of these bereaved families and in all these cases, the administration has raised issues. These usually relate to culture, lack of knowledge and finance.

Before I go into more details I would like to share with you some facts about funerals in Andalucía. • Most Andalucíans expect that a funeral will take place approximately 24 hours after the person has died.• Almost all Spaniards have insurance cover to pay for the cost of their funeral. Often this is taken out by the grandparents when the baby is born.• Most Spanish insurance companies have links to specific funeral service companies; these are the companies which actually provide the service.• The UK based prepaid funeral plan providers use the same funeral service companies as the Spanish insurance companies.• No matter whom you pay for your funeral plan, when the moment comes to put it in action, your emergency hotline number will put you through to a funeral service company.• Average funeral costs are between €3,500 and €4,500.• The funeral will not take place until these costs are paid in full.• There is no state assistance with the cost of funerals; if there is no insurance, the family has to pay somehow!• Because funerals normally take place very rapidly in Andalucía, embalming is not normally carried out. However by Andalucían law, six days after the person has died, embalming must take place. This, plus additional daily storage costs, can add €1,000

(and sometimes more!) to the cost if you delay the funeral beyond this six day period. This means that delays accessing funds or finding the appropriate finance can prove costly.• If a person dies in Andalucía without a valid Spanish will, the process of resolving the inheritance of any assets in Spain will be long and costly, and Spanish inheritance rules will apply.• All inheritances in Spain are liable to bereavement taxes even if the benefactor is the spouse of the deceased. In any case there will be other costs such as notary services, and even the simplest will can take many months to resolve.

This all sounds like a problem, but there are several ways around it.

• Keep €4,500 in a bank account!

• Get insurance. Whereas in the UK we seem to consider people of 60+ as old, here in Spain persons of that age (such as myself!) are considered to still be in their prime. This means it is still possible to get funeral insurance cover up to and beyond the age of 70 at quite reasonable rates. Insurance policies of this type also bring some additional benefits, such as reduced prices at some opticians and dentists and probably more importantly, they usually include free assistance from lawyers and accountants in dealing with inheritance issues.

• Prepaid insurance plans. These are a good option for many people. Initially, only UK-based companies used to offer this type of package but now some of the funeral services companies have entered into this market with highly competitive packages tailored for the British expat market. At least in this case, the people who sold you the plan will be those who will actually deliver the service when it is needed.

• Ensure that you make Spanish will; for a simple inheritance there is no need to see a solicitor — you only need to see a Notary.

• Do nothing. Not really an option as this could leave your nearest and dearest with horrible problems at a time of great emotional stress.

If you want to talk more about this topic, drop into the English Bookshop in Mollina or call us on 952741155.

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bury me? by Neil Steer

THings To Do


Shutterbugs is a group of amateur photographers who meet twice a month during the day in Alhaurín el Grande. The group has been in existence since 2005 and caters for people interested in photography, from the very beginner to the more skilled photographers.

Shutterbugs will be holding a photographic exhibition at the Casa de la Cultura Alhaurín el Grande from Monday 4th until Friday 29th November.

This year is its sixth exhibition and the photographic subject on display this year is: Niñas - Señoritas – señoras.

Fancy becoming a Shutterbug? New members are always welcome for further information please visit www.shutterbugs-spain.org or telephone Monique on 629221173.

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This month T.A.P.A.S. (The Andalucía Performing Arts Society) is presenting an exciting musical and theatrical journey through the biggest hits of the war years with its new production 'We'll Meet Again'. The audience will be taken down memory lane with evocative songs from the period made famous by artistes such as Gracie Fields, Vera Lynn, The Andrews Sisters and many more, plus some of those famous big band numbers.

The story tells of civic morale, of enduring community spirit and of the British people as one, all pulling together for the common good. It was Hitler’s belief that the war from the air would terrorise London into defeat. He was wrong. The city’s inhabitants on the contrary stood firm and said, ‘We can take it’! It became the catchphrase of the Blitz.

