British Society of Catalunya

Clarifying EU Residency in Spain

Webmaster, BSC Roses — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:10:38 +0000

How to obtain Spanish residency for EU citizens and their non-EU family members: the registration certificate (certificado de registro) and the EU-family member residence card (tarjeta de residencia de familiar de ciudadano de la Unión) revealed:

Invitation: World Wide Darkness- September 17, 2008

Webmaster, BSC Roses — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:06:06 +0000

“On Wednesday, September 17, 2008, I invite people around the world to turn off their lights for ten minutes – from 9:50pm to 10:00pm in their local time zone.”

photo credit: Randy Son Of Robert

English:
Darkness world: On September 17, 2008 from 21:50 to 22:00 hours.
Proposes to delete all lights and if possible all electrical appliances, so our planet can ‘breathe’.
if the answer is massive, energy saving can be brutal.
Only 10 minutes, and see what happens.
If we are 10 minutes in the dark, we can light a candle and simply
Be looking at it, we breathe and our planet too.
Remember that the union is strength and the Internet can be very powerful and can
Even do something big.

Move the news, if you have friends that live in other countries tell them.

Ed.’s note: Please excuse the bad english!

Submitted by Robin Flood

Arts and Crafts Fair, September 2008

Webmaster, BSC Roses — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:57:29 +0000

GMTV are looking for expat families…

Webmaster, BSC Roses — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:24:00 +0000

“We are looking for expat families in France, Spain and the United States.

Did you and your family leave the UK recently to build a new life in one of these countries?

Would you be willing to speak to us about your experience?”

British pensioner bullfighter makes comeback in Spain after quadruple heart bypass

Webmaster, BSC Roses — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:14:51 +0000

Frank Evans, a grandfather from Salford, will don his bullfighter’s cape and step into the ring in southern Spain on Sunday only months after undergoing a quadruple heart bypass operation and knee replacement surgery.

From the Telegraph website.

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Burial at Sea

Webmaster, BSC Roses — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:39:53 +0000

Bubbles and Barbie, two blonde sisters had promised their Uncle, who had been a seafaring gentleman all his life, to bury him at sea when he died. Of course, in due time, he did pass away and the two blondes kept their promise.
They set off from Clearwater Beach with their uncle all stitched up in a burial bag and loaded onto their rowboat.
After a while Bubbles says, ‘Do you think we’re out far enough, Barbie?”
Barbie slipped over the side and finding the water only knee deep said, “Nope, not yet Bubbles.”
So they row a little farther…. Again Bubbles asks Barbie, “Do you think we’re out far enough now?”
Once again Barbie slips over the side and almost immediately says, “No, this will never do. The water is only up to my chest.”
So on they row and row and row, and finally Barbie slips over the side and disappears. Quite a bit of time goes by and poor Bubbles is really getting worried when suddenly Barbie breaks the surface,
gasping for breath she says, “OK, it’s finally deep enough. Hand me the shovel.”

Submitted by Cyril Buckle

Important Zen Teaching

Webmaster, BSC Roses — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:35:22 +0000

Alternative Advice for Real Life

1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead.

Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow.

Do not walk beside me for the path is narrow.

In fact, just piss off and leave me alone.

2. Sex is like air. It’s not important unless you aren’t getting any.
3. No one is listening until you fart.
4. Always remember you’re unique. Just like everyone else.

5. Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
6. If you think nobody cares whether you’re alive or dead, try

missing a couple of mortgage payments.

7. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in

their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a

mile away and you have their shoes.

8. If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.

9. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him

how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

10. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again,

it was probably well worth it.

11. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

12. Some days you are the bug; some days you are the wind screen.

13. Don’t worry; it only seems kinky the first time.

14. Good judgment comes from bad experience, and most of that

comes from bad judgment.

15. A closed mouth gathers no foot.

16. There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.

17. Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your lips are

moving.

18. Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

19. We are born naked, wet and hungry, and get slapped on our

ass…Then things just get worse.

20. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a

laxative on the same night.

Submitted by Cyril Buckle

Expats to Pay for Medical Treatment

Webmaster, BSC Roses — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:27:16 +0000

It seems that people who took early retirement and came to Spain with the hope of free medical care are going to have to think again, according to this article in the Telegraph.

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Photos from the May Lunch

Webmaster, BSC Roses — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:45:28 +0000

[Show as slideshow]

Courtesty of Marilyn Broderick

English Language Theatre- Please Help

Webmaster, BSC Roses — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:32:51 +0000

This just in:

Hello

I am a writer and am looking to contact english language theatre groups in the Costa Brava region for an article I am writing. I am having difficulty tracking down contacts in the region and am wondering if you can help.

I look forward to hearing from you

Simon Newman
Costa Brava Resident Magazine

If anyone can help please contact Simon directly at simon.newman@wanadoo.fr .