Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone 

that puts the stars to flight.

And, lo, has caught the sultan’s turret

In a noose of light!

Spanish life is not always likeable but it is compellingly loveable – Christopher Howse: ‘A Pilgrim in Spain’ 

Cosas de España/Pontevedra

There is a roundabout on the edge of Pv city that isn’t a roundabout. It was, but it isn’t now. It’s at the end of a street of which the one-way direction has been changed at least 3 times by the non-driving kid in charge if traffic control in the Pv municipal offices. As you aren’t currently allowed to enter this street from the roundabout, there are steel posts at what used to be the exit to it and these close off half of the ex-roundabout. What they don’t always do is stop drivers trying to enter the street. Either these crash into them or in the case of small cars, get stuck between them. Hence these fluorescent bands and the new signs, shown here . . . Or not, as the case might be.

Which reminds me . . The dark nights of winter are hardly upon us but I am convinced that my fluorescent armbands have already saved me from injury or even death on a badly lit crossing at the end of O Burgo bridge. Or at least from a car speeding across me or screeching to a halt within a metre of me. A truly great investment that I think of each time I read of an accident on a crossing. Which is quite often. The latest being just after I typed that.

Being more positive about the environs of Pv city . . . There’s an unusual but rather beautiful house set back behind palms on a roundabout on the road out of Poio towards Sanxenxo. It’s called Pazo de Besada and is featured in this article. This is the (side) entrance to it . . .

Quote of the Day

Dave Rich, in Everyday Hate: The difference between racism and antisemitism is the difference between a prejudice and a conspiracy theory: and while prejudice is out of fashion for today’s youth, conspiracy theories are all the rage. Social media again, I guess.

Spanish

• Aupar: To help up; praise
• Hacinado: Crowded
• Hacinamiento: Overcrowding

That’s it for today, folks. Normal service tomorrow. My PC – with a draft post – is in the boot of my car in the taller and typing this on my old – malfunctioning – Mac has been a true calvario . . .