This is an evening of sheer nostalgia and patriotism celebrating wartime entertainment with songs which inspired a nation to victory. Brought to you by an extremely talented team of performers, the show is to be performed on Fri 18th and Sat 19th October at 8pm and on Sun 20th October at 4pm at Los Arcos, nr Coin - Km6 A7059.

Tickets are on sale now for €10 (€7 for TAPAS members) and are available from the box office 635 293 714 or from the usual TAPAS outlets.

€1 from every ticket sold will be donated to the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

www.tapassociety.com

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Across1 Where you can book translation services or buy a novel?5 Financial wizards in Fuengirola7 The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter10 The strange character in trivia question 1314 The ghoulish gourd17 Offering piece of mind with your property and possessions20 The silent Keaton22 Offering you a new approach to selling your home23 Are you missing those British groceries?25 All aspects of building undertaken26 A Canadian singer supreme27 In which village will you find the Chapel of St George with St James?

Answers on page 31

Down1 You need one of these to advertise and sell your house2 Who to call if it’s all Greek to you?3 Favourite colour in the male spectrum4 The price for this size advert is just 25€6 Grab yourself a bargain here8 Which animal is sitting with a pumpkin?9 Guarantee to get your property gleaming11 Fantastic property for horses12 The day the black bins went outside for this not-so-green recycler13 John Sharrock Taylor looks into his family tree with this study15 Putting the smile on your face with their services16 Do you need help with social networking?18 The blending of two words19 Italy or cruise for this writer21 Tailoring your viewing needs24 Offering to meet again

Men’s MaTTers


The colour spectrum

of menAs you might guess, pink isn't my favourite colour — or that of most men — but you may be interested to know that it is not our least favourite either.

I’m not a great one for caring what colour anything is, or so I thought. As for my wardrobe, it consists of a variety of darker shades, the odd beige and white pieces and those brightly-coloured shirts that I’m only supposed to wear in a foreign country where no-one knows us. But am I that different from most fellas? Apparently not!

Blue, green, and black are generally the colours that men like most – you have to admit you only have to look in your own t-shirt drawer to agree! However, the colours we like for ourselves and the colours we find attractive on women aren't necessarily the same.

Colours which are traditionally considered masculine, or which appeal most strongly to — or are more closely associated with — men have been studied recently to see if they can be good choices for marketing messages, websites and interior designs primarily targeting a male audience or shopper.

Colour studies done over the years indicate that the favourites of men and women do differ. Some of these differences were found to be attributed to cultural use of colour and conditioning. Forget the ‘blue for boys, pink for girls’ rule as there are no hard and fast rules about what colours are masculine, feminine or gender-neutral. Because there are so many tints and shades (have you been in paint shop recently?), someone may love a rich, royal blue but strongly dislike a pale, sky blue so a preference for the colour blue doesn't mean that every shade of blue is universally appropriate.

Blue is a favourite colour for men and women of all ages. However, men have a much stronger preference for blue than women. It may be the calming effect of the colour which makes it popular for both sexes or it could be the association of some shades of blue with authority figures, intelligence, stability and possibly footie teams! It's possible that men lean towards blue because they've noticed that

society (and studies) report that women find men more attractive in blue – think uniforms or a blue business suit. "Women... like their men to wear blue. They associate blue with reliability and dependability... Women often desire to find a man who is going to be faithful and honest, and the colour blue reflects these qualities subconsciously." — Secrets of Attraction Two

A distant second to blue was green. It is cool, restful, and signifies growth, renewal, health and environment as well as balance and stability. While women favour cool, soft colours, men prefer brighter shades. I know I still look good in my neon lime shirt which seems to embarrass the kids!

We favour black only slightly more than women. This may reflect social and cultural norms where women wear the darker shade to hide the lumps and bumps we just go for the ‘it goes with everything I own’ attitude. Probably why my attire is less colourful than the wife’s!

Purple stands out as a feminine colour because it is chosen almost exclusively by women as a favourite colour and is strongly disliked by men. Men are less likely to respond favourably to other feminine favourites such as lavender and turquoise. Most people still think of pink as feminine and delicate — the colour for little girls. Even though it is acceptable as a clothing colour for men, pink has such strong negative associations for them that some uses of the colour have even been considered actively insulting to men.

