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Tag: Natural history

Keep dogs under close control

And whatever you do don’t let them loose in fields containing horses.

Rear terrace of petanca club in Carmelo, Barcelona.

Homeless Jonah about to be devoured by a great 100€-plated fish

But will an ecclesiastical trawler turn it into cat food first?

Mural at the foot of the Carmelite church on Monte Carmelo, Barcelona.

Drunk and disorderly

A British soldier’s hazy recollections of civil war in Portugal.

What have racing cyclists and American Black Vultures got in common?

Urohydrosis.

Misspent lunch with the birds

I hope to post interviews and analysis soon.

Aragón = libre!!

But of what?

Venus de Milo tribute in Villanueva y Geltrú

And what to do when those boring old marble columns get in the way of your new staircase.

Workers who don’t, unemployed who ain’t

A fragment from the story of how Andalusia got where it wouldn’t necessarily want to be, given a modicum of thought.

David Icke-like view of the relationship between pigeons and statues

Statues are designed to be bird-friendly on the orders of a mysterious avian deity, which may have held sway over Luis Buñuel.

Death of a monkey mascot

Anecdotes from the frozen wastes of Spain and Britain, with a brief burst of the usual twaddle.

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