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Young James, our 4 year old grandson, loves the pool and spends most of the day in and out of it with one or the other of us, but the great news is that by day 5 into their holiday and after lots of effort by big sister Tiffany, Daddy and Grandad building up his [...]
On Monday, 3 days after David and family arrived it was David’s 40th birthday. God, does that make us feel old, or what!
On Sunday we went to a restaurant called Viva Espana in Olivia, about an hour’s drive from home. We had an excellent lunch at a table festooned with balloons which was followed by [...]
Well, they have finally started installation of the new Internet and Telephone System here on Cumbre del Sol. We were number 21 out of approximately 1000 installations.
We were installed last Thursday and after quite a bit of faffing around was up and running on Internet and told telepone connection would follow in 2 working days. [...]
The weather is hotting up again – it is hot, hot hot!!! That’s good as son David and family arrive tomorrow for 2 weeks and I would hate to think they were not going to have as good weather as the UK!
Sorry guys, no car sagas to tell. The car was successfully serviced last Thursday [...]
Gosh, we have done so much eating out since we came back to Spain on May 16th. This is due to having lots of visitors. In the short breaks we have had we have been catching up with friends here which has of course meant more eating out. Thank goodness it is a relatively cheap [...]
The weather is back to hot, hot, hot! One little shower as darkness fell throughout a week of cloudy days.
The pool during that time dropped by 3 degrees so the cover is back on. Already the temp has gone back up 3 degrees so the object is to maintain the temperature till cold morsel daughter-in-law [...]
We are happy, sadly, to say that the recent heat wave is over! The last three days have been much cooler with quite a bit of cloud and even a spot of nuisance rain which was not even enough to help the plants in the garden or settle the dust but left dusty rain spots [...]
The Arc is a sanctuary for wild animals who have been ill-treated or abandoned. They come from all over Spain, perhaps used and abused in the circus, used as props for photography or kept as illegal pets. They are rescued and taken to this wonderful natural habitat to recover and then placed in zoos. The [...]
It does not seem possible but today is the last day of Sue, Mica, Kendal and Regan’s visit. It has gone by so quickly.
They have all enjoyed lounging around in the sun, loads of time in the pool and frequent use of the Jacuzzi. We’ve played games in the evenings – Yahtzee (a dice game) [...]
