ONLY EXPERIMENTING
Evan sat
on the wall opposite, rocking back and forth and watching the firemen.
“I didn’t
mean it,” he whimpered, then looked round to make sure nobody had heard.
Mr
Jenkins said you could make fire with a lens and he’d used the magnifying glass
from his detective set. He shivered, remembering his fright when the curtain
went up with a whoosh.
They
should have listened when he yelled ‘Fire!’ but Dad had gone to look before
he dialled 999 and now Mum was stuck.
He heard
a scream and sobbed, “I didn’t mean it – I was only experimenting.”
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OBSOLETE –
Bull fighting officially ended in Tenerife in 1991, but this ruined bull ring
in our village stands as a stark reminder of more savage days.
Before they fenced it off I went inside to look. There was ornate mosaic tiling everywhere in the public areas, but behind the scenes were cement block walls and plaster with deep gouges at bulls' horn height. The animal pens were tiny cells that to my mind still smelled of urine and terror.
Despite a spell as a parking area for hire cars, and a briefer period as a storage depot for containers, to me it is still haunted.
Here are some OLD buildings in Las Galletas that hold happier memories - and are still inhabited.
