Thursday 2-11-2006
It was half past one when we got to bed last night after dancing the night away in Taberno. All of this after also spending an hour making my feet do un-natural things and calling it an Argentinian Tango.
So we slept well last night and woke to an overcast morning. We have only been as far as Taberno today. We collected some stamps from the little shop run by the mayors wife. Then we walked further up into the village to a small little shop that sells most things but not perhaps what you would have picked up in the supermarket. We also bought two lovely fresh French loaves from the mobile panderia that calls into the plaza and blows his horn for fifteen seconds to tell everyone that he has arrived. You can hear him all over the village as he stops at different places. The water man does the same.
So for brunch we have just had warmed French bread with cheese slices, some lovely chicken sausages and lashings of Olive oil inside. We are now set for the rest of the day.
It is now nearly two o’clock in the afternoon and it has just stopped raining after over an hour. You can almost feel the ground drinking in the moisture from the rain with enormous relief. I must be careful not to walk in the one and only mud hole this time.
I’m not sure what was going on with yesterdays pictures but I went back to the blog this morning and it took both pictures without any hassle. It must be that the pictures are quite large and, if the internet system is labouring and running slow, the pictures time themselves out and won’t complete.
Todays picture is of a usual object, unusually styled. Anserws on a €10 note please.
4 comments:
Ooh er mrs!! It could be allsorts of things...but I'm going for a doorstop/bottle stopper combo.
Dxx
LO Debs
Do you mean todays or yesterdays??? :-)))))))
Dad
Dear Paul & Elayne.
The mystery picture !!
Hmmm. Could it be an insulator of some sort - designed to be fastened to a wooden pole (or bolted to something). Maybe a local 'phone line insulator??
Hello M&J
I just knew that you would recognise the pictures. You are absolutely bang on except it was for mains electric. The wooden piece will fit anywhere onto a round pole with a couple of six inch nails (no kidding). The glass piece, that fits on top of the wooden piece, then acts as the insulator with the 'live' copper wires twisted around the glass insulator. They are updating the whole system from 1920's to about 1950's with concrete poles and still small glass insulators similar to the UK brown porcelain bushings.
A parcel of broken telegraph poles will be in the post if I can get them in a carrier bag and down to the post office:-)))
Paul
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