Archive for May, 2008

Get your signed copies of More Ketchup than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

In a blatant bout of self-promotion, you can now order a personally signed copy of More Ketchup than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman (voted Best Travel Narrative 2007 by the British Guild of Travel Writers) direct from the author. Otherwise known as Me. Click here to find out more.
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Taking Tenerife to task - not a hope in hell

Monday, May 26th, 2008

There’s a lot to be said for the mañana attitude still so prevalent in Tenerife. Urgent tasks are re-classified as tomorrow’s duties, ‘priorities’ tossed into the same to-do-basket as everything else. Result - stress removed, but mission usually unaccomplished. Lists help, but are rarely accomplished.
Yesterday morning I stared apprehensively at such a list that my [...]

Casting call in Tenerife

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Just a quickie…
Anybody with a beautiful bod (rules me out) aged 18-30 (rules me out, again) and European-looking (non-Latin). There’s a casting for a big photo shoot at Las Teresitas soon. Don’t worry, it’s not seedy, it’s clothes-on, commercial and involves beach volleyball. It also pays well for those who pass the casting. Males and females [...]

Tenerife’s first sitcom Re-writers

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Well, he of the red pen, returned our sitcom efforts with a commendable amount of red scrawl, and the potential was deemed as neither yay, nor nay, but a solid maybe. Which is better than a slap in the face with a wet carp, but not quite as good as a letter from the Director [...]

Tenerife’s first sitcom writers?

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Life is pretty exciting at the moment. Sometimes it can be a plain bore, a never ending succession of menial features to write, facts to check, chores to avoid and kid’s toys to mend. At the moment though, it’s EXCITING. Sorry, I shouted.
I’m currently awaiting the verdict on a sitcom that I’ve co-written with a [...]