At noon, I hung out a machine-made load of linen. It's pleasant to hang it up, fragrant and wet, fresh and carnal, refined not by the pieces but by their use, like laundry after an illness, as if hanging sheets and pillowcases had been hung between them the nights spent, and hanging the T-shirt had been hung the evening I wore them for a sound hike the other day in the mountains, not far away because the dog has grown old and can't keep up.

Unemployment figures have fallen again for the eighth consecutive month in Catalonia after the unchecked rise caused by the covid crisis. In October it has done it in 510 people, according to the data of the Ministry of Labour that has been made public this Tuesday. Although the decline is discreet with respect to the summer months, it is important considering that it is the first drop in unemployment in a month of October since 2007, when, traditionally, many summer season contracts end. Currently the number of people looking for employment in Catalonia is 377,960, almost 10,000 people less than in October two years ago, therefore, in absolute figures the employment picture is already better than it was before the pandemic.