In the Canary Islands, Los Divinos are groups of amateur musicians who sing Christmas carols. The tradition is to go around the town or village carolling for nine days before Christmas – 1 night for each month of Mary’s pregnancy. The groups are usually fairly large and very, very good.
I’m writing this in the Parador on El Hierro. Yes, I sneaked off for a weekend visit to my friend, quick, before she moves to a much smaller house with no room for guests. It was a squash fitting it in. Last week I was translating for the tourist board, doing the paperwork to get paid for the translation, buying Christmas presents, tour guiding at the observatory and writing blogs. …
Something Wicked have published my story “Breathing Space“, together with an interview with me, here.
So my husband came home and pointed out that we already knew that the car’s spark plugs were about due for replacement. Probably the warning light meant that we were using petrol like a Hummer – clearly not good, but I could get to work OK. He poked around under the bonnet, tweaked the spark plugs, and disconnected the battery and reconnected it. The warning light went off, and stayed…
I was on my way to yoga when a warning light started flashing on the car’s dashboard – an orange engine. Well, I was nearly there, so I got there, parked, turned the engine off, and turned it back on again. It didn’t flash any more, but it was still lit. Eek. There was nothing I could do about it for the moment, so I went to yoga anyway. The…
Woohoo.I’ve been trying since early in the year to get my English university degree (in Mech Eng) registered in Spain. And today I got a registered letter to say that it’s finally done! So at long last I can now apply for jobs where you need a degree. Getting it registered took about a third as long as getting the actual degree.