Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable.
- Christopher Howse: A Pilgrim in Spain.
If you've arrived here because of an interest in Galicia or Pontevedra, see my web page here. Garish but informative.
Spain
- Feathers are fluttering wildly in the ivory towers of the Royal Academy, defender of the Spanish language. Over proposals to de-masculinise it.
- Not the World Cup but still worth having, I guess.
Life in Spain
- This Madrid event was clearly not as cool as promised.
- Here's The Local's latest list, very possibly not a new one: Things not to do when eating in Spain.
- Spanish women are renowned for being house-proud and I can testify that all my neighbours keep very good houses. Some of them have also invested in very handsome gardens, back and front. Which makes it all the more strange that one such couple should leave their frontage like this:-
I, on the other hand, go to great lengths to keep the pavement in front of my house weed free. And I even jet-spray it every year or two to keep it reasonably clean. But maybe I'm the odd one.
The UK
- You have to be impressed by a (governing!) political party which is prepared to tear itself apart over differing views of what's good for the country. Wouldn't happen in many other countries I can think of off the top of my head.
The USA
- Dear god. A someone has said, this is too frightening to be really funny.
- I'm not sure anyone outside the USA still thinks that what we see as as Trumpian lies, diplomatic gaffes and counter-productive idiocies will diminish the support of his base back home. Or even that of Republican bigwigs. But, just in case, here's an explanation of why they won't. Pandering to this base is just about the only consistent aspect of Trump's behaviour. Which is at least logical. If eye-widening.
The New World Order
- All hail, the new dynamic duo of Vladman and Bobbin'. We're all safe in our beds now. And, with a very different US president in charge of that benighted country, we'll have no more of the stupidity of previous US administrations. At least in respect of Russia. There'll be an entirely new type of stupidity.
Which reminds me . . .
Nutters Corner
- What religion can do to you:-
- End Times author Tom Horn: You have the forces of good and the forces of evil moving towards Armageddon. So there is this spirit of agitation that is in the air. It is demonic, it is satanic. Satan hates anything that has to do with God. He hates this president because of the stand that he has taken. His critics hate him so much that it has driven them to a point of madness. They’re clinically insane. They really are.
- Pastor Paul Begley: You were that close from losing this freedom, what we call a democracy or a republic. We came within an eyelash of losing this nation. I believe it was prayers of God’s people that saved this nation by electing Trump. I think [FBI agent]Peter Strzok is part of a vast secret society complexity, an Illuminati demonically-charged biblical beast called the deep state that was involved in hijacking this great nation of America and ultimately hijacking the world into a one-world government, a new world order. Because what Peter Strzok was doing is right out of the pages of the Illuminati.
Galicia/Pontevedra
- At least 3 times in the last week – since, that is, I had my dashcam stolen – someone has pulled out in front of me when I was going down to town or coming back from it. In each case, the driver was talking on a mobile phone while driving one-handed. It seems almost de rigueur now. If you don't do it you're a sissy and a pretty poor driver. I can well believe it's become the biggest cause of fatal accidents.
- The Guardia Civil has announced that you now need a licence from them to use a narcolancha, the rubber dinghies favoured by drug-smugglers downloading stuff from larger ships and bringing it into coves here and down near Gibraltar. Not before time.
Finally . . .
- More bewildering words/phrases from Orwell's 1930's novel, A Clergyman's Daughter:-
- On the beach: Being a tramp?
- Tansies: Flowers?
- Pack your Peter up: Pack up your belongings?
- Skilly: Jail cell?
- To skipper: To sleep.
- Hop bines: Hop plants.
- Hop-poke: A bag for collecting hops
- Diddykies: Gypsies.
- Apophthegms: ???
- Aquarelle colours: ???
- Flattie: Policeman
- To be on the spike: In prison???
- Toke: ???
- Devilled bones: Sort of food??
Perry?
© David Colin Davies, Pontevedra: 17.7.18
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