Novelised!

It seems that I will be appearing in three roles in an upcoming novel by a very smart and creative woman from across the pond. This is the second time this has happened so, apart from hoping she´ll send me a postcard from Malibu after receiving her first royalty cheque, I´m trying to figure whether…

Planning regs, contravention of

Carmen Vesania objects to the common Spanish practice of selling off low-value office space as high-value housing. I’m slightly confused: what are offices for if not for eating and sleeping?

Dol(l)men

Hippies think that dolmens, as well as being graves, are there to kill people on or point out the stars. I think it’s much simpler: nature is very bad at propping several stones upright and capping them with another, so a dolmen is a sign that there are humans around and they are smarter than…

Pome

Kittie be nimble, kittie be quick, kittie fall down friggin toilet. (And be rescued.)

Shadow play

This is a scan of a slide found on a Sarrià street. Who/what?

Eggcornology: in fragranti & justing time

Missing link discovered, rationale still AWOL: just in time – justing time – jousting time. Also new to me: in fragranti (via WeirdLinks) instead of in flagrante, popular in Japan (just about work-safe) and presumably used elsewhere to refer to gentlemen apprehended in florists.