I woke up on Tuesday morning to find that it had rained. Not much, but apparently enough to really help with the fire. It’s controlled. The fire-fighting planes are off to help La Gomera. Yippee! I went off to work at the observatory much happier for that (and took this photo of clouds in the Caldera on the way down.) I’m nobody special to be saying it, but many, many…
I went up to Montaña las Breñas to see what was happening with the fire. A lot of other people evidently had the same idea – the car park was packed and the view wasn’t at all reassuring.
70 people have been evacuated from La Sabina, as a precaution. As of 9 pm last night, the fire had burned 847 hectares, but the weather forecast for Sunday is cooler temperatures which should help. Much of the fire is in the area which burned in 2009, which at least means there’s considerably less fuel to feed it. A Military Emergency Unit has arrived from Tenerife with an extra 65…
I got a lovely email. I’m just wrapping up an anthology of time-travel and other time-related stories for Robinson Books and would love to include your story “Scream Quietly”. I hope the rights are available. It’s sooooooo nice when the editors come to me, especially when I haven’t been actively selling while I finish the book about the observatory. Talking of which, the book about the observatory is coming…
It’s been a bit depressing lately. My body clock still hasn’t recovered from the house disco at the weekend, which is probably one reason why progress on the book has been slower than I’d hoped. Plus, there are forest fires on La Palma, Tenerife and La Gomera. Then I posted on Facebook my opinion that global climate change was one thing making forest fires worse – just one thing –…
From top to bottom: Jupiter, the moon, and Venus Our village is having its annual fiesta, which is nice. Last night there was a house music disco. I’m not a fan of house, but hey, my parents didn’t care for Status Quo. I can live with this one night a year. The music from the house disco fought with the music from a thrash metal concert in the next village….