Easter isn´t a big thing for our family. Normally I order Easter eggs over the internet, but I should have been doing that while I was rushing to get ready for the Caldera trip. Luckily I managed to find a chocolate bunny for my son. And as usual, we decorated boiled eggs with coloured pencils. Then Helen, Theresa and Norma all came to lunch. Norma and Helen worked on Ruido,…
Good Friday
My computer troubles continue, so I’ve done very little writing or photo editing (although the house is quite a bit cleaner, at least.) It’s been getting me down, but this morning I got out to photograph the Good Friday procession from the church of San Francisco in Santa Cruz de la Palma. Doing something creative lifted my mood dramatically. (More photos at A Small Rock in the Atlantic) Even better,…
Holy Week Processions
It’s Holy Week, and in this Catholic country, a lot of people take it very seriously. The bigger churches hold processions, which look very exotic to my English eyes. It’s not so that they take the obviously-heavy statues along the street. It’s the costumes. They remind me of the KLu Klux Klan. This is unfair, because the costumes concerned are far older than the KKK. They ensure anonimity, but it’s…
The Caldera Campsite
If you’re very fit, you can see the Caldera national park on a one-day hike. But it’s 27 km of rough going, (from the Los Brecitos viewpoint, via the campsite, to the Barranco de las Angustias) and I wouldn’t dare try it myself these days. The alternative is to spend a night or two at the campsite in the centre of the park, right by the river. This makes it…
Tentacles
With all the computer troubles, I forgot to mention that “What’s a Few Tentacles Among Friends?” has been accepted for the anthology Cross Genre Cthulu, which will be published by Permuted Press “probably in late 2008”. Bless them, they’ve already paid me.
Computer woes
Soon after the last post, I started scanning the computer for spyware prior to online shopping. The anti-root kit scan came up with loads of suspicious files, which I deleted. And now the dang thing won’t boot. It’s not just missing one file. I really messed it up. So yesterday afternoon I scanned the laptop, and eventually did my shopping. And my husband removed the data disk from the main…