Maybe you remember Sable, our black labrador? You may recall that she has failed in her audition for the role of fishing companion but had a lot of fun in the process. Well, it turns out that she has a few areas that she needs to work on beyond he tendency to launch herself into the water and spook the fish I am trying to sneak up on. For one thing, she eats grass and I thought she had it in mind that she was actually a sheep before, more recently, noticing a strong preference for chewing on wood. Maybe she now self-identifies as a beaver? Whatever she is, it seems to us as though she could use some training and so we enrolled in a dog training programme that kicked off a couple of weeks ago.
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Soon the iron bridge over the Guadalhorce river in the town of Estación de Cártama will be 100 years old. They started building the thing in 1927 and packed up their tools 4 years later. It seems like a pretty substantial bridge for what is, for the most part, a very modest river but there are times when the rains come and the river rises and the bridge needs to be robust enough to take everything that nature can throw at it.
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