Things are a tad clearer on what the New Orleans White Sox peña will be sporting at next year’s bullfights here in Pontevedra. Apart from the white socks, a baseball cap would seem to be de rigueur, albeit worn in the somewhat old-fashioned manner of the right way round. And possibly a garish Hawaiian shirt. Thought is still being given at to what we will be girding our loins with. Perhaps Bermuda shorts. Though we wouldn’t want to end up too conspicuous.

I read today about two rather conflicting surveys of life in the UK. In the first of these, we learnt that, although Britain is rated highly for its people, the global panellists used a single word to sum up the experience of visiting the UK - "predictable". The second survey, on the other hand, gave the impression that the UK was turning into Spain - Mobile phones have made people less organised and more willing to be late when meeting their friends. Nearly one in five people admitted to being unreliable about timekeeping because they had the "safety net" of a mobile. Seventy-five per cent said they were more "spontaneous" with their social lives thanks to mobiles

This latter impression was rather endorsed by a columnist in the Daily Telegraph who felt that Britain was no longer addicted to merit but ‘enslaved to notions of entitlement’. ‘In the deepest part of themselves’ he added ‘all classes now are devoted to leisure’.

Anyway, it was a big day for me as the cumulative hits to my blog [at almost 7,000] finally overtook those to my web page on Galicia. This is most gratifying so my thanks to all of you who take the trouble to read it.