The Spanish supreme Court has pronounced that, in custody cases, account must be taken of the views of children from the age of 5 upwards. Personally, I feel it should be illegal to listen to a child on any subject at all until he or she is at least 18. After that, they should be listened to but then comprehensively ignored.

Still on matters legal, the Public Prosecutor has upped his prison demands for 3 men accused of involvement in 9.11 from 62,000 to 74,000 years each, give or take a few months. As I’ve suggested before, this must make sense to someone but it certainly beats me.

The opposition PP party is trying desperately to distance itself from the expert they nominated for a parliamentary committee considering the proposed law on gay marriage and adoption. Although the PP opposes this law, they must have felt their expert had gone rather too far in suggesting he had, merely as an act of humanity, wasted 20,000 hours on trying to treat homosexuals for what he now considered an incurable illness.

The python is still loose in Ourense. And missing its daily chicken.