We had a good, but late, night last night. The wind seemed to calm down a bit as we went to bed. On waking this morning the wind had got up yet again and it was very cold in the caravan (5 inside and 0.9 outside). The caravan cools down very quickly making it challenging to get out of bed and then going out to feed and kick start the genny.
With cold and snow forecast over the next few days we are battening down the hatches and trying to keep warm. The wind has stayed high and the builders have not even turned up today. We heard that about fifty miles north of us had snow yesterday. The news pictures of Madrid last night showed that they had several inches of snow. Allen was commenting last night that last Saturday he was outside painting some garden walls at his house, wearing just shorts and his boots. This is how it is here, but we will find it all a lot more tolerable when we are in the house.
On days, like today, where we stay in all day, we thank goodness for the tennis finals in Melbourne and the European Ice Skating Championships from Warsaw on Sky television.

17-15hrs. NB: 'The lads' have brought two lorry loads of exuipment to site this afternoon including more ceiling boards. One presumes that at the first sign of calmer weather they will resume where they left off yesterday. From the pictures you can see how the weather has closed in, there is snow in the valley opposite and we have a little wind blown rain, the first rain for seven weeks. However there will only be enough rain to keep the dust down and nothing to really water the land.