Category archive for Provisions and utensils of the household and the fields (RSS)

Spidy Wasch

Posted: June 29th 2009 11:45. Last modified: June 30th 2009 18:48

A bit of free association, or rambling, as it is more widely known.

Link sink for 28/05/2009

Posted: May 28th 2009 09:39. Last modified: May 28th 2009 09:44

Drinking, driving, cursing.

Virgin and Child

Posted: May 22nd 2009 11:02. Last modified: May 22nd 2009 11:09

At Giseno, Lago di Como.

Hand-made corporate logos

Posted: May 12th 2009 20:55.

If phone companies don’t provide window stickers, Pakistani shopkeepers may have a go themselves.

The mugger, mugged (3)

Posted: May 11th 2009 10:18. Last modified: May 11th 2009 10:21

With a description of how thieves work Barcelona’s metro station platforms.

Lipoplasty loaf

Posted: April 27th 2009 01:14. Last modified: April 27th 2009 01:17

What happens when you forget dough during secondary fermentation and then bake it without beating it down.

Spanish pavements

Posted: April 20th 2009 10:45. Last modified: April 20th 2009 10:56

They’re not necessarily for pedestrians.

Two Brad Pitt exclusives

Posted: April 16th 2009 09:57. Last modified: April 16th 2009 10:01

  • French farmer tells him, “Get off my land!”
  • Did a Pakistani Dracula turn Brad and Angelina into zombies?

The war on arsematrons

Posted: April 14th 2009 09:31. Last modified: April 14th 2009 10:17

After years of shilly-shallying, will France finally stand up to American fartpower?

Terminal Germinal

Posted: April 13th 2009 11:49.

The pros of walking to Barcelona Airport.

Free tapas map of Andalusia

Posted: April 8th 2009 18:18.

Assuming RW’s liver survives the test.

Drunk and disorderly

Posted: April 6th 2009 17:02. Last modified: April 7th 2009 19:40

A British soldier’s hazy recollections of civil war in Portugal.

What have racing cyclists and American Black Vultures got in common?

Posted: March 28th 2009 09:13. Last modified: March 28th 2009 09:18

Urohydrosis.

Belgian tourist turns suicidal after eating tapas at the Lizarran chain

Posted: March 25th 2009 19:40. Last modified: March 25th 2009 19:41

Carles Miró wonders why more people are not similarly affected.

Tantalisingly facked

Posted: March 22nd 2009 22:14. Last modified: March 22nd 2009 22:16

OCB’s Black Thinking brand launches a startling new ambient campaign.

Semen shortage on Montjuïc, Barcelona

Posted: March 21st 2009 08:44.

The cottaging zone is getting so popular they’re having to pipe the stuff in.

Spanish airport traffic trends

Posted: March 20th 2009 19:40. Last modified: May 6th 2009 09:26

Variation in air traffic numbers throws interesting light on Spain’s problems as it plunges into recession.

Sausage sourcing as an index of international cultural and political orientation

Posted: March 19th 2009 19:14. Last modified: March 19th 2009 19:35

The cases of Spain and Holland.

Duck hunting in the nature reserve on the Llobregat

Posted: March 18th 2009 18:38. Last modified: March 18th 2009 18:46

It’s no longer a swinging safari now the nature-lovers have got guns too.

Sun setting over tourist bars in Barcelona

Posted: March 17th 2009 07:14. Last modified: March 17th 2009 07:23

Where are the heaving (crowds of) drunks of yesteryear?

On this day

Barcelona

  • July 5 1522 Solemnes rogativas para el feliz viage del rey D. Cárlos I que venia de Alemania, á donde fue para tomar posesion del imperio.
  • July 5 1844 

    I am delighted with Barcelona. It is a beautiful city, especially the new part, with a mixture of Spanish, French, and Italian character. The climate is soft and voluptuous, the heats being tempered by the sea breezes. Instead of the naked desert which surrounds Madrid, we have here, between the ...

  • July 5 1848 

    En la iglesia de la Trinidad, hoy parroquia de San Jaime, se celebra una solemne funcion en honor del
    beato Miguel de los Santos que habia pertenecido á la órden trinitaria, y cuya imágen se venera en un altar de dicha iglesia. La concurrencia no es reducida, y de las tres partes las dos...

  • July 5 1899 

    SPANISH MOBS STILL ACTIVE.; Further Disturbances at Alicante, Valencia, and Barcelona.

  • July 5 1909 

    MORE BOMBS IN BARCELONA.; One Explodes in Cafe, Another Found at Circus Wrecks a Van.

Palafrugell and thereabouts

  • Sorry, nothing doing today.

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