Dead lawn cures (commercial break)

Catalonia is following Huesca and heading towards imposing hosepipe bans, and rising consumer water consumption means there’s a lot more of this on the way. However if you’re smart your garden won’t end up looking like a Saudi golf course when the council turns off the tap. A sustainable planting strategy–there are good ground-cover alternatives…

Singing tonight

We are on at el Mercat de les Flors at around 1am, so do come along and make some noise. Over the past couple of years we’ve grown from a fairly messy group with a highly conventional repertoire into a bunch of iconoclasts singing weird shit. True to this new egalibertarian spirit, the workers have…

100 days

Many Americans think that the 100 days business began with FDR, while the French think that Villepin stole it off Napoleon (and many wish him a similar fate). I don’t know who was first, but (useless information starts here): A certain cardinal Miçer Napoleón was granted 100 days (and one year: damn) partial indulgence in…

The Hitchens roadshow

It is rumoured that, following this shindig, a small British border town is about to change its name to Hey!-on-Why?