This is Aladin. to my amazement, he said he’d only been practising with the glass ball for about a year, although sometimes for hours at a time. He’s from Poland originally, but now he lives in Tenerife because he’s in love with the golden Fairy. There were a couple of other living statues that did a better job of staying immobile (in my opinion) but were less interesting when they…
I’ve had a frustrating couple of days. I got an email that Leeds university are seriously considering closing down their botanic gardens. Now this sounds dumb – I don’t see how you can teach botany without plants, but then it’s no dumber than trying to do astronomy without telescopes. That’s their business. What upsets me is that those gardens were a large percentage of my father’s life’s work. The person…
My favourite of yesterdays living statues was Whiskers. I spent a lot of the morning learning how to edit video, and here’s the result.
This morning, Santa Cruz played host to a competition for living statues.If you haven’t seen these before. they stand completely still until you put some money in the container, and then they perform. I’ve seen a few before, but this competition brought in 16 artists from all over Europe and beyond. They’ll be back tomorrow and Saturday, from 11 am to 2 pm.And I’ll get some video up tomorrow.
My husband gets up at the crack of dawn and goes jogging. When he comes back he makes himself coffee, so when I get up, the coffee’s there ready and waiting. This is great, because I’m not a morning person. This morning he had his annual health check, which meant that he had to go and have a blood test before he ate or drank anything. So he couldn’t have…
The Palmeran climate’s a lot less predictable than it used to be. We had an unusually dry winter, but so far spring is wetter than usual. In any case, at this time of year, the weather’s very changeable. It’s not like Ireland – if you don’t like the weather just wait five minute and it’ll change – but half an hour ago it was pouring, and now it’s just cloudy….