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I’ve just spent four lovely days with my eldest daughter Alison. Well, she actually spent her time with me over here in Spain. Just getting out and about again has, I have to admit, knackered me, but it has also been r...

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It’s been three and a half years since I fell off that ladder from a height of about fifteen feet and busted my right shoulder. Apart from the dreaded Covid, injuring my shoulder was the worst thing that has happened to ...

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Walking along Rochester High Street in Kent, on Saturday, one of the people I was walking with, threw a cigarette butt down a drain. I didn’t see this but unfortunately a council worker in some sort of official uniform a...

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Being back home in the UK (Kent) this week, has been a breath of fresh air. 7 days in, out of 15 and although I have some sort of virus shit and I probably look as rough as fuck, I actually feel good. I’ve met up with a ...

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For the past couple of years, when I travel over to the UK to visit my family, I stay at my son Billy’s house, I used to do hotels, same as I used to be able to afford them 😂 I sleep here on a blow-up bed, it’s a decent...

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Well the European book tour is progressing well. I’m being ‘fed and watered’ far too much and will more than likely end up returning to Spain twice the size, the belly part of me will anyway 😂 I came here on a mission t...

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There are some fucking idiots about, idiots who try to cause upset, try to get you angry, try to cause conflict. And you find most of these idiots online, trolling people like me, they hide behind their keyboards. What a...

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I find myself sitting in Torrevieja bus station early morning, waiting for the bus to take me to Alicante airport for a flight back to the UK. An unplanned two-week break and one which I nearly delayed when I woke up th...

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Well it took some time, it got frustrating, it got infuriating as well and my eyes ache from staring into the laptop screen, but I got it done. The Kindle version of my book ‘Life’s Stories’ has been published and is ava...

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Just over ten years ago I witnessed what I’d been dreaming about for 40 years. On July 10 2016, Steve Wonder came to the UK (Hyde Park, London) and performed his 1976 album ‘Songs In The Key Of Life’ in its entirety, it ...

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Back home yesterday after a couple of days away, it was straight on with the TV for the F1 and then onto the big game Arsenal v Chelsea. I planned to go out for the football but shamefully, I needed the sofa for the aft...

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What have we all got to worry about in life? Me? My fucking water bills 🤣 well it’s not only the bills, I can pay them, but, I wanna know where the water’s going! My water bills were about 130 euros, now they’re 450, fu...

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Well it’s good to say that my book Life’s Stories’ has been selling well. It’ll never be found on the shelves of WH Smith’s, it’ll never be up for a Booker Prize either, but I’m proud that so many have decided to give it...

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20 minutes left of my drive down to Marbella to join in with my friend Bill Allen’s annual ‘big birthday bash’ , it’s always a memorable and heavy weekend! I love the drive along the Costa del Sol coastline, it’s a fucki...

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My book Life's Stories' has finally been published on Amazon and here's the link for anyone who may want to buy it:

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With Sue away in the UK, I get bored and lonely as usual. I’ve always got loads to do, I can always keep myself busy but…

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It’s been exactly two weeks since I last published a blog onto my website: iantanner.me.uk. I’ve written a few ramblings but couldn’t seem to finish them enough to upload them, it may seem like a waste of time but it kee...

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My grandson daughter Karen and her three kids have returned to the UK after seven years of living out here in Spain, I had a text message from the youngest granddaughter Susie last week, when I say text message, it was a...

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Did you see my Facebook post from last night, showing the entertainment in the hotel, where I am staying? I sat there bemused for about 45 mins watching. I’ve never seen anything like it before. All these old Spanish cou...

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I’m still staying on and off at my Karen’s apartment and earlier today I was looking in the food cupboards for some salt and pepper to sprinkle over my soon to be cooked, scrambled eggs. I took a jar full of pasta out of...

","url":"https://iantanner.me.uk/my-blog/f/ouch","title":"Ouch","summary":"I’m still staying on and off at my Karen’s apartment and earlier today I was looking in the food cupboards for some salt and pepper to sprinkle over my soon to be cooked, scrambled eggs. I took a jar full of pasta out of...","date_modified":"2026-06-09T20:09:01Z"},{"id":"https://iantanner.me.uk/my-blog/f/right-you-lot","html_content":"

Yesterday was a good day, for a change! It was good to meet up with my old mate Karl Stansfield for breakfast, it had been at least six years since we’d last seen each other, why, I have no idea. First off, I was waiting...

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Yesterday evening whilst walking home after having dinner, I went into a little ‘convenient’ store to get a cold drink. I bought a can of Fanta and a Bounty chocolate bar, I was charged 3:50 euros. Now for someone who do...

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I need food in the cupboards and the fridge, but I have no car and the shops are too far to walk to in this hot weather. Ah, I know, I’ll do a shop online. So I go online, first I have to download the app. Then, I have t...

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Today has not been the best of days. I’m stranded at my Karen’s, trying to sort a few things out in my head, and then Karen FaceTime’s me to tell me that she is staying in the UK with the grandchildren, I knew it was com...

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It seems like another ‘reality check’ day! Oh well, some things never change. I had to drive to Alicante this morning to drop the car to painters, I was expecting a lift back but it didn’t happen, that caused me to cance...

