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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.

Rings of a different kind.................................
Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 6:32 PM

What's that?? .......................'grunt'..............................wake up, somebody's ringing the bell........................................wassatime?........................................answer the bl**dy bell, you're the Presidente, not me.

It's 2.25 AM.

The Presidente 'hops' ( !! ) out of bed and trips over his slippers which he couldn't get his feet in, bangs into the bedroom door and narrowly misses the bookcase in the hall in his haste to answer the main door intercom thingy.

Who's that I hear him say ( quite calmly ), well where is it ( what ?), ok I'll let you in then.

To me, as he clambers back into bed, 'Are you awake?'........................( ??? ) ( told you I would need a swear box )
'That was apartment number **, she left her main door key in her apartment, but she's ok now I've let her through the front door'.
' Good, can we go back to sleep now?', says I.


RRRRRRRRRRRiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg...............................................that's our doorbell, it's 3.05 AM.

Guess who it was?? Apartment number ** !! She's left her apartment keys in her apartment as well as the main door key. Wouldn't you thought she would have mentioned that the FIRST time she woke us up??

So it's over the balcony for the chap who lives next door to her AND yes, she's woken him up too. But it's ok...........she's left her patio door open so the chap next door and the whole of the Costa Blanca could get in easily.

So why did she ring our doorbell just after I'd got back to sleep, especially as she seemed to have enlisted the help of the chap next door to her.....................apparently she just wanted to thank the Presidente for letting her in the main door !!

I did not thank the Presidente!!               




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Phileine said:
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 @ 7:58 PM

Oh my, I didn't realise I had started a blog here but it's my life you're writing about! I went to turning off my phone at night because we need SOME sleep sometimes and so does our little girl.

I got so annoyed in the beginning by the Spanish people always promising things "in two weeks" although the could KNOW that wouldn't be possible, but by now I start to understand them.

-When will the water be back on again?
-I have no idea.
-Why isn't it working?
-I wouldn't know.
-So you think we have water again tomorrow?
-As mentioned before, I don't know why we don't have water now and therefore I don't know when it will be back on.
-But we NEED water!
-Yeah I am starting to run out of clean dishes myself as well.
-Are they doing anything to fix it?
-I suppose so.
-So will it be fixed tomorrow?
-*sigh* yes, tomorrow it will be back on. Now can I go back to work please?

Not being British ourselves, the hardest part for us is to understand the yearning for Sky television. People on all times of the day and night standing in my garden demanding their BASIC RIGHT to Coronation Street and television in their own language. I tried humming the tune of 'Cheers' to calm them down a bit but that wasn't much help. Any tips on that one?



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