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Seriously Mum, Where's that Donkey? by [Alan Parks]

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SERIOUSLY MUM, WHERE’S THAT DONKEY?

Could you give up everything you have worked for and do something completely different?
Would you give up and go home if it all went wrong?

"Seriously Mum, Where's that Donkey?" is Alan Parks' follow-up book to "Seriously Mum, What's an Alpaca?" This book continues the story of Alan and Lorna's induction into Andalucian life and fills in some of the blanks.
In this book, Alan and Lorna discover that their local town is not quite as sleepy as they had first imagined and that the local ladies will stand by you once their friendship is won.
Alan and Lorna make some great new friends and have a few more unexpected adventures along the way. Add an appearance on Canadian TV into the mix, plus the trials and tribulations of alpaca farming, and this sequel will bring you bang up to date with the lives of two British expats in rural Spain.

"As you can imagine, their stories of adjusting to life in Spain just keep getting better, and in comparison with Driving Over Lemons, Alan and Lorna's tales seem more contemporary, and still as true of expat life today as when they arrived in Spain.
This really is a ripping tale of authentic Andalucia, from a family known and loved within the expat communtiity, precisely because they chose to remove themselves and breed alpacas. If living the expat life appeals to you, or you are already doing it, then Seriously Mum, Whats an Alpaca? should be considered a must read."
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My name is Alan Parks and I decided to write my book, Seriously Mum, What's an Alpaca? after being told by friends that our story (Lorna and I) would make an interesting read. It is now over six years since we first left our beautiful home just outside Brighton, and although we have experienced some hard times here, every day we grow to love it more. In fact we can't think of anywhere we would rather live. Ok, yes, the summers are as hot as can be, and the winters bone-chillingly cold, but our life here has taught us many new things about ourselves and each other. Since the book was published, I had so many people write to me asking how the animals were now, and were we happy living in Spain that I have now written two more books in the series, Seriously Mum, Where's that Donkey? and Seriously Mum, How Many Cats? I have just started work on book 4 in the series.

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Alan Parks was born in Eastbourne, East Sussex in 1978. His life changed for the better (he is constantly reminded) when he met Lorna in 2003. Work consisted of fairly mundane, mainly managerial posts. In 2008, Alan and Lorna moved to rural Andalucía, Spain, and now live in an old Olive Mill, off-grid and with a menagerie of animals. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00SX9G5TU
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Alan Parks (January 28, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 28, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1243 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 322 pages

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Alan Parks was born in Eastbourne, East Sussex in 1978. In 2004 Alan's Dad died of cancer after he also went through a long term illness and two liver transplants. One of his mottos was always 'live life for today, life is too short'. That philosophy has encouraged Alan to get out there and pursue his dreams.

Alan's life changed for the better (he is constantly reminded) when he met Lorna in 2003. Work consisted of fairly mundane, mainly managerial posts. In 2008, Alan and Lorna moved to rural Andalucía, Spain, and now live in an old Olive Mill, off-grid, with a menagerie of animals.

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Bryan D. Spellman

A fun read that I highly recommend

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 9, 2015

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54 of 75 for 2015. A sequel to Parks book Seriously Mum, What's an Alpaca, Where's That Donkey is a serious of well written anecdotes concerning the continuing travails of Alan and Lorna as they stay at their Spanish home near Cordoba. Not as much a continuous narrative as was the first book, this is more a collection of stories about their day-to-day lives, both the highs and the lows. The alpacas play a lesser role in this book, if not in their lives, but the reader continues to learn more about living as an ex-pat in a country where you don't speak the language and where the customs are completely different from what you're used to. A fun read that I highly recommend.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2023

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I highly recommend this fun read. It will keep you entertained the whole book. Alan and Lorna have moved to Spain and are having lots of fun meeting locals and helping out all the animals that come their way. These adventures lead to some very comical times and are described perfectly.
This was a great and easy read.

