It’s been a mad week. Friday last week I had a coach party from a cruise ship. They were a nice group, and I wasn’t a particularly hard morning, but I felt enormously tired afterwards. In fact, I suspect I had some sort of lurgy, because I went on feeling enormously tired and very cold all weekend. Preparing English classes was enormously hard work. Worse, I had an appointment to…
Most days, I rather enjoy tour guiding. And then there’s the days that I love! This morning was one of the great days. I got to show a photographer around the Herschel, Gran Telescopio Canarias and the MAGIC. Even better, I finally got to clamber around parts of GTC that I’ve wanted to get to ever since my first visit there three years ago. For example, I got onto the…
It’s been a busy week. On Tuesday I went to see the friends in Franceses, go some exercise, and worked a bit on the Observatory book. Unfortunately when I got home, I found that I’d left my jacket behind (which was no big deal) with my phone in the pocket (which was rather more serious.) On Wednesday I signed on with the tax office as self-employed, met the friends in…
Today they inaugurated the annex building to the Liverpool telescope. The Liverpool is the joint largest robotic telescope in the world, with a 2 m mirror. Since there’s nobody at the telescope at night, it was built with very little in the way of workshops. But the new building contains a workshop to assemble and test new instruments, and a control room, to help humans commission them. Of course…
Botazo infant school have the Smurfs. And The Laja del Barranco have a classical theme.
