North Korea launches a new beer
North Korea, the “hermit kingdom” known for being the worlds only Communist dynasty, bad hairstyles and erratic nuclear weapons, has launched a new beer which seems to be about the first -and only- advert for a product on their TV network.
Don’t know about you, but it’s making me want to go tee-total. At least they don’t know how to pour it.
The BBC says:
Billed as the “Pride of Pyongyang”, the advert promises drinkers that the beer will help ease stress.
“It represents the new look of Pyongyang,” the two-and-a-half minute advert says. “It will be a familiar part of our lives.”
Taedonggang Beer Factory has been making the brew since buying a British brewery and shipping it lock, stock and barrel from the UK in 2002.
The beer has been occasionally available in South Korea and is said to be of high quality.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, said to have a fondness for fine wines and brandy, has taken a personal interest in the brewery.
“Watching good quality beer coming out in an uninterrupted flow for a long while, he noted with great pleasure that it has now become possible to supply more fresh beer to people in all seasons,” North Korea’s state news agency, KCNA, said after he visited the brewery in 2002.
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University of Almería starts classes in bullfighting culture
Controversy from the henna wearing ones as the University of Almería signed a contract with Taurino businessman Oscar Martinez to start a class in bullfighting and the culture, history and art associated with it.
The course will offer a whole range of studies, from dance to popular culture to legal and moral aspects of bullfighting culture.
Spain’s spymaster quits in corruption row
Alberto Saiz, head of the C.N.I., Spain’s secret agency, has quit only two months after being reappointed for afurther term as the agency’s head after being accused of spending public money on funding his own lavish lifestyle.
Spies have come forward to complain that they were being used “to ferry his family around” rather than fight terrorism, according to leaked reports to daily “El País” newspaper.
Turre asks for 1,5 million
Turre townhall has voted to ask for a further 1,5 million euro bank loan to help it over the next few months after running out of cash.
Turre currently has three outstanding loans: two of €700.000 each and a third of €70.000. So this will double the deficit if approved. Currently, it costs the townhall around €100,000 a year to service the loans it already has, according to my spy.
That works out to be about €434 per person in Turre that they want to borrow. Or a public debt of around €868. Blimey.
A lovely official poster
If you’re going to design a poster that, by law, will be sent to every business in the land (Andalucía) and must be put on the wall… wouldn’t you design a slightly better one?
Piers Morgan in Marbella
Strange. You would think that Piers would have said something on his blog (here) about his happy holidays in Marbella. Instead, the shy retiring violet has decided to keep quiet and allow his beloved, perma tanned fans to bask in his radiance. What would Jeremy say?
Poor sod. Looks quite scared in the fourth photo from the end. If the hands were the other way round somebody could probably sue for sexual harassment. Life isn’t fair, is it?
Hairdressers
Popped into Damien’s in Turre for a haircut, something that I do about every 5 weeks (the hair grows quickly).
I recently had the unpleasent sensation of going bald. Not, I hasten to add, in the normal places, but just in front of the ears, above the sideburns. In a series of photos I come out looking shaven in front of the lobes.
“Damien”, sayz I, “pop the old clippers back on the recharging stand and use the scissors, there’s a good lad”.
“Pos si” he agreed, inspecting the frontal lobes, “you guiruis have the strangest hair. You don’t want a close shave there, it would look bad”.
He then proceeded to use the shaver.
However, he did make the concession of upping the trim when reaching the endangered areas.
As I left, hairy growths firmly controlled, he asked me how long I’d been coming to his shop. About 14 years, we agreed.
“Do you know” he sighed, “14 years of you coming in every 5 weeks for a trim, and not once have you left and I’d been happy with the way I trimmed your hair. This is the first time ever I’ve been happy to admit you’ve come out of my shop”:
Well, thanks very much. Here’s to Damien, mejor el peluquero de Turre as the sign says.
Electricity up 2% tomorrow
Tomorrow sees the introduction of the new free market for electricty and (piped) gas in Spain.
If you don’t choose a supplier and new tariff, you remain on the “base” rate, the Tarifa de Ultimo Recurso (TUR), which is basically the same as it is now.
Except that “they” have just announced that the TUR will be 2% higher than current prices, so as from middnight tonight all prices go up.
So start hunting around for a new electricty supplier.
Mariela’s Oasis Bar
Posted by admin in Restaurants on June 30th, 2009
I’m informed that Mariela’s Oasis bar restaurant along Mojácar playa continues with their “lunch for one euro” special every Wednesday.
I was told that it’s “nice although you have to remove the skin from the chicken yourself”, which frankly left me wondering. Is this before or after it’s cooked?
Anyone tried it and care to comment?
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