www.property-in-the-sun.com

Friday April 18th 2008

It rained all night, and still was when we got up at 06:00h.
I watched the sky for a break in the weather as I need to walk to feed the donkeys.
It doesn't look good looking east over the village.
To the west the skies were blue. A good sign as the winds were from that direction. The sun did break through. I was on the sun terrace and took a couple of photographs of our rain soaked flowers. The Ronda road above the village was misty. Quite a spectacular view across the village. Shafts of bright sunlight breaking through the  clouds.
This is the direction I needed to walk. It still looked grey to the north. The rains stopped at around 10:00am, a few showers but nothing too heavy. What a difference in the weather in only a couple of hours. I filled up a bag with seed and set off with the dogs into the campo.
The donkeys are well. I walked them and let them eat the green grasses, now shooting up along the sides of the tracks through the campo.
I got back after a lovely walk, what looked like being an awful day turned out to be a perfect day for getting out and walking.

I worked all afternoon.

Jane was back from Gibraltar quite late. She has long days.
I was cooking Yorkshire puddings, making a repeat of yesterday's successful meal.

We went downstairs and discovered a cat (Charlie's sister) had had a litter of kittens at the base of our Bougainvillea. A good place to have kittens if it was dry. Not a clever place after and during heavy rains. I ran upstairs and switched off the oven. The mother was nowhere to be seen. I'd seen her this morning soaked through. She'd disappeared during the day. We were concerned for her and her litter. After a few minutes the mother appeared.
The cat belongs to our neighbour Antonia but it was too late to knock on her door and it was beginning to rain.
The mother was shaking and shivering and looked in shock, she's only a year old, one of last year's kittens. We wrapped her in a towel and took her upstairs in front of the fire. I put the five kittens in a box on a blanket and took them up to join their mother. She'd had six but one was dead. We stroked 'Tash' until she stopped shivering and started purring. Fed her and slowly placed the kittens to feed one at a time. Soon all were feeding and 'Tash' looked a lot better. You can see how she got her name in this photo.

I stayed up late making sure that she ate and drank. I got lots of work done.

I ran the www.property-in-the-sun.com website through a code validation program.
I'm pleased to say every line of code complies to the industry standard XHTML.
This entitles me to display this little graphic ... what a geek.