Ice cream in the ass

Competition from the Russians (via) (Eric suggests a chorus of Cold as ass, and a new flavour: Siberian Surprise.)

In which the Catalan authorities ask me to do something in Spanish rather than English

Actually, I’d better not go into the details, but it’s all most curious. Until you recall that the vast majority of “English teachers” employed by the Generalitat are beginners (and not just in English), and that the considerable local population of infra-employed English mother-tonguers (I hope that’s not rude) are in practice ineligible to join…