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Charles van Buren

Reads like a journal of rather mundane daily experiences and activities

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 19, 2017

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If you are looking for a Spanish, A YEAR IN PROVENCE, this is not it. If, from the title and cover, you are expecting humor or a children's story, this is the wrong place to look. The book is much like reading a journal or diary of everyday, mundane things. Stray dogs appear at their home, they feed dogs, they take dogs to shelters, they go shopping, some of their paying guests are unpleasant, their car breaks down and the part sent from the UK doesn't fit, the roads are bad, they find a very large toad which frightens Lorna, one of their dogs eats a toad and gets sick, etc. The author calls that bit about the dog and the toad, "the toad experience from hell." If Mr. Parks really thinks that rather ordinary experience with the toad was that bad, he must have lived a very sheltered life. Indeed, a sheltered life describes most of the "adventures" recounted in this book. An odd thing about Alan's and Lorna's Spanish sojourn is that after living there for over two years, neither of them was able to learn Spanish. Then there are the little hints of British superiority such as, "We pulled over by a rickety gate (is there anything else in Spain?)."

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Paula

more than equal to the first

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2013

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To be honest I was looking forward to the launch and release of this, the second book, about life in Spain by Alan Parks and his lovely lady Lorna. It more than met my expectations.

I bought this book in both Kindle edition (easier for me to read) and in the soft cover because the cover art deserves attention in and of itself. We always hear you can't tall a book by its cover and to some extent that is correct but in another way, when chosen carefully, as this one was, you can tell a lot. You can see by the cover that there is going to be whimsey and love under the front cover. You can see that the roads are not all paved and smooth and that obstacles still get in the way but most of all you can see that there is going to be fun and fun there is.

By the writing of this book Alan and Lorna have truly left the UK and established a new life at The Olive Mill in southern Spain. They obviously love animals and can't stand to see any neglected or in distress....the fact that they have to drive over non existent roads to collect the vet to bring him to their house to treat the animals never seems to create tension or anger.

They made their move at a very inopportune time in the life of most people. At a time when we were all having to batten down the hatches to endure a lengthy and painful financial recession they embarked on a new home, a new language and a whole new life involving alpacas, dogs, chickens and some awesome feral cats.

You will get to know more about their neighbors and the things they have had to do in order to keep their new life afloat all the time knowing in the back of your mind that despite the hardships they are going to make it. Be it the love and compassion that reaches out...the ability to find humor in the antics of man and beast alike or just plain "stick to it ive ness"......any way you look at it it is a delightful book leaving the reader wanting not only to want more but also scrambling with your own finances to see if you could afford a brief visit to this place they call home.

PS Alan I love the insights of your animals very much

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Zuri

A rather tame tale.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2013

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This book disappointed me. I don't even know how the title is supposed to fit in with the story, as the couple have no children (in Spain). I did like the main characters. Basically I felt that the author should have waited for another year before writing this sequel (I haven't read the 1st book). It's as if he does not have enough of a story to tell. I was not so entertained by the endless animal tales, and I could have done without all the info on alpacas (cute as they are). I also disliked the "writings" of various animals at the end of some chapters. I sort of enjoyed the book, which is faint praise, but at least I did want to finish reading it. A pity nothing much really happens. Alan's writing style is good, and could be put to better use in a livelier book, with more to their life, than this very predictable existence in Spain. Oh -- the language battles were quite amusing.

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E. Reed

Second part lives up to the first

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 22, 2016

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Alan and Lorna are still trying to scrape a living from their alpaca farm in Andalucia. The weather is still extreme to say the least and their menagerie of dogs, cats and , chickens are ever the source of consternation and humour, often at once!

Moving to warmer climes for Lorna’s health they have settled in and despite some terrible mortalities for some of the babies, the Alpaca family appear to be starting to adjust. Written as a series of short chapters about events in and around the plot of land for their Alpaca venture and the Friendster have garnered around the locality, this book is light and frothy, so a perfect summer read.

This is much the same territory as “ Seriously Mum , What’s an Alpaca” we stray not a jot from the style or format of the former book in the series, but that is no bad thing. The animals still get a little voice over at the end of every chapter, rather like Arkwright at the end of “open All Hours”. There contribution is always endearing.

This is not high drama or high farce, but normal lives being lived out in a extraordinary locale. It is but a tiny casement window into the life in that area of Spain where olive growing and stray dogs are part of everyday life! But it is nice to peek in every once in a while.

This is a gentle book that does not try to be anything more than a personal story of anecdotal vignettes, but it is wonderful to read with a glass of something chilly and crisp as light starts to fade on a summer evening as you sit and wonder if the solar panels at the mill have managed to store enough residual power to allow Alan to turn on the washing machine!?