One prominent example of the furore over pink was the painting of the locker rooms at an American university. It is reported that the colour was chosen for the opposing team’s locker room because it was a "calming, soothing colour," but others report it is because of the cultural association of pink with the weaker sex — a bit of taunting before they get pitch-side!

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But, pink on a woman can bring out a man's protective instincts so maybe it isn't all bad. Red spells danger and desire. While the lady in red may attract some men who see her as sexy, other men may find that colour overpowering or threatening. Researcher Daniela Niesta and professor of psychology Andrew Elliot discovered that although the colour red makes men find women more attractive in an amorous way, it doesn’t make them imagine she is kind or great relationship material. So red clothing may be good for attracting a man, or to liven up a long-term relationship, but it isn’t necessarily conducive to attracting a relationship which is more than physical — at least in the initial stages.

Should anything and everything aimed at men be blue? Probably not — although blue is probably a safe choice for our Christmas presents! There are many more factors involved in choosing safe shades. Gender is simply one consideration.

The results of Joe Hallock's polls on colour preferences by gender and age yield some interesting results. They include:

Male top 3 favourite colours: blue, green and black

Male top 3 least favourite colours: brown, orange and purple

Among favourite colours, preferences for green decrease with age (all genders).

Among least favourite colours (all genders), dislike of brown and purple decreases with age while dislike of orange increases with age.

Maybe for this year’s Christmas present you should ask for a voucher, and see what colour item you come back with. If you are anything like me, the shop will be too big, the choice too much and you’ll just come home with a faithful black t-shirt to add to your collection!

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I was just saying the other... decade!Is it a sign of my old age or just my inability to get down and chillax with the linguistic fashionistas of the modern world that I cannot understand half of what is being said these days? Maybe this maddening craze of merging one half of a word with another to create a new one is leading to me having only 50 per cent knowledge of what is being said to me.

The blending of two words is commonplace and has been since Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty introduced the Jabberwocky to Alice in 1871 – such a creation is known as a portmanteau. If the press is to be believed, this current trend seems to have developed only recently in Essex, but this news astounds me. I can accept that the cast of TOWIE have their own sayings but really… to credit them with the status that they actually came up with the art of blending – shut up! I cannot imagine Alice ever booking herself in for a vajazzle!

With the current trend for texting, the manipulation of good old-fashioned words has not only taken a back seat but has practically relegated them to the trailer, as the newer, shorter adaptations hit the streets and fall out of the mouths of babes – well-jel I am not! I do not confess to know what half the TXT dictionary comprises of but with the initials such as LMAO, LOL or TTYL taking over our schoolchildren’s literary knowledge I am more IMHO OMG (in my honest opinion – oh my God!) what’s the world coming to?

From Nicole Scherzinger’s ‘amazeballs’ and her insane need to click her fingers when she is pronouncing the syllables of a word such as ‘ma-(click)-jor’ to the latest eating fad of a cronut (half croissant half donut), my grasp of the English language is fading fast. Of course, I am fully aware of the more mainstream metamorphosis of prose. I know all about the shopaholic sent to her death by electrocution (electricity/execution) after there was a ruckus (ruction, rumpus) at the motel (motor/hotel) when a man staying in a motorcade (motor/cavalcade) caught all the rollicking (rolling/frolicking) on his camcorder (camera/recorder).

My other bugbear is the mainstream use of slang terminology. Slang words have crept into the dictionary over time and of course, we all use them but I am struggling with such a contradictory language.

It started for me when Michael Jackson thrust his black zip-clad trousers in the late 80s and asked ‘Who’s bad?’ meaning good. Now I wonder, when the Pet Shop Boys brought out their Rent single in the same year, was it not a dedication to their parents but in fact referring to a rent boy as the word has now transmutated. I was recently discussing with my teenagers (inbetweeners apparently) the other day what a ‘sic rent’ was — as visions of a poorly gigolo began to appear. I was told in between the usual ‘tweeners’ huffs’ that it means you are a cool parent. Having discussed this with my husband, we ‘rents’ presumed incorrectly that we were now given this title as we pay for the upkeep of our children as in ‘we pay the rent’ but oh no, ‘rents’ is just a shorter version of parents – where is the respect in that, then? Maybe the word ‘parent’ itself is a shorter version of pa(y) rent that I just hadn’t realised!

