Friday 22-9-2006

‘Manana’ in Spain means ‘tomorrow‘. However ‘tomorrow’ in Spanish does not necessarily mean ‘the day after today’.
Paco (of JCB and at only €30/hour fame) said that he would call today between five (after siesta) and eight this evening to do further work on the ‘lay-by’ where the caravan and the portacabin will move to whilst Javier (the builder), who also said that he would come ‘manana’ and finish the hebe (water deposit tank) and the potto (human waste soak away tank) today, before he starts to build our house. That of course is providing and when Angel (the architect and designer) gets together with his mates at Albox Town Hall to see if we can build a 120 sq mtrs footprint and then put a second floor on top. Or if we can only build a 120 sq mtrs footprint on one floor because that was the original building permission plan given, and then finishes the house plan so that Javier can start building the house, after we have moved the caravan and portacabin onto the amended lay-by that Paco was doing manana.
It all gets a little frustrating, but in Spain manana will always mean manana and we are strongly advised to get used to it quickly to save our sanity.
Tonight it rained and we had two spectacular, horizon to horizon, rainbows. We tried to capture them with the camera, but chicken Elayne wouldn’t stand out in the rain taking pictures and getting wet. so I had to hold an umbrella over her. Funny old life isn’t it?
From Elayne…However I have since been out in the rain to photograph the sunset and some funny old bloke picking the almondsJ