How many penguins can you fit in the Generalitat de Cataloonia’s London embassy?

The Emperor Wu says that small office space is fetching around €650/m² pa on Fleet Street at the moment, so €37,200 pa is probably buying the separatists 50-60m²’s worth of plural reality and national character. It’s an encouraging sign of faith in the underlying strength of the Spanish economy that its regions are expanding such facilities at a time when, for example, the British Foreign Office is doing all it can to get yet more pinko wastrels to take up amateur gardening in Galicia. On the other hand, 60m² doesn’t seem very big for a nation whose male pitch and putt team rules the world. Neither is the location particularly convenient for Whitehall or the City–what do people do in Fleet Street now?–but I suppose if you acquired a mattress and fridge it would make a nice bachelor pad.

Trevor @ 2 September 2008 1:01 PM

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1. Colin
   11:19 AM on 3 September 2008

   “Pinko wastrel” Is that me??

   The British Embassy has just closed its [part-time] consulate in Vigo. And the one in Bilbao, I believe.

2. Trevor
   11:24 AM on 3 September 2008

   So Germaine Greer hasn’t raised the red flag over the Telegraph from without the gardening section?

3. Colin
   12:22 PM on 3 September 2008

   Political pinkos don’t read the DT. We facial
   pinkos do, though less and less. Anyway, the GS has been abandoned.

4. A Nun
   10:42 AM on 5 September 2008

   The Generalitat has just announced that ordinary operating costs are to be reduced by 25%. I suppose that means that the London embassy will be gone by Christmas. Not exactly a great example of forward thinking.

5. Joan
   12:31 PM on 8 September 2008

   Why can’t you call it Catalonia. People might take you more seriously

6. Trevor
   12:34 PM on 8 September 2008

   Cataloonia was the spelling used by the Generalitat during the absurd Catalan culture programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair last year http://www.google.com/search?q=cataloonia I can’t help it if they say they’re mad.

7. Trevor
   12:35 PM on 8 September 2008

   http://www.llull.cat/llull/docs/ficheros/200706180008_61_0.jpg

8. Joan
   12:40 PM on 8 September 2008

   LOL How could they do that.

9. Tom
   3:29 PM on 8 September 2008

   Well, that was for one specific comic/cartoon related exhibition, wasn’t it?

10. Trevor
    6:15 PM on 8 September 2008

    Why not Catatoonia then?

11. Tom
    12:41 PM on 9 September 2008

    Was that directed at me? You can call it what you like. I’m just saying that it’s a little disingenuous to say “Cataloonia was the spelling used by the Generalitat during the absurd Catalan culture programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair last year” when ‘Cataloonia’ was merely the name of one exhibition at the event.

    I should think that ‘Catalonia’, ‘Catalunya’ or perhaps ‘Katalonien’ were probably used more frequently.

12. Trevor
    1:06 PM on 9 September 2008

    Disingenuous? Dishonest, more like. Why did they use Cataloonia, though?

13. Tom
    3:13 PM on 9 September 2008

    I thought it was to sound like ‘carTOON’. I agree, though, it was silly.

    I called it disingenuous because I thought you were being thoroughly dishonourable. If it was merely dishonest then I take that back

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