In
my driving career of 45 years, I've only ever had one parking fine.
This total was doubled yesterday when some officious bastard gave me
a ticket for parking in front of my daughter's flat. The notes say
that, if I don't pay the fine within 28 days, the amount doubles from
35 to 70 quid, that they'll then pursue me through the courts and
eventually unleash the bailiffs on me. I wish them luck. Surely even
the dimmest traffic warden is able to note a Spanish number plate and
realise that they don't know where I live. And never will. But,
anyway, I've now taken the car off the road and parked it in front of
the electricity sub-station at the end of Hannah's garden. I'm sure
this isn't permitted either but they don't send people around to
check. Plus there's no sign saying it's verboten.
Talking
of stupid bastards . . . The Sun newspaper - one of Murdoch's
- greeted the appointment of Roy Hodgson as England's new manager,
with a page of puerile idiocy around his slight inability to say
the letter R properly. The fact that, despite this, he speaks four
foreign languages clearly meant nothing to the cretins who write this
sort of stuff so as to feed the prejudices of other cretins. And to
encourage the mocking of kids by their school 'friends'. Sometimes I
wish I ran a vigilante group charged with administering
orchidectomies to whomsoever we wished. As an acceptable alternative
to eugenics.
Back
home in Spain, a new report says property values have fallen by 41%
since the peak in 2008. Of course, the government's number is much lower than this, at only 20%. I really don't know why the government
bothers producing this sort of statistic since no one believes them.
It keeps a few people in work, I guess. Anyway, the authors of the
report say that 2011 was worse than 2010. Which is not good. They
also say there's a land-bank sufficient for another 4
million homes. These, of course, won't be needed for many years. Who owns all this (useless) land? Well, my guess is the banks, either
directly or indirectly.
Some
good news from Spain? El
Confidencial Digital tells
us that
bullfights
will return to Cataluña in 2013, just a year after they were
made illegal there. The Madrid Government is to declare the Fiesta Nacional
a "cultural
heritage"
and this will make bullfights legal throughout Spain. This comes
after a petition was submitted to Parliament by a group of
bullfighters, as a prelude to a debate there and vote on the subject
later this year.
Finally,
for those who haven't seen it, here's something I prepared earlier.
On driving in Spain.
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