Optimising furrin

I do like Bryan Palmer’s WP aggregation plugin, which has replaced the horrible thing I cobbled together, and partly for the following the reason: it takes posts written in furrin and clears out all those dotted and dashed characters that make us straightforward Anglos feel nervous, sticking their Rechtschreibprfung up their posterior end, as it…

Of faggots and Fords

Unlike motorcars, bicycles take you through village centres and allow you to park outside at any interesting-looking drinking hole you encounter. Friday afternoon on my way up-country for a weekend engagement I stopped at a village cafĂ© in the mountains between Montseny and Montserrat, where a nice but weary barmaid was serving brandy to some…