A little more civilisation arrived on site today.
15000 litres of water were delivered to our hebe.
It cost €100 which works out at €0.0066/litre, instead of €0.40/litre if you buy from Mercadona supermarket. I reckon that if we exceed our usage by even fifty percent we will have enough water to last about four or five months. The routine now is that we let the water settle in the hebe for about a week so that any solids etc., fall to the bottom. In the meantime I will rig up a suitable pumping system with filters to allow us to draw the water from the hebe by a new demand pump (yet to be purchased) and deliver it to the caravan and then also later to the house. As you can see the delivery vehicle forced his way onto the side land of the hebe to empty the front two, out of three, tanks. He then reversed about and emptied the back tank, whilst we sort of animatedly talked in a friendly sort of way, considering his English and my Spanish, before he departed back to base to fill up again for his next run.
This evening we saw this funny yellow crawly thing, per picture. We were not able to identify it with our books, so if anyone can do a look up for us we would be grateful to know what it was. It was about two inches long and crept along at a gay old pace.
The picture of the moth was taken at the Taberno watering hole and is a magpie moth, very distinctive.
Then we have a picture of the ‘twar department’ contemplating the menu at Lentisco’s at lunch time. We ended up with tapas and a cold drink, excellent.
Today the weather has been fabulous, wall to wall sunshine, but very cold early doors and again this evening. I was in shorts only at two o’clock this afternoon, it was so warm, but now we are in long trousers and jumpers. BTW last night we went down to the bar in Taberno and it was the very first time that I have worn shoes since we left the UK. It felt most odd but they were better to dance in rather than my sandals. It was a good evening despite the DJ not turning up, we improvised and crawled home at about one thirty.
2 comments:
Dear Paul and Elayne.
It's a caterpillar!!
I have just typed a pageful of comment and it has just disappeared! Is there a restriction on the number of words? Or the time? Anyway, I love reading a real life, illustrated, adventure story the photographs are great especially the sunsets! I get the impression you just stick your camera out the door and press the shutter release! Is that flat bit around your homestead where the tennis court will be? Or are you taking up Come Dancing?
Lots of love from us both. Will comment again soon.
Joan and Mike.
Dear Paul and Elayne.
Another comment window has just popped up so here are a few more.
I have to type very carefully because I have just bashed my finger tips when building the set for Menston Thespians. Popped into Whiteleys the other day to say hello to Tony Khamis who was on a half day flying visit. Our busy Sales Office is almost devoid of people now - I am sure that Christine is getting lonely!
I was chinking laughing at your exploits in recovering the very last almond. Joan thought I was going a bit queer! Toil on! It will all come right in the end. If you didn't have all these challenges you would be bored!
Love from us both.
J & M
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