Painting & Panther Story

Thursday 27th September

Weather and tasks much the same as yesterday, and Ricardo’s continued absence. Applied caucho to all the patches of concrete exposed by scraping, and painted the small wall ajoining our terraces. After lunch and siesta (these are becoming a habit), also cauchoed the patches and painted some of the main high wall with my extended paint pole.

I obtained another paper , Euro Weekly produced for the huge English population here, with more stories of last Fridays storms. Apparently, 4 towns Nerja, Almuñecar, Marbella and Coin are applying for emergency funding for “catastrophic damage”.

However the story that caught my eye was about a panther being sighted by several people in Mijas, under the headline “Feline on the loose”. The first witness claimed to have seen the beast running loose in a park near his home in La Cala Mijas. He said the animal had climbed up a tree, ….and I quote “which led Police to believe it was not a large dog”…..A vet confirmed from the photo he took on his mobile phone that it was indeed a panther. The beast has yet to be caught.