A consequence of the clocks going forward was that we did not awake until nine o’clock this morning. The builders were hard at work and we had not even heard them arrive. When I think that during most of my working life I was up at six fifteen, even sometimes at the week end, I can only presume that we both have some sort of ex-pat Spanish sleeping sickness. Even the cats didn’t jump on us until nine this morning, so they were also confused by the time change.
Today has been a little overcast and we believe that we actually saw two rain drops on the windscreen as we drove to Mojacar this morning. The Med still looked good close up. We stopped several times, usually near furniture shops, and took some more pictures of the lovely spring wild flowers. We thought that through the lack of rain here the land would remain dry and arid all year round, we didn’t expect seeing swathes of spring flowers in all their glory all over the place. What a delight they are to see. (see pictures).
BTW, for the boys, the diesel genny is running perfectly now and ran continuously yesterday for about eight hours. So obviously, and with hind sight, it clearly does not like petrol engine sump oil. We are both relieved that it is at last working again for it’s living. We did try to make contact with the UK slow suppliers of the genny to see if they could give an answer to the problem, but we got no replies to email. We then looked again at Ebay and found that the suppliers have closed their Ebay account, after more bad customer comments. It means that we are on our own with this genny so getting it working again is good. May it run for a long time, un-hindered by me.
As we came back from looking at today’s progress on the house, there was two distinct rumbles of thunder up in the mountains. The sky is low and dark and we have occasional spatters of rain on the caravan windows. This is the first time that we have heard thunder since a thunder and lightening storm we had way back in November. The weather systems are coming from the Med in the south east.
The kitchen has it’s ceiling plastered and they have grouted the top half of the wall tiles. The two guest bedrooms are now fully plastered and the plasterer is now starting to plaster the walls of the small hallway. Outside, the marble crazy-paving wall covering is starting to go on the lower part of the walls. It’s all happening.
As I finish typing it is really raining, only the second rain we have had since moving down here to the lay-by in December (apart from the snow of course). It’s now bucketing down, the flowers and the land will be so pleased. It’s very snugly in the warm caravan with the rain pelting on the roof, it reminds me of when we went camping in tents as youngsters. In those days we were in rough sleeping bags and the rain sent a fine spray through the canvas onto our faces as we slept, but the noise was great as we were warm.
Today has been a little overcast and we believe that we actually saw two rain drops on the windscreen as we drove to Mojacar this morning. The Med still looked good close up. We stopped several times, usually near furniture shops, and took some more pictures of the lovely spring wild flowers. We thought that through the lack of rain here the land would remain dry and arid all year round, we didn’t expect seeing swathes of spring flowers in all their glory all over the place. What a delight they are to see. (see pictures).
BTW, for the boys, the diesel genny is running perfectly now and ran continuously yesterday for about eight hours. So obviously, and with hind sight, it clearly does not like petrol engine sump oil. We are both relieved that it is at last working again for it’s living. We did try to make contact with the UK slow suppliers of the genny to see if they could give an answer to the problem, but we got no replies to email. We then looked again at Ebay and found that the suppliers have closed their Ebay account, after more bad customer comments. It means that we are on our own with this genny so getting it working again is good. May it run for a long time, un-hindered by me.
As we came back from looking at today’s progress on the house, there was two distinct rumbles of thunder up in the mountains. The sky is low and dark and we have occasional spatters of rain on the caravan windows. This is the first time that we have heard thunder since a thunder and lightening storm we had way back in November. The weather systems are coming from the Med in the south east.
The kitchen has it’s ceiling plastered and they have grouted the top half of the wall tiles. The two guest bedrooms are now fully plastered and the plasterer is now starting to plaster the walls of the small hallway. Outside, the marble crazy-paving wall covering is starting to go on the lower part of the walls. It’s all happening.
As I finish typing it is really raining, only the second rain we have had since moving down here to the lay-by in December (apart from the snow of course). It’s now bucketing down, the flowers and the land will be so pleased. It’s very snugly in the warm caravan with the rain pelting on the roof, it reminds me of when we went camping in tents as youngsters. In those days we were in rough sleeping bags and the rain sent a fine spray through the canvas onto our faces as we slept, but the noise was great as we were warm.
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