Not exactly Sugar Sachet Spanish today. To the great disappointment of the lovely lady at the café her latest purchase of printed sugar sachets yielded no new phrases for me to share with you. That doesn’t mean I don’t have any sayings though for where there is a will, there is (usually) a way.

Donde hay gana, hay maña.

Thank you to Pamela at Secret Tenerife.

La victoria tiene cien padres y la derrota es huérfana

Best known for rallying the retreating allied armies – probably by shouting that very phrase at them – and defeating the Germans at the First Battle of the Marne in 1914, Jospeh “Papa” Joffre was a French General and Commander in Chief of the French army from 1914 to 1916.

How is your memory? Lately Gaga has convinced herself that she is losing hers – though losing her mind is probably more accurate, given her current obsessions with all things beady.

According to Norman Wisdom as you get older, three things happen:

The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two…

Everyone has had one of those blood-stopping moments when some fundamental thing floats back into consciousness and you slap your hand over your mouth in horror at your own forgetfulness but to English playwright and actor John Osborne having a poor memory was not altogether a bad thing…

El que tiene mala memoria se ahorra muchos remordiniento