President Chirac of France has declared the Spanish EU referendum a ‘magnificent triumph’. As less than one in 3 Spaniards bothered to register their Yes vote, one wonders what flights of fancy would have been provoked by something better than the lowest ever turn-out in a national election.

In Galicia – you may recall – the BNG nationalist party campaigned for a No vote, on the grounds that Constitution wasn’t socialist enough. This had the effect of delivering the lowest No vote in the entire country. So I suppose Mr Chirac would regard this as only a moderate triumph.

And talking of nonsense, what on earth is one to make of the Beckhams’ choice of ‘Cruz’ as the name for their latest rug rat? Did they really not know it was a girl’s name and that it means ‘Cross’. Can they really be as stupid as they seem? As someone has commented, “Imagine what they call their pets!”

In a travel book written in 1832, an innkeeper in Andalucia expresses the wish that there were more English visitors to his part of Spain. I wonder what he would make of the place now. As the Chinese curse has it, May your dreams come true.