Maybe I should just start blogging about the days when I don’t feel overloaded. I usually send out about 25 Christmas cards, with around robin letter. I like to get this in the post on December 1st, and I haven’t finished the first draft yet. (No, it doesn’t go through about 6 drafts like a short story, usually just 2.) I’ve just finished a rush translation job for the tourist…
The Christmas decorations are up in Santa Cruz, and most of the villages too. I particularly liked this Christmas “tree” outside a shop on the main street in Santa Cruz. It’s made from the dead flower stalk of an agarve plant. When I arrived on La Palma in 1990, Christmas trees were very much an innovation, and expensive. Most people had nativity scenes instead, and they still do. But Christmas…
I’m knitting a jumper for a friend’s son, using up oddments of blue and green in hexagons. It’s probably not to the taste of many adults, but this boy’s six. I’ve finished the front and I’m halfway up the back. It’ll be a bit of a rush to finish it by Christmas, but I should do it.
Santa Cruz de La Palma will hold their second “Night of Stars” tonight. The headline act is Priscilla Hernández, a New Age singer originally form La Palma, who’ll be presenting her new CD “The Underliving”. But there’ll also be other performers at various times and places, Astrotour stargazing at the Marina, Batucada (serious percussion) in various aprts of town, an exhibition of rally cars on the Avenida Maritima, a bouncy…