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About Jimena de la Frontera, the province of Cadiz and Spain as a whole, focused on this small village in the mountainsArchive for BITS and PIECES
Spectacular 507 carat white diamond at historic Cullinan mine
(Press release) Petra Diamonds, the international diamond mining group, recently announced the recovery of an important 507.55 carat white diamond at the Cullinan mine in South Africa.> Read the rest of this entry »
A good photo is worth a thousand words
We stole Francisco Vera’s photograph from TioJimeno because we thought it was a great picture. See for yourself.
‘Wanna get that?’
Actors Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig interrupt a final dress rehearsal of their play ‘Steady Rain’ in New York when a mobile phone went off in the audience. Jackman addresses the culprit in no uncertain terms. Have you an embarrassing story involving your mobile? Send it in!
Rabbit, rabbit, white rabbit
Don’t ask. This is a superstition and we’re not superstitious (we own a black cat and have ladders) but in our research for something completely different we came across this item on Wikipedia. With things as they are, a bit o’ luck would not come amiss…
Real recycling, by Mayumaná
This is what happens when you leave your wheelie bin out at night, or someone throws out a tire rim: a whole bunch of very fit young people … Nah, it’s that fabulous Israeli percussion dance group Mayumaná (that now includes 5 Spaniards among many other nationalities), whose last concert in Málaga tonight our colleague Ricardo (a.k.a. TioJimeno) has announced he is attending. We only put it up out of a very deep sense of envy – but we really, honestly hope he, family and friends enjoy it. ¡Que lo paséis bien, gente!
