I’ve been wanting to visit my friend on El Hierro for a while. Now that my son’s recovered from his fight with the pavement and there’s a long weekend coming up, I thought it was a good time to go. My friend has Friday’s free, so I hoped to fly out on Friday morning, come back Monday afternoon. So on Monday, my husband asked for Friday off. They finally said,…
I’ve been doing a little research into the Franco years, as background for a possible novel. It was worse than I expected. I knew divorce was forbidden under Franco, and that a woman who ran away from a violent husband would be brought back by the police, who, like as not, would tell the husband to give her a good hiding to teach her not to run off again. I…
I’ve been rushed off my feet and enjoying it. Yesterday I had some rubbish to take to the recycle point in Puntallana, so I visited a local museum while I was there. Casa Lujan is an 18th century house, restored to show how well-to-do people lived between about 1920 and 1960, and it’s very good. My husband burst out layghing when he saw this photo, because I used to have…
Remember the Xbox 360 elite on e-Bay and couldn’t use because it arrived during a power cut? The e-Bay advert said it was “unused, with intercooler and present”. As soon as the power came back on, I emailed the seller to ask about the present. He said it’s that you can download games from the Internet instead of buying them. That’s a present? The official X box site says that…
Tuesday 29th September is the feast day of St Michael the Archangel, who is the patron saint of La Palma. St Michael is a big thing in Tazacorte. The fiesta there has been rumbling all all month, but the main event is the Fufu horses, which will dance at 9 pm Monday, followed by a parade of floats. In San Pedro (Breña Alta) at midnight on Saturday or very early…
Well my son’s pretty much healed up. His main problems now are: The nasty scrape on his elbow is slow to heal. Major back-to-school-itis, and Frustration. The frustration is because he spent all his birthday money and savings on an Xbox 360 on e-Bay, and it took over a week to arrive. And when it finally got here, we had a power cut. The whole island was blacked out for…