Is there Bucky in El Bulli? **

Tonight's beautifully crafted post has disappeared into the ether. There's not much left apart from a joke about teenage Motherwell's favourite beverage and a long gone restaurant.
There will be riots in Lanarkshire if they try charging that much.

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