From the previous weeks’ reports on DonQ’s moonlighting activities, you may be under the impression that our intrepid nobleman augments his paltry knight’s salary by merely sitting or standing about decoratively.
Not so!
Here he is, by a children’s playground in Santa Teresa (Toledo), wielding a … paint roller!
He’s not got round to acquiring one of those stylish white vans yet, which every bona fide Painter & Decorator worth his salt should be pulling up in.
I guess Rocinante will make himself useful by fertilising your garden while DonQ and his pudgy helper attack your peeling walls. Although you may want to consider getting yourself some Beirut edition metal shutters to keep your windows in one piece…
For the other posts in the Weekly Don Quixote series, click here.
When I first glanced at the picture, I thought it was a bloody eye at the end of his paint roller. Does that say something about my frame of mind today?! Good to see Don is such a jack of all trades – he’s really earning his keep around the place!
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He is an inspiration to us all 🙂
What is your state of mind today??
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Thought I was feeling good until I saw that bloody eye! I had a student this morning that I wouldn’t mind lancing though so that could be it 😉
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That Janis has it coming….!
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And I reckon I’m much scarier than a 6-toed Latvian!
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I don’t need convincing of that…. You’ll be gouging out someone’s eyeballs with an egg cup before long…!
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Ha ha ha! Let’s hope I can control myself! Only a few more weeks to go and then I’ll be back in the relative civilisation of England!
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For a holiday? Or for good???
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Just for 5 weeks. Working at a summer school. No rest for the wicked! 🙂
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5 weeks! That’s a good stint. Where are you going to be?
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Rugby, I was there last year as well. Hard work but good fun! And nice to be surrounded by other native speakers for a while – I can feel my English getting worse and worse here! Might start a temporary Expat Eye on Rugby. Although the locals there might not take it so well. I had a lit cigarette flicked at my neck last year because I wouldn’t hand over my mobile phone to some weirdo 😉
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Yup, my English slipping is a constant fear of mine… I panic every time when I’m not 100% sure about a preposition.
Just add another section to your blog… Time Out In Rugby or something. We do want to hear about it!!!
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Will do! And I hear you on the preposition thing! Or when I tell someone an idiom and then I’m not really sure it is an idiom because I haven’t heard it in so long!! Should be a bit of material here before I go – midsummer festival, Latvian song and dance festival 😉 and a couple of day trips! I’ll probably do one on the Latvian/Russian situation and publish when they close the airplane doors 😉
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Mining a rich seam there, you’re never going to run out!! I am delighted 🙂
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It’s so sensitive here I’d rather avoid it but it keeps coming up in the comments so I figure I should address it! Or more likely, stomp all over it with my ignorant foreigner hob-nailed boots!!
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They might not let you back in… lol.
Can’t wait to read it
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🙂
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Might sneak back in from another country 😉
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NOT Russia!!
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Christ no! Anyway, need a visa to go there!
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Glad to see he’s not just lazing about, living off the state.
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He certainly isn’t… but it does make you wonder, doesn’t it, whether immortality is all that it’s cracked up to be!?
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Love this. I always thought about doing a themed photo series (I sort of did that in Paris with wrought iron work on the balconies) and this one is BRILLIANT!
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Thanks 🙂
I thought I might as well, seeing as I’m in DonQ heartland. I could do one on ham!!! lol.
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I wonder if he painted our flat. That may explain why I can’t open any of my windows.
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That’s London P&Ds for you! They arrived in a white van don’t tell me.
I don’t think DonQ is allowed to leave the country…
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Every time you write DonQ it makes me think of DQ (Dairy Queen in the States) and I want ice cream.
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Thanks for that. It’s just what I needed – another button on my mental cake-chocolate-icecream trigger installation. That thing is like a Borg implant….!
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Have you ever tried an M&M blizzard? Divine.
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I’ve just had to google this… oh my…!
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If you ever get a chance, try one. Actually most of their blizzards are pretty good. I’m just a fan of M&Ms
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If it has chocolate in or on it, I’m a fan of it. Simple, me. Will try those!!!
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I love these posts of the Don Quixotes! Glad to see he’s pulling his weight in this one! 🙂
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Resourceful, isn’t he? lol
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Now I can’t unsee the bloody eye. Great.
But the colors on that are awesome!
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Great post. I love the mural. Just wish I hadn’t seen the bloody eye!
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You’ll just have to erase it from your consciousness, lol.
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