Getting wired

Wednesday 15^th November

C got up early again to watch the sunrise and to see the falcons, who again flew near the house……too fast to get a picture but will persevere over next couple of weeks. After breakfast, drove to house via the camino rural road and J chatted to Timo for about 45 minutes on various problems he was encountering…….cement not adhering to the old walls in the kitchen, walls of crumbling dust where electric sockets needed to be inserted, wooden joists buried in the walls etc…..The cold water system is now functional and the tank full. J a day too late in requesting her tap on the first floor for a reticulation system for plants.

Then drove to Marbella to Leroy Merlin to get more grills for curtain walls, and extractors for the bathrooms. Then on to La Cañada to take back long wave radio which could not pick up the BBC, and wandered around Mall looking for boots for C, and J put her pics on disk.

Thursday 16^th November

Light rain overnight and cloudy and overcast at dawn with steady rain…..no sign of the falcons. After breakfast, drove to house via camino rural and saw an unusual bird by the roadside. Medium sized bird of pinky/orange plumage with large crest……will try to look up.

Met with Tommy who was happier, with yesterdays problemos sorted. More electrical work planned for today, with cable casings being concreted into kitchen floor and walls. They have used white caucho (sealant)yesterday for roof and 1^st floor terrace, leaving a milky lake on the first floor after the overnight rain. J to ask Ricardo why red exterior caucho not used.

We decided to go to Malaga mid morning to look for boots for C …(made of Spanish leather…..as the Bob Dylan classic goes), and parked at AKI/Carrefour and started to walk in to Larios Centre near the bus station. Walked for awhile completely lost, and eventually asked directions and caught a bus, and eventually recognised the new train station (near bus station) and alighted.

We were starving by then and has tapas at a bar in the Centre….mixto bocadillos (queso & jamon) …that’s cheese and ham….and paella and enchilada rusa + drinks amounting to 10.45 €…..not bad for central Malaga.

Wandered through umpteen shoe shops , some with a few boots…..most with none, giving up about 2.30 pm. Went to the bus station to find which bus went near AKI…..numero 31. By now it was raining heavily, and we made our way to the main terminus at Alemada Principal and found our bus. It took nearly an hour to get back to AKI in a modern bus which leaked in the heavy rain……so much for “ lets park at AKI and walk into town….”

Back to house, where Sergio was cutting out channels upstairs and didn’t hear us …. Lots of white water in bucket, so house had obviously flooded again in the heavy rain