the lady spanishes

Donna Gee
I'm a semi-retired former Daily Express, Daily Mirror and Daily Star staff sub-editor and writer now living mainly near Guardamar on the Costa Blanca. Although I've become known as Grumpy Old Gran, there is another, happier, side to me - as this blog hopefully shows

Latest posts

• All systems pro for Spain's new Nadal, 17


• Kid Kuhn targets US Open tennis glory with a Brit of Costa help


• Costa superkid tames Britain's tennis No.1


• Spain's tennis superkid faces Australian Open dilemma


• Look out, there's a Costa criminal about!


• A terminal problem at Alicante Airport


• Julio Iglesias sings from his sporting heart, unlike sham British stars


• Tennis superkid Nico - a blond new hero for Brits in Spain


• Tom Jones, Spain and a dark stranger: The ultimate coincidence


• Spanish twins fear Manx United flying fur factor


• Where life's a beach and every day a holiday...


• Moving to Spain: A pleasure or a penance?


• Wheelchair wonders put my Spanish travel pain to flight


• Guardamar marina's Great Barrier grief


• Warning: Diets can give you that rock-bottom feeling


• Burger the calories, I'm Spain's Yankee Noodle Candy


• No exercise, little water...the Dopey Diet that works!


• How I lost 16.5 kilos despite breaking all the rules of dieting


• Dieting’s no pain in Spain – DDD'S done it for me


• Gardens and jardins: The nutty world of Grace Quirrel

Archive

• 2017 May


• 2016 September


• 2016 April


• 2016 January


• 2015 November


• 2015 October


• 2015 September


• 2015 May


• 2014 February


• 2014 January


• 2013 August


• 2013 July


• 2013 March


• 2012 December


• 2011 December


• 2011 October


• 2011 June


• 2011 March


• 2011 February


• 2011 January


• 2010 December

Interesting links

• Donna's Grumpy Old Gran blog


• More of Donna's grumping


• And a few moans more...