Today the town returns to normality. At last the kids go back to school, and the decorations - that traditionally go up on December 8th - will start to disappear.Some have never quite worked! On "smelly corner" at the ferry port entrance we have the unspecified message "Happy" -
At the other end of the scale for imagination and attention to details we have had the Blue Rock ceiling. This tiny bar always rises to the seaonal challenge, and this year the theme of festive fare is "reflected" on the ceiling with intricate displays.
Note particularly the cardboard model turkey carefully crafted by Mark. Futhermore, as far as we know, nothing fell from any of the displays in the whole month.The town council pulled out all the stops to have the "prettification" finished on time, and we have now lost all but a few skips in terms of plant. In Calle La Iglesia the cobbles are gone, and in the music square there is new central lighting. All the businesses in the two areas have the same retractable canopies, and they will receive - apparently - uniform tables and chairs. Then further planters etc can be placed by the owners to put back some character! The council's attempts at deco
r qualify for the Silly Idea of the Decade prize. Down the middle of the old cobbled street they have put some items. The seats might work, but the rectangles made of hardwood planks do not. One month on and they are warping and lifting - as surely they would, and as for the see-through thing - well! This may have been inspired by a clever idea used in a little bar (that is now closed) called El Muro Alto. In line with their nautical them they modified their
tables so that through a glass top you could see shells, pebbles and so on. Pretty! The coucil have tried to do the same thing for a 3m square display in the paving of the pedestrian area. As soon as it was it finished the perspex developed condensation so that nothing of the nautical bits under it could be seen, and the slippery surface meant it has had to be cordonned off.
r qualify for the Silly Idea of the Decade prize. Down the middle of the old cobbled street they have put some items. The seats might work, but the rectangles made of hardwood planks do not. One month on and they are warping and lifting - as surely they would, and as for the see-through thing - well! This may have been inspired by a clever idea used in a little bar (that is now closed) called El Muro Alto. In line with their nautical them they modified theirtables so that through a glass top you could see shells, pebbles and so on. Pretty! The coucil have tried to do the same thing for a 3m square display in the paving of the pedestrian area. As soon as it was it finished the perspex developed condensation so that nothing of the nautical bits under it could be seen, and the slippery surface meant it has had to be cordonned off.