There is an art to we ‘rents’ embarrassing our offspring, our ‘homies’ and their rude boys and ‘gurls’ (this is now how girls is spelt, so I am informed)… but then if they want us to get down in the hood wiv ‘em and they want their bro’s and ho’s to hang out in our crib (where the ‘rents’ pay the rent!) then it’s like, all good – they crash at our pad, munch their lunch and slurp a Joe – it’s all good but please show some respeccck back to the oldies too!

I have been called many a thing in my time but as the insults change over time —from the invention of moron and idiot (both portmanteaux) to the art of dissing your fellow blud to someone chirping a dig at your shorty — I have finally come to the conclusion that as my kin tell me ‘YOLO’ (you only live once). So if I have to move so quickly with the times that I have to swagger like Jagger and repeat ‘duh’ and ‘dat’ as often as possible, the art of writing and speaking English language as I know it is very soon going to be older than the generation X of ‘saurs’ — I guess it is ‘cos it’s just like dat innit! L8RS homies as I now feel meh!’

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Needles and nuptials by Alice Marriott

Hi it’s me, Alice

Can’t believe how hot it is! I can’t complain really – it’s great weather for October although we did have some rain and a bit of a storm.

I’ve been in school for a few weeks now and so far so good — we are getting into exam time now so I’m starting to have to study a bit more at the moment. The teachers are sending extra homework this year, so I try to get some of it done within the school hours.

Speaking of school, we have this end-of-year trip in April. Hopefully, we will be going on a cruise for a week or to Rome. If we go on the cruise we’ll be visiting Italy, France and other places round the Mediterranean. It’s pricey so the students sell stuff like sweets to raise some of the money. This year we might be selling some other things — not just chocolates — so hopefully I can sell lots to go towards the cost of the trip. I’m even going to save up my pocket money!

I’m going to my first Spanish wedding this weekend. I’m going with my boyfriend, Chris. I’m a little nervous because I will be with his whole family, because it’s his cousin who is getting married. I have my outfit all ready and I think it will be a great night! I have even booked an appointment to go to the hairdressers in the morning with Chris’ mum.

Chris and I have been together for more than a year now, though we did have a fight in the summer. I haven’t been with anyone this long before but I guess it just goes to show you that you’re never too young to find love. He has a younger brother, Manolo. He’s very annoying but I love him to bits. I even help him with his English homework. All his family are really nice and they do make me feel very welcome, but I still get a little nervous and shy around them.

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I have really started getting addicted to Candy Crush – not as much as my mum though! She and Dad battle it out to see who can be on a higher level – Mum’s winning! I am trying to stay ahead of my sister on it just so I can annoy her about it. I have to annoy her — I’m the younger sister!

My sister, Becky, has now moved into a flat with her boyfriend. We were looking after her two cats Tommy and Persy. She’s got her cats back and I think they are a lot happier to be back with her now. Just hope Tommy doesn’t drive her crazy!

I’m going for a blood test to see if my hormones are all okay and stuff. I’ve never had a blood test so I’m a little worried. Some people say it doesn’t hurt — you just feel the needle in you — but others say that it does hurt so I don’t know what to think now. I just hope it goes well and that the nurse only has to jab me once.

Mum’s operation date has changed; it is now going to be on the 15th. She’s been feeling pretty bad for a while but she’s always saying she is OK, so I hope they just get it over and done with. I don’t like seeing my mum suffer… she had to go to hospital for lots of tests on her pancreas and they found that she has

to have her gallbladder out as an emergency too, as soon as she has had her tumours removed. It can be very dangerous as she has a stone stuck — sounds very strange that we have stones in us! Plus the doctor said he can only check her pancreas once the gallbladder has been removed as her blood shows that that there may be something wrong with it. That means another operation, more tablets and only a liquid diet from now on — not wine though!

