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We now have a shiny new router which should speed up Internet access.  And I have a major case of flat batteries. Mind you, I’ll probably be fine in a day or so, but we’ll still have faster internet.

Last year I made a point of putting out two submissions per week, and not surprisingly, I sold a lot more.  This year, I’m concentrating on finishing the non-fiction book about the observatory, and I’ve been doing very little submitting. Obviously that means that the steady drip-drip-drip of rejections has dried up So I was mildly surprised when a story came back yesterday after a very long wait, and pleasantly surprised…

I’m in the middle of one of my weekend escapes to El Hierro. I woke up early and went for a lovely walk before breakfast, from El Pinar towards Las Playas and the Parador.  Not that I got all the way down to the Parador, because that would have meant hiking back up.  Besides, the path was very steep and slightly slippery, and nobody knew where I was.  Of course…

This weekend they’re holding the second biggest livestock fair on the island, at San Isidro, in Breña Alta. (The biggest is San Antonio del Monte, in June). People bring their animals, and there are prizes for the best milk cow, best bull, best goat, etc. Most of the animals are tied up in big field while they wait for the judging, and you can go around admiring them. (I hope…

I’ve given up the teaching job.  It didn’t take up all that much time, maybe 5 hours a week, but that cut my writing time from about 7 hours a week to about 2. Not good.  Worse, I always had a corner of my mind on the look out for teaching ideas, instead of writing ideas. I wasn’t getting any writing done at all. Luckily my client had another, well-qualified…