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Tripe and Spanish onions
Tripe and Spanish onions
Tripe and Spanish onions
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John and Anne Hammond have burnt their boats. John has taken early retirement from his insurance company and they have sold their suburban bungalow and bought a run-down cottage in southern Spain. Henceforth life will be one round of perpetual sunshine and cheap booze.
But the realities of everyday living intrude. Their encounters with Spanish builders, bureaucracy, dodgy odd-job men and their attempts to integrate into their new mode of life are frustratingly humourous.
John tries his hand at writing a best seller and his wife takes up her painting again. But when they have to contend with the Spanish driving test and the traumas of family visitors, forest fires and the late hours of Spanish friends, the pressure becomes intense.
Our agreeable but naive Brits sit on their terrace, the sun warm on their backs. They are drinking wine and contemplating their new, palm-fringed swimming pool. Across the valley, whitewashed cottages cluster around a blue-domed church. Beyond, the vista of mountain peaks stretches for a trillion miles.
‘Oo-o,’ Anne says. ‘It’s ever so nice!’
John nods and takes another swig, ‘I’ve never been one to complain.’‘Yes you are,’ says his better half. ‘You complain all the blooming time.’

LanguageEnglish
PublisherGeoff Sadler
Release dateJul 23, 2012
ISBN9781476350721
Tripe and Spanish onions
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Geoff Sadler

Geoff Sadler has practiced as a graphic designer and artist all his life, producing memorable advertising material for clients as diverse as Shell, British Rail, the GPO and countless publishing houses and Governmental bodies. His evocative paintings have been exhibited world-wide and his latest showing was a collection of vibrant prints at the Barbican Gallery in London. Geoff Sadler has also worked as a writer and journalist on national newspapers and magazines, both in the UK and abroad. 'Tripe and Spanish onions' is his first, full-length humourous work. He travels widely and divides his time between a south coast pad and his cottage in southern Spain – the inspiration for so many of his yarns. 'Telling tales', a collection of Geoff's short and tall stories, is also available.

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