Interesting to see yesterday the national quality daily “La Vanguardia” of Spain calling Taoiseach / Irish prime minister Brian Cowen, a Biffo, though they translated the “Fucker” in Biffo (the first “F”) as “Fellow” instead. Last paragraph sees them calling him Biffo in the context of the story. Bizarre. I can’t see the Irish media calling Zapatero a Fucker from Valladolid! (Click on thumbnail for larger version).
When will people finally learn once and for all that Ireland is NOT part of the United Kingdom.
Here’s a screenshot from their site taken this morning:
Spam subject lines don’t often make me laugh, but this one did: “Turn Your Dwarf Into A Giant!”
Blue and deep red, blaugrana, the colours of the near-religious Barcelona FC football team.
Little kids as young as two are taught the team’s chant, an attractive ditty - and most certainly they come to recognise it before the airs of the national anthem, which isn’t necessarily revered in Catalunya.
So, with great pleasure, on the way back from the bakery this morning, buttered-croissant and barra-de-pan in hand, I heard the tune bounce up along one of the local alleyways, this at 10 in the morning, no drunken fan, this.
Ten-seconds later appeared, an old lady, plastic bags in both hands, though one hand also held a walking stick. The blaugrana lady she has become known, for every day she passes this way, and every day she sings the same song, and once she finishes, she starts again. She has a special thing for younger men, for she feels it’s from them she’ll get the most animated reaction, and she does. She gave me the eye today, her 65 year old eye, and I smiled back. Long may she sing!
I received a wedding invitation today.
Ceremony in local town hall, and celebration afterwards in “Bar No Sweat”.
I wonder if they’re trying to tell us something?
… I work from home, and I work alone - today I caught myself talking to myself, this hasn’t happened before, but it happened today - should I be worried?
I met a chap today, Valentí Feixas, who has a business, selling liquors. The company’s offline branding is fabulous. We spoke about his website, as I tend to do (saddo!) and he revealed that he had a domain name www dot a to z dot es. Meaning http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.es/ - I was flabbergasted. I came home this evening and typed it in. Low-and-behold!
I may have been lazy about updating this blog, but my energies have been elsewhere of late: namely over at Le Style. Check it out.