Not much to report on modme. More tiny steps forward. I am not doing classes now for two weeks, so hopefully we’ll be able to spend some time getting things like videos done, and some tutorials. We’ve now got a load of patterns on the site and I’ve made some knitting patterns too. Next thing to do is to try macrame and beads.
We went to Pepes yesterday lunch time which is the first time in absolutely ages. I’m thinking of stopping my Saturday afternoon classes as it means we only have Sunday to do something spontaneous (like go to Pepes) without having to worry about being back and prepared for a class at a certain time. Although the temperature is well into the high 20s now, Pepe still had the winter blankets on the table with the fires underneath.
It’s now Semana Santa and unusually, it’s not raining. I think we’ll go to a parade this year. We briefly discussed going to Seville, but the parades there are huge. I think we’ll be better off locally. Quite honestly, when you’ve seen one anonymously sinister caped and hooded Nazarino, you’ve seen them all.
I was quite pleased this week – and a little surprised – to receive an email from my editor at About.com who said that they’ve reversed the terms of the contract that I signed at the end of last year which reduced the amount they paid, in effect meaning that I’ll get the same or a tad more than I got last year. I have no idea why they did this – but it was welcome news!
It has been a very poor year for asparagus. Although we did have some rain, it has been very dry and Ian has been out hunting asparagus, returning only with a small handful enough for a small meal, whereas a good haul in previous years would be enough for a couple of really big meals.
I’ve been researching pronunciation, because I notice that a lot of my students have problems differentiating T and D – and G and W (traditionally G has been used for the W sound and W didn’t exist – hence Gillium for William). So I’ve been reading about mouth shapes, and reading about lip reading as people who lip read need to associate mouth shapes with certain sounds. One funny thing I read was that to a lip reader, I love you looks the same as elephant.