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Torrox Costa- Movies on the Beach: ABOMINABLE
Wednesday 18AUG. At 22 h in the Ferrara Sports Zone.
Yi is one more teenager in the huge city of Shanghai. One day, a young yeti is found on the roof of his building. The allegedly ′′ abominable ′′ creature, who has escaped from the lab where he was locked in, is being wanted all over the city. Together with his ingenious friends Jin and Peng, Yi decides to help him flee, and all four embark on an epic adventure to reunite the mythical creature with his family at the highest peak in the world, Everest. FB link
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-Gardening – from weeding to landscaping, stonework (walls, paths, etc) a speciality. Transport and tools all provided by me, my time can be hired in 3 time slots of 4, 6 and 8 hours at a cost of 50€, 75€ and 100€ respectively plus any required materials at cost or fixed price quote if you prefer.
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Things are starting to get back to ‘Normal’ …now what?
Let people know you are open for business by advertising on the radio, where you will be heard 4 to 6 times a day, in the car, the kitchen, the bedroom, even on the beach!
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Based in Nerja and broadcasting 24 hours a day, your advert would be heard between 4 to 6 times a day, every day at the same cost as a magazine or local newspaper, which are looked at maybe once or even missed…….you can’t miss whats on the radio unless it’s switched off!
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Funerals are no easy task. There are numerous considerations to factor in, including logistics, food and drink, casket purchase and burial grounds. A loved one’s death brings immense emotional strain to any family, and the question of financing and arrangements only exacerbates the stress.
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As one of the leading providers of expat prepaid funeral plans in Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Balearic Islands, and the Canary Islands, we make sure to adequately support your family in the time of greatest need.
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People Group Spain: Luggage Storage in Nerja
If you have a rental property but struggle to find somewhere for your guests to store luggage on arrival or departure, then struggle no more. At People Group Spain we offer luggage storage from our office located at Calle Diputación 9. All items are securely tagged and can be stored for a cost of just 3€ per item per day. Luggage can be dropped off between 10:00 and 13:00, Monday to Saturday, and can be collected again by appointment at any time until 20:00. The facilities can also be used on Sundays with a prior reservation. For more information or reservations please contact us on +34 615 763 349 or by email at admin@peoplegroupspain.com.
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Halting Erosion using Vetiver:
From Vetiver Spain in Sayalonga
Our Nursery is open by appointment depending on the current travel restrictions. Please email or call first. We have Moringa seedlings, Organic Moringa powder and Comfrey plants. We also have some local trees and some exotic trees from Africa.
Vetiver is a rapid growing and non-invasive sterile clump grass with a height of 1-2 metres and a root system of 3-4 metres in depth. We have been providing Vetiver throughout the EU for almost 10 years now. We are located in Sayalonga where we can plant year round but our best results by far start in February. The reason is that Vetiver is indigenous to India and Vetiver loves the heat of the summer. Use Vetiver cuttings as mulch around all of your fruit trees. Decomposing Vetiver improves soil quality, keeps the weeds down and the insects away all while helping to maintain soil moisture.
Vetiver is a nutritious and replenishable animal fodder. Horses and pigs love it. We use it in our chicken pens replacing hay because it stops mites.
In the 2 photos below you will see land prepared for Vetiver and the results 2 years later.
We also use Vetiver along driveways and sidewalks. It also makes a great and inexpensive ornamental hedge.
Here is a link to a short video showing the results.
https://youtu.be/rjTmb_LL2uo
We suggest planting now, as this is the BEST time of the year to plant.
To see more images of Vetiver go to this link.
https://www.vetiverspain.org/photo-gallery.html
Presently we have some specials, which include free shipping to numerous locations.
For more information please contact us.
