April tweets
Just the usual load of nonsense.
Tag: andalusia
January tweets
When’s the cheapest time to make strawberry jam?
Average wholesale prices, May-September 2015-2019.
I am the Crippled Demon, Hell’s fleas, the inventor of puppets
A half-translation of a list of minor torments by Luis Vélez de Guevara for a day on which the Christian Devil triumphed.
Comments at ABC
On the discovery of perhaps Neolithic paintings of seals at Nerja in Málaga.
Spanish comprehension exercise
Spain’s self-employed
Destined to save the nation? More numerous than thought? Someone explain, please.
The doggone girl is mine
Village Virgin wars.
¡Tú imitas tan bien a los animales! ¿No serás … aztor?
A phonological curiosity from coastal Cantabria, with speculation as to the supernatural powers of María Teresa Fernández de la Vega.
The true origins of “Africa begins at the Pyrenees”
This deeply resented peripheralising aphorism was coined not by Alexander Dumas but by Dominique Dufour de Pradt or conceivably the Conde do Funchal.
