My friend’s new baby
Yippee! I got permission to share these photos of my friend’s new baby. Isn’t he gorgeous? Those were from the hospital. Here he is at home, one week old.
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Free Kindle Anthology (with two of my stories in it)
“The amazing Escape Velocity: the anthology is currently free on Amazon (US and everywhere else). Limited time offer! Don’t wait…” Only the Kindle version is free. You can get it at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004Z8L3SG/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_ask_qKyTD.1N6XXF0 And here’s part of two of the Amazon reviews: “Scream Quietly” by Sheila Crosby was one of my favorite stories. Told by way of letters from the perspective of a young woman in 1849 England. This story depicts the…
Good Friday
We spent most of today getting good exercise by helping the friends in Franceses – mostly shifting earth for the next section in front of the house, with a bit of shifting gravel (ready for the following concrete) and some weeding of veggie patches. As usual, they were very grateful and gave us a lovely lunch. And as usual, it cleared away the brain fog too. The photo is a…
Busy, busy again
National Geographic photo editors in Las Nieves church. Wow! Where did the last week go? Well, working at Fotonature got busier. On Friday I worked 12 hours and slept for 5. On Saturday I worked 18 (!) hours and slept for 3 (!!!). On Sunday I worked 6 hours and collapsed in a heap. I spent Monday and Tuesday alternately catnapping and doing light housework. But Fotonature was great. I…
Fantastic so far.
So far my busy week has been a blast. The hours aren’t as bad as I feared, I really like the people I’m looking after, and I get to learn about photography too. Oh, and I get to take photos myself. Here’s a few of them. The day started with a press conference about Fotonature, and I was there to translate for Jane Menyawi, the National Geographic photo editor. So…
El Hierro again
Well that was a fun weekend before my busy week. It turned out that they did indeed want the translation to English. I’d looked up the difficult words on Thursday night, in case, so I did the translation midair and during my stopover in Tenerife. Then when I got to El Hierro, we went to a cyber cafe where my friend proof read the translation and I emailed it off….