Lourdes (my friend and student) and Luca (my husband’s friend and work colleage) got married last night. I was chief photographer. I’d been rather nervous about it, beause I hadn’t done a wedding for about ten years, and this would be the first one with my new digital camera. Worse, the flash gun I’d ordered in May specially for this wedding hadn’t arrived until mid July. After using it for…
GranTeCan
On Friday I showed another group of tourists around the William Herschel Telescope. Afterwards they were going on to GranTeCan, which is the huge telescope the Spanish are building at the Roque (see Thursday, July 26, 2007). I managed to tag along and finally see inside. I’ve seen a lot of telescopes, and I knew it was huge, but I still wasn’t prepared for the sheer size of the thing.This…
Peas
Although our garden is tiny, our balconies are large, and this year I decided to see if I could grow a little bit of organic veg in containers. For one thing, there’d be no food miles involved. My friends from Franceses gave me three pea plants. When we went on holiday, they were about a foot high. When we came back they were about four feet high, and caterpillars had…
Hen Party
Last night I went to a hen party – my first in 16 years of living in Spain. It wa great fun of course. Here’s the bride-to-be with two of the entertainers. And I’ll leave the decoration on the cake to your imagination! All in all, I’m really not sorry that my tour-guiding job today was cancelled. It meant that I didn’t have to go easy on the drink and…
Bad news
We’ve had a heatwave, and I’ve been busy. On Monday afternoon as I passed through town with my son, the thermometer outside the port read 40C (104 F). In that sort of heat, you don’t feel like doing much, although I did continue my battle against the fleas. On Tuesday my friends Helen and Theresa finally collected their Spanish number plates, so later that morning I went with Helen to…
Simplify your life
Today is the start of “Simplify your life” week. Great idea. But how? I suppose we could all become nudists, so I’d have less ironing to do. I did all the easy simplification years ago, like always putting the car keys down in the same place so I can find them when I want them. Actually I did the best bit simplification when I stopped worrying about being cool. It…