Cancelada. Andalusian Dream Pueblo!

Friday 16th November

Dear Reader,

I met Claudio from Chile outside my bar restaurant at 9.15am and then we went off together to spend loads of money on DIY stuff, (Only he’s a real builder!). He has done some lovely carpentry work in our bar in Estepona, but he can also build a complete house. He has “Mucho talento” and we are very happy to have him in the family. It’s never nice having to shell out lot’s of money on decorating or whatever, but when it’s going to a really nice person within your own family, it certainly does feel a lot better.

The stuff we bought today included: plumbing components like new taps. We also bought; floor tiles and loads of plug sockets. We bought some great power tools to make the job easier, as they have come down in price a lot over the last few years.

At the moment Nancy our wonderful cleaning lady from Ecuador is here, she also cleans our bar restaurant. It’s a bit weird really, because Olivia wants her to clean our apt, the same day that Claudio is going to create enough dust with his new power tools to choke the air intakes of a Jumbo jet.

Olivia called me an hour ago and we went together for breakfast, to Bar el Caballo in Cancelada Pueblo. She was feeling very nervous, what with the cleaning lady being in the house, Claudio just about to start knocking out the ventilation bricks in the washing room (El Lavadero), me having a bad bout of back pain and to top it all off, Eli arriving to work at the bar restaurant, complaining of a string of minor, imaginary ailments.

We sat in glorious sunshine on the terrace at Bar el Caballo. Olivia was not in the mood to chat or even talk. She spent the hour writing picture post cards to her family on the other side of the globe in Chile,whilst I started to re-read Hard Times for the umpteenth time (It’s such a wonderful novel, I never tire of reading it.) When our hour was up and it was time for Olivia to return to our bar restaurant to start her shift for the day, one could see that her spirits had been decidedly uplifted. Perhaps relaxing on the bar terrace in the sunshine, with a delicious coffee or perhaps my unruffled approach to the perceived pressures of life had done the trick, but whatever it was, she went to the bar restaurant feeling good. Leaving me feeling happy too.

Cheers

Graham

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