Bah, the Brits only settle near saltwater as everybody knows. That's why British lawns are designed to thrive even there. Gawd knows how you lot pump it up all the way from the sea though.:2razz:
That's what I said (sort of).That lawn is plastic. :lamo
didn't think you knew that.Our water doesn't flow up. Our mountains provide the water for the coast, not the other way around.
didn't think you knew that.
Yeah, same here even where the Almijara and Tejeda have nowhere near the supply potential.It's a hot topic here. More and more water is being drawn down to the coast to irrigate huge agro-industry and tourism (golf courses! Don't get me started!) which makes smaller scale, sustainable agriculture more difficult. Millions have been spent on reservoirs to supply water to the coast and its not being used because the channeling of that water costs more than using existing channels that takes water directly from the high sierra valleys.
If your visit was in summer, that would be normal. Especially if the preceding winter had been relatively dry.I thought the lawn looked a little rumpled! :lol: Is that high-altitude French Lavender? :lamo
I visited friends in Cantoria a few years back and noticed the dry river bed running through the town. I was surprised when we went to Albox market to find the market was held in the riverbed!
Wher I don't live there either, nothing is accurate, what with "weights" shifting as we converse and the "undecideds" still constituting a large number.I don't live in the UK. Does this seem accurate to those who do?
Opinion polls put Brexit ahead of RemainPolitico - 1 day ago
It's Spanish lavender, you heathen!I thought the lawn looked a little rumpled! :lol: Is that high-altitude French Lavender? :lamo
I visited friends in Cantoria a few years back and noticed the dry river bed running through the town. I was surprised when we went to Albox market to find the market was held in the riverbed!
Yeah, same here even where the Almijara and Tejeda have nowhere near the supply potential.
One reservoir servicing the nearer surroundings (local, mind you) is just about empty. Partly on account of demand not corresponding to actual rainfall, to a greater part of water already being siphoned off further up.
Yeah, we have to have the revenue from golf courses here too :roll:
Beautiful country up your direction BTW, it just wasn't convenient for me to say so.
I don't live in the UK. Does this seem accurate to those who do?
Opinion polls put Brexit ahead of RemainPolitico - 1 day ago
Little bit more East and sufficiently inland (and up) to be away from the summer humdrum of the coast but still be able to enjoy sea view.Oh okay, you must be somewhere near Nerja/Frigiliana. I didn't know that. Next time I'm passing we should grab a beer.
Little bit more East and sufficiently inland (and up) to be away from the summer humdrum of the coast but still be able to enjoy sea view.
Yeah, gimme me a shout if you're headed this way.
They're older people who have little understanding of what the impact of Brexit will be on them and perhaps less concern for how Brexit may eff up the economy and prospects of younger Brits back home. Not surprised, although I'm moderately reassured about the number of my Brit expat neighbours in this area that seem aware of the threat that this poses to our continued livelihood here in our EU home.
Yeah, no escape for anyone, we got the buggers covered. :mrgreen:Hmm you also here on the Costa.....So we got Granada area to Mijas area...
The only real threats I see are the viciousness Brussels thinks a necessary reaction to Brexit and the loss of their insider place at the negotiating tables. But those are very real dangers.
The European Union has issued a formal warning to Poland for threatening the rule of law - one of the founding principles of the EU.
Critics of the right-wing Polish government have been angry at changes it has made to the country's top court, leaving it, they say, in effect unable to review and veto legislation.
The warning from the European Commission could lead to Poland being stripped of its EU voting rights.
Poland has two weeks to respond.
I now don't see the EU granting the UK favourable dealings if we leave, we are still going to have to agree free movement of people or labour if we leave and want market access to the single market. I also as you suggest think there will be a tendency among some to make any more thought of referendums unpalatable so yes - I think there may be among some, a move towards being harder in dealings.
Surprised this story hasn't had any traction recently.
I was actually surprised at the EU timing. This is especially true, as the threat is empty as in this case actions require unanimity and Hungary has already said that it will use a veto.
Yes the one fascist state in the EU is supporting the other nation going the same way.. who would have thought. They both should be expelled from the EU..
With which majority can which body of the EU decide to do that?
Recent developments have, perhaps, increased the risk of secession (however modestly), as well as the urgency of addressing it as a possible scenario. One reason for this, ironically, is the EU’s success so far. The Union’s slow but continuing progress towards a more advanced level of integration, involving closer political and economic ties between its Member States and the transfer of an ever-increasing share of their essential sovereignty to the supranational European institutions, in conjunction with the EU’s declared ambition (unpopular with the public of some Member States) to bring new members within its fold, have created new tensions or exacerbated existing ones, testing the Member States’ commitment to the furtherance of European integration.
I started looking up on this and I found this interesting document by the ECB.
There's a lovely little quote which goes back to discussions about sovereignty and ever closer union earlier in the thread.
From an EU body itself. No wonder I cannot decide whether we should stay in or leave!
Actually, this is the reason I believe that the UK should stay in and use its position to stop the destructive rush towards ever closer union. The UK should remain and role back the unhealthy adage of the last two decades.
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