The mystery of the broken class

 Today’s journey would take us 12 minutes by bus.  There is a bus every two hours.  Instead it will take us 52 minutes and we will go down 38m and up 76.  We will get a Candlemas Bun enroute. We are heading for La Degollada although that seems a bold claim. It seems to be somewhere people hike to and from to.




The Bar Casa Arbelo is near Liberation Street - which I think might buck us up and make us gay.   Ok, embedded foot note.  Of the many things my wife brought to the marriage - a copy of the vinyl ‘Hair’ and a really neat cork screw - is the phrase ‘I love the sound of breaking glass it bucks one up and makes one gay’.  I had assumed it was Ogden Nash.  I am trying to find this and don’t want to interrupt her making lunch.  All I am getting is the 1978 Nick Lowe sound.  Lunch has arrived and the thought it was Hillaire Belloc - who I looked up and wish I hadn’t.  At this point - second piece of toast being costumed, along with chorizo - we’ve come across ‘Like many of the Upper Class, He liked the sound of Broken Glass.’  The mystery continues.


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Back to Casa Arbelo.   A week ago Jose said ‘This bar is always a good choice.’  Fernando added ‘Good restaurant to eat, the food is good and homemade, the staff is quite friendly, in short, the quality-price ratio is good’



Off we go again round the bends.  Let us look for one of the 17,107 types of land animal on the Canary Island.  Make you want to introduce the odd Helicigona lapicid to increase the number to 17108.   Apparently 4200 are endemic but let us dwell on the Canary long- eared bat  It  was first described by a Brit with a great name, Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barret-Hamilton  in 1907. The are brown and fury and have 4cm ears.  They are in decline and only have on breeding colony.  Numbers across the Canaries are under 2000.

So, that it.




Postscript. It was Hilaire
Belloc,.  https://archive.org/details/hilairebellocsc00bell/page/119/mode/1up









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