Carnival is officially over in most places, but if you missed the Sardine’s funeral in Santa Cruz and Los Llanos, you still have four chances to pay your last respects. Puntallana hold their sardine’s funeral tonight at 10 pm, and the little village of Los Galguitos in San Andres y Sauces holds theirs tonight too, but I haven’t been able to find out when. Los Sauces hold theirs tomorrow (Saturday)…
The road from Santa Cruz to the Roque is blocked by snow at least until midday tomorrow. It’s open on the Garafía side, but only to 4-wheel drive vehicles. Years ago, when I was on duty overnight at the Roque in winter, it was part of my job to check the road in the morning to see whether or not it was safe for cars to come up to site….
In the last ten days or so, at least five people have congratulated me on loosing so much weight. But according to the scales, I’ve actually gained half a kilo. This is very nice, but very odd. I can only think that either I’ve managed to swap some fat for muscle (muscle being denser) or that my posture’s improved. Either way, it must be the extra exercise.
My friend and talented fellow writer, Eugie Foster has a launch party today on Facebook and LiveJournal for her collection of short stories, “Returning my Sister’s Face.” She’s part Chinese, and her stories are often set in the orient. More importantly, they tend to hang around in your subconscious long after you put the book down, which is probably why they’ve been into Greek, Hungarian, Polish, and French. She hasn’t…