Tierra mojada

Having just got back from a holiday in sunny (?) Fermanagh, and just out of curiosity I had a look through some of my old articles.... sonds much better than " posts" doesn't it?

Anyhow, there was one a while back which I really liked... ( well, I like them all)... and I think perhaps most readers didn't realise that it was a joke... a parody of the sort of exercises you get in textbooks.

SO... I'm going to re-publish it... but now you KNOW it's not meant to be taken seriously.

Here we go...




It's the usual thing... you've got to use this picture as a starting point for a little story.... keep it in the present tense if you like... but to help you, here is a list of useful words and phrases.... try to get most of them in..

agüero mal ..... a bad omen
aceite ..........olive oil
aparejador ...... quantity surveyor
airar ........... to get angry
acrillar a balazos ... to riddle with bullets
alardear .......... to boast
avicola ........... poultry
avios.............. gear, kit
azafata ............ air hostess
ni un ápice ....... not a whit
agredir............. to attack
aserradero........... a sawmill
aguarrás ............. turpentine
arroparse..............to wrap up warm
aplastar ................ to squash flat, to crush
apabullar................ to crush
achatar...................to flatten
altivez................... haughtiness, arrogance
caballero andante......... a knight errant
añoranza...................nostalgia
ambiente ..................atmosphere, surroundings
estar aviado .............. to be in a mess
amilanar ...................to scare
aplacarse .................to calm down
alunizar .................. to land on the moon.

I hope that all helped, and that you will send me your lovely stories. Perhaps, next time we could try some words beginning with b as a more advanced task.

There you are you see... it was all a joke really... however, if anybody want's to have a go at fitting all those words into a parrot-based story that's fine.

Obviously I'm rather sluggish after my holiday so I'm going to go straight to "music time" now.. so...

Here's a short but lovely song.... it's that Zahara again...Incidentally, what does " Chica pop" actually mean... I have drawn a blank using conventional means, so if anyone knows I would be pleased to hear about it.



here's the words for you to sing along to... it's that sort of song...

el día que quiso parar
siguió bañada en diamantes
tan sólo quería pasar
en roma sus vacaciones

ella es una chica pop
frágil como Marilyn por Warhol
se llamaba Edda Kathleen
era un cuatro de mayo
y girar
gritar!!
y tratar de olvidar que
tiene una casa sin vistas
y tratar de olvidar que
tiene una casa sin vistas

no puede evitar fumar
su piel son colores quemados
te mira y no sabe mirar
se pega como tierra mojada

ella es una chica pop
atrapada en papel fotográfico
se entretiene con mirar a través del cristal
y girar
gritar!!
y tratar de olvidar que
tiene una casa sin vistas…
y tratar de olvidar que
tiene una casa sin vistas..

Fuente: musica.com... thanks for the words.

Here's a more complete version, al fresco no less but minus Beth.... but isn't Zahara's voice just lovely! And this song suits it perfectly.....



Here's a muy genial interview with the fine Zahara... it's pretty fast stuff..



If you want to read about a stupid thing that happened while I was on holiday, copy and paste this into google... http://mostlybirdingwithray.blogspot.com/