A Bit Of R'n'R

After the brief diversion into matters of minor consequence yesterday, back to the all-important issues and, in particular, the matter of overriding concern at the moment - the aversion to spellings with two "r"s; oh, and the question why some seem to have forgotten that the season has already started.

But to this spelling. The double-r is almost a form of embarrassment because, unlike the word five words back in this sentence (which is spelt correctly), it often is not. Is it embarrassment or just a reluctance to indulge in the r-duo that so regularly finds embarrassment diminished by a factor of one r to a mere embarassment? Who knows? But the poor twin r is casually cast aside, the runt of the r litter of two. And so it also was today in "The Bulletin" wherein local dentist-cum-man with a mission, Dr. Garry Bonsall, was stripped of his third letter, or was it his fourth letter? Either way, he was reduced by 20%, via the unerring r-ing reticence.

Be all this as it may, but what Garry was drawing to the island's attention was the tardiness of the local Pollensa beach Oberführers to get some sunbeds onto the aforementioned beach (well, actually not aforementioned as Pollensa doesn't have a beach, Puerto Pollensa does, but I'm sure you understood). Yes, the season may be slightly less than a week old, but the beach in Puerto Pollensa is seemingly yet to subside under the weight of the sunbed-parasol combination. One suspects it is the same problem as in Cala San Vicente, i.e. no one has quite got around to granting the concessions. But maybe it isn't. Personally, I have no truck with these items of beach furniture. A towel and a soft acre or two of sand do me fine, but there is nothing like the absence of a lounger or several to provoke some news item and indeed some "fury", as reported the other day.

And then there are the strange cases of the restaurants that haven't quite got round to opening. In the Alcúdia Pins area of Playa de Muro, the Portobello restaurant is not only not open it is in the middle of complete upheaval. Having passed by on many an occasion over the past few weeks, and witnessed not a jot of activity and only papered-over windows, I can only surmise that the start of the season was the day when the work actually started, which - something tells me - is not quite how it's meant to be. But if they can do without the business until it does open, then fine. Just seems very odd.


QUIZ
Yesterday's chain - Jack Bruce to Manfred Mann to Manfred Mann's Earthband to "Blinded By The Light" to Springsteen. And how do you get from Springsteen to Buzz Lightyear?

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