So, no one had heard of ISIS a few weeks ago and
now they're such a threat to the world that Iran and the USA might
combine forces to kill them off. They must surely be in line for the
Most Fearsome Newcomer award.
In the UK, Richard North continues to swim against
the time in thinking the EU leaders will yet reject Mr Juncker, in
favour of someone else: - "To defeat Mr Cameron, so publicly, and
then rub his nose in it, is not in the best interests of the
"colleagues". That alone makes one think that a deal must
be in the offing. My best guess is that we will see Juncker withdraw
from the race sometime this week, rather conveniently on "health"
grounds." Vamos a ver.
Meanwhile, one or two readers will be interested to know that the book on the founding of the EU written by North and
Christopher Booker - The Great Deception - is now available
(free) in PDF format. As I've said, it's a
fascinating read.
Yesterday, I got 2 emails which were not from
the people they purported to be from. In other words, their emails
had been taken over. One had an attachment re Barcelona which turned
out to be a spiel for some miracle diet program. They get cleverer
and cleverer these people and now I wonder whether my own email has
been compromised.
Before I went off on the camino, I left my cleaner
with a list of tasks, one of which was to take 3 bags of plastic,
paper and glass from the garage to their respective bins down the
road. My mistake was not to say 'But keep the bags'. It reminded me of a
cartoon I saw when I was 14: The Chinese emperor - surrounded by
smiling Mongols - is saying to his chief engineer: "When I told
you to build a great wall to keep out the Mongols, couldn't you have
checked to see what side of the wall the Mongols were on before you
finished it?" Possibly by the great Mike Williams. Whom I've
just discovered is Scouse. Naturally.
Which reminds me . . . On Merseyside, one can say
things like "He didn't wave. He mustn't have seen me."
Until last night, I hadn't realised this construction is unique to
Liverpool, being of Irish origin. That said, my spellcheck recognises
mustn't.
Finally . . . In a village near Burgos, the Corpus
Christi celebrations have, for 400 years, included several men
dressed as the Devil jumping over a group of babies. This, apparently,
relieves them of the 'original sin' they were born with. More
interesting to watch than baptism, I imagine.
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