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Yes, I got it back.

Here I am, throroughly enjoying my short break on El Hierro. Meanwhile, my suitcase is enjoying a short break on Tenerife. No, it’s not the airline’s fault. By the time I knew I could definitely book a flight, all the planes were booked solid. (I think this is from people going back to Tenerife in time for the new school term which starts on Monday). So I came on the…

Today is the last day of Christmas in Spain. Tomorrow I ought to start a grand session of housework: taking down decorations, tidying up and cleaning everything. Sounds boring, doesn’t it? So I’m sneaking off to El Hierro instead. Of course the housework (and the guilt) will be waiting for me when I get back, but it’ll be worth it. Besides, last time I snuck off like this, I got…

Happy new year to both my readers. We had a fairly quiet family party for new year’s eve. I was very disorganised, and kept sending my son out to the shops for things I’d forgotten, so the leg of lamb went into the oven late, and we ate late, but it tasted pretty good when we finally got around to it. And the fireworks at midnight were amazing. We could…

Santa Cruz de la Palma, Los Llanos, and most big villages will have a public dance to celebrate new year. In some cases, that blocks the traffic. For example, Santa Cruz’s main road along the sea front will be shutting at 10 pm. (If you need to get through, use the bypass inland.) Many people dress up – I mean really dress up, as though they were going to the…

One of my new year’s resolutions for 2010 was to send out two submissions per week. Note that this doesn’t mean two new stories — on average I have to send out each story about ten times before it sells, and then I often try for reprint sales. But nothing’s going to sell sitting on my hard drive, is it? Well, two sales per week comes to 104 in a…