Get Into My Car

Here's something to test your skill and dexterity. How do you get an inflated lilo into a Renault Clio? Renault Espace, not a problem, but a Clio, given that there are two immovable objects, i.e. some stroppy looking teens, firmly welded to the back seats. To do so involves a certain style similar to that of those rubbery antics of "It's A Knockout", Stuart Hall wetting himself and Eddie Waring overseeing the "mini-marathon". All that was needed was for someone to have come along and applied bathloads of soapy substances to the road, the lilo and the Clio. My, what fun for all the family, except the two teens who were clearly in we are being made to feel very embarrassed by our parents mode.

This was all taking place and providing some entertainment outside a bar in Puerto Alcúdia (let's call it Foxes, shall we). Would the lilo bend? Could it be possible to smother the teenagers with it? Would it get into the boot without exploding? The answer is, I suppose, buy a foot pump. Lateral thinking, chaps, lateral thinking. Eventually, however, the Clio moved off with its pink blobby somehow contorted into the general boot and backseat area, like some inflated rear air-bag. Well done, whoever it was.


Cardboard city
To matters more serious - after a fashion. There was this short news item in "Ultima Hora" about the non-collection of carton packaging in Puerto Pollensa. The offending cardboard had apparently built up on the corner of the Formentor road and Ecònom Torres, the one with O'Hara's in it. The news item reported that "a neighbour" had complained not only about the cartons but also about the apparent inaction of the town hall in coming to collect it. Now, just stop a moment here. A neighbour had complained. The neighbour was not named, it was but one neighbour, it would seem. Does this really qualify as news? Seemingly it does. However, rather more pertinent is what was this packaging doing just lying around. In Alcúdia, the recycling gestapo is now exercising its zeal in ensuring that no bar etc, acts as some form of anti-environmental miscreant and that these establishments make damn sure that every bit of whatever can be recycled is indeed recycled - via the proper containers. (There was a piece on this a while ago.) So, what's with Pollensa? Are they not similarly inclined?


The Peter principle
Further to yesterday's thing about fiestas, the programme has been announced for Puerto Alcúdia's Sant Pere, some say San Pedro or Saint Peter, gig. And remarkably similar it is to last year's and the year before. No déjà vu there, then; the Peter principle of fiesta repetition. The big end-of fiesta thrash, with its grand fireworks display, is to also feature a concert in the Paseo by one Tomeu Penya, a Mallorcan artist who can regularly be called upon to serenade the revellers at such events. In previous years, there have been such unremarkable acts as some bird who came seventh in a Spanish "X-Factor" type thing. So, Tomeu represents a few advances up the steps of the musical food chain, in that he is a big name - here, at any rate. One has to be aware that, first and foremost, this is a fiesta for the locals, so Tomeu will doubtless have some salivating in anticipation, but is there not a chance that perhaps some international act might get the plum billing? Not a bloody tribute act, but a proper one. If Palma could have ELO, as it did last year for Sant Sebastià, or if Pollensa can get Tony Hadley, then why not some similar act for Puerto Alcúdia? Hmm, ELO, Tony Hadley; on second thoughts, let's stick with Tomeu.


QUIZ
Yesterday's title - The Players Association: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhy2eLp_Ap8. Today's title - get out of something and then into the car. Who?

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