On Thursday last (25 Feb 2021), I got my first dose of the Covid vaccination. My age put me in Group 7. My local GP had refused to place me in Group 6, despite sending them information based on the template letters from the ME Association, however, in the end I didn’t press them on that after they’d said, “Your Husband is recorded as being your Carer and so he will receive a Covid vaccination when we visit you.” …
This year, of course, none of the carnival parades have been able to take place and right now, we have no idea if or when they will be able to do so in their previous formats again. But should they do so, which one is best? If you could only go to one of them, which one should you choose? Hopefully, this will help. These five are the main parades:
Cabalgata anunciadora — Opening Parade
There is a special sort of excitement surrounding the first parade in the streets each year on the Friday before Shrove Tuesday. And it takes place in the evening, which…
For many years I’ve had a passing interest in researching my family history, but generally hadn’t pursued this further than the last couple of generations of relations who were within someone’s living memory, not least because with a bunch of very commonly named folk, many of whom were manual (particularly farm) labourers, I didn’t think there’d be much recorded about them.
How wrong I was! Of course, it’s so much easier to research now that so many records are available online and, since communicating with other family members (some for the first time) who are researching their parts of the…
Walking home with the dog Wednesday morning, through the vines and past the “secret location” where I return captured rabbits to the wild (far beyond the hunting grounds of my pack of marauding tigers), I couldn’t help thinking back to the events of February 14th …
It was a Monday morning and Holly and I had walked up the road, accompanied (as you do) by the two female cats, Kitty and Betty. We arrived at the horse trough, just in time to meet a third cat, Balu, who was looking down at something in a small patch of grass. I…
The nuns of the convent of Santa Catalina de Siena in La Laguna had planned to open their doors as usual this year so that the faithful and curious could view the incorrupted body of Sor María de Jesús on 15 February, the 290th anniversary of her death and the following Sunday — albeit with numerous security measures in place — however, in a post to their Facebook page on Friday, said, “We regret to inform you that because we have not received permission from the Health Dept. …
Pamela Stocks
Former accountant, recovering journalist and sometime blogger. Fluent in English, Spanish and Rubbish. Mostly writes in the last of those.
