The huge, once-every-five-years fiesta has started here. The main focus of the fiesta is that the statue of the Virgin Mary comes down from the village of Las Nieves down to the capital of Santa Cruz for a month. The statue itself doesn’t come down for another two weeks, but normally it sit on a silver throne, and on Sunday, they brought the throne down to Santa Cruz in procession….
I went into the chemist this morning, to buy a first aid kit to keep in the car (best way not to need one.) I queued behind an old lady with a crutch who was clearly feeling down. She was just telling the assistant that it was taking her forever to get over her fall. Several years ago, I broke my ankle. I remember feeling it was taking forever to…
My son had a school project on cabbages. So I bought all the different varieties I could find to be photographed, and we asked everyone in sight for recipes, and an elderly neighbour let him photograph his gardening tools. So far so good. But it’s nice to have something nobody else has got in their project, isn’t it? Well, I was looking through “How to Fossilise Your Hamster” for teaching…
This morning I carried on walking along the footpath around the island. I started in Las Ledas, where I stopped last week, and walked up to the summit of Montaña de las Breñas, where you get an amazing view. Then I carried on along the path to Mazo. I had planned to get to Montaña de las Toscas, that’s the southern end of Mazo, and I wanted to get to…
Untied Shoelaces of the Mind have published my story, “The Circle Line.” It’s very short, so please, take a look.