I’ve finally installed the shopping cart software at Dragon Tree Publishing. Installed it but not loaded any products, much less tested anything. Still, it’s a major step forward, even if I did have to add a warning to several pages: “You can’t buy anything yet. We’re still testing software.” And then a friend asked me who I meant by “we”, seeing as DTP is a one-woman operation. I said, “You…
No, it’s not me giving them away, but there’s a sompetition at http://wordznerd.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/100th-post-100-word-creative-challenge-win-a-book-and-a-critique/ Debz Hobbs-Wyatt wants you to write the opening of a story or novel (unpublished!) in exactly 100 words, and the prize will go to the best hook.
I gave my sister-in-law a lift to hospital outpatients on Monday morning, where this man was waiting to see the same doctor. He said that he’d had his appointment changed, and this was the only way he could fit in outpatients and carnival, and he wasn’t going to miss either. I was home by about noon, so I took my son and went to see Los Indianos (pictures at http://lapalma-island.com/2012/02/los-indianos-2012/ ). The…
Today Santa Cruz de La Palma will be covered in talc. Los Indianos (People from the Indies) celebrates Palmerans who emigrated to Cuba or Venezuela in search of a better life, and came home rich. So we all dress up in white, with the ladies in Gone-with- the-Wind dresses and parasols, and the men wearing Panama hats, and for some obscure reason, we throw tons and tons of talc at…
Today is the last school day before Carnival, so most kids have a fancy-dress party. Which might be why we found a blue box parked outside the house this morning.
Santa Cruz de La Palma is starting carnival properly on Friday evening. There’s a “Wig Fiesta” from 5-10 pm, and the kids’ parade at 6 pm, from the Alameda to the carnival stage. (Any time you don’t know where to find a carnival event, just go to town and walk around until you hear the music.) Most of the surrounding schools will have a group of kids dressed alike, so you…