It is our eldest son, Stephen’s, birthday today, he’s at the big 40 and that is a very sobering thought for Elayne and I.
Have a super day Steve. Him, Debs, Ivan and Ollie are all off skiing for a week to Chamonix today. We had a nice long telephone chat with them all, early this morning, before they set off for the airport and they are all very excited.
We had a really nice Chinese meal, at the Wok Buffet, with Mags and Allen last night. The time flew by and as we were leaving we were given two bottles of red wine and they brought some apple and peach liqueurs to our table. They poured the drinks into the little Chinese lacquer glasses for us and then left the bottles on the table for us to go round again.
On our way down to Huercal Overa, after the phone call this morning, to look for more furniture shops, we became aware that there was a cross country car, motor bike, quad bike type rally going on down in the ramblas. Allen and Mags had told us about it last night. It was amazing to see, because each vehicle was kicking up enormous clouds of dust so that you could see the dust rising ages before you saw any vehicle. It was very much like watching the Dakar Rally across the Sahara Desert (I think that’s the one anyway) As we got into town roads were blocked off leading to where the support teams were stationed opposite the sports stadium, where we play tennis.(see pictures). There was some very high powered teams involved.
The roadsides on the way to and from HO look fabulous at the moment with masses of wild yellow and white marguerite type of flowers in thick swathes along each side. It’s a very beautiful time of the year here, especially if you are prepared to get down on the floor to ‘little plant’ level. Even our land looks quite ordinary until you get down on hands and knees to look at the very smallest plants, it’s very rewarding. The Spanish equivalent of yellow broom is coming out all over and the mimosa is in full flower, it is a lovely vivid yellow. Since we spotted the first almond blossoms, in the very middle of January, there has been something blossoming somewhere right through.
We also saw our fourth snake today. It was about two and a half foot long and it was making it’s way across the main road in front of us as we drove. I had to pull over to the other side of the road to miss it so Elayne saw more of it than I did. From our book we think that it might have been another southern smooth snake. It was the largest one that we have seen so far.
We also have some house martins back in the area again, they are fabulous little birds and migrate from South Africa. In the UK the first house martins usually arrive about mid May. What a bonus for us, I didn’t think that we would see them over here.
Until later, we are not quite sure what the builders are doing today, we presume it will be more of the same, tiles and plastering. The picture of the silver upright tank on last nights blog is the oil storage tank for the hot water and central heating system, it has a polythene heavy duty sack inside, that then has the oil in. It will be filled from a tanker when we get it installed and sorted out.
Have a super day Steve. Him, Debs, Ivan and Ollie are all off skiing for a week to Chamonix today. We had a nice long telephone chat with them all, early this morning, before they set off for the airport and they are all very excited.
We had a really nice Chinese meal, at the Wok Buffet, with Mags and Allen last night. The time flew by and as we were leaving we were given two bottles of red wine and they brought some apple and peach liqueurs to our table. They poured the drinks into the little Chinese lacquer glasses for us and then left the bottles on the table for us to go round again.
On our way down to Huercal Overa, after the phone call this morning, to look for more furniture shops, we became aware that there was a cross country car, motor bike, quad bike type rally going on down in the ramblas. Allen and Mags had told us about it last night. It was amazing to see, because each vehicle was kicking up enormous clouds of dust so that you could see the dust rising ages before you saw any vehicle. It was very much like watching the Dakar Rally across the Sahara Desert (I think that’s the one anyway) As we got into town roads were blocked off leading to where the support teams were stationed opposite the sports stadium, where we play tennis.(see pictures). There was some very high powered teams involved.
The roadsides on the way to and from HO look fabulous at the moment with masses of wild yellow and white marguerite type of flowers in thick swathes along each side. It’s a very beautiful time of the year here, especially if you are prepared to get down on the floor to ‘little plant’ level. Even our land looks quite ordinary until you get down on hands and knees to look at the very smallest plants, it’s very rewarding. The Spanish equivalent of yellow broom is coming out all over and the mimosa is in full flower, it is a lovely vivid yellow. Since we spotted the first almond blossoms, in the very middle of January, there has been something blossoming somewhere right through.
We also saw our fourth snake today. It was about two and a half foot long and it was making it’s way across the main road in front of us as we drove. I had to pull over to the other side of the road to miss it so Elayne saw more of it than I did. From our book we think that it might have been another southern smooth snake. It was the largest one that we have seen so far.
We also have some house martins back in the area again, they are fabulous little birds and migrate from South Africa. In the UK the first house martins usually arrive about mid May. What a bonus for us, I didn’t think that we would see them over here.
Until later, we are not quite sure what the builders are doing today, we presume it will be more of the same, tiles and plastering. The picture of the silver upright tank on last nights blog is the oil storage tank for the hot water and central heating system, it has a polythene heavy duty sack inside, that then has the oil in. It will be filled from a tanker when we get it installed and sorted out.
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