Gota fria

I hope everyone enjoyed the Easter break
We had 4 days of deluge, pouring rain, they have listed it as a Gota fria,
The areas around the coast were particularly hit with many being evacuated from their homes and especially those visiting and camping. Cars were moved from underground parks, but still many have just been swamped, the local services have been working so hard to try to pump the water away. The´dry´river beds have been pulsating with the influx of so much rain, however, give it a couple of days and they will be back to their usual status. Someone reported 500L in 2 days.
Feel so sorry for those who decided to come over for the holidays for a bit of ´sun´ only to find a very different story, whilst those in the UK were enjoying such lovely weather.

Sunday we braved the weather and visited friends just a little further up the mountain, for a lovely lunch, mind you it was so bad you couldn´t see the mountains, we even had reduced visability in the courtyard and certainly couldn´t see passed the immediate garden. They are powered by solar panels desperately trying to conserve what power they had, so it was just candle light, luckily they have calor gas for cooking and a log fire, so we were all toasty. You would have thought with all the water the weeds would just pop out, huh, no such luck they are still fighting back

Yesterday was my birthday, I was actually born on an Easter Monday in a heatwave, as we were on a red alert, it was a stay at home day. I had some lovely pressies and cards and we had a roast dinner with a nice bottle of rosado, very pleasant.

Chris gave me, amongst other things, a very sweet metal garden figure

Looks like on of the Flowerpot men
(please excuse Benji in the background, practicing his yoga moves!)

I have been sprucing up some of my other pieces, perhaps that´s what prompted his thinking

The lizard was really sorry for itself

A bit more cheerful

Chris presented me with a beautiful bouquet of flowers on Saturday, as he said no point in hiding them till Monday

the only problem is Felix is interested in the ribbon and Amber loves to dip her paw into the vase for the water, you wouldn´t think they have fresh water available, so the inevitable happens........

twice!!

Our friends have recently rescued a Mastin puppy, coming from Granada, they split their time between here and the UK and have quite a large van, being very useful bringing goodies back and forth, also it´s large enough to accommodate Zoe.
Here she is, curled up as best she could in our courtyard, would you believe she is still only 10 months old, rather like a Shetland pony

judging by her huge paws, I think there is still some growing to do!

Anyway, back soon, take care
xcx