As in A for ‘orses, B for
mutton, C for yourself, Dee-fer- ential.
This is my attempt to
apologise for yesterday’s Dismal blog. In my Defence I had spent an hour in the
Dentist’s chair while he took a hammer and chisel to a temporary crown. He
smiled and said “Demaciado bueno” (too good) – I presume he meant his glue!
Be that as it may, a
light-hearted topic for E ELUDES me. E is the most used letter in the alphabet –
EVEN my name, ELIZABETH, starts with an E - yet my mind is EMPTY of inspiration.
Today is the first of
the EASTER holy days – Jueves Santo - no humour in that.
Then there’s
EMBEZZLEMENT – a lot of that in local government here - EVEN less humorous.
Or ENERGY. I’m all in
favour of the renewable kind, just lacking in any myself.
There’s been ENOUGH
talk about the EURO without me adding my EIGHT-cents’ worth, and I’m sure you don’t
want to hear about the time I got stuck in an ELEVATOR.
Ah – got it – ENTROPY.
That wonderful musical duo Flanders and Swann (remember "Mud, mud, glorious mud"?) summed up the First Law of Thermodynamics in
these words; “Heat don’t pass from a cooler to a hotter/ You can try it if you
like but you’d far better notter.”
Definition No3 of Entropy in my
Collins goes thus; “Lack of pattern or organization: disorder.” EXACTLY – my brain
in a nutshell.
Meanwhile I’d better
EXPLAIN my illuminated letter E. The island of EL HIERRO has quietened down after all
the EXCITEMENT of the past few months. For those of you who are new to my blog, you might like to read
my El Hierro page which I started last October, when the undersea volcano first
made its presence felt.
ESCAPING from the crowds
to an isolated beach can be EXTRAORDINARILY difficult. These two ELDERLY EXPATS
only found this little place last year, when our son and girlfriend came out
determined to snorkel with turtles. A diver friend of ours said “Go to EL
PUERTITO,” so we did.
EASY to find it is not
and the road down the barranco twists like an EEL. There’s only one bar which
charges EXTORTIONATE prices – ESPECIALLY if you’re obviously an EXTRANJERO – but
the bay is EXQUISITE, there's a sandy beach, the houses pile on top of each other like a child’s
toppled brick tower, and our young couple actually stroked a turtle. One word
sums up their reaction – ECSTATIC!
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