In
keeping with Spanish yuletide gastronomic tradition, over the last
week I've been extremely well fed by friends and neighbours – three meals of roast lamb and one of suckling pig. But the amount of water I've had to down after each one leaves me wondering just how much
salt is soaked into the meat between field and plate.
My
two meals at Amparo's next door – where we sympathised with each
other on the absence of Toni – were very informal and great fun.
Ages ranged from 2 to, well, mine and much of the success of such an
evening is the young kids acting their age and the older folk
reverting to adolescence, if not earlier. Which is why every one of
us was dancing gangnam
style at
12.15. Well, sort of. Some of us were not too hot on the moves after
the crossed-hands jig. Here's someone doing it properly. Whose name
we may not recall in 6 months' time.
Anyway,
I got home last night at 1am, just in time to see the last 5 minutes
of the London fireworks. I've seen a lot of shows elsewhere but I've
never seen anything as impressively profligate as this effort over
the Thames and the City. Incidentally, looking on You Tube for the
display, I came up with last year's and this wasn't bad either. There
are worse ways to waste 20 minutes, that's for sure. God knows how
they synchronise everything. After all, it must be impossible to rehearse.
Reading
over last night's post this morning – which I do every day to find
the typos missed despite 3 or more readings the night before – I
noticed an ad for USA & UK Prophecies.
You're not supposed to click on ads on your own page but, intrigued,
I decided the full weight of Google wouldn't come down on me for this
minor transgression and decided to take a look. Basically, it's some
nutter who has the (enviable) ability to write volumes of stuff based
on the belief the Bible contains prophecies for the exact time in
which we're living. An upmarket Mayan Calender man, I suppose.
Anyway, as it's holiday time and you may have some time on your
hands, here's the site. And here's an example of what you can expect
to read - An
exciting, pulsating, vital third of all the bible is devoted to
prophecy, and approximately 90% of all prophecy pertains to our time,
now, in this latter half of the
twentieth century!
. . . To those prejudicially cynical toward the bible, I say: it is
now your only hope! Science offers no solutions. The politicians and
heads of governments have no answers. In the bible alone you will
find the advance news of what is now certain to occur—and occur it
will before
mankind blasts itself out of existence!
Another
institution in the forecasting business is The
Guardian
newspaper and I leave you with their take on the bleak year ahead for
Spain. I wish I could say I disagree with them but I can't. Still,
we've got the big feast of Los
Reyes('The
Kings') – or the Epiphany – on 6 January. But I do hope I don't
get invited to another huge meal. This morning I weighed more than I
have done for ten years. Not a good start to the year.
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