Sick Again

Well guess what?

I have come down with another bug this one started yesterday afternoon with aches and the shivers, last night was a full blown fever. I feel a bit better today but still very achy. One the house front things still haven't moved much but we now expect to sign next week

Tasteing the Talc

Here in the Canaries for 51 weeks of the year everything is slow, sleepy and all together normal. Then Carnival hits and the place goes nuts. The biggest night of Carnival in La Palma is known as Los Indianos. This is a celebration of all the people who left La Palma to make there fortune in the new world. When they came back they were stinking rich and one thing they had was Talc which was very expensive at the time. So on Monday night people take to the streets of Santa Cruz to dance the night away, drink rum, and throw talc at each other. This generally goes on until about 4 in the morning.

So that's where I was last night. I can still taste the talc.

More pictures on my friend Sheila's page.

Feeling Better

Just a little note to say that I'm feeling a little better. Things have been going slowly here, still waiting for the house to go through. On a better note I have brought the parts for the scope mount once I have built the observatory. I have brought a EQ6 top and an adaptor plate from Epsilon Telescopes, this is part of there modular pier system.

Ah Thats Better

All

Just a quick update to say that things are a little better here. Went to the Doctor yesterday and have a tonne of pain killers and antibiotics to take each day, but I am starting to feel a little better and most of the time can at least get a good night's sleep.

On the house hunting side things are also looking up. I don't want to spoil things to much so I will just say at this point that it is good news. EDIT: OK I can now reveal things.... WE HAVE A HOUSE!! .... See here for details

Having been here in the Canaries now for 2 weeks I am starting to relax a little. It has been tough for the last week or so with looking at houses and not feeling to well for the latter part of last week. There has been a few times when I have either been very depressed about the whole thing of moving here or I have been very ratty and angry at people for not real reason.

Estoy Enferma. Tengo un infcción de mi garganta

As the title says here I am in the Canary Islands with the most stinking sore throat I have ever had. It seems to be going round the island and almost everybody here has had it. On the plus side we went to look a house yesterday that we really like, the only trouble with it apart from all the work that needs doing, is the price. The agency has it listed at 60,000€ but when we went round the place the owner said he wanted 65,000€. My big worry is that he has just upped the price because he saw to foreigners coming and thought

hmmmmm rich foreigners.....

So now I have a bit of a dilemma do I pay the 65,000€ and buy the house or try to negotiate which he didn't seem to be interested in yesterday.