Please visit us or visit our website:
www.vetiverspain.com
Email: info@vetiverspain.com
Telephone: (34) 692 288 657
Great Deals From The Nerja Household Centre:
-Banak wooden tv unit sanded back to natural with a touch of chalk paint stain & waxed with new handles. Measurements 138 x 55 x 45cms Price 95€
-Pine round table. Diameter 101cms Price 45€
contact Jackie/nerja 672170429
info at nerja household centre dot com
For Sale: TV cabinet. Due to moving house for sale, in Sayalonga. Vogel’s tv cabinet (Dutch brand), cherry wood. Price 125 Euro (ono)
Dimensions: Length: 120cm/ Width: 42,5 cm/ Height: 61 cm
Easy to move thanks to (invisible) wheels, the cables can be hidden in the legs, with a storage drawer (for CDs, DVDs etc.). I can send more photos. Contact me (Yolanda) by email: yodewilde @ gmail.com (without spaces) or Telephone/WhatsApp (+34) 600 79 43 25
For Sale, 3 items:
– 2 x Ikea chairs €5
-Sign for shop front 70 x 200cm €50
-2 × bedside cabinets €10
Location- Torrox. Contact Geoff 652603864 on WhatsApp or
email: geoffinspain @ live.co.uk without the spaces.
Recommendations & Requests
Covid vaccination, required docs?: Hi, does anyone know what documents you need to take/or have to go to the non appointment vaccination centers in either Nerja or Velez on Friday? Not on the health system here but am a resident. Thank you. Email (no spaces) Msmcann @me. Com
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COVID-19
Covid Andalucia Summary: {Translation} Updated: :17/08/2021 16:47
-Andalusia has added 3,303 new Covid-19 infections this Tuesday. This is slightly less than on the same day last week, although it is more than likely that these numbers have been altered by the bank holidays. In any case, it means that the community continues to fall in the fifth wave of the pandemic.
-By provinces, Seville once again continues to have the most cases with 826, followed by Malaga with 761, Cadiz with 537, Granada with 362, Almeria with 297, Cordoba with 234, Jaen with 193 and Huelva with 93.
-This is also reflected in the cumulative incidence, which drops to both two weeks and seven days. In the first case, this figure, which measures the advance of the pandemic, stands at 457.3 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants at 14 days, almost 50 points less than the weekend and a decrease of more than 150 points compared to the peak of this wave, which was close to 600. It has gone from more than 200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants to 182.
-And where there are also lower figures is in the number of deaths, which this Tuesday in Andalusia are seven. However, this figure, like the number of infections, may be the result of the bank holidays and the weekend, so we will have to wait for the data for the rest of the week to see if this figure stabilises or rises. In any case, eight deaths have been recorded in Andalusia on Tuesday by Covid, bringing the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic in the region to 10,578.
-Of the eight deaths, Malaga has recorded five deaths and Cadiz three. The remaining six Andalusian provinces have not recorded any deaths.
-Meanwhile, the numbers in hospitals continue to fall. Particularly in the ICU, where on Tuesday there were -16 people admitted, the biggest drop since May, more than three months ago. Thus, this Tuesday there are 231 people admitted to intensive care. In total there are 1,397, which although 68 more than yesterday Monday, are almost a hundred less than at the peak of this wave, which reached almost 1,500 hospitalised. Source, Spanish: https://sevilla.abc.es/andalucia/sevi-coronavirus-andalucia-andalucia-resta-16-ingresados-covid-mayor-bajada-tres-meses-202108171251_noticia.html
Covid Malaga Summary: In its daily update for the Malaga province, the Junta de Andalucía’s Ministry of Health has reported five deaths, 761 positive coronavirus infections as well as 840 people who have overcome the disease.
Although the coronavirus cumulative incidence rate in Malaga province remains high, it has dropped by 70.6 points in the last four days, suggesting that the worst of the fifth wave is already behind us. It has gone from a rate of 576.1 on Friday to 505.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, this Tuesday (17 August). Full article: http://www.surinenglish.com/local/202108/17/malaga-reduces-covid-incidence-20210817182031.html
SPAIN
Spain receives the first 9,000 million from the European funds recovery: Spain on Tuesday gets its first tranche of money amounting to 9 billion euros ($10.6 billion) from the 800 billion euro EU Recovery Fund meant to help the bloc recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and make its economy greener and more digitalized.
