One of the important benefits of having tourists wandering through the countryside is a reduction in rural crime. However, sometimes criminals infiltrate into my groups. Here, caught redhanded, is a Perthshire farmer attempting to borrow parts from an 80s Massey:

La Granada is a village of about 1,400 people. It’s best known for its satellite dish park, but there’s also a local TV station which, from Central Studios, apparently reaches 5,000 viewers with several hours a day of homegrown material (including Sunday mass live) and a satellite feed:

Thanks for the link from Puerta del Sol, considerably more coherent than this blog and proof that you don’t have to be crazy to live here.

There’s a good article in LaVa this morning by their man over the pond, Xavier Sala i Martín, in which he deplores the general tendency here to call one’s political opponents murderers. He goes on to point out that the attacks aren’t about Iraq but about a general hatred of the West and ends by [...]

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Good news from Glasgow, which not only has a public lighting strategy but a convener who can speak French, which doubtless comes in useful when enjoying well-earned meetings in foreign districts where the illumination is of revolutionary hue: