Crystal ball

If Artur Mas, president of Catalunya, had had one of these, he wouldn't have called an election. Despite favourable opinion polls and his hopes of gaining a true majority (68 seats), his party ended up with fewer seats than before, 50 instead of 62, while the nationalist left (Esquerra) made significant gains.

I think I bored everyone to death with my long comment yesterday, so if you do want to know more, here's a blog post in English that explains the result better than I would.

It was a dull, overcast day today, so there you go -- I am reduced to blipping the nice window ornament I bought in Begur yesterday. The camera didn't like focussing on it, so I spent ages fiddling about with manual focus, which seems to be a lot easier with the 35mm prime lens than with the zoom. Go large to see the reflection while trying not to notice that the focus could have been better.