Just
going back to the 2009 mental problems of the woman accused of
murdering her adopted daughter . . . Her psychiatrist of the time has
now said she booked herself into and then out of a private
psychiatric hospital but that she never should have been discharged
because "There was something there. She was a very strange
person". I wonder if this is standard psychiatric jargon. But,
anyway, we're now told she's to undergo a psychiatric examination in
prison to ascertain whether she has any mental health disorder(s)
which could affect her responsibility, if found guilty. Which is good, as it's hard to believe a verdict of guilty is anything other than a
racing certainty, given her trial by media. Of which this psychiatric guff is a major part.
I've
mentioned a couple of times how confused I am by Pontevedra's
ever-changing retail scene, where a good percentage of closing shops
are swiftly reopened under new owners - usually offering items for
ladies, frozen yoghurt (in December!) or sweets/candies. The latest
of these is an ex-estate agents (realtors) which is now yet another
place selling geegaws for women - in a street that's outside the main
shopping area. Yesterday it was occupied by a woman in a fur jacket
reading a newspaper. When I mentioned this to a friend over tiffins,
she said she knew the owners and they specialised in fascinators,
which they'd previously made at home. Neither of us gave it much
hope. Especially as winter is not exactly the peak of the wedding
season.
Talking
of closures . . . Here's an article from The
Local
on the rate of bankruptcies in Spain over the post-bum
years. Salutary reading.
And
here's another Local
list, which'll be of interest to you if you're an expat here in
Spain. The Galicia entry is hokum, by the way. Can't speak for the
others.
Finally
. . . The tool which removes staples has a variety of names in the
Anglosphere. That said, in the UK it only appears to be called a
'staple
remover', though folk in some ex British colonies call it a
'decleater'. Which confused me until I saw it as 'de-cleater'. The
Americans, of course, are far more inventive and use the following
terms:-staple remover, staple extractor, staple puller, destapler,
staple taker-outer[er], staple monster, stable biter, staple muncher,
destaplizer, staple serial killer, jaws or crocodile. None
of these, I venture to say, are as good as the word I invented for
the tool in my first year in business - 'grimper'. Sad to say, this
has yet to make the dictionaries. Or even Wikipedia. Perhaps I should
edit the entry.
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