Kaleboel – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Solving Africa’s woes with a simple parlour game

Desultory bar philosophising on the socio-economic function of Secret Santa.

Mexican weighing himself while eating ice cream

¡Happy 2010 (2015 if you depend on the Spanish economy)!

Chiquito de la Calzada’s trademark ‘rl’ suffix for words ending in ‘a’ or ‘o’

Is it a personal hiperandalucismo, or is there somewhere in Málaga where everyone speaks like this?

Chiquito de la Calzada: CC fan photo by <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/funyskywalker/'>funyskywalker</a>

Why they didn’t find Lorca

Bishop Gibson of Granada understands beatific bureaucracy but not tradition. Featuring a bad Vietnamese flamenco clip.

A West Cornish Barbary pirate and ghost-ship

“Discontented devil of a blackamoor, why canst thou not be satisfied to live here?” “Avast there; all our gold and diamonds can’t procure us here the bright sunshine and joyous people, nor the rich fruits and wine, of my native clime.”

Porthcurno, once Cornwall's greatest port?

What’s your ex-pat blogging style?

Darragh McManus’ guide to travel guides works for ex-pat blogs as well. Kalebeul is clearly a coffee table whopper, but I wouldn’t dare suggest categories for Colin Davies, Charles Butler, Tom Clarke, Lenox, Graeme, or the rest of you.

Factual/fucktual revisited

Launch of Arcadi Espada news-site.

Factual or fucktual?

Humiliating linguistic error in PR for Arcadi Espada’s new online newspaper

Fish update

Escolar is “a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge.” But that has nothing to do with Spanish bloggers.

Cost-cutting in the ancient world

Hera can no longer afford the dragon and has installed security cameras to stop the Hesperides stealing her golden apples. (Pomegranates, actually, which I believe some people also view as possible candidates. On this walk.)