Argentina – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Top 10 Russian football songs: No. 10: Argentina-Yamayka 5-0, by Chayf (1999)

Our women forgive us our weakness / Our women forgive us our tears / They forgive the whole world its laughter and mirth – / Even Argentina.

Another abundance of redundance. Featuring Russian, German and Italian puppetry, organ-grinding, and other nonsense.

And make Kalebeul’s fortune in the process.

Public auctions of wrecks in Barcelona, Pontevedra and Algeciras, with thoughts on how to reduce blogging competition.

Bizarrely honest or honestly bizarre?

Arthur Thesleff seems to have burnt most film further east, but there’s a nice snap of some early Andalusians.

Someone called Emily has found an original way of telling us apart.