Biking & Baking in Las Alpujarras

Don't know about  you folks down on the coast but we had a lot of good, wetting rain yesterday afternoon/evening.  Just the ticket as everything had got so dry.  I managed to get 2 chocolate brownie cakes made, one with 1/2 coffee, 1/2 rum as an experiment...Steve's fellow 'mountain athletes,' as I believe they're now called, think brownie's are perfect food to sustain one at 3000m!  He is also stocking up on dried items and has plans for a weekend out alone fairly soon (before the rain becomes snow).

The Poco Picante literary evening  Spoken Word was excellent even with just 10 or 12 of us.  Usual good curry from Dave & John, people reading their own work, a Dutchman giving an excellent rendering (from memory) of Wordsworth's Daffodils and Hamlet's soliloquy...and yours truly did the Spanish bit with Lorca's Cancion de Jinete (Rider's Song).  Pity the Spanish diners had left by then...

Now then, France v NZ kick off in a an hour or so...must get to see that...and the carpintero has returned so a few windows might get fitted...and it's sunny again (of course).  Our friends from Javea arrive tomorrow and we have bought a whole piece of serrano so that Steve can experiment with a traditional Alpujarran soup of beans, onions and ham, but I wonder whether to make some jamon croquettes as tapas...and we'll have to take them to Mecinilla to sample Marissa's great cooking...or maybe Cafe Julio in Pampaneira...