Picture – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Glowworm jumps

Rollover. (Glowworm is freaky, WWWWontserrat accurate.)

Some species sit still and others don’t. Lizards tend to the latter, usually only letting you close on them if they are petrified or ill. This one appears to be neither, and remained reasonably calm even when I almost fell off my log onto its.

Ghost in the cafetera

For a while it sounded like Morse machine being boiled alive, something which probably hasn’t happened for quite a long time, and for sure it’s a terrible thing to be doing anyway. (You may need to turn up the sound. I’m using YouTube and accepting its lack of editing facilities because, like various other famous…

Flutterby

Front elevation: Plan view: These butterflies are incredibly lazy, and there are lots of them. Something wrong there.

Spot the donkey

Spot is a dog. (Dear agent, I also do other barnyard animals, as well as goldfinches, linnets and horny pussycats.)

Fiesta popular

Don’t try singing ¡Adelante los de Cuenca! at home or anywhere else, even if you can find the lyrics. Troubled companies hold their Christmas parties in May and small villages hold their St John parties on June 24. This cuts the band budget and indicates a broadness of spirit rather than any critique of religion…

Is your bitch laughing behind your back?

This video shows her when she knows she’s being watched: Move your monitor back and lie on your desk with your face touching the screen and your feet left to view the next fragment. It shows her still getting used to the Bulgarian military hip camera used in its capture: Nothing much there, but check…

José Tomás vs Manolete

I’m different, says the former: The death of the latter: Bar Manolete in Mogón is excellent.

Literary feet

“En Santander. El pez y el reloj” in Los pueblos, ducking out of eternity and the meaning of life, Azorín is fetishising feet at the Cantabrian beach resort: Little feet, arched and clad in elegant new shoes, are one of the most attractive features of a woman. I contemplate them all with the discretion with…

“Little feet, arched and clad in new, elegant shoes, are one of the most attractive aspects of a woman...”

Champions League Final menu

In another bar in the village-over-the-hill aforementioned: Lettuce in fearsome red wine vinegar Little bony bits of baby goat wrapped in stomach in a mushroom sauce Intestines of baby goat stuffed with rice and lungs, kidneys, liver etc Roasted baby goat head Pudding made of milk from the mothers of new-born calves Red wine, coffee,…