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Ruido 5

Last night Helen took all her hard work on the layout of Issue 5 of Ruido to the printers, and I went along to translate. Since this was Helen’s first ever magazine layout, she was pretty nervous. She was more than half expecting that she’d forgotten something and would have to make lots of changes. But the printer’s reaction was, “Oh! Oh that’s good. Fine. I’ll get the proofs done…

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Artesanía Christina

I love Christina’s shop. She started off in the local flea market, selling fancy knitting yarn in the most wonderful colours. I always wanted to buy the lot and spend the next year knitting. Now she has a shop on the Calle Real, still selling the yarn, but also finished knitware and costume jewelry which she makes herself out of local lava and coral, with silver or gold-plated silver mountings….

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The drive belt on the washing machine broke on Saturday lunchtime, just after the shops shut for the weekend. This left me with a load of washing to rinse by hand, which was rather a pain. Yesterday was nice. The clocks went back on Saturday night, but I just slept later and missed an hour of day rather than an hour of sleep. After a solid month of writing only…

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Improving

Well if you’ve seen the other blog, you’ll have gathered that I’ve got video-editing sussed because the videos are up. The current problem is that I don’t have an audio editing programme on the PC, just on the laptop. A download yet another download – should fix it. I still feel blue and for some reason I’m tired all the time, even after a siesta. But I made the effort…

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More Living Statues

This is Aladin. to my amazement, he said he’d only been practising with the glass ball for about a year, although sometimes for hours at a time. He’s from Poland originally, but now he lives in Tenerife because he’s in love with the golden Fairy. There were a couple of other living statues that did a better job of staying immobile (in my opinion) but were less interesting when they…

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Frustrations

I’ve had a frustrating couple of days. I got an email that Leeds university are seriously considering closing down their botanic gardens. Now this sounds dumb – I don’t see how you can teach botany without plants, but then it’s no dumber than trying to do astronomy without telescopes. That’s their business. What upsets me is that those gardens were a large percentage of my father’s life’s work. The person…

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