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Reality check this morning. I had such a good time in the UK that I’ve woken up this morning, wishing that I’d stayed a bit longer. Waking up and having a bubble bath run for me every morning was pure heaven, I felt like...

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Girl at Jet2 departure gate “can you take your passport out of the cover for me please?” I do as I’m asked. She looks at my passport and hands it back to me, there is nothing to see on the pages that she cannot see with...

","url":"https://iantanner.me.uk/my-blog/f/i%E2%80%99m-a-psg-fan-for-the-day","title":"I’m a PSG fan for the day ","summary":"Girl at Jet2 departure gate “can you take your passport out of the cover for me please?” I do as I’m asked. She looks at my passport and hands it back to me, there is nothing to see on the pages that she cannot see with...","date_modified":"2026-05-30T07:37:44Z"},{"id":"https://iantanner.me.uk/my-blog/f/all-about-the-food","html_content":"

The penultimate night on my trip over to Kent was curry night with family. It seems the days have to consist of “what are we having for dinner?”. Nothing wrong with that except for the belly size 😂

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I’m over half-way through my little trip back to the UK. The flight over was fun, I had a ‘naughty’ boy sitting in front of me, answering his mum back, cursing everything, banging the seat like he wanted to break it, eve...

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I don’t mind being controversial, I’m not stupid and I’m also not an idiot. But. who really thinks (Prince) Andrew is a wrong ‘un? Okay, so he’s got that face, the face that a lot of people would love to punch, he’s smi...

","url":"https://iantanner.me.uk/my-blog/f/i-just-need-those-answers","title":"I just need those answers ","summary":"I don’t mind being controversial, I’m not stupid and I’m also not an idiot. But. who really thinks (Prince) Andrew is a wrong ‘un? Okay, so he’s got that face, the face that a lot of people would love to punch, he’s smi...","date_modified":"2026-05-22T20:31:06Z"},{"id":"https://iantanner.me.uk/my-blog/f/it%E2%80%99s-stuck-somewhere","html_content":"

Yesterday in the Sky News feed, I read that Ofcom (the communications watchdog) have criticised Tik Tok and You Tube for not taking steps to safeguard children. I ask, what the fuck can they do? Also, we have Snapchat, I...

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Arsenal winning The Premier League, although fully deserved, is like being attacked by blood-sucking vermin. And, if they go and win The Champions League as well, then this year will definitely go down as the annus horri...

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After Covid, which was the first world-wide epidemic for almost every single person alive today, and where no one could possibly have had the answer as to how to deal with it, we now have ‘hantavirus’ or ‘rat virus’ as i...

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Firstly, can I express my thanks to President Trump for keeping our King safe whilst he was in the USA, that was very kind of him. As much as I like Mr.Trump, he doesn’t always keep to his promises 😂😂

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I’ve gone six weeks without uploading a blog, that’s a long time. I have written stuff, I write all the time, but lately I’ve been preoccupied with personal and family stuff, I’ve wanted to let it out but kept it inside,...

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The kids not eating all of their dinner which I cooked especially for them! Okay, I have to admit to giving them ‘oversized’ portions, I just can’t get that right yet. And then, Still with half a plate full of food on he...

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When you plan a day, get up nice and early ready to go and everything goes wrong - don’t you just love these days 😂

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My last blog was about last Sunday mornings hangover, it cost a lot of euros to get in that state! I don’t count how much I spend but I’m sure it was no where near as costly as my water bill, which has come in at 450 eur...

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After not having an hangover for about thirty years (Sue will say otherwise!) I woke up yesterday morning with the biggest headache, it had to be the very large vodka and cokes drank in excess the previous afternoon and ...

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Two days of alcohol consumption stops play. There’s only so much of it I can take, so the coca-cola enters play, for the time being at least and Coke goes well with pizza, which I’ve just ordered for my lunch. I passed u...

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Breakfast in the sun at last. In the marina at Cabopino and it’s so quiet and peaceful, but it is only 9:30. Oh the joy of that first cuppa in the morning 😂 I have no milk so it’s been a long time coming this morning, n...

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Halfway through a little road trip down to Marbella, well actually to the lovely port of Cabopino. I’m driving down on my own, Sue wasn’t feeling up for it, which is a shame as she loves the Costa del Sol as much as I do...

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I was at the airport again yesterday to collect friends. People watching as usual. Nothing to report apart from boring fuckers standing around and I suppose I have to include myself as one of them 😂

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I came across those two photos above of Sue and I yesterday and placing them side by side just cracked me up. Talk about police ‘mugshots’ they are archetypal, we look a right pair of bastards 🤣🤣 I tried to imagine our...

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“Here you are Dandan, I made this for you, and I drew this for you, oh and look, I made you a bookmark” Lovely, Susie. But she does this almost every time she’s here! If I was keep everything she made or drew, I’d need a...

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Motivation has got to be the key to a long, healthy life. I find that without it, I’m sofa-bound. I’ve got things that need doing and I haven’t been doing them, usually, I’m on the ball and don’t let anything like little...

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The kids are back at school so the ‘babysitting’ the ‘looking after’ all started again yesterday. I love it. But It can be hard work, especially when I’m on my own. I’ve only just become domesticated, I couldn’t do fuck-...

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