I’m meant to be doing my homework now so I suppose I had better get on with it!

Love Alice x

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Is beauty in the green

eye of the beholderGo green, recycle, re-use, up cycle – these are all credible buzz words and the thought behind them is, of course, a good one but do I really want some of the contraptions in my house or garden? No is the simple answer! Many of them are ridiculous, plain ugly and often as cheap looking as they were to make. I’m sure beauty is in the eye of the beholder but when the holder is some naff invention from cut-up rags and newspapers I have to disagree.

I’m all for recycling in the home; there’s not much to it really. I am not opposed to washing out and sorting the tins from the paper, then plonking them all in their respective community bins. I am grateful for the lack of authority here in Andalucía regarding the collection of rubbish – I’m not sure I’d ever get the hang of all the different bins and different days, plus the strict rules and regulations which are now in place in the UK. I used to pop the black bin outside on a Tuesday night, come back from work on the Wednesday to find that the nice dustman had popped the bin (with lid in place), back inside my garden gate and closed the gate behind him – this is why he got the tip at Christmas! In the same vein, I am not likely to don my Blue Peter badge and make some contraption out of my rubbish!

Of course, there are some very innovative uses for household ‘scrap’ items but I’m not sure I have the time, inclination or tools to cut up used tyres! I was brought up with the ‘make do or mend’ policy whenever it was possible to do so — which is why a lot of my family’s clothing is now in my duster drawer —but to start collecting newspapers to make one of my daughter’s wedding dresses is a definite no-no! I do have one hidden talent when it comes to recycling though — I can still make a newspaper back into a tree; the ultimate in green, I think. It always kept my kids entertained and without a tampon-holder-puppet in sight!

I wondered if it was just me being stuck in my ways so I had a trawl on the internet to see what kind of things people are making. Most of it really is awful: clothes made from re-used rags which were so obviously fourth or fifth-hand clothes to start off with and which, in my opinion, should have been donated to the nearest charity shop years before. And when they get beyond even doing a charity a favour – put them in the recycling collection bins. I even saw puppets made from tampon holders! Really, what is the world coming to?

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When we think of Halloween we tend to conjure up images of carved-out pumpkins, witches, ghosts and other scary individuals. Spain is starting to celebrate this macabre festival on All Hallow’s Eve but as a predominantly Catholic country, they honour El Dia de los Muertos (the day of the dead) more. Despite its fairly sombre-sounding name, the day of the dead is more of a joyous and happy holiday... a time to remember friends and family who have passed. The celebrations begin on the evening of October 31, and the occasion turns into a three day event with All Soul’s Day on November 1 and Dia de Todos Los Santos, or All Saint’s Day, following on 2 November — this is not only a time to remember but to celebrate and reconnect with family and friends.

With this in mind, it is traditional on All Saint’s Day that most businesses will close and people will have the day off to visit the graves of their loved ones. In the towns and villages throughout Spain, streets are congested with people heading to their local cemeteries – many will travel back to the graves of relatives in their home towns to spend the weekend. Florists sell more arrangements than any other time of the year (20 per cent of their yearly sales are made over this weekend). Many well wishers leave plastic flowers rather than fresh ones as they may only get to the cemetery once a year. Of course, Andalucía wouldn’t be Andalucía without a cake to celebrate and Dia de Todos is no different. The bakeries are all on overtime, churning out orders of special pastries like Hueso de Santos (Saint Bones) made of marzipan, egg and sugar syrup.

More Spanish people are adopting the modern Halloween phenomena and children are starting to dress up in ghoulish costumes. In some villages, the American-born trick or treat routine of knocking on doors is starting to be witnessed. With local supermarkets now catching on to the US marketing dream, special bags of goodies are now available to buy, but the jack-o’-lantern is not such a big symbol here yet.

In fact, it is quite hard even to buy a pumpkin big enough to carve the ghoulish gourd chiefly associated with this time of year. It is believed that Jack got his name after the phenomenon of strange lights seen flickering over peat bogs, called will-o’-the-wisp or jack-o’-lantern.

