what fresh hell…?

Tags

, ,

Yesterday’s Blue 💙 (last chance before Storm Claudia hits) and whatever the fuck this is. Looks like they blew the whole Christmas lights budget on tram toldos. Seriously, at the END of August this year the city council put up street awnings over the Avenida de la Constitución (now taken down), costing over 300,000 euros, that only covered the tram line… NOT WHERE THE PEDESTRIANS WALK. Duh. And now we get this sad excuse for Christmas lights, which will probably get blown away over the next few days (we’re on orange alert for wind and storms). Also… spot the willy! 😉

new shoes 2025!

Tags

, ,

Trying out these Fluchos, a Spanish brand that seem to be better quality (and better priced) than Camper. I realised that the last time I bought shoes was back in 2021 (actually bought in 2019 but I didn’t wear them for two years).  Last winter I actually got by on these refurbished favourites (from 2017) but sadly the time has come to retire them. And yes, okay, I did buy these ones a couple of years ago but turned out they were just too ugly after all so I returned them.

My point is… I needed new shoes and I am hoping these ones will work out. It’s always so stressful buying shoes because of my triple EEE wide “duck feet” (narrow heels), requiring a usually quite painful breaking in period, and I never know what’s going to break first, the shoes or me, until it happens. So I am wearing these guys around the house for awhile before trying them outside. Fingers crossed. 

sevilla european film festival

Tags

, , ,

LOVE this year’s poster for the Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla. Sevilla-based illustrator José Luis Ágreda was inspired by traditional posters for Seville’s spring festivals and incorporated iconography from cult European films, including Sergio Leone’s Dollar Trilogy and the cat from ‘Flow’. The other two Ágreda created for this poster series featured Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire and Fellini’s La Dolce Vida (and the cat!). I recognised that horse right away as it’s from one of my favourite feria posters from 1934.