Roll
on The June Elections: To absolutely no one's surprise, members of
the newish, very leftish, uppity-ish Podemos party have instructed their
leaders not to do a coalition deal with the leftish PSOE and rightish Ciudadanos parties. I
wonder if they're right to bet on getting increased support in June.
And whether, if this does happnen, it'll be more than enough to
counter-balance the increased votes now predicted for the
caretaker/outgoing/very rightish PP party. Their sworn enemies.
Those
Bizarre Brits: Here's The Local's list of what astonishes Spaniards –
and there are a lot of them – who flee Spain to find work in the
UK. There's nothing new but it's pretty accurate. They don't like the
separate taps either, finding them less 'modern' than Spain's
ubiquitous mixer taps.
A
Priestly Defence: To the charge of child abuse . . . I felt I had a
vocation from God and that God knew that I was sexually attracted to
young children and accepted it. So I assumed it was OK. What faith
can do to people!
A
Brave Muslim Woman: A Saudi TV journalist. Which reminds me . . . I
haven't seen this week the RT TV female reporter who got hammered by
the Great Dane last Friday. Taking a well-earned break?
The
Spanish Police: We seem to have 4 different forces operating in
Pontevedra: The Guardia Civil (strictly, a military force), the
National Police; the Regional police; and the Local Police. Sometimes
you can see a car from each of these gathered in the same spot, like
beauty contestants. When I first came here, I was told that the local
force was formed from village idiots. Possibly not true but I had a
run-in with an officious bastard yesterday, when I tried to park
outside the scrap-dealer's place in town, just to drop off some stuff. He
wouldn't even let me park on the 'drive' up from the road to the shop
but insisted I drive around until a found a 15 minute space some
distance away. I now await a fine. Sadly, I got rather less for the
scrap than I expected – all of 3 euros – so this won't go a
long way towards that. But I did have a laugh with the scrap dealer,
who turned out to be half English. When I asked him if this were ever
an advantage for him, he replied: Yes, the sense of humour. How we
laughed.
Beggars: There's nothing like a bit of sun to bring out the panhandlers. I had 6 in less than 10 minutes yesterday at tiffintime. And all of them new to me. Do they come here in a coach? From Beggars Central?
Finally
. . . Irritating TV Ads: Do you have one – or more – of these?
Mine at the moment is the one where the dog talks to his owner about
his bloody trousers and some sort of insurance. Maybe it's only
frequent on RT TV but I have to reach for the Mute button as soon as
it starts. As if RT TV wasn't irritating enough already!
Another cartoon . . .
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