We had a windy’ish night last night with occasional rain squalls. As the wind was coming at us from the east we had a good nights sleep, especially after our dancing exhaustions. Ferdinand (dance teacher)is a sadist. He teaches us a complicated move for the paso doble, we practise it for ten minutes and then we pass on to another complicated sequence of step. After the hour, we have done perhaps six or seven step sequences but they are never joined together so we forget the steps instantly to concentrate on the next steps. We ended up last night very hot, tired and really dizzy. It is good for us both mentally and physically but it’s quite demoralising not learning the whole dance instead of just some of the unrelated elements. However it is a social occasion and it gets us out for an evening so we will put up with it until it finishes at the end of May.
We went up to the house as we went out last night. The builders have laid the floor tiles in the two smaller bedrooms and in the small hallway leading to them. We couldn’t walk on the tiles, but it is a very exciting time for us (see pictures). There has been lots of barrow loads of cement going into the house today. We think that they are doing our bedroom and perhaps the main hallway today.
We drove to HO this morning and saw some amazing plants down in the Taberno rambla (see pictures). We saw several Giant Fennel plants and have ticked them off in our book. The main shoots of these come up like bolting rhubarb flower stems but they achieve a height of about three feet.

BTW, this is the 250th posting to the blog.