[I wrote a first draft of this journal post mid-December 2025, just before flying to Sevilla, and just realised now that I had not published it! Hence the bizarre title. As a weird coïncidence, this is the second post where I associate Knives out and guacamole… A post also served cold, then. And hopefully not stale!] 
Read the most recent Rankin’s Rebus (#25), Midnight and Blue, taking place in an Edinburgh jail, where Rebus
Managed to confuse guacamole with soup while cleaning my freezer from long-time, anonymous, residents, which made the guacamole sour if manageable (with another ancient resident of said freezer, some octopus tentacles!).
Watched the third film in the Benoît Blanc series (Knives out), Wake Up Dead Man. Which was agaaaain of a Cluedo style, with caricatures of all characters, except for the punching priest, who manages to save the (soul of the) story, putting Blanc and his mannerisms in the background. If not in the grave (which remains a central piece of the scenario, along the church!)
A particularly tough first exposure to trail running! I had accumulated quite a decent volume in preparation for this race, with more than 400km in four weeks, but it proved of little impact as I hardly ran, given the nature of the terrain, where passing slower runners was near impossible and where steep slopes forced most participants to walk up (fast) and made me hyper-cautious on the way down. And periodically letting faster runners pass me. Especially after my first fall at kilometre 8 when I bumped into a rock and fell flat (with many scratches but nothing broken). As a result, I went from 141th to 161th to 187th at the successive check-points. The massive differential let me with sore tights the whole week, although not preventing me from jogging every morning. And still the weather was near perfect, cold with no wind, sunny most of the way and no rain till the finish line. The good side is that I did not suffer at all from the hindfoot tendinitis I had developed two weeks earlier. And which soon returned on flat, fast terrains like Ponte de la Liberta!
