Yup, I like being unemployed. The blog index is tidied up and linked to, the door’s ready to varnish tomorrow, I’ve submitted five stories, blogged, and best of all, I’ve written 300 words of the next Agent Hammer adventure. I just hope I can keep the momentum going.
My temporary contract doesn’t officially finish until the end of the month – Tuesday – but I have two days holiday owing, so I’m free at last! Free to write all day (apart from shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry, tidying up…) It’s going to be great, at least until the end of the month when my pay check doesn’t arrive. But lucky me, I have a husband with a good job,…
Every year Santa Cruz has a demonstration of living statues, and this year is the fourth. The statues are on the Calle Real today, Saturday and Sunday.Everybody calls the main street in Santa Cruz de la Palma, “the Calle Real”, but nowhere along it’s length is there a street sign with that name! I used to suspect that the whole thing was invented to confuse visitors, but now I know…
On Tuesdays, my friend Helen arrives in time to produce lunch for my son and look after him until I get home from work. Most days I organise their lunch before I leave, although Helen’s pretty good at finishing off something half-done, or improvising from scratch. So this morning I phoned her. “Your lunch is the big pan of chicken stew in the fridge. Do NOT taste the small pan…
After an colder-than-average winter, the temperatures here have shot up. This happens whenever the trade winds give way to calima – a hot, dry wind and dust blowing from the Sahara. We used to get it only in summer, but for the last few years it’s been happening earlier in the year. Actually, it’s really nice at this time of year. Suddenly it’s warm enough to sit on the beach,…
After an colder-than-average winter, the temperatures here have shot up. This happens whenever the trade winds give way to calima – a hot, dry wind and dust blowing from the Sahara. We used to get it only in summer, but for the last few years it’s been happening earlier in the year. Actually, it’s really nice at this time of year. Suddenly it’s warm enough to sit on the beach,…