Rural crime

One of the important benefits of having tourists wandering through the countryside is a reduction in rural crime. However, sometimes criminals infiltrate into my groups. Here, caught redhanded, is a Perthshire farmer attempting to borrow parts from an 80s Massey: You can see what remains of this tractor on this walk.

Granada Central Studios

La Granada is a village of about 1,400 people. It’s best known for its satellite dish park, but there’s also a local TV station which, from Central Studios, apparently reaches 5,000 viewers with several hours a day of homegrown material (including Sunday mass live) and a satellite feed: There’s a rather nice walk that passes…

reciprocal

Thanks for the link from Puerta del Sol, considerably more coherent than this blog and proof that you don’t have to be crazy to live here. (Some people have told me that I should retract the quote on the homepage of Iberian Notes. That’s nonsense. Although I often disagree with Mr Chappell, he is very…

Opinions elsewhere

There’s a good article in LaVa this morning by their man over the pond, Xavier Sala i Martín, in which he deplores the general tendency here to call one’s political opponents murderers. He goes on to point out that the attacks aren’t about Iraq but about a general hatred of the West and ends by…

seguing lady jessica

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Que la lumière soit!

Good news from Glasgow, which not only has a public lighting strategy but a convener who can speak French, which doubtless comes in useful when enjoying well-earned meetings in foreign districts where the illumination is of revolutionary hue: GLASGOW councillors are to get French lessons to help them cope with formal visits across the Channel.…