Michelle Johnstone  0:00  Hola Funky Media listeners, well, another week ticks by and it's filled with more heat and humidity. I feel like I'm in the Masai Mara, all we're missing is the wildlife, that is unless you count some of the tourists of the younger variety,  if you know I mean, the Stags and the Hens. The ones who feel the need to drink the Costa del Sol dry.  Oh the  dramas !   Anyway, let's hope things cool down a bit by next week so we can all breathe again. Well with the high temps brings the craziness, and it's all going off here. Firefighters had to rescue a man from a high voltage electricity pylon. I read this and thought, what the heck ?? ..... Yep, some 27 year old, idiot, climbed up a bloody great electricity pylon. Only God knows why and emergency services were called out as he was spotted, making a fuss and calling for help. Maybe he just couldn't get a signal on his mobile who knows, in my experience, it was probably Vodafone. The reason for him climbing is unknown, but Endesa were asked to cut the high voltage supply to the cables, until this numpty could be lowered to the ground. Then they took him to hospital after the incident, obviously, to be checked over.   The newspaper here didn't specify whether he was of Spanish or other origin, or if he may be just identified as a fruit loop. Andalucia has been moved down a level, we're now at level two from level three, whatever that means this week. All I know is I have to cover my face on public transport, or in a shop. Well it's best for the general public rarely that way I can't scare anybody,  especially first thing in the morning. Other than that, life is pretty normal here.   Everyone is out and about, bars and restaurants are booming at the moment, so life is normalish.   Numbers are really low here which is brilliant and so some of the restrictions are being lifted and we're doing it gradually. Yet, we still remain on Britain's Amber list and yet, the infection rate is much higher in the UK. I'm still trying to figure that one out, Boris. The way I see it, you're bringing in immigrants from all over the world with no information or vaccine certificates but if I want to fly to the UK to visit my family or friends, I still have to jump through hoops with COVID passports and lateral flow or PCR tests and of course, let's not forget day two or is it day five, like any of us can keep up with any of this. Is this fair ?  

Also this week in the news, another two earthquakes reportedly rocked the Grenada province, one measuring 4.5 the other 3.1. on the Richter scale and that was about 11:30 last Thursday night. It was felt by quite a few people in the Malaga province, and some structural damage was reported this particular time. I think I might have felt a slight rumble but that could have been my husband's stomach. Anyway, if you remember, I told you about an earthquake last week too. So, this is a little worrying, it would seem we have a bit of seismic activity happening here in the south of Spain. 

A mother and son, who spent the day at Luton Airport after EasyJet, they refused to let him fly because their lateral flow test had expired by 15 minutes.  15 minutes !!          They were due to travel to Croatia but now they've lost a day of their holiday and the money spent on their COVID tests, then they had to shell out for a new flight, an overnight hotel, and more tests before they could continue the next day. Is this right ?   Is that logical ?  Am I the only one that thinks this is downright ridiculous ?   If their tests were a day old,  I could understand it a bit more but 15 minutes.  Really ??  Some flipping jobs worth down at Luton Airport, just sucking the joy out of some poor lady and her son, who are trying to get away for a bit of a break.                                               I do hope Boris and Dominic Raab, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs enjoyed their holidays. I understand Raab was busy living it up on the island of Crete, no problems with their lateral flow test then I'm gathering, while all hell breaks loose in Afghanistan.  The scenes of people desperate to get out of a country, not to mention the British and American passport holders who can't even make it through the pandemonium to even make it through the crowds to the airport. What a nightmare, this is turning out to be and to think they had 18 months to plan this evacuation. Makes you wonder what they do all day at taxpayers expense. There was no need for this insanity. They had plenty of time to draw up an evacuation plan. Instead it's turned into a desperate situation that has to be sorted out by the August 31st deadline. Good luck with that. I'm hearing enough woes of holidaymakers returning to the UK, through the airports from their summer holidays at the moment, God help the refugees. 

Now Doritos, Doritos have paid a teenager out 15,000 pounds for a rare puffed out Nacho chip,  What ??........ Apparently the snack giant Doritos paid a 13 year old girl 15,000 pounds for a rare puffed up version of one of their crisps. You got to be kidding me. Rylee Stuart 13,  said "she was surprised".... I bet she was, when the company contacted her with a $20,000, that's about 14,600 pounds, offer for a puffy Dorito. Thank goodness she didn't eat it, I would have been sick, literally.  The Gold Coast teen uploaded a video of the unusual corn snack. Can you guess where ?  On Tic Tok of course and it soon went viral. She put a caption on the video and shared it with her 11,600 followers, and it read. "I found a puffed Dorito, is this valuable, or should I just eat it, tell me please" ?  She then gets interviewed on Australia's Nine News. Rylee said, "I was about to eat it but I thought I better save it for later".  Good job, too because that would have been more expensive than eating Beluga Caviar..... a Dorito chip, who'd have thought 15,000 pounds ?  We can only hope it arrived safely in the mail or by courier.  I wonder how they collected it and what they plan to do with it now. Still, I bet Rylee is one happy girl. 

Now, we all love a bit of bacon and eggs in the morning on all sides of the globe, but a restaurant in Weston-Super-Mare is offering the massive 20 pound Breakfast Challenge, which aparently only three people have beaten so far. Imagine sitting down to....      Wait for it .......four pieces of toast, four fried pieces of bread, six pieces of bacon, six sausages, six fried eggs, six hashbrowns, four black puddings, two portions of bubble and squeak, mushrooms, beans and two grilled tomatoes. Oh my god !  I'm exhausted just reading that never mind eating it.  Treats Cafe in Weston-Super-Mare, hungry hopefuls take on the big breakfast challenge for 19.75, which only three people, as I said have successfully completed so far. Now they say breakfast is the food of champions but this must be Heart Attack City. The dish is served with a timer too and those who polish off this mammoth breakfast in 60 minutes, get their meal for free and a photo in the Hall of Fame and I think a defibrillator. I´ll have to check on the last bit. Wow ! and just when we're all being encouraged to keep healthy and fit and eat well, I guess the fit bit, would have been your teeth and reflux with all that chewing and swallowing.      Well it's my time for a siesta now because it's the Spanish way of life. Can someone please turn the heating down before we all roast.  Until next week, have a good time, stay safe and as always from me, Michelle, Hasta Luego from the Costa del Sol.

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