Living with the Presidente.

No blog from me for ages and ages...........................................but I am going to give it another go pretty soon.

Sooooooooooooo many things have happened, soooooooooo many things you wouldn't really want to know but some very amusing!!

Watch this space...............just until I get my writing head on!!!!  

The local council have filled in the holes they dug to place the drain pipes in the road, much to El Presidente's amusement as they left no way for the rain to actually get into the pipe !  (  didn't I say that earlier ?, you know....mere woman and all that!! )

NOW they are digging it all up again but we are unsure why. Still in the great world plan El Presidente is sure someone, somewhere will know why !

Poor old El Presidente ended up in hospital last Friday in the early hours of the morning. I won't go into details here except to say he is home now with half a Farmacy to take and the condition will either right itself ( doubtful ) or he will have to live with it and the tablets! Small price,  Moi thinks.

He doesn't have to do anything different except have a low salt diet........I don't use salt in cooking anyway ! but he doesn't have any other restrictions. He looks quite well........Moi, on the other hand is cream crackered !!

So far this week El Presidente has had to contend with some heavy handed person breaking the lock on the door into the garage lift space AND some kind person decimating the main door and leaving the bits on the floor !!

WHY??? El Presidente and Moi cannot understand all this ! Niether can we understand why the globe lights on the periferal road were shot at with an air gun during the summer!! And yes, of course they will have to be replaced, and yes, of course NO ONE knows who dun it!!

On a lighter note.................the sun is shining!!!

GUESS WHAT??????????????????????

The town hall have started digging up the road outside the apartments to put in DRAINS for the rainwater !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

( for those of you that don't know, El Presidente has had an on going struggle with the rain water flooding our garages )

They did say nearly two years ago that they would do this so El Presidente is overjoyed.............a true case of manana tho..........just a bit late!

El Presidente is just a bit puzzled as to how the rain water is going to get into those little pipes that have been buried about four feet underground? He thinks what will happen is that ever so often there will be a grid in the road and the rainwater will fall down there and into the pipes and go ...............................where??.................. Don't know , but he is sure there is some BIG plan which we are not party to yet.

Now I know I am a mere woman and I know I am blonde BUT what I cannot see is how, as the rush of water ploughs down the road..................just how will it fall down the grids and into the pipes. You see, I'm just a bit worried that the force of the water will propell itself over the grid as apposed to into the grid. BUT what do I know ?...................at least El Presidente is pleased that the work has started so I won't mention my worries to him !!

BUT I will be awfully pleased when the dust stopes and when the ground beneath my feet stops vibrating.................it's really been a case of  'does the earth move for you' recently !!!!!

El Presidente and Moi and El Presidente's brother have returned from wet UK to wet Spain.

It is El Presidente's brother's 1st visit to us here ( we will call him 'M' from here-on! )

Yesterday we all went on a trip to Xatavia ( or something like that !! ) and guess what??????????'It rained ! ! !

Also the people who organised the trip had obviously failed to recognise a 'red' day and everything was closed. We couldn't visit the museum because it was closing within half an hour and the train which was not a train but a pink and white BUS, was to leave half an hour after its designated time which meant we would miss the coach home!! AND it poured down and poured down.

El Presidente was fed up, Moi was fed up and M was fed up and we were all WET, WET, WET. Although I did manage to buy 6 stunning cakes for 5.70€ which I kept dry..................not bad, 300 Kilometres and all day to purchase 6 blooming cakes !

The gardener has identified another dead palm which El Presidente will have to organise the removal of. We cannot have new ones, similar or different, planted for 6 months or so because the soil needs time to recover and there is nothing you can add to shorten this procedure.

Somebody was ! !

El Presidente was called to look at the railings on the front of the building recently, so accompanied by Moi, we trotted off to do an inspection.

Apparently a bicycle had been chained to the railings ( against Comm Rules ! ) and some 'Community' minded person ( NOT ) decided to remove the bike. Of course, they did not unlock the chain..................NO..............they sawed through the railings to relieve the owner of his/her bike ! !