A thoroughly enjoyable little read.

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Julie Haigh

Moving, memorable and marvellous.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 24, 2014

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I've read Alan Parks' first book-Seriously Mum, What's An Alpaca, quite a while back. That was amazing. I bought this book straight after but held off reading it for a bit as I was a bit concerned that it may be difficult to equal the excellence of his first memoir. I needn't have worried at all! Absolutely amazing and wonderful! Really varied as well, this is not just a repeat of the Alpaca scenarios. The book has a great intro and gets off to a fine start. So much information and so well-written. Only Alan Parks could make an episode involving a dog being sick so gripping! There's allsorts to entertain you; vet bills and wonder pills, Zumba classes and wars, drama and panic about Santa-who ate all the......figs?, about Dolores being a pain, balls-ups with cushions, little chickens and feeling a bit fruity-comical mistakes with the lingo! Even by page 35 it was fantastic. The chapter with the awkward guests! Laugh-out-loud moments with these 'Guests from Hell'-I'm sure Alan wasn't laughing at the time though. It really does continue the high standard set in the first book, lots of variety of content; ups and downs, humour, animal stories, language gaffes, barbecue parties etc and car problems again. It was interesting to me that when they sent for a second hand car part they eventually got one from none other than-Yorkshire!-where I live-what a small world! We have a famous motor spares place around here-I'm intrigued as to whether Alan got the part from Cooper Bridge Spares or Doncaster Motor spares-you just never know what's going to turn up in a book! Again, brilliant themed names for his four kittens and he's even included a recipe for his Giant Burgers. Another superb book, I want to read more-so get writing Alan! Moving, memorable and marvellous.

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TrishieB

Brilliant sequel in the 'Seriously Mum' series by Alan Parks

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 28, 2015

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Seriously Mum, Where's that Donkey? is the second of Alan Parks' Memoirs that enable you to 'belong' just for a while to the life he and Lorna lead at their Olive Mill is rural Spain with the Alpaca's, the Dog & Cats... (not to mention certain holidays makers that visit the Olive Mill e-hem!!) It never fails to amaze me that Authors can make you feel as though you're actually 'there'.. Yes, I am biased, as I love Memoirs that depict Spanish Rural Life. This one did not disappoint - It continues their story following the first Memoir Seriously Mum, What's an Alpaca? - Some of the 'events' will have you laughing out loud... some you're left thinking Noooo Whyyyy - ouch.. and some are pretty sad - but it's definitely all part of 'life'. Despite living in a beautiful part of Southern Spain 'stuff' still happens - and it's waring when you're not fluent in the local language (some of the mis-understandings/using slightly the wrong words - just hilarious) - this does bring challenges but they do get by & get on with it - this Memoir is written with honesty and, well, it's just great. I could go on and on, but, I must resist giving too much away - you really do need to read this one for yourself - I highly recommend it. ps: it leaves you wanting 'more' and yey there is more... in the third in this series....

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Tanya

Life at the Olive Mill continues..

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 17, 2013

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but not as normal, new challenges face Alan and Lorna, but as usual they face up to them with true resilience determination. There is the usual tales of the animals they already have and the new ones they have met, (for whom they have an obvious connection and passion). The simple life in Spain can sound romantic, but as the Alan expresses through the book, reality is a bit different from the dream. This is a lovely read about a couple who have changed their lives and although the adventure has not developed as they first thought when they initially embarked on Alpaca farming, one thing is for sure, it certainly has not ended.

I read Alan's first book Seriously Mum, Whats and Alpaca and looked forward to reading the next chapter in their lives, I was not disappointed. Well worth a look at.

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Life in Spain - part two!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 6, 2014

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This is a lovely sequel to the first book 'Seriously Mum, What's an Alpaca'. The book, like the first, is packed full of animals and their tales. But there are also stories about life in Spain, meeting the locals, making friends, taking part in community events, diversifying to make ends meet etc. It is a gentle, pleasant read documenting the ups and downs of living off grid in an unspoiled, rural location.

The final paragraphs are narrated by Barb (the cat)and I found it slightly alarming that she seems to be suggesting that she is moving on. She has been a fixture throughout both books and I found the final sentence 'however, for me it is time to say goodbye' really sad - I'm not sure if this is what the author intended? We need a book three to clarify!

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