I got very tired and I had to stop everything non-essential for a while. The English version of my new book is taking longer than usual at the printers, because it landed in the middle of a reorganisation. Meanwhile, I’m still working on the translation. And I’ve just found out that I’ve been doing it wrong. In Spanish, you punctuate the dialogue in a completely different way. So I’m going…
I haven’t posted lately, because pretty much all I’ve been doing is translating, and translating and translating. It’s not just the quantity of translating. It’s stuff about church architecture, full of technical stuff like “a balcony supported by six cantilever beams with turned-wood balustrade”. I’ve learnt the Spanish technical term for the central third of a tie beam roof. And then there’s the job-titles of the people involved: military governors,…
Idiot that I am, I’ve gone and lost my debit card. I spent yesterday evening and half the morning hunting everywhere, which at least left the living room and home office considerably tidier. So I went into the bank and cancelled it. They checked, and it hasn’t been used by anyone else, thank goodness. So I’m waiting for a new one. Of course I half expect the old one to…