To get the chain off the rail they had to use brute force to part the railings and this seared all the struts which held the railing in the ground.

The detective set I'm going to buy El Presidente to find the 'paper nicker' will have to be utilised to find the railing sawer AND the gorilla who keeps breaking the main doors ! !

Sad day today cos El Presidente has had to have 5 of our glorious palms dug out.

And we cannot replace them for about 6 months to give the ground time to recover.

El Presidente held a Community BBQ the other evening. Guess who did the cooking while he 'mingled'.....................

Correct..................it was Moi !! I cooked 48 beef burgers and over 100 sausages, not to mention the 20 onions I fried earlier !!

Mind you, it was a good event, well attended with some surprises, both with those who did come and those who did not!!

i wore a 'stunning' apron which has attracted several comments of the 'body beautiful' type.........the apron, not mine !!

We've got another Gorrilla, not at the BBQ, but he/she left their evidence with a broken front door on Fase which El Presidente had to turn into 'handyman' once more ( sort of like a male Wonderwoman ) to repair !.

We've also got an incontinent dog ( or two or more ).

It manages to wet just outside Fase 1 and the mess runs down our newly laid rubber ramp.............of course it dries pretty quickly in this hot sun ( eat your heart out those of you in rainy UK ) BUT it blooming well pongs!! Of course it's no ones dog who has done it so it looks as if El Presidente will be on dog p patrol this week !!

We also have a paper nicker ( of the two legged variety ). Whenever anyone puts a notice on the Communal notice board, it disappears toot sweet!! Both El Presidente and Moi have replaced numerous notices that have gone missing. One was actually found screwed up down the back stairs of Fase 2.........................I shall buy El Presidente a finger printing outfit for Christmas and he can play detective !!

Such a   l      o      n      g   time since I approached my blog.

El Presidente is still El Presidente as we near AGM time yet again and I am still Moi and we have not divorced !

We had a 'prowler' a while ago at 1am. We were informed by phone and trotted upstairs to find a quite perplexed owner who could not get into 'his' apartment.

He said he could hear someone inside but they wouldn't let him in and he couldn't make his key fit !

El Presidente escorted him to his apartment on the next floor up and I stayed to talk to the lady who had refused him admission and await the arrival of the Guardia who had been called by the lady apartment owner ( the real owner! )

Having deposited the 'prowler' in his own apartment El Presidente arrived in time to greet the Guardia ( three of them ! ). El Presidente explained, in Spanish, what had happened and the Guardia grinned and said " Ah  p* * * *d!!" and they left laughing.

El Presidente and Moi returned to bed and slept the night away !!  

Well, it's finally happened !!                         

Last Monday, when we had all the rain, our garages ( some of you will know the saga of our garages ! ) did NOT flood from down the ramp, thanks to the wall built directly across the exit by us. HOWEVER, the rain water came in via the air hole thingys which are about a foot from the floor at the front of the building, but only about two inches from the floor at the rear ! These 'air blocks are supposed to be for ventilation, not water, but hey ho !!

Those of you who are aware of our garage saga will possibly remember the WALL ( belonging to the builder opposite ) which was knocked down, then built up only to be knocked down again on instruction from the Town Hall.

If anyone had wanted anything from our Town Hall about 20 past 1 on Monday, they would have been wasting thier time because most of the occupants of the Town Hall were outside our building in the rain !!

El Presidente had been given the mobile number of the Mayor of Orihuela's Concierge and asked to ring direct if we had any concerns during the next flood.

Well, we had concerns !! Once more the road was a river with virtually floating cars and without swimming we couldn't get out of the building AND the garage was being affected via the back up of water from our road ( but not too badly ).

BUT Bless 'em, they arrived in force AND in the rain and they bulldozed the wall down !! What a result !!

Apparently they are goint to flatten the pavement in front of the wall too.......manyana...........!! 

El Presidente is well chuffed with the result.....even though it's taken several years to achieve.................well, this is Spain !!

And I never did get El Presidente to buy me a pair of flowery wellies to wear in the rain !!