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The Living Statues are Back

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…

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Eek!

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…

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Sahara Dust

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,…

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Calima

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,…

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Peter Hermans

Abstract garden sculpture, by Peter Hermans Peter Hermans is a Dutch artist and sculptor currently living in Puntagorda. After studying at the Stads Academie Maastricht, in the Netherlands, and then at the Toronto College of Art, in Canada, he sold several of his sculptures to the governments of Holland, Canada, and the USA. Wall plaque, by Peter Hermans Then in 2006, while he was in Italy, disaster struck. Peter had…

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I’m in Print Again!

Escape Velocity Issue 4 is out, and it includes my story “Zuggy Zu and the Humans” along with nine others, an interview with Stefan Arngrim from the Irwin Allen TV series Land of the Giants and photo features on ‘Flight of the Phoenix – The University of Arizona Goes to Mars’ and many historical photos from the infamous NASA ‘G.R.I.N’ files. I’m really looking forward to my contributor’s copy. You…

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