The 28th of December is Holy Innocents’ Day, which commemorates the massacre of the innocents by Herod in Matthew’s gospel (although according to Wikipedia, it’s probably not a historical event). In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, it’s the Spanish equivalent of April Fool’s Day. For example, one year I told my husband that the police had been around asking whether he’d been jogging in the nude. Now my husband does go…
Last month I made a (roughly) scale model solar system ready for a group of school kids visiting the telescopes – and then the visit got cancelled by bad weather. Ah well, sooner or later it’ll get used. Here at last is a photo of it. The sun is far too small – it should be about 10 x larger. And then, anticlockwise from the sun, we have marbles for…
I had my morning all planned out: ten minutes yoga, breakfast, and then down to Santa Cruz to translate at the vet’s for my friends, followed by popping into the Astrotur office to discuss Monday’s group of visitors to the observatory. Then home to get on with the scale model solar system and writing. The yoga went to plan. Then my husband asked for a lift to the next village…
I’m busy making a scale-model solar system, for teaching primary school children. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are marbles, Jupiter and Saturn are kids’ footballs, and Neptune and Uranus are tennis balls. At first I planned to shave the tennis balls before painted them, but then I wondered whether it was really necessary. I changed my mind. Then I went down the local art shop to buy paint, since it’s…
I’ve been reading Chris Guillebeau’s blog at The art of Non Conformity for a while, and it’s frequently encouraged me to live a little more authentically. Today’s post is an absolute gem.
Well, I did it – sort of. I wrote two blog posts (this is the third) and walked for an hour, but the “marketing” consisted of poking around the Internet trying unsuccessfully to match up unsold stories with potential markets. I didn’t send anything off. Better than nothing, but I’ll never sell anything unless I send stuff out.