You should see Pauline when she is swimming! Steadily she is getting all she needs from swimming in the pool. This year there are hardly any wasps drowning in the pool. Last year I had to sweep the pool daily to get rid of the floating debris! One thing is still very noticeable. There are still lots of dragonflies swooping to the pool and some are connected to each other! These are blue in colour and they look beautiful.
The other night we had a very large "creature" clinging to the metal gauze on the doorway to the kitchen. It was light green and long (2 inches or more) and very narrow. I knocked it off and it flew away. As evening approaches the flies do tend to congregate under the trees. They seem to like flying round and landing on my face! The cheek!
Across the lane outside our property there is a house in which lives a big mut of a dog. The first year we came she got locked in our place and her owner was banging on the gate to get her back one night. Last year I had to keep moving her out of the gates whenever I was coming or going in the car. She is a big dog and if she doesn't want to go she is a big weight to force out of the property. After we had left last year she had pups and one was killed by a vehicle coming down the lane. So far she has not annoyed me as much, but I wish she would disappear.
The Spanish police are still catching the unwary by concealing camera cars at junctions. It is an on the spot fine of 150 euros as I discovered to my cost last year. As we arrived on Friday we spotted them on a road that ran parallel to ours. They should soon pay off the national debt! Yesterday morning we found two of them shopping whilst on duty, would you believe? They were leaving the local Dia supermarket (Lidl type place) as we were going in. This year I am determined not to become another contributor so I am coasting about at low speed and watching for every single change of speed limit.. Well, I do need to relax when on Holiday!
It's interesting to see how Spain is coping with their financial and employment problems. Not far away, in Velez-Malaga, the mayor has closed the tram service to Torre del Mar and leased the trams to Australia. Just there we see many partially built apartment blocks where no work has been done for a few years. Their workers are finding employment on the land as more and more people start growing tomatoes, melons etc for the international market. Go in the wine section at Eroski and you will see a smaller selection of wine with more emphasis in cheap wines. But the establishment is still busy every day.
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