Today the annual car rally is snarling its way past my house. That’s 59 cars, three times over. As usual, the first set of cars was fun, and after thirty attempts I got a nice photo (see 35th Isla Bonita Car Rally And now, of course, I’m sick of the noise. It makes me too tense for yoga and too distracted for writing fiction. I think I’ll just have to…
The clutter doesn’t half collect around here. This year I’ve made an effort to throw stuff out, a little at a time. Today, instead, I went and bought a couple of new sideboards in a sale, which will be delivered on Monday. One will go in the living room, to hold the overflow of my son’s toys. The other will go in the guest room. This frees up a bookshelf…
El Hierro was nice. We went out and did things about half the time, and just lounged near the pool for the rest. We saw the giant lizards and the end of the world, and quite a lot of scenery. It was just what I needed, and I feel really relaxed. In fact normal service will be resumed when I damn well feel like it, and not before.
I won the contest at GUD, so I have a free magazine to look forward to. Just for a change, life’s been a bit too busy. This week, on top of the usual translating and housework, I’ll be tour guiding at the Roque on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; giving free English classes for my nieces on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; holding my son’s birthday party on Friday, and going on…
GUD magazine are having another contest for issue 3. Since the prize is a copy of a rather good spec fic magazine, check it out at: http://www.gudmagazine.com/blog/archive/2008/7/18/issue-3-pre-launch-buzz-contest/(One of these days they’ll buy one of my stories. One day.)