Royal
Crooks: If you haven't been
living in a cave, you'll know that a member of the Spanish royal
family is up in court for involvement in her husband's frauds against
the public purse. I don't follow the details but I know the highly
educated and well-paid Princess Cristina pleads absolute ignorance and
mere fidelity to her beloved husband. Of course, no one believes this
for a second but it might help her get off. Said husband has been in
court this week and today it's reported he contradicted himself 12
times in court yesterday, inter alia. Anyway, if this is of interest
to you, click here, here and here for trial reports.
Spain's
Public Toilets: It's true these
have rather lagged behind the country's rapid development over the
last 40 years. Some of them are as good as any in the world but some
of them, well . . . aren't. Here's an article on the subject which
contains far more than a grain of truth and gives advice that's
pretty sound. Some of the automatic lights have to be experienced to
be believed.Yet another HT to Lenox of BusinessOver Tapas for this.
A
Nice Dig? I've often thought
I'd like to have dabbled in archeology. And now I've got my chance.
There's a iron-age site right here in Galicia, in a place called
Cabeciña, or 'Little Cape' in Gallego. Which is near Oia, not far
south of nearby Vigo. Though the price for training and participation
– and the provision of a week of free labour? – seems steep at
€937.
Banksy:
So this really is Robin Gunningham after all. This former public(i.e.
private) schoolboy was first fingered in 2004 and then publicly branded Banksy in 2008. But he's now been definitively 'discovered'
by some sort of high tech process as the famous graffiti artist and
the scourge of the Establishment. Wikipedia will be changing his
entry today, I assume.
American
Pie: Yesterday I linked to one of John Denver's songs. But by the
miracle of Youtube links, I was taken to this famous – almost said
'iconic'! – song by Don McClean. And so discovered what some of his
references were to. Assuming some readers would like to know these:-
- February bad news:February 3, 1959 Buddy Holly plane crash
- Chevy to the Levy. Famous Chevrolet TV commercial or the 1950s by (Dinah Shore)
- Book of Love: Famous fifties song
- Miss Pie: Turns out to be an illusion
- 10 years: The 1960s,
- King: Elvis
- Jester: Dylan
- Quartet: Beatles
- Helter Skelter & Football Game: Vietnam war protests in the summer of 1967
- Marching Band: Most of the public that wanted the war to continue
- 8 Miles High and falling fast: Byrds song "8 Miles High" was banned because of its implications of drug use on a transatlantic flight.
- All in One Place: Altamount Concert with drug deaths and stabbings
- Lost in Space: Hippie movement died that day (also reference to TV series)
- No Angel Born in Hell: Hell's Angels guarded the stage as Mick Jagger sang. The song describes the disillusioning end of both the 1950s and then the 1960s. Oh yes, Janis Joplin "smiled and turned away" by committing suicide instead of bringing happiness to Americans in the 1970s.
The
chap we have to thank for this info is one Allen
MacCannell.
Finally
. . . Dross Bin: This – as might be obvious - is a name of
an email account for stuff I don't want to see. The wheel turns and
Google + has just proposed that I befriend this chap and put him in
one of my Circles. But I'm dubious about this as there's no foto.
Life imitating (modern?)art.
Facebook
friend requests: I've been concerned about confirmation of
friendships I've never sought. It turns out that, if I click on the
name of someone I don't know who's liked something I've posted, the
FB computer automatically sends a request to them. As most of these
are Anglo Galician FB members disguised as scantily clad young
ladies, this is a real nuisance as their fotos then end up on my
Friends list. One day I will quit FB because of its evil practices.
Maybe when everyone I know is on Google+
Which
reminds me . . .
The
Pope's Legions: These are still spamming my Google+ page. The
latest vehicle for this is The Christian Channel. Which
appears to be Canadian. Ironically, I don't have much of a
'Christian' attitude towards the bastards. I suspect the cause of
this is my recent downloading of the Canada-based TV streaming
operation, Filmon.
BREXIT
SUPPLEMENT
The
Spanish version of The Local would like all Brits here to
ensure they vote in the referendum. Assuming they haven't been
disqualified – like me – for living here a second or more over 15
years. Here's their plea. For folk like me, we're encouraged to get
friends and relatives to vote against a Brexit. Regular readers will
know I won't be doing this. But I'm sure my friend and net colleague,
Lenox, will be doing this a tope.
The necessary FB foto: My beautiful daughters, Jakarta, Feb. 1984. The lucky creatures get their looks from their mother.
I'm a doting father but sometimes this is tough. Here's Faye's response to one of my FB comments the other day: Why
is it taking so long for them to get round to creating an eye-rolling
smiley? So you can imagine my response to Hannah's question this week as to whether a parent's love for a child stays for ever or even grows. No, I said. As soon as they start to talk and irritate you, it starts to diminish.
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