At dancing last night Fernando tried to teach us all to waltz (how dare he). He played music from Vienna and steps from Spain to the waltz that had us totally mixed up and a little fed up after an hour. Add to this trying to waltz on a sticky floor and we looked about as elegant as the Keystone Cops. There are only about four more lessons to go now before we disband. We have picked up a little but it is all very disjointed without any continuity to weld a complete dance together. We know many bits of many dances but few full dances. Anyways it’s a reason to get ready and go out and meet our friends.
Another first today. We have bought a chimney. It’s a marble round chimney with a Moorish top, not unlike the Brighton Pavilion minarets except that there is only one. The builders don’t like it and have indicated so, but we are the pipers and we will call our tune. It’s not irrevocable, if it doesn’t suit when it’s up and painted then we will do something about it. We went up to Baza for it. The journey from Albox to Baza is about 70k and it’s a very interesting run on mostly good roads. Patio tiles are being laid today, it all looks very grand.
We are out at Lentisco’s dancing again tonight to a guy by the title of Jay Jay, we will see what he’s like before deciding if we go again.
We had the hebe filled with 15000ltrs of water last night. The level was so low that the water pump, which has a float on it, had fallen over. I reckon we were down to the final 2000ltrs which is just above sediment level. We (but mainly the builders) have used up about 23000ltrs since the last fill up on January 19th. It will be interesting to see how long this lot lasts.
We were told that the forecast said that we would have rain today. None so far, in fact the lovely sun is out just now.
I am back on line after a very intermittent signal for five or six days.