What is this man doing?

JIMENA Good question, to which we know the answer (yes, we hear you there in the back; you said 'smartypants' or something, didn't you?). This photo of  José Doncel Ríos doing whatever he's doing was published on TioJimeno last October, and stolen by us today. Do you know what he's doing and why? We've given you a very slight hint about the season it was first published. Here's another one: you love them or you hate them. There's no prize for the right answer, except the satisfaction. Depending on how many comments we get on this, we might come up with a monthly contest, with prizes yet!

Bugging good time had by all!

(Photo: TioJimeno)

We missed Carnival here at JimenaPulse. Fortunately, our good ole colleagues up the hill at TioJimeno were there in full form. They took hundreds of photos, movies, jokes, songs and came up with several web albums. The main Saturday night display of costumes produced at least two albums (Album 1 and Album2) and yesterday's song and dance through the streets, another album. It is well worth looking through them to see who you know as that every day person -often more serious and 'formal' than may appear in the photos. They had a lot of fun, they did. You can get a taste for it on TioJimeno: they're choc-a-bloc with Carnival on there!

Here are the tin cans being dragged

JIMENA We were there at the very beginning, though admit to have flagged towards the end in the square. There they were, all the kids with their tin cans on lengths of string - and lots of very clever and imaginative efforts that required more than just tying cans to string. There were less kids this year, we think, but more creativity. If you wish to purchase a picture, please contact us with the reference number(s) for the one(s) you want.