Spain will get a total of 69.5 billion euros in grants from the Fund in the coming years, with the payouts tied to the implementation of investment projects and reform measures set out in its proposal to the European Commission. Full article: https://www.britishherald.com/spain-receive-tranche-of-9-billion-euros-in-eu-covid-recovery-fund-lithuania-289-million/
Spain’s List of High-Risk Countries Expands: The Spanish Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare has updated the list of high-risk EU and Schengen Area countries arrivals from which face stringent restrictions when entering Spain, as well as the list of epidemiologically safe third countries, travellers from which are permitted to enter the Countries under facilitated rules, even for tourism purposes.
The lists have already become effective on August 16 and will remain in place until August 22, on Sunday, when the new lists are set to be introduced.
Currently, the following EU and Schengen Area countries are considered high-risk by the Spanish authorities: Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden.
At the same time, travellers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Namibia and South Africa, who are eligible to enter, must undergo a 10-day quarantine upon arrival in Spain. Full article: https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/spains-list-of-high-risk-countries-expands/
UK
The UK has recorded 170 more COVID-related deaths and 26,852 new coronavirus cases in the latest 24-hour period, according to government data: It is the highest number of fatalities reported in one day since 12 March, when 175 deaths were announced. Full article: https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-uk-records-another-170-coronavirus-related-deaths-and-26-852-new-infections-12383838
OTHER
Cancel Culture Fail- Bob Dylan Hit With Bogus Lawsuit Claiming Molestation of 12yr Old in NYC April-May 1965- Not Possible, He Wasn’t There: From March 27 to April 24, 1965, Dylan toured with Joan Baez on the West Coast of the United States -from Santa Monica, California, to Seattle, Washington-about 4,000 miles from New York. On April 26, 1965 Bob Dylan arrived in London. He didn’t return to the United States until June 2nd. In late April he was mostly on the West Coast of England. All of this is recorded in calendars tracking Dylan’s whereabouts because he was a young superstar.
Yet this afternoon comes news of a complaint filed by a 68 year old woman who says Dylan groomed and molested her in New York at the Chelsea Hotel in April and May 1965 when she was 12 years old.
The calendars speak for themselves. And in London, Dylan was filmed on tour by DA Pennebaker for the famous documentary, “Don’t Look Back.” So the lawsuit or complaint is bogus.
The lawsuit was filed on Friday, just one day before the end of the extension of the special period of two years to report decades old sex crimes (temporarily over ruling statutes of limitations time limits for prosecution), established by the governor of the state of New York as he coddled the early #MeToo movement.
But this is the environment they’ve created, where accusations fly and celebrities are dubbed guilty before anyone checks the facts. Full article: https://www.showbiz411.com/2021/08/16/bob-dylan-hit-with-bogus-lawsuit-claiming-molestation-in-nyc-april-may-1965-not-possible-he-wasnt-there
Additional source, Spanish: https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/musica/2021/08/17/611be292e4d4d891378b458b.html VIDEO LINK
COVID Mobility Restrictions Info Reference
https://www.mapacovid.es/
For the latest COVID-19 statistics visit:
World– https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
World– https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441
Spain Coronavirus Data from Spain’s Ministerio de Sanidad, Official C-19 Pages:
https://www.mscbs.gob.es/en/profesionales/saludPublica/ccayes/alertasActual/nCov-China/situacionActual.htm
AND
https://cnecovid.isciii.es/covid19/
Coronavirus Cases in Andalucia, Axarquia, Costa del Sol & Malaga Province:
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/institutodeestadisticaycartografia/salud/COVID19.html
UK Coronavirus:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/
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Tuesday: Nerja, Salobrena
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