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Living with the Presidente.

A tongue in cheek account of living with the Presidente, OR how to survive and extended 'family' of 183.

THE RAIN IN SPAIN ..........AGAIN...andAGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 12:00 PM

Despite the rain, El Presidente and his son who is over here ( for the Spanish sun ) for a week, went road bowling. I didn't cos I still cannot get my shoe on !!

The rain continued...............and continued....................and continued.

It flooded the street, the cars were half way up the doors with water and guess what ??? the garage is flooded AGAIN. I rang the builder and he said he would ring the Town Hall. I rang the Administrator and they said they would ring the Town Hall.

I waited.................................they rang back, but the Town Hall representative couldn't come out................because it's RAINING ! ! !

So I donned El Presidente's wellies ( despite having a football sized black ankle ) and hobbled out in the rain without my waterproof cos I'd selflessly given it to El Presidente's son in case the rain persisted ( had a bit of a giggle thinking of a sturdy 29 year old in a pale lilac waterproof ! ).

I looked in the garage and it was teeming in so I took photos and went outside to take a few more in case ANYBODY ever takes any notice of our problem !

So I'm now waiting for the return of El Presidente and son, or anyone else for that matter, to sort out the next part of the problem, which will involve pumping out the garage YET AGAIN so that we can restore the lifts which have had to be turned off.

So far, only 5 people have phoned to tell me the garages are flooded and only 3 people have rung the doorbell to tell me the same ! ! !

                                                   

 



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Mark said:
Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 5:14 PM

Crikey Karen, you don't have much luck with the rain in your area do you?


dt_pesca said:
Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 8:00 AM

It is a joke the town hall cant do anything about this situation. I am sure all the damp I get in my ground floor apartment must be partly attributed to the volume of water entering the garages. I know it is pumped out but am sure some gets into the foundations and eventually rises into the apartments. Keep up the harrassment of the people who can do something about it even with a swollen ankle.


Sandra said:
Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 3:26 PM

Move to higher ground & ditch the husband, El Presidente, far less hassles all round.

Joking.


Karensun said:
Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 3:38 PM

Sandra.........I already live on the third floor !! Not too keen on ditching the husband, not this week anyway !


Sandra said:
Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 5:54 PM

When I said higher ground I meant other than your area, so you wouldn't be so vulnerable, lol. Spain seems to be having far too much rain these days. I see you have posted in the Torre.co.uk forum a while ago now it's down again. Was it you ?? Now white pages again when you click on boards. All those nutters posting stupid remarks I guess. Gary said he only had a certain amount of space & it was being exceeded so the usual lot still post c**p, nothing changes.I dunno, they'll be over to the dot com site after slating that one yet they were there for their fix whilst dot co dot uk was down previous 6 days. Such is life.


Karensun said:
Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 6:11 PM

Suppose it could have been me on that 'other' site, sandra............I seem to get the blame for most things ( lol ). An owner here has just asked me if I know how to mend the lifts......when I said NO....I was told I should get some training for the job I'm supposed to be doing !!!
EXCUSE ME....I'm only Mrs Presidente, and anyway, Mr Presidente don't know how to do it either.....was it in the Law of Horizontal Property? ( I had to explain that the lifts were off due to the flood )


FibbyUK said:
Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 9:20 AM

Now listen here Mrs Presidente!
I demand that when I arrive on the 29th, the rain has stopped, the garages are dry, the sun is shining and that your foot is back to normal!!
Oh and also, that you have installed my new TV channels, tested it out, ironed out any problems and cleaned my apartment, ok?!!!
Not a lot to ask eh? ;-)


Karensun said:
Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 4:43 PM

Now............what are the words I'm looking for ????? One 4 letter and one 3 letter.....any ideas?????


Sandra said:
Sunday, November 23, 2008 @ 1:28 PM

Wouldn't be f**k o*f surely ?


Karensun said:
Sunday, November 23, 2008 @ 1:31 PM

Sandra............you KNOW El Presidente's wife would NOT use words like that !!!!!.......anyway, my swear box is full !!!!


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