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!

If you think we took photos ...

Ricardo Gómez, alias TioJimeno

As always, our friends at TioJimeno took photos and videos of the whole feria. Indeed, Ricardo Gómez, TioJimeno himself, could be seen behind his camera at all the events - several of which we did not cover. His madly successful site is chock full of photos - several of which were taken by Ricardo or one of his many contributors (we could do with some of those, folks! Send your photos in, please!!) long after Prospero had retired, exhausted, to bed. Well, Ricardo is younger...

Blue Sky, by guitarr

Guitarr is one of TioJimeno's collaborators. This is his photo, which we liked so much we stole it.

CARNAVAL gets under way tonight - even if it's raining!

JIMENA It seems to us that it has always rained over Carnival weekend in Jimena, though this is floodingly denied by drunken sots of all ages and conditions in any bar. What, you might ask, were we doing in a bar anyway? Ah, we were trying to find out who is doing what and when. And why is this and prior Carnivals allowing a Cuarteto of only two people (photo of Jorge and Tobi doing their thing onstage a couple of years ago). And what the hay is the difference between a comparsa and a chirigota. And questions like that. But then, we asked the very same drunken sots and got very similar slurried answers. And it was raining cats and kangaroos, so we went home and referred to our very favourite Carnival website, TioJimeno, who came up with a description of each and every performance of local groups, which we don't have time to translate because we are due for dinner somewhere and can't afford to pass up a free meal. You can see the Carnival thing on TioJimeno right here, though.

All you wanted to know about Jimena's 2010 Carnival, and more

As we told you, Dear Reader, we weren't about to stay up 'til all hours (not any more, not any more, at our age). But the youngsters over at TioJimeno couldn't help it. So, without their express permission (just a general sort of one), we have linked you to their excellent coverage. All you have to do is click on the word TioJimeno above to find out what went on over the three days. It's well worth a look even if just to see who you might recognize under their costumes, or to pick out your child among the crowds - and maybe even to relive the fun?