Late June lawnmower roadtrip across Northern Spain: call for sofas, haylofts etc.

Company would be most welcome along the following route, assuming a purchase is made on Wednesday: (Pontevedra,) N-541 O Carballiño, N-541/N-120 Orense, N525 Verín, Benavente, Castrogonzalo, N-610 Palencia, Villalobón, Valdeolmillos, Torquemada, Cordovilla la Real, Quintana del Puente, N-622 Lerma, Covarrubias, Hortigüela, N-234 Soria, Calatayud, A-1504 Miedes de Aragón, Cariñena, A-220 Belchite, A-1307/N-232 Alcañiz, N-232 Valdealgoría,…

Our nationalist-socialist revolution

Ethnic continuism and/or Catholic revivalism: what happened the last time xenophobic populist clerics took charge, with their Dios, patria y fueros. Walking back from an afternoon gig yesterday I heard explosions and chanting: yup, a hen party from Barnsley.

They just don’t create song titles like they used to

Sez Colin re “Make Love To Me!” (1954). Well-known but worth repeating, from a Dutch English-language school: The Singing Organ-Grinder mashes the chorus onto a canon of Barcelona street songs (Ctrl-F for “Crits del carrer”) but has not yet found an appropriate podium.