Ask Grandma

We have been having quite a bit of rain lately, every thing certainly needed it but now of course the weeds grow.

The sensor in our upstairs water tank has gone on the blink, we were alerted to it as water started cascading down the landing walls and stairs, it is automatically fed from the deposito, so we are having to pump the water up with one of us listening to how full the tank is and the other ready to turn off the switch. So we have been wet inside and out but we have nice clean stairs! lol, luckily the stairs are all tiled so at least there was no soggy carpet to worry about.

Had another lovely morning looking after Theo as his Mum was doing her spanish lesson. I had printed out various patterns of under water themes and we spent nearly an hour colouring and sticking. The other day I had cut out various shapes, trees, a house with opening door and windows, stars etc and found some lace that resembled flowers, we had great fun sticking the shapes and embellishing the flowers with Theo proudly taking his pictures home to show Mum and Dad. I´m looking forward to making Christmas crafts with him, and making a card for Mum and Dad. 

He was wearing this great top yesterday, made me smile. 

 He had just woken up and was getting ready to leave so he was a bit dazed, the message basically says, ask Grandma anything, if she doesn´t know she will make something up.

I have picked up the stitches for the collar of his jacket, then just need to sew it up and it will be ready. I have been doing the blanket too, so that is slowly coming on. I ordered some yarns from Deramores and tried the Wool warehouse too so that Rebecca could bring them over with her. She brought them up yesterday so I´m getting itchy fingers lol

take care

xcx

Catch up

 It´s cooler here now, quite autumnal, the log burner has been lit too, I hate being cold and our lounge is on the north side so gets chilly. It used to be the donkey stabling before it was reformed so stays cool in the summer, but a bit much in the winter.

Rebecca, Antoni and Theo moved into their apartment last Friday, there was a delay over paperwork at customs so they had to wait for their belongings till then. I have been looking after Theo too as Rebecca has signed up for twice weekly Spanish lessons. She can speak and understand a certain amount of Spanish already, but she wants to be able to join in and converse fluently.  Great fun, zooming cars etc along the floor and building robots and shapes with bricks, he has been a little unsettled with his change of routine, which is to be expected, but he is getting along fine. He has visited the local nursery a few times with each stay slightly longer, children have their own way of communicating so the language isn´t really bothering him and one of the teachers speaks English, so that helps. We have been repeating key words in Spanish to him for a while now so he gets to hear them so hopefully he will soon pick it all up.

We have been sharing our car until they can get one, it´s worked out quite well, they have been able to organise paperwork etc, all of which is done in person at the various offices and usually reams of it. we don´t go out much anyway. We have the annual car rally this weekend which means the mountain road is closed, so they may as well have use of it. This year they seem to have got it well organised with road blocks on driveways and side roads. Previous years when we didn´t know about it we have come across rally cars tearing round the bends, extremely disconcerting, so now we just stay home.

On a sad note, one of our furries, Benji, has been missing for three days, so unlike him as he loves his cuddles and food and is never far away. We just can´t find him, he has been a little under the weather so maybe he has just done what they tend to do gone off by himself. 

We took Rebecca´s two furries to them yesterday so they were happily exploring their new home, loving climbing up the packing boxes and acquainting themselves to the new environment.

Well a few chores to be done before Theo´s visit this afternoon, so better get going.

Have a good weekend

take care

xcx