The stuff of miracle

I just hope there’s a baker next door: Pastor Don Schafer believes a church should be “a laboratory and not a museum.” The Lutheran Church of Our Savior, behind Big Fish Grill in Rehoboth Beach has opened its door to many parts of the community under his leadership and now it’s breaking down language barriers.

Spurious history: el vaquero

Lots of people in Barcelona don’t have piped gas, but it doesn’t matter at all. When their canister of butane is about to run out, a man comes along the street yelling BUTAAAANNNNOOO!!!! and, after a brief conversation, he climbs up six flights of stairs with a new one on his back. Easy! It used…

ramos, a telegraph reader?!

La Vanguardia’s incompetent in London, Rafael Ramos, used to file stories that – apart from his appalling spelling – bore remarkable resemblances to articles in The Guardian and The Times. When I caught him out the paper refused to take an interest and he started using The Times more, presumably secure in the knowledge that…