Given the brush off

Last year Vejer de la Frontera, (so distinguished for being the frontier with the Moors,) was awarded the Silver Broom Award by the Association for the Environment and Waste Management, ATEGRUS. The whiteness of the streets and their cleanliness were cited as contributory factors although what other contributions changed hands has not been divulged. Certainly there was no evidence of dogs or cats and surprisingly none of the mini-van sized, colour coded, plastic recycling and refuse bins that most towns and cities leave lying around in the hope that citizens will fill them rather than dumping things in the street.
So, as Wittgenstein might have asked, does saying that the silver broom is in Vejer really mean that the silver broomstick is there, and so is the brush, and the broomstick is fixed in the brush?Læs mere