Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable.
- Christopher Howse: 'A Pilgrim in Spain'*
Life in Spain in the Time of Something Like Cholera- There was an announcement yesterday on plans for relaxing the lockdown restrictions. The government seems to have plumped for complexity, with several 'phases' to be staggeringly introduced province by province (50), not region by region(17). As of now, I'm not sure I can leave my house on Saturday and, if so, at what time of day. Or what I can do when I can.
- Think Spain's attempt at advice on this.
- The Local also has a go here and there probably isn't a paywall for this.
- María's Chronicle: Day 45.
- One of our local imbeciles was copped doing 129kph in a 50kph zone, on the way to see his girlfriend. And managing to commit at least 5 offences at once. Click here to practice your Gallego.
- Opposition to a eurobond remains strong. Europe is witnessing a tug-of-war between solidarity and those averse to risk-sharing. Click here.
- Says The Times: Republican candidates for the Senate have been told by the party: “Don’t defend Trump” but instead “Attack China”. Bleedin'ly obvious advice. Which says it all.
- The pandemic (with autocrats everywhere exploiting the “health trumps liberty” mantra), the geopolitical jostling between China and the US, the global economic slowdown, ballooning debt, meltdown in the oil markets, the crackling tension in the European Union between north and south, American unilateralism, the collapse of authority and enfeeblement of the once-great postwar institutions: no wonder we’re all hiding under our duvets. Now, to top it all, there is a succession struggle brewing in a nuclear power led by an erratic dictator with an itchy trigger finger.
- One cheering hope about this pandemic is that it has reminded us what irritating irrelevances so many “celebrities” blethering on in a rose-petal bath are. It would be nice to think we have recalibrated as a nation now we know who our true “stars” are. And they certainly aren’t “celebrities” whoring for freebies on Instagram.
- I got this email yesterday. Not hard to conclude what its aim was:- Recovering the mail account password if it has been hacked or forgotten is easy. Still many users are getting confused over the Yahoo mail account recovery process. If you are having any sort of confusion while recovering the password, do not get worried upon, our Yahoo technical team would walk you through the simple and exact process with no hassle. It would make a little bit more sense if I actually had a Yahoo account.
- A bit of soccer fun from Oz:-
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