Doggie

Unfortunately shortly afterwards she was torn to pieces and to a considerable extent devoured by two hunting dogs.

Spanish family given jail terms for camouflaging their house in order to avoid eviction

Óscar Suárez Bermúdez, 81, his son, Óscar Suárez Melián, and his daughter-in-law, Lucía Díaz Medina, joined it onto the neighbours’ and repainted the façade in the hope that the repossessers would not be able to find it. (Via Subastas Judiciales, who I believe is also of the opinion that if – as the millenarian Plataforma…

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Varios números, la mayoria holandeses que tendré que cantar en 5 semanas para la coronación del nuevo rey, pero con algunas cositas más: Daisy, daisy Himno nacional holandés (“Soy Guillermo, mi sangre es alemana…”) en versión de Leiden confiscada por los Nazis en 1940 Tulpen uit Amsterdam De postkoets Kleine café aan de haven Cowboy…

Temps de la picor

The itching time came up yesterday, probably referring to Francoism, while I was prancing around in a new wig for purposes that will shortly be revealed. DCVB says “l’any de la picor” refers to distant times, and proverbologist Víctor Pàmies cites Joan Amades’s hypothesis that it comes from the Year of Fleas and Famine, 1471,…

Ngram: afternoon nap vs siesta

Rather weary yesterday PM after a morning’s rabbit-hunting, so bumbled through Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant Decline and fall and Vile bodies, which contain quite a number of afternoon naps. Conjecture: the British began to replace the expression with “siesta” as they started staying awake after lunch and drowsing off became associated with the lazy Latins. Refutation: