I’ve been getting ready for the Edinburgh Book Festival, much excitement, yay!
My event is on Wed 21st – sold out, I’m surprised and impressed to see. It’s a heck of a marketing machine, the Edinburgh Festival. Most of the Schools Events are sold out.
I have been getting my multimedia stuff up to scratch, cutting DVDs of my videos and rejigging my Powerpoint slideshow with one new slide – all about 2012. Apart from that, I have now booked my schedule solid between seeing friends who are visiting the Festival and hanging out at parties and lunches with my lovely publishers.
And I’m flying there! I will feel rather fabulous…
Meanwhile my sister has made us all very proud by giving birth to a bouncy boy, Benedict. I’m seriously thinking of going to his christening, all the way in Australia. Since we all live so many squillions of miles away from each other, my brother and sisters, these sorts of events are starting to be the kinds of excuses we can use to justify the increasingly terrifying expense of meeting up.
But maybe Scholastic Australia would like me to do some book events and schools visits….
That makes it much more justifiable, doesn’t it?
Meanwhile despite some very good news (apart from a new nephew) – which I’ll share in the next few weeks – I’m feeling rather melancholic. It’s been far too long since I went dancing – not since the Oscar D’Leon concert on July 12th. I think the doctor may order a trip to Mambocity soon. Damn salsa for being so addictive! I’m good and hooked.
Listened to BBC Radio 4 last night; Grevel Lindop reading from his book Travels On the Dance Floor – also on listen again. For a UK-based salsera like me his experiences are very familiar. It made me think nostalgically of Cuba. Especially when he played a song which played often when we were in Cuba. Whenever I hear it I feel a kind of desperate, romantic ache for Havana.
Well I listened to the lyrics, searched for the first line on Google and found this video: it’s the late guajiro Polo Montanez singing “Un Monton de Estrellas“.
Very romantic song. And turns out he’s dead – in a traffic accident in 2002, when he was 47. *sob*
I NEED TO DANCE TO THIS SONG SOON OR I WILL BURST!
10 replies on “Aching for salsa…Edinburgh bound…and maybe Oz too?”
Hi,
The Edinburgh Book Festival is not just a great marketing machine – which it is! It’s a great festival (my personal favourite) in a city doing loads of festivals at the same time. All this makes Edinburgh incredibly busy – and good fun in August.
Hopefully you’ll be able to spend a bit of time there – can be difficult to get accommodation, but try http://www.edinburgh-flats.com, they’ve got a good choice of holiday let properties covering a wide range of budgets.
Congratulations, Auntie! Also on the sold out event in Edinburgh – sounds terrific. See you tomorrow!
It’s a shame I can’t come. Glad it’s sold out. Hope you have a nice time up here!
But I’m just about to go for my first day at school. Aww man.
I’m sorry too Keith. If I’m lucky enough to be invited to the Festival next year I’ll see if we can organise a visit to your school or town.
Enjoy your first day back…come on, school has SOME compensations, doesn’t it?
hi pita! thanks for making a post about my new bro! hes sooooo cute! but hes hardly ‘bouncy’… he bearly moves… but, he is VERY big, and VERY healthy. infact! my mum is coming back today! ok, g2g, my teacher is going to check this soon.
Hey,
I just found out – My school is arranging a trip to the Edinburgh Book Festival – but I never signed up. Dang. That’s just cruel.
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¡¡¡¡¿Cómo que Pili tuvo otro bebé??!!!! Ni siquiera sabíamos que estaba embarazada!!! Igual me pasó con Mike, me enteré ya que habían nacido 🙁
Estoy muy triste de no ir a Europa esta vez con mis papás, me hubiera gustado verte, a David y a las niñas.
Mándale un abrazo a Pili de mi parte…si puedes envíame después su email para escribirle.
Saludos y besos a todos
Jessy…bueno..tengo que empezar un grupo para los PRIMOS REYES PONCE en Facebook, para nos quedamos enterados de todos nuestros noticias…
Besos, Pita
Si…aunque estos días los mexicanos tenemos un poco de miedo de publicar cosas en Facebook, tal vez te has dado cuenta que algunos de tus contactos están quitando información 🙁 ha sido muy triste, la inseguridad incluso afectó eso…
Ojalá puedas publicar fotos de los hijos de Pili y los de Mike!!
Un abrazo 🙂
y por cierto…a mi también me encanta “Millón de estrellas” es de mis canciones favoritas