After my friend missed the ferry, we had a furry of looking up transport firms on the web. There’s a ferry from Tenerife on Tuesday. Plan B: she could leave here on Monday, spend the night on Tenerife, and get the ferry Tuesday night. Plan C: or get up hideously early on Tuesday and get through in one, 20-hour day. Or… All these ferries are much more expensive than the…
Too much fun, not enough sleep
My friend came over from El Hierro for the weekend. So I got my long translation job done last week, tidied up the guest room, and did some cooking in advance. She arrived Saturday lunchtime, and the fun started. We got home at about 1:30 am and carried on drinking. It must have been around that time that I said, “You think you’re weird? One of my best friends is…
Whoops!
Yesterday this blog went off the air for a couple of hours. No, it wasn’t Halloween gremlins – I ran out of bandwidth because so many of you have been reading it. What a very nice problem to have. Thank you! I talked to my hosting service, Helresa.com, and they upgraded their SoHo pack to have extra bandwidth, and extra disk space. (All those photos have to be stored somewhere.)…
Local Group win a competition in Argentina
The Palmeran group, Ojalá Muchá, have just won a competition in Argentina. The prize is to have their music played on over 100 radio stations in Argentina and Chile. You can hear their music on their myspace page.
Monsters in the street
My son went round to a friend’s house to play. When I went to collect him, the friend’s little brother, aged three, told me it wasn’t safe to leave because there was a monster in the street. So he went first with his ray gun and killed the monster for us. You forget these things so quickly. It’s nine years since my own son was killing monsters.
Unreal Estate
Issue 15/16 of Electric Velocipede should be out by Halloween, with my story “Unreal Estate”. You can already pre-order it at the site, or enjoy three stories from the issue, free online.