17/12/2006 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Mini-series about mythical bandit Serrallonga to be filmed on out-of-town real estate development using cheap Kosovan extras

That’s the word from a friend at TVC on this. I’m sure construction magnates with well-filled safes the public will enjoy it immensely.

Barcelona is…

My favourite bodega, offering Polonium tapas at €2.10 a plate, geddit?! (That’s enough of that.)

Significance of Spanish playing cards explained

From William Pulleyn’s The Etymological Compendium, Or, Portfolio of Origins and Inventions (1830), via Google Book Search: It is generally believed, that Cards were invented for the amusement of one of the early kings of the line of Bourbon; but this belief is erroneous. Who the man was that invented these instruments of amusement and…