Just when you start to expect things here in Spain, you are brought up sharp by the unexpected. For the last thirteen weeks the builders have turned up for work, on Saturday, regular as clockwork on the button at eight o’clock in the morning. Today no builders on site at all, all day. No explanations. We don’t know why they didn’t show and we have to assume that as next week is a big religious week, then perhaps they will be having the whole of next week off. What a bummer just when we start to see a little light at the end of the project.
Elayne and I went off down to Albox and we have now, finally managed to buy a ‘soft’ headboard for our new bed. We bought it from the shop run by the lady from Barnoldswick. She gave us a twenty percent discount off the advertised price so we are well pleased. We actually saved two hundred euros because we had assumed the price to be three times what we bought it for.
This afternoon Mags and Allen came over to see us. Allen kindly supplied and fitted a water filter onto the caravan supply from the hebe. We had started to find a few unwelcome tiny little crawlies in the hebe water and needed to eliminate them to feel comfortable with it once again. Allen will also fit a complete filtration and water softening system for us when we get into the house. The water is so hard that in just a few years the pipes can become clogged with chalk, and then one has to take up all of the tiles and the floors to renew them, very expensive and a repetitive biannual problem. After Allen had put the filter on we came inside and had a smashing game of whist, whilst enjoying a glass, or three, of sangria. It must be over ten years since we have played whist and it was a real joy, we must do it again soon. Whilst we played, and drank the sangria, it came over dark outside and rained quite heavily. We then saw the most amazing double rainbow in the leaden grey sky. We could see all of the double rainbow from horizon to horizon. What a spectacle, in all of my life I have not seen such a vivid coloured pair of rainbows. Elayne took a wonderful photograph out of the caravan window that accidentally also showed the reflection of the house and yet another rainbow, three in all. A picture in a thousand, well done gal. We're not sure yet what the moth is but it's got very nice markings.