Patrick Meadows and Stephanie Shepard Memorial Site
This is a conversation describing what would have been part of his unfinished book “Bohemians of the Tramantura.“ Patrick: Let’s see, I think I’ve got this all written down, I don’t know why I’m telling it. Stephanie came to Mallorca before I did, with the idea of, with her husband, buying the house next door […]
I found two short pieces of Patrick’s involving Xingo. Here’s the first: The Spanish Civil War officially ended in 1939, but unofficially went on for many decades. Especially in the Basque country, dissidents fought a continuous battle of resistance. Two brothers from Bilbao became members of the feared and despised Guardia Civil, but luckily for […]
Thursday I am pointlessly staring at my tea, now only a stain at the bottom of the mug. So I glance at my reflection in the glass door of the dish cupboard opposite the table where I am sitting already quite a while. Reflected is the window behind me, through which I see that the […]
The name of the rooster is Gilipollo (pronounced hilly poyo). It’s a play on words, really. Gilipollas is a derogatory term in Spanish, meaning in the most polite translation, pompous ass. Pollo, of course, means a male chicken. So Gilipollo is a pompous chicken, you might say, as roosters are wont to be. He has […]
Here’s a YouTube video of Patrick talking about food on 16 Nov ’11, which was transcribed earlier on this web site. The audio file was too big to add directly, hence the YouTube video. I added pictures from that time frame, but the audio is the part that’s important. PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 – 2017. patrick-meadows.com