It’ a funny overcast day today with the forecasts saying that we may have some rain. It’s only 9.5 degrees and the barometer is down at 1009mb. We are going to take the cats down to the vets in Albox today. They have to have their booster jabs (for cat flu, I think). This will be their first experience of this new Spanish vet so we’ll see how Elayne takes it!!!. We are reliably informed that they speak good English there so that helps a little.
The builders are working ‘in the house’ so we can’t see what they are doing, quite frustrating. Dario told us this morning, that we have got the ‘entrado principal’ (front door) that we wanted and that he is bringing it up to site this afternoon, pictures later.
We had a call this morning from a haulage company to say that, finally, we are going to see our new genny tomorrow. I bought this on Ebay from a firm up in Penrith in December. I could have walked it down here on my wheel barrow in less time than this has taken to get here. In actual fact it left the UK only on the 7-2-2007, the rest of the time has been down to the firm b…ing about.. The gennys that we are using run on unleaded petrol and cost about €8/day to run (at €0.96/litre). On a thirty day month that is €240 = approx £150/month. The new genny runs on Diesel B (farm red diesel) at €0.65/ltr and we are hoping that it will be more efficient. It professes to be ‘very quiet’ so we will see how it all pans out. This new genny will give us 5Kv (the others are 2Kv) so it will be far better for us when we move ‘up the road’. The electrician is putting a special switch in the house so that if we ever get mains electricity we can switch back to the genny when there are power cuts (mains power cuts are a feature of life here in Spain, so you are well advised to have back up).
Later….
The vet was a really nice chap and excellent with the cats, both him and his assistant spoke good English, so no problems on that side. He also gave them injections to protect against leukemia. We are all back at base now and Dario has just arrived with our lovely front door. I’ll see if I can get a picture of it later.
It’s just started raining, the forecasters got it correct for a change. It won’t stop the builders from working, or interrupt their siesta. It’s the very first time that it has rained on our new roof (I’ve a good mind to go up and put a sheet of polythene over it to keep it dry.
The builders are working ‘in the house’ so we can’t see what they are doing, quite frustrating. Dario told us this morning, that we have got the ‘entrado principal’ (front door) that we wanted and that he is bringing it up to site this afternoon, pictures later.
We had a call this morning from a haulage company to say that, finally, we are going to see our new genny tomorrow. I bought this on Ebay from a firm up in Penrith in December. I could have walked it down here on my wheel barrow in less time than this has taken to get here. In actual fact it left the UK only on the 7-2-2007, the rest of the time has been down to the firm b…ing about.. The gennys that we are using run on unleaded petrol and cost about €8/day to run (at €0.96/litre). On a thirty day month that is €240 = approx £150/month. The new genny runs on Diesel B (farm red diesel) at €0.65/ltr and we are hoping that it will be more efficient. It professes to be ‘very quiet’ so we will see how it all pans out. This new genny will give us 5Kv (the others are 2Kv) so it will be far better for us when we move ‘up the road’. The electrician is putting a special switch in the house so that if we ever get mains electricity we can switch back to the genny when there are power cuts (mains power cuts are a feature of life here in Spain, so you are well advised to have back up).
Later….
The vet was a really nice chap and excellent with the cats, both him and his assistant spoke good English, so no problems on that side. He also gave them injections to protect against leukemia. We are all back at base now and Dario has just arrived with our lovely front door. I’ll see if I can get a picture of it later.
It’s just started raining, the forecasters got it correct for a change. It won’t stop the builders from working, or interrupt their siesta. It’s the very first time that it has rained on our new roof (I’ve a good mind to go up and put a sheet of polythene over it to keep it dry.
3 comments:
Hi
I have just shown JC round your blog who was quietly impressed by location and house and Olive trees. It would appear that he likes Olives.
We passed on your good wishes. He finishes on 30 March but is only doing 2 days a week at the moment.
He send all his best and hopes that all works well for you in the future
Cathy
Well, I'm having a second go now, since the first attempt evaporated. John and I are "gob smacked" at the progress and equally impressed by the wonderful blue skies and landscapes.
Well done, both of you!
CHRISTINE
Cathy, thanks it's good to know that I ended up retiring before him! Hello!! Jim if your watching, leave a comment when you can. Tell Pat (whereever she is) about us and the blog, perhaps she can get in touch, and Mick Probert. Christine, there you go, keep it coming now, so's you don't forget :-))))))))TTFN
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