Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable.
Christopher Howse: A Pilgrim in Spain
Spanish politics- The latest poll results ahead of [weary sigh] November's general election. The PSOE would gain votes. But enough to form a government??
Spanish Life
- I'm not sure I'm convinced by this article on a particular brand of jamón . . .
- Potentially very bad news if you can't get Spanish or another EU nationality ahead of or after a hard Brexit.
- I read that there are 500 pickpockets working the Madrid metro. I've no idea if this is true or not but I am sure that some of these are young foreigners who can do this with impunity under Spanish law.
- Here's how some folk in Barcelona are trying to deal with its petty crime problem. Though not everyone is happy about the development. Apart from the crooks, I mean.
- Here are fotos of the zebra crossing I mentioned yesterday. Not good for short-sighted drivers. Or their victims:-
- And here are the new railings of the 'modernised' O Burgo bridge, hugely disliked by at least me and reader Perry:-
- Easy parking on the semi-rural northern edge of the city:-
The USA
- An unusual morning. No Ffart stupidity to report. Perhaps he was playing golf all weekend. Or I've missed something and will catch up tonight.
- Words of the Day, for those with troublesome kids:-
- Pataleta: Tantrum
- Colapso emocional: Meltdown.
- Since I wrote that, my daughter has told me that berrinche ('tantrum'; 'hissy fit') and rabieta ('tantrum'; 'hissy fit', 'temper') are more common in Madrid.
- The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words. The winners are:-
- Coffee (N.), the person upon whom one coughs.
- Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
- Abdicate (V.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
- Esplanade (V.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
- Willy-nilly (Adj.), impotent.
- Negligent (Adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
- Lymph (V.), to walk with a lisp.
- Gargoyle (N.), olive-flavored mouthwash.
- Flatulence (N.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller
- Balderdash (N.), a rapidly receding hairline.
- Testicle (N.), a humorous question on an exam.
- Rectitude (N.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
- Pokemon (N), a Rastafarian proctologist.
- Oyster (N.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
- Frisbeetarianism (N.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
- Circumvent (N.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
- Checking on how mint grows, I discovered that the fashionable chia seeds come from a plant of the same family known as Salvia Hispanica, or Spanish Sage.
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