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	<title>kalebeul &#187; 2007 &#187; September</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Another Oreneta</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/28/another-oreneta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fraternal greetings to someone else who has alighted in Barcelona and started using the Oreneta tag. I&#8217;m the one on a bicycle: no boat yet.
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		<title>Grisly video footage of bullfight in Riópar, Albacete province</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/28/grisly-video-footage-of-bullfight-in-riopar-albacete-province/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/28/grisly-video-footage-of-bullfight-in-riopar-albacete-province/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of flocks and work animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of theatre]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Village bullfighting is far more exciting and beautiful than the formalised crap on offer in big rings like Barcelona&#8217;s Monumental, but if the photo above gives some idea of the upside, the downside involves stuff like dwarf bullfighters cutting fillets off animals as they race past because they&#8217;re too short to plunge the sword in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telenovelas for Spanish beginners</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/26/telenovelas-for-spanish-beginners/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/26/telenovelas-for-spanish-beginners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
(Via LL)
]]></description>
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		<title>Rab&#8217;s family</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/25/rabs-family/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/25/rabs-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that an occasional commenter here has a blog of his own, From Catalonia to Caledonia, in which, from a Catalan nationalist perspective, he whinges about the Spanish, the English, ungrateful immigrants and stuff. However, his family turns out to contain the odd cockatoo cuckoo too:
My parents are just another example of this. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franco and inflation</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/25/franco-and-inflation/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/25/franco-and-inflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the marketplace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;It is said that on inaugurating the great ENSIDESA steel concern, Franco exclaimed, &#8220;And to think that this cost nothing more than two kilos of paper&#8230;&#8221;&#8216; (Manuel Ortínez, Una vida entre burgesos. Memòries (1993)) How can people still get so worked up about a vulgar thief?
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		<title>Novel explanation for presence of volcanoes and river gold in the Pyrenees</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/24/novel-explanation-for-presence-of-volcanoes-and-river-gold-in-the-pyrenees/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/24/novel-explanation-for-presence-of-volcanoes-and-river-gold-in-the-pyrenees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Empire]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the earth or something]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters, Domestic and Forren (1688, on GBS):
There is a Tradition, that there were divers Mines of Gold in Ages pass&#8217;d amongst those Mountains; and the Shepherds kept Goats then, having made a small Fire of Rosemary-Shrubs with other combustible stuff, to warm themselves, this Fire grew along, and grew so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electrician</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/24/electrician/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/24/electrician/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the marketplace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; I haven&#8217;t brought the component I need. I&#8217;ll come back tomorrow, but I&#8217;ll bill you now for today.
&#8211; But you haven&#8217;t done anything.
&#8211; Sorry, company policy.
&#8211; OK, give me the bad news.
&#8211; Right, that&#8217;s 20€ travel and one hour&#8217;s labour @ 35€, 55€ plus VAT.
&#8211; But you&#8217;ve only been here five minutes.
&#8211; Sorry, company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dognuts</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/20/dognuts/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/20/dognuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The normal spelling in Spanish bars is donuts or doughnuts, but there&#8217;s bound to be some kind of market for cojones de perro in a place with as liberal tastes as Barcelona.
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		<title>African real estate conman</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/18/african-real-estate-conman/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/18/african-real-estate-conman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the marketplace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just out of interest, I emailed an advertiser on Loquo.com similar to this one. He has replied:
Thanks for your email and it is my gladness to hearing from you.I am Gandy [...],the owner of the house you are making enquiry of.Actually I resided in the house with my family,such as my wife and my only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cádiz y sus cantes</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/18/cadiz-y-sus-cantes/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/18/cadiz-y-sus-cantes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of theatre]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been done before, but here&#8217;s soundman, producer, director Luis Jimenez (if he really was any of these, and not a mere video-ripper) in footage of Maria La Sabina:

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		<title>Did Columbus actually ever come to Barcelona?</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/17/did-columbus-actually-ever-come-to-barcelona/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/17/did-columbus-actually-ever-come-to-barcelona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Letters of Alexander Von Humboldt to Varnhagen Von Ense (GBS):
On the 9th of June, 1839, Varnhagen writes in his diary: &#8220;Humboldt agrees with me in the assertion made by me at different times, that too much cannot be inferred from the silence of the historians. He refers to three highly important and undeniable facts, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Sedation shows up in DNA testing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/17/sedation-shows-up-in-dna-testing/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/17/sedation-shows-up-in-dna-testing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the view of La Vanguardia, Barcelona&#8217;s quality paper. Barcelona is trying to promote its new biomedical research centre, but the University of Barcelona, the city&#8217;s best, is way down at number 94 in the European rankings. Maybe some decent public education would be in order.
]]></description>
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		<title>Aragon, maddest part of Spain</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/16/aragon-maddest-part-of-spain/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/16/aragon-maddest-part-of-spain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Decline]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of mathematics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. T. was struck with the number of lunaticks confined in the several provinces of Spain:]]></description>
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		<title>RalphAnderson1987</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/16/ralphanderson1987/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/16/ralphanderson1987/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/16/ralphanderson1987/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SQ is onto the mysterious case of RalphAnderson1987@yahoo.com, who is landlord of absolutely identical &#8220;funished&#8221; flats situated in Athens, Barcelona, Brussels, London, Paris, and Mexico City. I wonder from the style whether this particular conman is not Nigerian.
]]></description>
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		<title>Barcelona manufacturer offers 3-in-1 billiard table + grand piano + harmonium</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/15/barcelona-manufacturer-offers-3-in-1-billiard-table-grand-piano-harmonium/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/15/barcelona-manufacturer-offers-3-in-1-billiard-table-grand-piano-harmonium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liberals &#038; locals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, Spanish engineering in the 1860s! Since the factory only turned out two billiard tables a week, it&#8217;s difficult to see how they would have got round to satisfying the demands of smaller establishments with this kind of device, but never mind.
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