International cards posted. Decorations up (my husband fixed the tree, if not the humans). Rush proof-reading job half done. The house is still a mess, but I might well do a bit more writing first anyway, because my priorities are somewhat eccentric.
Maybe I should just start blogging about the days when I don’t feel overloaded. I usually send out about 25 Christmas cards, with around robin letter. I like to get this in the post on December 1st, and I haven’t finished the first draft yet. (No, it doesn’t go through about 6 drafts like a short story, usually just 2.) I’ve just finished a rush translation job for the tourist…
I’m knitting a jumper for a friend’s son, using up oddments of blue and green in hexagons. It’s probably not to the taste of many adults, but this boy’s six. I’ve finished the front and I’m halfway up the back. It’ll be a bit of a rush to finish it by Christmas, but I should do it.
Wow what a week! I worked as a tour guide on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. I spent most of Wednesday morning on paperwork for a friend’s car (the car was taken off the road in 2006, and they’re still demanding road tax. But I finally have proof that the car’s long gone.) On Thursday evening, Friday evening to 2 am and all day Saturday (8:30 am- 7 pm) I was…
La Palma’s pine forests are lovely, and at this time of the year, the upper reaches are often above the clouds, even when it’s raining below. If you follow the LP3 footpath up from the turn off for Pico de la Nieve, you quickly reach this stone spiral in the woods. The whole thing is about 10 m across, and I loved it. I think it’s pretty recent, similar to…
I spent most of yesterday feeling really down, and feeling that I wasn’t getting anywhere. I wasn’t sure whether I felt down because I STILL hadn’t finished a short section of the book about the Roque after three days, or whether I wasn’t finishing the section because I felt down. Well I’d tried bashing on for three days, so today I tried something different. I asked permission to get inside…