In English folklore, the name will-o’-the-wisp comes from the visual occurrence ignis fatuus (foolish fire), the roots of which can be traced back to the 17th century. The term “wisp” refers to a bundle of sticks or paper sometimes used as a torch and the proper name “Will,” thus “Will-of-the-torch.” The term jack-o’-lantern is of the same construction: “Jack of [the] lantern.”

The origin of jack-o’-lantern carvings is uncertain. Some believe it came from Ireland, where turnips were primarily used for the ornamental faces. Others claim that jack-o’-lanterns originated with All Saints’ Day and the following All Souls’ Day (2 November), and represented Christian souls in purgatory.

Author Christopher Hill wrote that jack-o’-lanterns were carved out of turnips or squashes and were literally used as lanterns to guide guisers (someone dressed up or disguised) on All Hallows’ Eve. Celtic historian Bettina Arnold writes that they were sometimes set on windowsills to keep them out of one’s home. Despite these claims there has yet to be evidence provided by historians that turnips were carved into lanterns in Ireland during Halloween, prior to the practice being present in America. A detailed account of a Halloween night in Ireland in 1834 makes no mention of any jack-o’-lantern or carved vegetables acting as lanterns, nor does Robert Burns mention them in his famous poem “Halloween”.

As often seen in many village churches up and down the British Isles, the pumpkin has long been associated with the autumnal harvest, and this is also the case in American history. The carved pumpkin was first associated with the Thanksgiving season long before it became an emblem of Halloween. In 1850, the poem written by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier entitled The Pumpkin states

Oh!—fruit loved of boyhood!—the old days recalling, when wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, glaring out through the dark with a candle within!


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In Cornish folklore there is a rhyme in which the people of Polperro in Cornwall regard both jack-o’-lantern and Joan the Wad (the Cornish version of Will-o’-the-wisp) as nothing more than pixies. The rhyme goes: Jack o’ the lantern! Joan the wad,Who tickled the maid and made her madLight me home, the weather’s bad.

There are many stories throughout history of jack-o’-lantern but they all have a similar theme. One of the most popular is that a lad called Jack was being chased by some villagers, after being caught stealing from them. While he was fleeing, he bumped into the Devil — who claimed it was time for him to die. However, our cunning petty thief stalled his death by tempting the Devil with a chance to torment all the church-going villagers chasing him.

Jack told the Devil to change form into a coin with which he would return to the village and pay for the goods he had stolen; later, when the coin/Devil disappeared, the villagers would then fight amongst themselves, accusing each other over of stealing the money.

The Devil agreed to this plan. He turned himself into a silver coin and jumped into Jack’s wallet, only to find himself next to a crucifix – the very article which Jack was accused of stealing in the first place! Jack closed the wallet tight, and the cross stripped the Devil of his powers; so he was trapped.

In most of the folktales, Jack only lets the Devil go when he agrees never to take his soul. When Jack died, it was believed that he had led a life too sinful to go to heaven; however, as the Devil had promised not to take his soul, Jack was barred from hell too. Having no eternal place to rest, Jack asked how he would see where to go as he had no light, and the Devil mockingly tossed him an ember from the eternal flames of hell. Jack carved out a turnip, placed the everlasting ember inside, and began endlessly wandering the Earth for a resting place. He became known as Jack of the Lantern or jack-o’-lantern.

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Of course today, many jack-o’-lantern are created with the most amazing and skilful designs. These more complex creations are made using knives and spoons — you can even buy specially made pumpkin carving tools and templates. So, if you are planning a creative jack-o’-lantern this year, why not try our really quick and easy soup to make with the innards!

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IngredientsCut the ‘innards’ of a 1kg pumpkin into small chunks 1 litre chicken stock2 teaspoons caster sugar Salt and pepper, to taste 150g plain Greek yoghurt or cream, room temperature

MethodPlace pumpkin with 1/3 of the chicken stock into a deep saucepanCover and simmer for 15 minutes over low heat or until pumpkin is softRemove from heat and puree with a hand blender – you can mash it if you preferAdd remaining chicken stock, sugar, salt and pepper. Cook for a few more minutesServe hot with yoghurt or cream and serve with crusty bread

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