I do love my little 14MP Samsung WB150F camera with WiFi! The image quality is very good, but nowhere near my big (and twice as expensive!) Nikon Coolpix P100 and Panasonic FZ-18 cameras – however, it has a lot of little things that make it fun to take with you anywhere you go – and…
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Don´t forget, folks! Get yourself out to a really really dark location tonight after midnight to watch the Perseids, best seen in the Eastern sky (along with the brilliant Venus, Jupiter and the crescent moon) an hour or so before dawn. Last year I was freezing my a*se off watching this and only managed to…
I remember one year during the summer holidays me and my sister were send off to camp, and after a wonderful 3 weeks of adventure and activities with other kids of a similar age we all had to come up with some kind of performance for the party at the end of the holiday, before…
Passed out for not one, not two, but THREE hours from 1 – 4pm! I´m so lucky I don´t have a “proper” full-time job. With these episodes of soul-destroying fatigue I really wouldn´t cope too well… Mind you, I do remember even back in the office in London, my last job there before 2004, I…
Please be aware that lilies are a deadly poison to cats and keep them out of your home or garden if you own cats. More info and download the posters below (in .pdf format) HERE.
By the end of last year I realised that I would have to lose that flab around the middle again. My weight had been creeping up slowly for the 6 months before Christmas and I just had to make a resolution for “some time next year” to go on a diet again. So I set…
Last night I was walking down the road to meet my friend for a beer down my local and I hear this incredibly loud “meeeeeeeeeeeeeeew” from somewhere in front of the Las Vistas tourist complex. So I go and investigate and it appears that there is a kitten inside the engine of a big 4×4,…
Morbid fear of children, finding giving birth revolting, valuing my freedom too much. These are all reasons given by women who chose to not have children in today´s article in the UK Mirror. I have never had the urge to want children either. Ever since I was a young girl, I was more into…
After the wind noisily whipping around my house like nobody´s business last night, it is today still near gale force here in Lanzarote, even in our usually quite calm Puerto del Carmen in the South of the island, with gusts of more than 40km/h. I feel sorry for those tourists nervous of flying (and those…
Did you know that to declaw a cat is not the same as clipping a cat´s claws? That it actually means an amputation of the last digit of each phalanx, bones and all, usually done on the front paws, but in rare cases on all four paws? You didn´t? I guess it´s time to enlighten you then….
04:30 hrs. I don’t think I have ever seen a night sky as clear as right now from my balcony, even with all the light pollution here in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote. The usually rather faint looking constellations of Scorpio and Sagittarius in the South are particularly pretty and there are billions of tiny, nameless…
There has been no recent news that I have heard of regarding the proposed Repsol oil platforms off the coasts of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. However, the protests continue, with the next event being a “human chain“, organised for 17:00 hrs on 26th May 2012 in Arrecife, starting at the Cabildo and along Playa Reducto….
We have been having a heatwave in the Canary Islands since last weekend until Wednesday of this week, and in particular Lanzarote and Fuerteventura were hit with temperatures of over 40C degrees (105F). My body transformed into a state of joy during that time. I almost felt like I could fly and even went swimming…
Most of my friends and family think that living on the tropical island of Lanzarote I must be going to the beach a lot, simply because “it´s there”. Well, the truth is…. I don´t! I guess when you have something on your doorstep every day you soon start taking it for granted. Take all the…
As a dog owner you have certain responsibilities. Being a pet owner there are things that need to be done to ensure your furbaby´s happiness and good health. However, have you thought of the happiness of the people around you when it comes to your pooch? Chances are you haven´t, if you leave your…
President Barack Obama yesterday set a huge historic landmark by expressing that same-sex marriage “should be legal”. This is an amazing step forward not just for the US but for the whole World, as he is setting an example that all human beings should be treated equally, no matter what sexual orientation they are….
Moving from cold, wet London to sunny, dry Lanzarote was one of my best moves ever. All my adult life I never dealt too well with the typically damp British weather, and when in 2004 I decided to live somewhere other than London, returning to my equally wet home town Hanover in Northern Germany did…
I have never been good at switching off completely. Even though I have “dabbled” in doing meditation previously, I have always found that any small sound keeps me from relaxing and shutting my mind off. It could be something like the rhythmic ticking of a clock, but in most neighbourhoods I have lived it´s more…
I have tried probably dozens of different creams, gels and sprays over the years as painkilling agents for muscle pain stemming from fibromyalgia. From natural remedies to “medicine” prescribed by my GP (i.e. Ibuprofen gel), none of them have actually helped much. So I am rather surprised and pleased that I have finally found one…
Just like humans, all cats are different. This also means that they have different tastes in food and different eating habits. None of my three cats has what I would call “normal” behaviour towards food. Lugosi is “the feline dustbin”, Ruby eats and picks at her meals like a bird, and Spider…. well, the latter…
It was a sad day yesterday when one of rap´s greatest icons died at age 47 – Beastie Boy Adam “MCA” Yauch who was diagnosed with a tumour in his salivary gland in 2009, joined the hall of fame in the great beyond. Back in 1987 I was a huge fan of the Beastie…
I dreamt that I was at some sci-fi convention and the Sex Pistols were playing live. Everybody was really excited, but even though some people made requests for their punk stuff, they only played amazingly boring “lounge” music. And they were so old and lifeless! Try and analyse that, ey?! Anyways, after some other…
“This is just pretzels.” Meant to be “This is just priceless” Another one I did yesterday: “Let´s go out for dribbles” Which meant to be “Let´s go out for drinkies”. Damn you, auto correct! For more fun with silly autocorrect mistakes visit: www.damnyouautocorrect.com Related articles, courtesy of Zemanta: The History Of The Twisted Pretzel…