On March 18th, my son wanted to buy a PS2 game on E-Bay. Of course that meant he had to use my account to do so. It meant running the anti-spyware scans, which was slow going, because at the time we were still recovering from the computer virus, but eventually we bought it and paid for it. The same evening I got an email saying the payment had been received…
The people who lived here before the Spanish invasion in 1493 were called Benauaritas. Since they didn’t have writing, not all that much is known about them, and what there is comes from the invaders. Not exactly an unbiased source! Their technology was pretty basic, maybe because the climate in La Palma is kind enough not to encourage things like weaving. They wore skins, lived mostly in caves, herded goats…
Last night Helen took all her hard work on the layout of Issue 5 of Ruido to the printers, and I went along to translate. Since this was Helen’s first ever magazine layout, she was pretty nervous. She was more than half expecting that she’d forgotten something and would have to make lots of changes. But the printer’s reaction was, “Oh! Oh that’s good. Fine. I’ll get the proofs done…
I love Christina’s shop. She started off in the local flea market, selling fancy knitting yarn in the most wonderful colours. I always wanted to buy the lot and spend the next year knitting. Now she has a shop on the Calle Real, still selling the yarn, but also finished knitware and costume jewelry which she makes herself out of local lava and coral, with silver or gold-plated silver mountings….